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me liking every single Josh wine meme on the internet
@xooset
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Elmo looked at Elmo's 401K
Elmo needs a hug today. ❤️
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Gearing up to present a month's worth of work over zoom to 15 people who will remain stonefaced and silent for 60 minutes while you talk nitter.app/tenetyaoi/status/17891…
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Sorry but if your meeting were truly important, it would have happened in any of the 50 weeks of the year before this one. Not feeling the urgency tbh.
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Sometimes your role in the meeting is simply to bear witness to tragedy
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The 25 people who needed to review and approve this creative work feel it lacks a singular vision.
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2023 as you lived it vs. your 2023 recap video on Instagram
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The year is 2078. There is one ad agency left: WPPublicisCom&IPGDentsuCorpCo. It slowly orbits the earth in a space barge.
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Not circling so much as spiraling back
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What they say: "It's in Figma." What they mean: "I dare you, a nondesigner, to open Figma and figure out what the hell is going on. We both know that is not going to happen. So why don't you leave me alone and you can see it when it's finished."
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"Good luck on your next adventure!" The adventure:
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You should be able to leave work a little early if it's nice out and there's a trade war
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Extremely curious to know what the KPIs are for the Jesus ads
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Good night, sweet prince. You thrived in the world of first-round creative decks but were too pure for this one.
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When you are 4 weeks into the project and someone you've never heard of requests edit access to the deck
Niko Exxtra
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Me on Slack: Heyyyyy gm! 👋🏻 Me typing that message:
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Have you ever wondered who are those people who get that first HQ question wrong?
Stricter gun laws is not the answer.
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The greatest creative idea of our era was rebranding the unreasonable project timeline as a "sprint"
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In the deck watching revisions happen 1 hr before a presentation
prayingforexits 🏴‍☠️
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Replying to @XComms
It's already here and it works great
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Replying to @PopCrave
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Me celebrating another year in advertising
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Industry veterans to form new agency with "creativity at the center"
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If I send you this it means I don't understand the brief and I need help
Alexandra
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Ad agency veterans announce new "innovation consultancy" that lives at the intersection of art and technology
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Love that the world is ending but we're still doing 30 under 30 lists
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Still processing
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The only agency person who knows where she's going to be two years from now
Emily in Paris has been renewed for Season 3 — and Season 4! 🍾
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I will be accepting no questions at this time
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Creative team defending a script that would require a Hawaii shoot nitter.app/TheWeirdWorld/status/1…
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I am loved. I am enough. I am better than the ads targeting me think I am.
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The idea in the pitch deck vs. after you find out the budget
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Joining the Zoom too early, waiting for everyone else to show up
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At this point how could Barbie the movie possibly live up to Barbie the advertising case study
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Sad day in advertising: all the strategies have been used up.
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me carefully crafting a tweet that will get 12 likes
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the project as I lived it // the project as I talk about it in my performance review
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The 10 minutes between sharing a doc and the appearance of the first annoying comment
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Justifying the state of my portfolio to myself
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I'm sorry, the apocalypse isn't happening until I see it on the content calendar.
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Got a "make the logo smaller." These truly are unprecedented times.
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Once you leave Facebook, birthdays cease to exist.
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Halloween after 8 rounds of review + legal feedback
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You merely adopted dark mode. I was born in it, molded by it.
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Account guy killing the best ideas before the deck goes to clients
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LinkedIn has appointed R/GA as global strategic creative agency for LinkedIn Ads following a competitive pitch process, ADWEEK has learned. adweek.it/4kX6GN0
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What I say: "Ah sorry I can't make it, I have a conflict." What I mean:
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Oh, you work in advertising. Would I have seen anything you've made? I don't know. Do you have access to my Google drive?
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Just had a few tweaks. Basically rewrote what you wrote but longer and worse. Pretty straightforward.
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"Not loving this design, it feels very corporate." -- a corporation
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Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you can target him with fishing-equipment ads for a lifetime.
