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This makes me sad.
CPB was my dream agency as a creative coming up. I've always wanted to work there. Still do. Hopefully they can reset and build up again.

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You don’t need Captain Obvious to tell you CPB is a sinking ship. (See what I did there?)

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Man, I feel for those still counting on checks from cpb.

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Jokes aside, this news is sad. Startling to see such a drastic descent. The outcome of several poor leadership choices and a general failure to adapt their offering. And it looks like, once again, they’ve put new leaders in place that aren’t effective.

Last one out, hit the lights.

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I agree. It’s sad. Lots of people losing there jobs. I think this is really the end of an era.

So, that’s that then. Right?

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An agency is its people.

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Who won the accounts?

Damn.

Do you know what might be going wrong over there? I always felt like captain obvious was a pretty iconic campaign so I’m surprised they wouldn’t stick by them, even for a new campign

The captain creatives all left the agency.

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I pity the fool that has to work on fruit of the loom next. In a way, losing the account is actually winning.

Porter’s 1st mistake was to sell out, 2nd biggest mistake was to let Senecal in and agreeing to be rid of Reilly and Keller, 3rd mistake was to bring Bogusky back to tarnish Bogusky’s legendary status.

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