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Not all suits are empty, just some of them. The surefire way to spot worthless men in suits in another on of Mark Wneks pieces for the Independant.
I hope I didn't give the impression last week that I am against all ad-agency account handlers, or suits. In fact, I know few people as charismatic as a Bill Muirhead or as switched on as a Michael Baulk. What I am against are the bad ones, of which there are far too many, braying with laughter as they examine their giant pay-packets of soft-earned cash.Several clients have now asked me if I know how to winkle out these rotters. I have directed them without hesitation to my Addison Lee test.
This works like so: most projects involving your ad agency involve account handlers, be they to create a brief, to decide strategy or finalise creative work. Each project will need a certain number of meetings and a certain amount of stewardship, often from an eyebrow-raisingly high number of account handlers.
At the end of a given project, recap the input of each account handler involved and ask yourself: Could the input of any one of them have been every bit as well done by a motorcycle messenger with a clipboard?
If, in any instance, the answer is "yes", then dare I venture that the
*brushes popcorn crumbs from lap*
Shoot what a shame to see it end just as it was getting a second wind -- these were all really funny, I could see "Slasher" being a low budget Japanese gore-flick. ;) The winner is : The Art Director's Time Sheets. But all of these were dang funny. :)
Wanted to share this link - someone rags on this campaign ins a rather funny fashion. Such trite superficialities include, for example, the different shapes of the American and British football (a surprise to absolutely nobody), the fact that the Japanese read books from right to left (gosh mister bank! what amazingly obscure facts you know!) and that insects westerners may regard as pests are sometimes eaten, in countries like Thailand. Which is true (as every schoolboy knows), but it
This is an equal stereo-gender-type world, and Stacy on adlist suggests that these are the most common male caricatures:
> 1. Dumb Jock/sports enthusiast
> 2. Emasculated husband who cannot master simple household chores
> 3. Loveable and/or horny old geezer
> 4. Preoccupied businessman on the verge of enlightenment
> 5. God
Seems they have resorted to spamming these days. Robblink, you're like two years ahead of everybody you trendsetter you with the finger on the..eh.. food. Sept 2004 - Snarkhunter got spammed...:
Intestinal advertising: We received a horrifying piece of spam from some jackass named Rich Errera, CEO of Gourmet Impression LLC. Who knew that the Pale Horse of the Apocalypse would be braying upon arrival? He's touting a product that embosses advertising on food, executing a literal interpretation of "consumer". Take a look at these tasty morsels:
- click the link to read more. Course, snarkhunter links the gourmet impression site, proving that spam works! wehey!: ;P
If you'd like to see your name in a commercial, but you're not, say, an agency producer, check out the new online commercial created by London shop 20:20 for Audi in the U.K. You have to enter your name and e-mail address, but they promise they won't use this information for marketing purposes. They'll only use it to creep you out.
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