BBDO fam (past and present), Andrew Robertson’s CT home is on the market for $13.75 million. But don’t worry, the article explains he’s keeping his recently built beachfront home in Sag Harbor, N.Y. and his homes in Manhattan and the Turks and Caicos. Now get back to work!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/realestate/andrew-robertson-bbdo-house-for-sale.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o08.JM6L.lgVTNuEVZ5XO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Really admire his honesty saying this:
“My approach was always: The week belonged to BBDO and the weekend, while my employees worked 14 hour days on pitches, would belong out here,” he said, referring to the sprawling farmhouse in Greenwich, Conn.”
His employees weekends belonged to him
"We cut some really great staff so I could add that sixth bathroom"
Posts like this are why we need Fishbowl
No, you can’t get a raise from 42k a year to 46k a year, says Andrew Robertson.
Now look up David Lubars' houses in the Hamptons and the UWS, or Philippe Krakowsky's penthouse in Nolita. The truth is that a generation of agency leaders made bank and ploughed their money into property and live in ways that will be impossible for the next generation. The industry paid people better 10-20 years ago than it does now, and people who made generational wealth as employees who are now imposing three year pay freezes on everyone else.
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What’s so bad about this generation of leaders is that they failed on paper and in public, and made the mistakes of their predecessors who were successful.
Clients were upset at how large the 70’s and 80’s ad execs lived. But they actually moved product and raised revenue.
Phillipe Krakowsky is a career of smoke and mirrors. No revenues. No impact.
It would be awesome if he called this room “Central Filing”
Yep, Joe’s the man.
Eat the rich.
don't forget the 2,000 bottle wine room.
DDB1, clients will get furious about the super-rich 60somethings who made generational wealth in the 1990s-2010s and take it out on the 40somethings now running the show from their two-bed apartments.
I never got an invite to come over.
Well that’s promising from a career path prospective I guess…
Maybe if you started your career in the 80’s.
He was finally pushed out of BBDO by the board in 2024 as they’re furious that he laid off G Hahn whose agency ironically continuous to soar as BBDO is free falling since Hahn left?
What a snake pit. My guess is it worked out better for him than any of them. Look where BBDO is now compared to Mischief.
His property taxes are more than the salary of the lowest paid employee at BBDO.
"The Robertsons had bought the house in 2001 for $5.75 million, though it wasn’t exactly what they had wanted at the time."
He was 41 in 2001. Show me a 41 year old in today's industry who could drop $5.75m on a weekend home.
Just how billable do I have to be to make that much?
You gotta be beyond billable
Taxes are 47k/year
@CD1 the exurbs (New Haven area) are more normal
The new place in Sag Harbor has 5 1/2 bathrooms and is valued at over $5m.
So he ran out of $$$$?
If I was a BBDo client and I saw this I’d be furious and wondering where all my money was going.
Have at it!