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Leaders 2025

Ad-vantage: The Mayor Agency breaks new ground

Culturally relevant work is the driving force at Nashville’s newest ad agency

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Tom Hamling

Tom Hamling 

Tom Hamling will be the first to admit that nobody likes advertising. Super Bowl commercials — people generally enjoy those. But everything else?

“Nobody wakes up wondering what TV commercial they’re going to see that day,’” says Hamling, founder and chief creative officer of advertisement agency The Mayor. “It’s not lost on me that entire industries are built around helping people skip advertisements. People are trying to actively not engage with what I do for a living.”

The Mayor Agency

Tom Hamling worked with Ted Danson on a commercial. 
The Mayor Agency

Tom Hamling worked with David Beckham for an Adidas commercial. 

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