Advertising

If you have unlimited PTO, how many total days have you taken off in a year?

My leaders (SVP, ECD,) say I'm doing a great job (been in my first in-house role for 10 months). The brand team is always frustrated with my team and complaining that things "aren't were … more

I need to move into a different field. I'm a sponge that has been wrung dry. Has anyone else ever felt like you're just incapable of doing this and found an alternative? I'm middle aged no… more

What's the lowest effort habit that makes your day feel 10x better? Starting my morning by not checking my phone/work notifications is mine. Can’t stand starting my day with chaos

How would you go about trying to move within your agency to work under different CDs, due to bad personality conflicts? Feel like the work is suffering because of the lack of chemistry and camaraderie… more

Is it standard practice for agencies to split the Creative Director role into CD (Copy) and CD (Art)? What’s the rationale behind that structure, and how does it improve the work or the process? And i… more

I’m trying to understand has anyone else experienced a situation where your performance wasn’t the issue, but you were still pushed out? Is this something that’s more common than we think in certain w… more

I recently joined an agency fulltime after many years freelance for a little more stability. However I just learned that one of the agency’s accounts is a national government agency backed by Trump s… more

Yall post on your personal accounts when your company ask you to? I think it’s so weird.

I saw that brain rot index thing, and it says most people spend 5 hours a day looking at screens. And now I feel bad, because I spend WAY more than 5 hours on my phone and laptop. How many hours a day… more

For the first time ever I have a CD who tells me straight up if the project is an actual creative opportunity and we need to try hard or if it’s low funnel or a case of ‘pleasing the client’. I’m a li… more

Do all WPP agencies have summer Fridays?

What do you think will win big this year at Cannes? I have seen so much work, but I have forgotten everything already.

Anyone successfully made.the transition from some other industry to advertising like law or fashion or IT? I'm wondering how that would work out.

taking a significant other w u on a shoot where you travel / fly for the shoot and have a hotel room you’re put up in. anyone done it? any tips? bad idea to even bring up at all?

I think winning awards in advertising is more a sign of being in the right place at the right time as opposed to being special or whatever.

As a pharma copywriter, the one area I wouldn't mind AI taking over is reference annotations. Unfortunately, that seems to be the tning it's least qualified to do, with all the hallucinations… more

Creatives, what time do you start your work day?

You can now run PPC ads in ChatGPT, are you planning on trying it?

I got a bad performance review (my manager’s boss doesn’t like me) last week but no PIP. I’ve been asked to meet with HR tomorrow to discuss. Am I being fired? Why would they not just fire me today?

Anyone have insight into VCCP NYC?

Is it normal to have one hour, weekly one on ones with your manager? I hate these. They're so awkward. Our team does a daily stand up, and we have plenty of other meetings. My manager and I don… more

Does anyone know the deal with Red Bull’s illustrated commercials? I feel like they’re always so odd and almost could be funny or charming but just… aren’t. Is there a client that’s obsessed with this… more

Who comes up with these drug names? Why don't they let the agency think of names people can actually understand and pronounce?

What's the least amount of time an Omnicom Employee can take between PTOs? I took a couple days in April and I want to take a few more in May. Is that going to be a problem?

as a creative, have you ever had to pay for props or product out of pocket?

Besides screenshots, how does one go about showing a website or social media work that is no longer available? I want to show a website I worked on in my book but the site is no longer live.

Have you ever taken a vacation to come back from work and so much has changed? I feel like anytime I take PTO over a week, I come back and people have moved accounts, quit, or find out the account I w… more

What is your best work hack/tip? Mine is recommending adding an extra day of PTO after you get back from a vacation,a "staycation" day if you will. I've done this the last few years I fe… more

for people who’ve been in the game for awhile. has the industry changed for the better or worse?

My supervisor gets visibly annoyed when we leave work at 5 o'clock. Now, 5 o'clock is when the day ends, so I thought that meant I could leave at 5. But today, he pulled us in for a late after… more

I keep getting asked from my clients how often are we showing up on ChatGPT or other similar AI tools. Do you keep getting asked what’s your AI search strategy too? Any thoughts?

What are examples of Programmatic projects?