Does your agency have a separate ACD for art and copy? Saw these job openings at BarkleyOKRP and was surprised to see ACD 'Art'. Would anyone be able to explain to me how the roles are different from one another? Our agency just has one ACD who oversees copy and art both so it'd be nice to understand what the pluses of having a ACD to head each department is.

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The job opening to fill one half of a team. ACDs are high level makers and managers. This is pretty common at most creative agencies

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Yes, more often then not ACDs have a specialization. Sometimes they work as a team, sometimes they don’t. My agency doesn’t have teams so an ACD art would be paired with a Sr CW or visa versa depending on the needs of the project.

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Yes, the more common thing is surely to have two separate ACDs, and one CD.

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Writers & Art Directors. Easy. ACD Copy & ACD Art. It’s always been like this. CD Copy/CD Art. Get it?

So yeah, when I was at a smaller agency I was an ACD who did both. Essentially, I functioned as group CD. Our CD was essentially an ecd for both. In a bigger place ACD is between senior copywriter and a copy manager.

Pretty standard, a partnership. There’s likely an ACD/writer without a partner so they’re filling that role.

In my experience a GCD or ECD no longer has the speciality qualifier, they oversee both. CDs sometimes too, but I still see many partnerships.

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