Advertising

I'm pretty sure I'm a mediocre creative person. But I make 6 figures and can afford vacations and small luxuries. I don't have any awards. Am I useless?

If a person referred you to a position at Amazon, how long does it usually take to hear back from them (I didn't get any email confirmation).

I want to ask for more work but I’m concerned about my partner. Since starting out, I finish my writing/concepting in about a 3rd of the time that it used to take me. It’s noticed by my managers, whic… more

Anyone wanna code a laugh track to be built-in for zoom calls? My jokes don’t always land and could use some fake laughs. TIA

Does Mullenlowe LA only have Acura? How many got laid off this week?

Do you feel like your manager listens to you but doesn’t actually care about what you have to say/how you feel? How are people handling this?

People always ask about what other industries we could work in with our skillsets. I have visited some really neat museums recently. Smithsonian, Kennedy Space Center, Museum of Ice Cream (traveling… more

Is active international a good place to work ?

Does liquid death run paid advertising or do they just produce content and get earned media? Whatever they’re doing it’s clearly working but I’m curious if anyone has seen a “commercial” on OTT or els… more

Why do advertising agencies rely on PR instead of advertising to promote their own services?

When you get a title promotion at work, do you typically get a salary bump that puts you in the salary range of the new title?

Hi fishies, here’s the big dilemma:
Resign on a Friday or a Monday?

Anyone here can share there portfolio/website for either strategy or media planning?

So I’m serious when I ask this, but how do you get into advertising for the adult sex industry. I’ve tried searching for connects or jobs online but it feels non existent so is it just a matter of kno… more

What's going on with BBDO? Lots of shake-up there. Is this a good thing? How are people feeling there? Worth applying? I'm old enough to remember when they were once a hot shop.

Is it just me but are things getting worse (i.e. more jobs but with low rates that get flooded within minutes that you never hear from) while things get better?

Those people working at agencies are really being overworked.

U… more

Anyone know where i can download new blood briefs? Figuring i would love to do reverse engineer of the winning entries and reconnect them back to the brief

Any agencies worth applying too right now? My current agency is a s- show and people are panicking and stabbing each other in the back.

I'm interviewing tomorrow at an advertising agency where my primary clients would be in healthcare. I've worked in automotive for the past couple of years. What should I know and/or expect?

Are there any agencies that have accounts or specialize in movie marketing? Or is that purely in-house?

The chiquita banana mascot is a low-key baddie

Anyone know what happened with the Omnicom agencies yesterday? Heard there were some shakeups.

Does it look bad to take a title demotion from one job to the next? I would like to accept a job offer, but I’m concerned about how it will look on LinkedIn/my resume

Hi I just joined a new global company located in the US, it’s a fairly large organization. My job is a small chunk of the overall company, in the marketing dept as a designer. I was shocked to see that they… more

Have been feeling severely burnt out at my current agency for the past 3 months. Still won’t be out of the weeds of this particularly busy period until at least October. Feeling like I’m reaching my w… more

Asking for a friend that was laid off after 15 years with another Omnicom agency.. what is a reasonable severance package? He was offered 6 weeks pay.

People, why is so hard for you to follow templates?

I have dedicated deck designers who built beautiful templates that all you need is to paste content into it. There are placeholder for text, placeholder for ima… more

Was referred for a senior open role at a prestigious creative shop to the C suite hiring manager directly. Had a great convo with them plus 7 great interviews with various members of the team—many wen… more

Why hasn't this industry unionized yet?

I noticed at pattern amongst people who are very vocal on LinkedIn or position themselves as LinkedIn influencers. They job hop a lot with tenures being very short (a year and a half tops). They are … more

Is involved media a good place to work?