How commonly do agencies steal ideas from student books? A recent Grand Prix winner is suspiciously similar to an old spec campaign in a student book I came across.

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I saw a NY agency steal one of my spec student ideas. I knew they did it because my analytics showed they were on my website quite a bit before they released it. To add insult to injury the stole some design on my website for their corporate website.

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Happens all the time. Sometimes it's subconscious, like they forgot where they saw it, but a lot of the time the attitude is "ideas get stolen, it's happened to us all, just have more ideas.'

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CW1....sure, but when I see them repeated visit the brand page on my site and then see they release the same idea months later, it sure seems suspicious.

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An agency stole my idea 100%. I interviewed with the ECD. About eight months later, I saw my idea on their website. Oddly, he didn’t think I was good enough to work at the agency, but my ideas was good enough to win them a couple of shitty awards. I don’t get it

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AD1 you are literally in the forum where something can be done. Which agency? Which campaign?

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They probably had a similar idea. It happens all the time

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Happened to me and they won 6 Cannes Lions with my student work. Nothing could be done, or else we burn our names for being “cry babies"

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Happens

I will say the idea I had stolen wasn’t close to winning awards, so I guess there’s that.

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