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Why Do All Ad Agencies Suck At Advertising Themselves?

Why Do All Ad Agencies Suck At Advertising Themselves?

Even so-called "creative" agencies.

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Jan 31, 2024
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NOTE: This is Part One of a Series that will have three parts because I got a shit-ton of amazingly terrible ad agency ads archived.


Last century, ad agencies were pretty good at advertising themselves. This century? I have not seen one good self-promo ad. Not. One.

DDB ran this ad full page in Time magazine in 1969. It’s the best ad agency self-promo copy ever written. Period.

you're gonna wanna see the below ads.

Ad agencies have, seriously, ONE JOB: make ads. It is why they exist. 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.

See for yourself, Paids. Un-Paids, buy a subscription here.

Many of these ads are NSFW-ish. All of them are Not Safe For Not-Terribleness.

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