Advertising

Question for recruiters/TA: are you using other platforms than LinkedIn to post jobs? If so what are you using?

I’m an ACD with absolutely no conceptual work in my book, it’s mostly a design-heavy book. I do want conceptual work, 360 campaigns. An agency did approach me where I get to do that but asking me to take a title/salary cut t… more

We led the team that won a huge chunk of new business and thought we would be involved in growing it.

Instead, our holding company hired new people who are paid significantly more than us with lower titles than us to head th… more

Is running out of space on your Yahoo account and being forced to by storage a thing? I thought it was a scam and now my inbox has froze. No jokes about having a yahoo account by the way, thanks

Football season is finally here! Who would be the biggest dream "get" for advertisers, Josh Allen, Travis Kelce, or Saquon Barkeley? (Or someone else?)

If you got a do-over what career, other than advertising, would you have chosen?

XFinity commercial with Asante Jones and everyone wearing cowboy hats and pronouncing it’s “booming”. I had to use closed captioning to understand what the fk Jones says. I’m not deaf. That’s just cra… more

Do most agency staffers use Slack through the desktop app or web browser? Does it really matter?

Agencies or companies that have a work focus on the intro / title sequences for TV shows and movies?

How’s Argonaut? 🍵 🫖

Best ad people to follow on LinkedIn? TYIA

I don’t know if anyone else feels this but over the time I’ve worked, I feel like I’ve become a bit too reliant on references to come up with and sell ideas. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad but I d… more

How many mid-level creative people does an independent agency usually have per office?

Any good resources to level up deck design?

Hey folks, curious if anyone here has tips/resources to really sharpen my deck design game.

I’m not talking about Canva templates — I mean the kind of custom, thoughtful … more

Why would NON creative people be responsible for hiring creative people? The industry makes no sense.

I joined a company a year ago. The two years prior to that were hell. Was laid off twice. For the first time in a long time I can say I love my job. It’s been a year and the people are great the work … more

Is it just me or has this short week felt exceptionally long and unusually heavy even for our current timeline?

damn, missed 4:20

Looking for a vendor that can do personalized QR code for a campaign.
Any recommendations?

Anyone interviewed with Publicis recently? Are they any better than Omnicom?

Also, They sent me an email to a self scheduling portal, but the link is not working. Not sure who to ask, when the email i… more

The thing about the holdcos (or agencies in general) the best (including most motivated/ happiest employees) have good CEOs. The worst try to change the leadership team and think it will help with tal… more

Been out of the game for a while. Are we still using squarespace or another site? Anything to keep in mind with portfolios nowadays?

Did she say out loud she admires legacy brands the likes of Ogilvy and JWT but not newly made up ones like VML and GroupM? Wowza what is she implying?

Hot take but @digitalchadvertising has lost touch with most of us. They are on Instagram Stories saying back in the day before Covid they did 5 days a week at 6:30am so we shouldn’t be upset at 4 days… more

Are there good online AI courses you’d recommend? Something that could be expensed as education

Best recent 6/15 sec ad campaigns?

are there any good shows/movies that show what it's like working in advertising / agency? obviously there's mad men...

If I work remotely at an agency in NYC, and most of the employees are local and come to the office, will I make NYC money even if I live in a less expensive city?

I am an acct person that sucks at building PPT slides (seriously not a creative bone in my body). I feel like such a drag asking creative to format slides that I feel could be so much better than a list of bullet… more

I saw a new Sketchers ad on the subway today and I need to know... Who is doing the work?

It's genuinely some of the worst stuff I've ever seen. It's like a 10 year old was asked to use Ch… more