Does anyone else feel like this industry has gotten worse? More deliverables, tighter timelines, more cross-functional people (with strong opinions) needing to approve the work, same expectations for high-quality work?

Trying to unpack if this is circumstantial to my current job, or an issue with advertising at large. Maybe it’s just both lol

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Don't forget all that plus lower budgets, too.

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Flacid benefits

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This 1000% the red tape and layers that even go into just presenting an idea is madness.

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It’s going the same way as Hollywood, for the same reasons — the hits used to pay for the bombs. You’d win out in the long run by taking a lot of risks and letting creatives cook.

Both agencies/Hollywood lost dominance over people’s attention, and the attention economy got way oversaturated. Now the hits don’t pay for the bombs, because there are much fewer hits. So the execs put the business in a chokehold to try and control it—to engineer perfection under high scrutiny—which only leads to less hits, less relevance, and more control as a result. A classic death spiral.

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At large. Welcome, the water is almost boiling.

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You’re not imagining things. it’s been this way for a while, especially the million people needed to approve work now

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It's definitely the industry. This post hit the nail on the head

https://joinfishbowl.com/post_1bz8k4t55s

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Yes, it's awful.

But is anybody looking for a writer?

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Just hoping one day that all the younger gen agency will eat the fuk out of the older agency…. Because these old azz people just cant help with their old way of doing shyt that just slow things down.

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