What’s it like at Ogilvy right now?

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From what I hear it’s busy, people are overworked and it’s not a creative led shop.

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I heard they just won a really big, uncreative account.

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What horrible pitch creative did they present to win that? I wonder. TD has consistently some of the worst advertising in the banking space.

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