Career
After working at J. Walter Thompson starting in 1925, he started his own agency in 1932, with Richard Joshua Reynolds Tobacco Company as his first client. In 1982, William Esty & Company was bought by Ted Bates Worldwide, which in turn was acquired by Saatchi & Saatchi in 1986. Two years later, Saatchi & Saatchi merged Esty with Campbell Mithun to become Campbell-Mithun-Esty.
They have since dropped the Esty name.
