Hey strategist, you bring bias to your research, and that’s ok, but you have to admit it and account for it. Lose the ego, for all our sakes.

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A CD talking about others having large egos. 🤔

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Someone from Droga questioning ego 🤔

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Do we need strategists? Clients don’t like to pay for them. Can account and creative get to insights about human behavior without them?

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Who says clients don’t like to pay for them? Clients these days love strategy. It allows them to pay for something and get something they can show their bosses. “See look at this work I’ve done with our agency.” And it doesn’t require the financial commitment and risk of creative production - which they all try to avoid like the plague these days. Because you can needle a deck forever, but once you build something, record something, or code something it is what it is. And all the changes you can make to it are expensive.

Clients love strategy. It’s our job to get them to love making the work just as much and that’s hard because it simply costs more money to create our work than it does theirs.

(Don’t jump down my throat about ours vs theirs. I used it as shorthand. It’s all our work when it’s done.)

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I’d be worried less about ego and more about bias related to gender, race, sexuality, or age. Everybody should be aware if their inherent bias and do their best to remove that from the work so their ads don’t cause harm or reinforce shitty paradigms and stereotypes.

This has been me, piling on.

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Woah - meta

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