Spec work I've been working on...was just launched by an agency into a real campaign...What do I do with it now???

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congrats. you just produced a campaign. put it on your site. and when they ask you to take it down, ignore the email. i did that (IPG) and nothing happened.

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People still out here pouring heart and soul into work?

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I was working on a campaign and another agency did it before I launched it. It sucks but it happens all the time, it’s part of the job.

Come up with something else.

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You do nothing with it. It’s now owned by the people who made it.
I had the same idea as moldy whopper years before it was made, and I’ll be a bunch of other people did too.
But the trick in this business is to get ideas made. If someone beats you to it, they won.
Ideas are cheap.
Turning good ideas into work that gets made is everything. That’s what we get paid for.

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