The Pitch
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- mg330
Watching new episode. Another question: is it ever imaginable that a client will show up to an agency's office the day after the kickoff to see their progress and talk to them?
I worked in an interactive agency for 5 years but unfamiliar with more traditional ad agencies. I have to figure stuff like this never happens, which makes the show all the more absurd for how unrealistic it is.
- that made me upset actually, I hated that client's attitude about it toomonospaced
- Yeah, the VERY NEXT day they show up. So strange.mg33
- His "well, I warned you" attitude was infuriating. It's not like he's paying them anything, fucking asshole.monospaced
- mg330
The other thing that drives me crazy is when these little agencies say they're the best at what they do. That nobody does it better.
The very first thing I think we were taught when I was studying advertising was to NEVER claim something was the best unless it was quoting an endorsement of some kind, and attributed to the endorser. So to watch these groups make that claim make me laugh. Never mind that there's no way it could ever be proven.
- Almost all the agencies on that show suck and have crappy clients.freedom
- utopian0
Just watched the latest episode...Both agency concepts were mediocre at best...and both of the agencies design styles, presentations and overall execution of the representation of brand were horrific.
- No kidding. Bee whatever was abysmal.mg33
- < agreed, a bit embarassing for the industrydbloc
- a bit embarassing for the humans race.omahadesigns
- monospaced0
Watching this show stresses me the fuck out. Not just because it feels like work, but because I'm not in control and all their ideas are fucking stupid. Seriously, when was it ever okay to think that one idea is good enough? Never in my life...
- jasontroj0
Last night was so uncomfortable.
How are these agencies picked?- How do these agencies exist?omahadesigns
- Craigslist?omahadesigns
- freedom0
If you ever watch tv or look at magazines, aren't most of the commercials just stupid or boring? This show explains why.
Some of these agencies do "political ads" or work for companies we never heard of. They dream of working on car insurance or Kia.
- freedom0
When the season premier is for a company run by jocks called "College Hunks Hauling Junk", you just know the show isn't going anywhere.
- Actually that's a well known company.monospaced
- They would have taken any reasonable solution though. It was lame.freedom
- They're not a kind of client that exactly needs something brilliant.freedom
- freedom0
Who follows Little Caesars on social media anyways?
- omahadesigns0
"Creatives"
- omahadesigns0
http://www.beecommunications.com…
Are you serious? High schoolers can design better.
- mg330
Is anyone watching this episode tonight for 1800 Flowers?
I want to punch my eyeballs out. I've never seen a group so capable of sucking every last bit of air out of a room.
- mg330
"Hashtags are the bumper sticker of 2013."
*vomits.
- my exact reactiondoesnotexist
- plus screaming at the tvdoesnotexist
- freedom0
This show makes me think you should have to pass a test to be in advertising.
So anyone with a degree from any school in anything can open a design "agency" and pretend to be a designer and expert on marketing?
- futuremongolian0
I watched the Gibson guitars episode and was shocked at how inept both agencies were. Like, these guys have nothing going on. Fuck all. No ideas, no talents. And everyone involved was humourless and boring.
- freedom0
Or how about the agency in the Tommy Bahama ep pitching that they put a XBOX camera in the store windows.
Is that all advertising is? Agency finds new technology on Google and pitches vague concept and expects to get business?