Youngest age you see people becoming a CD?
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Minimum 35 with life experience
Too young.
Y'all need to calm down and get great at your current job title before you move to the next level.
I saw someone who was promoted to CD around 28, they were good. But they were not a leader yet. And they let it get to their head.
Being a CD is kinda like being a parent. You're better equipped to be successful and lead once you've got more life experience. Don't rush it. Keep growing and building your skills. Creative ingenuity is important, but so is leadership, knowing how to sell ideas, manipulate client perceptions to keep things in favour of the creative, inspiring others, supporting others. Just make sure you have some solid young bucks to keep you on the pulse with "what the kids are into these days".
This is always an interesting question, because I think a huge part of why so many young people push to rush promos is because everyone knows the shortness of this career. You gotta get to the higher earning roles as fast as possible to maximize the finite career. For me, as soon as I had a very strong, and diversified book I began shifting focus to getting to CD and beyond.
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30. Haven’t seen any 20-something CDs.
It’s a variety of factors:
-how good you are creatively
-how good you are with clients, other departments, at presenting
-how good you are at guiding other creatives
That last bullet is why, in my opinion, just being an amazing creative isn’t enough to warrant a CD title too early on. Unless you’re guiding a team of creatives who are also outlier superstars, you’ll need to give feedback to creatives who are struggling with briefs, need to be managed differently than you were, etc—but can still thrive and give you great work. It’s hard to empathize with and manage those creatives if you make it to CD in your 20s with zero challenges
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Used to be 30 or so. Now like 26.
Eh, I knew people who graduated from ad school at 21-22. They didn’t go to college or went for 2 years first. So after that, 9 years of working experience is enough to be a CD at 30. If all depends. There’s no magic number. Some people are just born with an ad/design/copywriting brain
When I was fresh out of college, I met a CD who was 26 and I was so intimidated by him. I thought he had to be a genius but he was down to earth. He was also a really talented designer. I later found out his title was “CD, Design”…
I’m dealing with this right now, but in this case we are both freelance and the cd- design is trying to led tv projects without experience which is creating a production suck.
Agree that mid 30s is ideal.
The cofounder of Majority, Omid Farhang, went from Junior to CD at Crispin in like 2 years. And that was when Crispin was cooking with gas.
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Sorry but respectfully disagree. I’ve seen the talent multiple times. But hey, everyone’s experience is different.
Didn’t David Droga get the global CCO job of Publicis at 29?
A dude that wasn’t quite shaving yet.
A CD, nowadays, is just a creative. The difference between a jr copywriter and a CD is just a bit more money and fancier title. But the job description is the same.