Amos said the duck was the brainchild of the old ad agency Kaplan Thaler, which is now owned by Publicis (PUBGY). (Aflac has since switched marketing firms.) Using humor to cut through the clutter ...

"One of the nation's hottest hotbeds of creative talent is right in our backyard," said Garth Knutson, Chief Marketing Officer at Aflac. "How better to keep a 20-something-year-old duck fresh than ...