BAD CLIENTS

had females that were androgynous and not as feminine looking- shorter hair, some had minimal make-up, no high heels. client: we don’t feel like featuring lgbtq is right for this 🤔🤔🤔

How’s Lionsgate?

"Does he know who we are? Offer him $10k"

Completely not self-aware client in a small market asking me to lowball an international artist for usage rights on his track.

“Make the music sound like that song from The Italian Job.” 😂

“I want you to add humor to this. But don’t write it into the script."

Anyone else worked on Microsoft out of Seattle office? They're driving us nuts right now.

"We want to do a campaign for drone delivery service—The Consumer of 2020."

KBS folks, dish. How bad was BMW?

If you have a client cancelling and didn’t give 30 days notice...but everytime you send them posts or blogs for approval and links, they just keep putting us off or denying it.

What do you suggest?

Worst A-Hole Client. LET LOOSE IT FEELS GOOD!

Client just called to tell me that although they're in love with the design, they'd like to see it in a variety of colors because their grandma and cousin don't think the color is correct.… more

"Could your designers send me the original PSDs? I just want to tweak something by myself."

Our client just told us that the major difference between them and their competitors is that they “really care about their customers.” 🤣🤣🤣

"I want you guys to wireframe that API"

Today my clients feedback was “more punchy and fresh spin” what the fuck does that mean? Help me.

Most abusive client you've ever had, go:

Working w a very incompetent client who has no idea how to manage his own internal stakeholders, and takes it out on us (his agency) with whining and ranting. Ideas on how to tell him to do his job??

“I want the VO talent to sound like Morgan Freeman in case they aren’t watching TV when the ad comes on. The voice needs to be so compelling that if they hear it from another room they go watch it.&qu… more

Present script which is 30s of the product rtbs/benefits they asked us to put in. Reaction ‘but this says nothing about my product’... d’oh.

Lies to their management to show new commercial with new positioning embedded tested better than predecessor’s strategy/creative. Outright lie.

Present rough cut. Client: “Why would you do it like this? Why wouldn’t you just do it like [competitor brand] does it? Pull up that [competitor brand] commercial. Do you guys have their script?"

“I like the idea of diversity” -said the white client

Samsung Global. Aaaaaand go.

3 months ago: “I don’t care about results. I just want to do cool shit."
This Friday: “You need to be better at touting our incredible results."

"Why do we need diversity? We need the broadest amount of people saying 'that could be me.' Make them white. I don't want to keep having this conversation." - casting global TV s… more

“Why is she wearing that? Talent must wear a blue shirt. The girl in the animatic had a blue shirt and that tested well.” This was for a CPG brand.

“Line the outside of the venue w/ 100 👩 mannequins. I want to save money so make them all size 4, no plus size. Don’t worry about any clothing for them, just make them wear sad/happy emoji masks.”

Present a spot featuring a women for a major media buy, the client says “we don’t want to have two women spots in a row.” So weird cause you’ve had 87 MALE SPOTS IN A ROW?

Features Tupac as brand image. Asks for a “celebration of Tupac” video in tandem w the movie launch. Does not want to talk about rap, his politics, or his death. Do not mention he died. Too negative.

How my holiday “break” went : RFI issued on December 22. Submission on the 26. Pitch on January 3. 😐

Man I'm really glad this Bowl exists.

Not a client but an old manager: there is no reason we shouldn’t be able to do high quality work that is fast, good and cheap. He’s the head of production at a major agency.

Nothing like getting a text from your client at 5 pm on Christmas Eve asking you about something completely inconsequential on Instagram. No self awareness of boundaries. I’ve completely ignored it.

“We are paying you over a million dollars for this job. Make it work... this is unacceptable."

Deadline is January 2d. 💩💩💩

::In response to a mag cover ad working in tandem with print ads within the same mag::

Client: But what if no one opens the magazine? We need to put it all on the cover.

Me: Sounds like a media prob

Having to make seed accounts to “unspam” your clients spam email. <