Can someone explain the adweek 100 creative list to me, you’re telling me a couple of creatives who literally went to private portfolio schools to do their job are in the same league of inspirational innovators like Anderson paak/Hwang Dong hyuk - I’m so confused and honestly just solidifies my hatred for these lists even more ..

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It's pay to play, not earnest nominations

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Then I’d say the selection committee needs to rethink it’s selections 🫠

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It is an advertising publication making the list. I think they just put the famous people on there to make it interesting. They definitely don’t care about Adweek, if they’ve even heard of it.

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True. And like one of the previous commenters said, it’s definitely pay to play.

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I bet Doja Cat and Bill Hader can't wait to post about their inclusion on Linkedin.

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Go Google “vanity gallery” and then ask yourself if a publication can function as a gallery.

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I understand, I just feel like why do these publications even exist then? why is making in in adweek a make&break for a lot of careers. It’s not fair when it’s a popularity contest. Idk sorry just venting and having an overall early mid-life career crisis.

Instead of the cynical outlook on this kind of thing, I’ll offer some positivity. If getting on a list like this is a goal of yours, you can do it! All it takes is probably about one really solid year at your agency production-wise. Maybe even one great piece of work. And then yes, your agency nominating you, but it’s more than possible. Don’t have an early mid life crisis over it bc it’s not that deep and you could easily find yourself on one in the not so distant future.

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Hate something, change something, OP. The inspirational people you are describing are not writing sour posts on fish bowl.

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