Larry Percy is Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford and an advertising communications consultant. He has worked for a number of leading advertising agencies in the United States, including Lintas and Young and Rubicam, and has taught marketing theory, advertising strategy, and advertising research at Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of several other books on advertising and marketing communications and sits on the editorial board of a number of journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research. He is also a former Industry Director