There're lots of marketing and advertising "thought leaders" on LinkedIn. What people or accounts are actually worth following? TIA

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Rishad Tobaccowala

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He’s great. Excellent suggestion.

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Ignore anyone that sells a course

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99% of them are “thoughtless leaders.”

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Simon Dixon of DixonBaxi

Flicking a door stopper over and over seems more insightful/thought provoking than reading some substack essay or navel gazing ad biz LinkedIn post imo.

Movies, tv, novels, non-fiction, fine art, theatre, even (dare I say it) a TikTok acct with a strong voice/visual flair, w/e.

Always helpful to remove yourself from the masturbatory, closed loop of ad people talking about advertising. Hard to find a different angle of approach when your media diet is slop from the same generic vat of “thought leaders to follow” that everyone else is also trying to mine for insights.

You’d be shocked at the number of copywriters I’ve met who don’t read for fun. ADs that haven’t watched movies with lights out visual storytelling. It’s all grist for the mill.

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