The only freelance I’ve had in the past four months is client side. I email agencies (for staff/freelance) daily, but the only responses I get are “as you can imagine, we are not hiring at this time.”

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Agencies are having trouble keeping their staff busy, let alone freelancers. We are just farther down the trough, and will be for a while.

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The full-time agency staff that remains. I’m not saying I haven’t been working, I have helped out with some frequent agency clients, but it has definitely slowed down and the reason I have been given has been, verbatim, “we can barely keep our own staff busy due to clients slowing things down, let alone bring in freelancers“

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I've had the same experience. Only bites I've had are client-side/startups. Agencies aren't doing well.

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Is this true? For both staff and freelance? Or is there a bigger message I am supposed to be getting here. Agency creatives, please share the inside scoop.

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I’ve heard the same. Agencies are barely hanging on.

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Wouldn’t this be the time to pitch new business to shake up more income? Anyway, thanks for chiming in everybody. 😊

Well it’s not like pitches—especially for brands that will pay you enough to justify the large expense (money, labor, focus off existing clients etc) of pitching—are growing on trees these days either.

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