Ad Biz Is Yukking It Up With the #AgencyLife Hashtag

If you're an ad person, and you're on Twitter, you've probably caught at least a few #AgencyLife tweets in your stream. The hashtag, which was fueled by the blog Adland, caught on like wildfire Thursday in the span of just a few hours, with hundreds of tweets by ad people eager to poke some fun at themselves and blow off some steam. Makes sense; ad folks usually tend to have a good sense of humor. But many people were expressing that the missives didn't feel like mere jokes and rang a bit too close to home. Below is a selection of them. That last tweet has to make you wonder about the state of morale in the business today. Management wants to "get with it" with the latest tech craze. Buys everyone flip video recorders and tells you to join Gowalla #agencylife You tell a non-adlander you're a copywriter and they ask you about copyright law. #agencylife Oxymoron #agencylife One third of the deliveries for the creative department are drugs. Two thirds are pizza. #agencylife Client loves concept but rejects it because "the target audience isn't smart enough to get it" #agencylife Briefs that are never brief :| #agencylife Creative Director uses the non-words "virality" "sharability" and "memification" in the same sentence. With a straight face. #agencylife You're trying to sell spaghetti-sauce with a hashtag on twitter. #agencylife Nobody is hungry for lunch when we ask...sees half the office at Pret anyway. #agencylife When your ghost ad wins an awards, it's the agencies best work that year. When it's exposed as a ghost, you're publically fired. #agencylife You go up on stage get your award. 2 minutes later organizers take it back to give someone else because shortage of awards :| #agencylife Whining. Lots of whining. A tremendous amount of whining. #agencylife Your new brand spokesperson has 900 followers on twitter in the first 5 minutes. They all work at the agency. #agencylife They finally send you to Cannes. You're stuck jetlagged in a hotel room working for 3 days straight. #agencylife Slightly worrying that none of the #agencylife tweets were positive.

Ad Biz Is Yukking It Up With the #AgencyLife Hashtag

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