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Set in 1999, American Gold is a scripted series about the advertising "Pitch of the Century". These are the archives of that time.

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The Stakes

As we’re creating this scripted series about the 1999 “Pitch of the Century” for American Gold, every writing guru, screenplay book, substack guru-adjacent-guru and most of our relatives have implored us to make sure each character has real...

19 days ago
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PITCH WATCH ‘99

Inside the most anticipated pitch of the year.

By Hal Brubaker, Senior Editor, with reporting from several little birds
Fall, 1999

I’ve been sworn to secrecy, but, of course, I must tell you…

It’s the end of the century, and feels like...

a month ago
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The American Gold Soundtrack

  1. St. Louis. An agency called AdWorX is about to walk into the pitch of the century, and everyone in the building knows it could be the last thing they ever do together.

That’s American Gold. It’s the TV series Matt Glarner and I ar...

a month ago
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Unearthed - A 1999 American Gold Creative Brief

It’s an occupational hazard. The brief is the one document everybody signs off on and nobody reads twice.

So it was a real win for the series when one of the agency’s actually surfaced. Intact. We also got our hands on a few emails from th...

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When Matt and I started writing American Gold, we thought we were making a TV show.

Set in St. Louis, 1999. A scrappy ad agency. “The Pitch of the Century”. And somewhere along the way, we started finding things.

Old emails. Strategy decks. A gossip column. A Playboy interview from 1977 with an ad man named Art Wannamaker...

2 months ago
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  • Jeff Stevens

    Founder of WellBeing Brewing Company, lifelong beer creative.

  • M. Glarner

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