Catching Headlines — Lessons From 49 Years Experience of Legendary John Caples

Mikhail Raevskiy
2 min readAug 29, 2020

In 1925, John Caples was commissioned to come up with a headline for an advertisement for a music school course. Caples had no experience in advertising, but he had a natural talent. He sat down at a typewriter and created the most famous headline in advertising history:

Catching Headlines — Lessons From 49 Years Experience of Legendary John Caples
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Mikhail Raevskiy

Bioinformatician at Oncobox Inc. (@oncobox). Research Associate