Tag: Advertising
Woke-Washing: The Ad Industry’s Dirty Laundry
Pouring time and money into glossy woke campaigns, marketers give no credence or respect to the activists who paved the way, many with their lives.
Katie Martell
Good ads wear in, not out
There’s this fallacy that, even if it’s working, an ad should only be run for a couple of months before audiences will get sick of it.
Seb Mackay
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
I worked for a mobile tech start-up in San Diego in the early 2000s. This had some rockstar founders. I was part of their round one of hires.
Brian Jung
DEI is treated as a trend
I said something in a fit of frustration that’s been rolling around in my mind ever since: DEI was made for us, but it's killing us.
Daynah Singh
Holding hands with the agency president
I had been a copywriter in advertising for about three years by then, which was just long enough to know I didn’t belong in that room.
Kevin Lynch
Saatchi Kate and Addict Kate
By all conventional measures, I was highly successful..but by 2004, I was struggling with addiction to alcohol.
Kate Smith
It took me 10 years to recover my confidence
That job, getting fired, and eighteen months of failing to overcome mediocre work set me and my career back.
George Tannenbaum
Pissing off a million Mancunians
If you’re a creative, then fucking use your gifts for good and not for selling shit to sleepwalkers.
Steve Connor
Fuck milk
This was our first project for a huge household brand. I saw our hard work closing the deal, and my financial projections disappear in front of my eyes.
John Lyons
Opinions are like arseholes, everybody's got one
If you work in marketing or advertising, you're surrounded by opinions. Some people don't like green in their logo. Some people don't like sentences beginning with "And" or "But."
Paddy Gilmore