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Hate it when I forget to take off my lanyard before doing a coup
An employee of Navistar Direct Marketing has been “terminated for cause” after he wore his WORK BADGE to the Capitol yesterday, per @TreWardWBAL
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I'm 50 years old and New York remains undefeated.
R/GA really needs to let someone who isn’t a millennial run its social media account. on the other hand, New York has turned into a shit hole. And anyone defending it needs their head examined.
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This and a deck that needs to be completely overhauled in the next 3 hours
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Thinking about how funny it would be if an agency lost a pitch but proceeded for weeks or months afterward as if it had won. A genius bit.
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A little hack for creatives that works for me: when I'm stuck, I like to take a break, then revisit the problem with fresh eyes 1-2 years later
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Getting one social post approved after 5 rounds of review with 32 different stakeholders
Ramin Setoodeh
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God waited until the sixth day to create humans so he wouldn't have to deal with rounds of feedback on all the other stuff
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The Influencer's Journey
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I'm just an exec Wearing a blazer with a graphic tee in my headshot Asking you to see me as cool and relatable
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What if we kissed at the top of the sales funnel
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When the client calls your bluff and approves the most unhinged idea in the deck
MA
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This is the freelance creative team you're paying $$$$ a day to crack a campaign for B2B software. After 5 weeks the winning line will be something like "Work Smart" or "Keep It Simple."
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"No ad agency would have done this ad."
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OK so we didn't do so well on awareness, consideration, or conversion. But the vibes...
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The feedback live in the meeting vs. the written feedback one day later
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I want to go client side just so I can give the "Look, I come from the agency world so I know how you guys work" speech
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"I'm not a designer...." [shrugs, steps away from computer] "I'm not a copywriter, but..." [rolls up sleeves, cracks open that deck]
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settling into the meeting knowing someone else messed up this time
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An "activation"... oh you mean just doing literally anything?
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Round 1: We want to see bold thinking. Nothing is off the table. Make us uncomfortable! Round 7:
Presenting PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue, the Pantone Color of the Year 2020. A timeless and enduring blue hue, timeless in its simplicity. #pantone2020 #coloroftheyear
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Me on mute watching two clients argue with each other
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Well done, everyone in branding / marketing/ advertising. We did it.
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Me searching for an insight in this brief nitter.app/Marcellomj/status/1331…
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Kids might take school more seriously if "homework" was reframed as "deliverables."
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Andrew Yang's posts are that feeling you get when you're watching a movie that is set in New York but was obviously shot in Toronto to save money.
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💅
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Client: We love the pitch team, but how are you actually going to staff the business? Agency:
Mick Jagger
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Which agency is this?
NATIONAL NEWS: Someone is putting tiny cowboy hats on pigeons in Las Vegas as animal rescue works to remove them dlvr.it/RL0SFb
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You may know me from such iconic lines as Shop Now! and Learn More.
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This isn't a tweet, it's a string of SEO keywords
A viral TikTok CBD lounge for Gen Z is opening in NYC: bit.ly/3awahiH
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v disappointed after reading a number of "future of work" studies to learn that in the future I will still have to work
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Copywriters when someone refers to "the creative" meaning design only
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Case studies are the bathroom selfies of advertising.
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Congratulations to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on winning Georgia again.
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"Make the brand famous" is not a brief.
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Me: cool seal... *like* The algorithm:
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Every self-proclaimed social media marketing expert on Twitter
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Excited for "we just found some money we have to spend before the end of Q4" weather
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Hearing "We love it!" in a first-round creative review is like an "I love you!" from someone you just met. You can't trust it, and some weird stuff is probably about to go down.
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Sorry I missed your email. I now have 48 social accounts to manage.
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People giving feedback on a rough cut even after you explain that everything is WIP
big oomfie general
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If you work in advertising, you know that humans are only interested in 7 things: sports, gaming, music, fashion, food, beauty, entertainment. People are interested in only one of those things at any given time, and no one is interested in anything else.
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Planners disappearing for 3 weeks to write the brief, resurfacing 4 days before creative is due to clients
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"Yes, I do social work. Oh no, not the one that helps people. The other one."
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If you don't have a thank you slide, you are ungrateful.
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