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11/27 Thread (General):
Come on SOS. Lets hit $10
This meeting could be an email 🙄

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Yes. No question.
It feels like 100 years rather than days… and more to come.
Guaranteed. Already lost an account due to tariffs
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death, taxes, and layoffs in advertising
Yup my last agency already cut a lot of freelancers (doubled the work of full-time employees) because clients won’t pay the freelance rates with tariff uncertainty looming
In a weird way the industry has needed a recession “reset” for 3 years. We need rates to dip and investments to start happening again. Brands have been sitting on cash for too long and hesitant to invest in advertising since 2022.
@Havas 1 I don’t think it’s quite that dire, but we went from being an industry that was all about work output to an industry that was all about appearing busy.
I hope clients have started to wake up to the fact that they don’t need to spend millions on teams that fart out 80 page decks, but on teams that actually make work that real people see. That’s been a huge moneymaker for the big holding companies and it does nothing for the work or client.
Today was my last day of work at the job I’ve been at for 5 years. Started doing deliveries again with UberEats and that’s a hit or miss. No demand and they just cut you off.
I’m sorry to hear that. I have friends who have been unemployed for 1-2 years, and it’s truly tough out there.