Who is the worst client of all time?

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Sony….Japanese clients that would nod along during the presentation like they were pleased and then proceed to send lengthy feedback around 3am asking to change it all.

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lol. I’ve had plenty of American clients that do that.

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Samsung

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And there are very good reasons for that.

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1. Verizon

2. Samsung

3. Verizon

4 Verizon

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Verizon .

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All telecom clients.

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Same level of bad for agencies and people who work for the internal agency?

Meta was pretty rough to work with.

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That’s the only time I’ve been on a shoot with 3 client side “CD’s” lol

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Verizon and Samsung then anything with retail that is price and market conscious. You’re always putting out fires no one notices.

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Yourself

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Whichever I am working on at any given time

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All of them.

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Some are worse. So much worse

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COX Cable

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No way! they're still in business?

Most clients. Most clients don’t know what to say. Before I got into advertising, I thought the process was the agency made and produced the ad they were confident with with zero client input. There was only a decrepit of what worked and what didn’t. Man advertising would be better without most of them.

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I at least thought they’d treat us like experts who had good taste…seeing as they clearly aren’t either of those things. It’s a very weird business, more of a ‘dog and pony show’ than I ever thought it would be.

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Verizon and Samsung 1000x

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The world health organization? I find that hard to believe.

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Walmart

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😬

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Samsung and then some

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Taco Bell

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Everyone knows it’s Verizon

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Kaiser Permanente - steer clear.

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