Advertising

Do people use LinkedIn recommendations? Is it a thing again? I remember asking and receiving them a long time ago. I came across a few LinkedIn profiles with updated recommendations. My last one is fr… more

Adage is dead. Cannes is fake. If your work is featured on Breaking and Entering, then your career is going to be successful. 🥴

What's the tea on Translation/ United Masters agency (Brooklyn, NY)

Client had one too many and mentioned that our CCO posts too much on LinkedIn. Not exactly a safe account. Should I tell the account lead?

disney got me raising my own rates.

Question for hiring managers and recruiters: when a candidate is given an offer and tries to negotiate salary, who’s involved in the process and who makes the final call? Genuinely curious about what … more

Hi! I am an account manager and work on websites, what do other people use for screenshotting preview sites / live sites? Right now we have account / PM screenshotting but it feels so inefficient are … more

I’m trying to find out the benefits at a company I was offered a job at, but I also don’t want them to know I’m trying to see what they are.

Glassdoor didn’t help. 😭 and they’re part of a holding company, but the… more

Survivor is back on the air. It seems like they do a lot less product placement than they used to. Is that accurate or is it my imagination?.And if it's true, why?

You can replace the em dash with a comma, but I know what you did last assignment!

Anyone ever work with We Are BMF? Looks mostly experiential.

You guys. If you actually audibly laugh out loud at text do you feel obligated to tell the person you actually laughed out loud? I have to. Like, a laughing reaction, lol, haha or emoji are reserved f… more

Me on Sunday night searching:
remote jobs no meetings no boss high pay. Anybody else?🤣

I’m applying to freelance at a company and experiencing the most insane background check process I’ve ever experienced. Is this a new Trump thing? Like 7 years of employment names, addresses, a friend… more

Curious: any of you writers out there tried to team up w a designer rather than an AD? If so how was the experience?

I don’t get it! Can someone please explain: I have worked with associate creative directors and creative directors that came from a WRITING background. As legit, respected, with sound aesthetic and id… more

As someone who has never won awards before, but recently worked on a project that won some awards - some I had a part in, some not. How do I include that in my portfolio and on my resume?

Has your client ever gone to agency side at your agency? How was that

My agency's obsession with timely and accurate billing was just suddenly turned up to 11. Anyone know what this means?

So, does advertising on Kimmel cost more now because controversy=engagement or less because lower affiliate buy in=lower reach? I'm guessing it'll be the former.

Telling my work I can’t come in tomorrow because I’ve been raptured

How likely is it that you might be able to work at an agency/holding company again after suing them? Few years back a big group used my employment/contract to commit fraud. I had to sue them when it was discovered, and nearl… more

Curious question. What’s the timeline breakdown of each of your promotions? How many years per role and if can share the %+ in salary.

When discussing salary with the recruiter, they clearly stated that they didn’t have any wiggle room in the budget and left it at that. However, I was scrolling through the company’s job openings on L… more

DesignStudio’s new name - confusing? Good move?

Why does WPP promote some people really quickly then other people go 2.5 years without a promotion?

Holding company dynamic on pitches. Is anyone else amazed at how many people offer to be senior review for a pitch within 1 hour, but getting teams assigned to do the actual pitch work takes days? Los… more

Been itching to move overseas within the same company, just in a different city. The catch: each office runs pretty independently.

Would it be better to reach out directly to the ECDs or go through HR … more

Weighing an offer, help me decide?

Current gig is in pharma, 195k, 3 days in office, 20 days PTO, reasonable hours but no opportunity long term. Been here a year, pretty stable.

The new offer is in less-science-y healthcare a… more

I am trying to get a gauge on where my salary should be. I’m a GCD (with no ECD above me, I report to CCO) running a team of 11 across three accounts. Two are relatively small, organic growth potential account, w… more

Oh my golly people:
1. Yes, it’s great you wrote a book. Truly. 👏 2. Um, sure, it’s about advertising… ok… your prerogative. 3. It’s the hyper-vigorous pushing of it on LinkedIn daily that makes me w… more