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After Applying to i don’t know how many jobs through these job portals. I am wondering if these job portals actually works to get people their desired jobs 😌😌🥰

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Are your new business teams using custom AI agents or processes to help make the new biz process more efficient? If so, how? I’d love to hear how it’s going and what ways people are using this

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CDs work today whose work you really like? They say when looking for a new job, don’t just look at the agency but seek the creative director you’d want to work under. So I’m curious with the new year in, who are … more

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Anyone have an employment lawyer they recco?

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Does anyone else get so overwhelmed with work that instead of actually doing the work and being productive, your brain feels like it genuinely shuts down? Asking for a friend.

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so when does the pay significantly increase for account people in advertising? when you’re an account sup? hearing how much senior level account people make is nuts and can’t help to wonder how long i… more

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i just saw a recruiter at one of those staffing agencies advertising his candidates in the comments of a linkedin post... for a role listed by another staffing agency

what are we doing guys

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If you’re planning on relocating to a new city, how much time is reasonable to ask for?

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Does Dentsu still have a Detroit office? Can’t seem to find anything about it online.

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Do you know of any brands using AI to make their SB spots? I was imagining there would be a lot of those to see this year, but it seems that brands would rather avoid the backlash they'll get from… more

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Every time a commercial airs, an angel fills her book.

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Had an interview with a top agency for a freelance gig, pulled 10 min before it started because they realised they staff it internally (who knows if thats the real reason). Gutted

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I like Ben Affleck as an actor, but the commercials he makes are absolutely terrible.

The only good one was the drive thru one, but I heard that was an ad agency idea, but he got credited for it instead and got hi… more

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Omnicom has really screwed things up. They think they’re getting better and bigger meanwhile thousands and I mean thousands are losing their jobs. It’s really a terrible thing that’s been happening. W… more

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I understand and appreciate clients giving all your agencies credit for the campaign, but in this case they all get credit for the Super Bowl spot creation? How does that collaboration work?

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Art Directors & Copywriters, what are your deck tricks to making a great deck? Like visually, organization, content, etc.

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How are you keeping your portfolios “senior level” while most of your day job work is tiny optimizations, variants, tweaks, and not big, shiny campaigns? I’m struggling to show strategic depth when my… more

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Who has the tea

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What’s your go‑to trick when the brief is boring but you think it has the potential to take another route that's more humorous/fun? All my leaders are afraid of telling clients that their ideas ar… more

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Has anyone successfully moved from agency to client side? If so, what helped you get to that position?

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How can I improve as a copywriter? How do find the right things to write for it to become the perfect copy and caption for the social media post?

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When creating a post for a social media platform to created marketing content for a month, what should be done or considered as a copywriter?

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Do you want to climb
The corporate ladder? If not, how old were you when you realized you didn’t want to continue? For me, it was this last year. I’m happy being a manager, and do not have any intentio… more

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Got countered with a promotion and a 20% bump last October and took it. How long should I stay on to not be an *ssh*le? 🥹

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What Toronto agency do you wish you worked for?

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Gonna cry. IPG to Omnicom, all my long term doctors are no longer in-network and I double checked in Dec to make sure they were covered.

Mysteriously once I receive the bill, it’s flagged for out-of-network…

My medicatio… more

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Word is that "Melania" had a 35 million dollar advertising budget. What could they possibly have spent that money on?

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What’s the best way to break into a shop like Uncommon or Mischief?

Do blind emails work? Or DMs? I’m sure they are flooded. Anybody got any pro tips?

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Ben Stiller vs. Andy Samberg. Dis…cuss?

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What's the most strat people you have on a project? I was just on a kickoff with five strategists.

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Do you put slack on your phone?

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What do you all think about Giant Spoon? (NY mostly) Has anyone ever worked there before, and what's the general sentiment? Good place to be at for CV / portfolio?

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Thoughts on doing an MBA?

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What brands are the best to work client side for? 👀

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What do you do when someone is continuously undermining your decision?

I am a post-producer working with an integrated producer. For anything he asks that he did not get, he would either ask my supervisor for app… more

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Strategists — what’s a realistic freelance rate in this market? (Open to answers from all levels)

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More CDs need to pick up what this Susan Hoffman girlie is puttin down

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