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Personal pref. I used to have mine locked and people asked for the password. I don’t mind it. Good work is good work.
CW 1: If someone’s on your site, they’re already probably interested or curious enough to ask. I don’t mind taking a few seconds to do that :) Especially if I have an idea of what you’ve worked on / who you’ve worked with (probably why I’m on there to browse).
I understand the confidentiality of some projects, so having a password on those doesn’t bother me. Now, an entire portfolio password protected is fishy to me. Are you putting projects in there that are not yours, you little thief? Taking credit for things you shouldn’t? 🤔
Different people have different industry experience. 20 years here, all 20 with a website, 10 of those years freelance (I freelance as a CD and ACD, depends on the gig). I’ve been at many, many agencies. The password started in the mid-aughts. The freelance contracts woke me up to it, some specifically had language prohibiting displaying work in a portfolio. A password helps me be able to show my work so I could find gigs.
I work with a lot of photographers. Plenty of times, when hired as a vendor, the agency only purchases rights for the duration of the campaign, and only for those placements. The agency then has to buy extensions if the imagery is to be used beyond the original contract. Any photographer worth their salt charges a very high fee to buy out all the rights. A lot of agencies don’t feel like paying for that because they know they only need the photos for a certain amount of time. Models/talent complicate things even more; good ones always go through agencies and the terms of usage rights are often stricter than the photographers.
As far as pitch work goes, the more senior I got, the more pitches I got called in to do. Ask in the Freelancers bowl, many people have pitches for more than half of their gigs. For some it’s most of their gigs. The thing about pitches is that even if you win, the pitch work itself is not produced, let alone any rights granted. We still need to have a portfolio of recent pieces in order to get work and pay our bills. I get asked to show my pitch work all the time. So, I have a couple pitches. I always note which is a pitch.
Anyway, you may have valid argument about whether we are being too paranoid or too obedient about contracts and usage rights. I am annoyed by the password thing too, to be honest. The thing that I and many people take issue with is that some people on here are still accusing us of stealing work. We’re not. Call us password-holders overly cautious, careful, etc, but don’t assume we are thieves. A CD posted earlier stating that he/she actually fired people for showing work on their site, so there are real reasons to have a password. The only reasons I’m seeing here to not have a password are: 1) it’s mildly cumbersome and 2) it’s “fishy.”
If you have to protect a project for whatever reason, I get it. Blocking out your whole site just seems like a waste unless you’re perfectly happy at your job and plan to be happy there for years. Recruiters and CDs aren’t gonna take the extra step to request a PW just to view your site.
I refuse to look at any portfolios with a password, even if they give me the pw in the email.
I explained in other responses why I have a password. I’ll summarize: Rights are heavily managed by photographers and models, I used a different edit of a TV spot than the one that aired, I put a client-sensitive pitch, I have a few tech/UX pieces, and I have a couple pharma campaigns. You don’t need a password to see my resume, or my about page, or my list of agencies & clients, and I even name all of the campaigns for each portfolio piece, but the work itself is under a lock because my contracts won’t let me have this stuff out. It’s never held me back from getting into good agencies.
Now, if you go to someone’s site and you’re greeted with a password field and nothing else, I agree that’s annoying and cumbersome. My point is, your assumption that password holders are trying to hide something is not only wrong, it’s unfair. They might not even know how to put individual sections under a lock, which is really cumbersome with sites like Wix and Squarespace. Chalk it up to bad UX, not sketchiness.
And speaking of sketchiness, I have seen my work on four other former coworkers’ sites — and most of them had no password at all. So having no password is definitely not a guarantee they didn’t steal work.
In the interview, if you ask them to explain how they came up with a concept, you can totally tell if something is too good to be true. If this is the case, and you want to find out whether something was stolen, ask them who the CD or ECD was, write down the name. Then tell the interviewee that you will contact that person. Then actually do it. This technique also works for people who don’t have a password.
Potential clients mostly look at my site THEN reach out because they like my work. I have no clue of if they’d bother to reach out at all if they had to ask for a password.
Password protected sites are so dodgy. What are you hiding? Work that you had nothing to do with? Instant FAIL from me.
Welcome to my life, legal battle after legal battle. So sue me 😂
Typically in healthcare, you HAVE TO password protect your site. I’ve had to fire people who didn’t because the client demanded it.
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Creative Directors+ seems like when it’s okay
Other side. Has anyone here or someone you know gotten in trouble for something on their site (work they did, not stolen) because it was public?
Not me but I’ve known people who’ve had to take work down because the client busted them.
Search engine optimization. You can post whatever you want. Use the correct SEO and you’re invisible to the people you don’t want seeing your work.
Well done, Holmes. Tell me, how do you become visible to the people you do want to see your work?
The original file will be on Vimeo most probably which isn't password protected but the embedded file on your website is? Makes no sense.
They can also be password protected, fyi.
@ everyone in this particular thread- this is exactly why I’m asking. I have a few projects that I legally can’t allow to be out in the open. And I’ve also seen co-workers get sued for having normal stuff up on their sites. But I know some CDs have these opinions about “what are you hiding” despite all that. What are we supposed to do? It seems lose-lose.
On another legal note, any of you have a lawyer you could recommend using if you have a client that decided not to pay you and ended up using your work! 😡