Have you heard of this small agency in Los Angeles called Quantasy? Apparently they’re making their employees work for free and owe a lot of money to freelancers, vendors, and even the crew behind their Super Bowl comercial

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Quantasy??? So “Quan” meaning money (Jerry McGuire), plus “fantasy?”

Gotta love when a company name tells you exactly what to expect from them.

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Beautiful.

How does one make employees work for free?

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Just a sweet sweet quantasy baby
When I quose my eyes
You quome and you take me

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I’ve been trying to get ahold of them for over 10 months now on a pretty large unpaid invoice as a freelancer. They don’t even bother with excuses or apologies in their emails anymore, I’m just being flat out ignored. I would stay clear of them.

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Who are their main clients? Which brands? Because the sequential liability clause in many agency contracts means that if, for instance, PepsiCo or Kraft doesn’t pay the agency for 180 days, they certainly aren’t in a rush to pay their staff or vendors, who in turn don’t pay the crews.

It is, sadly, not unusual for ad agencies to make production or post-production vendors “float” the costs of an ad, so that ads are airing before the vendors are fully paid. Some of the holding companies are notorious for holding payments until after their quarterly reports are issued, so that it looks like they have more money in their reserves than they actually do.

Which is to say, if this is an independent agency you are talking about, there’s a 50/50 chance they are holding on to cash they’ve maybe been already paid, and 50/50 they haven’t been fully paid by a brand (or brands) themselves.

Honda is their biggest client right now if I’m not mistaken. Yeah they can’t afford much these days and refuse to layoff full time employees. For some reason they think it’s a better business decision to keep them and promise them to pay them soon but never do

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WHAT Super Bowl ad?

Run Forrrrrest runnnnn!

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