All Ad Agencies Suck At Advertising Themselves (part 3).

A continuing series...

Ad agencies have, seriously, ONE JOB: make ads. It is why they fucking exist, contrary to what marketing masters degree holders think. So: ONE would THINK that they’d be—at the very fucking least—competent at making ads for their own ad-making services.

ONE, would be, nearly 100% WRONG.

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Here’s Part One of this series. And here’s Part Two. Also: for Paid Subscribers only.

BDO ad from 1925, much better than ALL the below “modern” ads. In 1928, the George Batten Company merged with BDO to form BBDO. Here, BDO states, so fucking simply, why you, Brand, should do creative advertising. Because creative advertising is art.