Advertising Agencies
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Hays: Ad agencies now pitch clients using AI-generated draft commercials
“Now it feels like the agencies have to actually make a V one, an AI V one of the ad and say like, here's our five concepts. If you hire us, we'll like narrow in and actually make it hire, hire actors, maybe not use entirely AI.”
Danilov: Founders should never hire marketing agencies on a retainer basis
“Do not hire advertising agencies. That's the one rule that I'm applying, that I applied to this business, and that I'm applying to all my businesses. The one that I'm moving on to right now, as well, is that if somebody comes to you and says, oh, Pay me a reta…”
Stuart Cohen: Large Ad Agencies and Corporations Refuse to License AI Content
“And I think a lot of the large advertising agencies
And or corporations will not use anything generated with AI.
They may come up with concepts on what they want to create using AI, but they will not license any AI content for that specific reason.”
Mark Read: Effective Advertising Requires Questioning the Client's Brief
“Often in our business, the trick isn't answering the brief. The trick is, is that the right brief or the wrong brief? Because clients come to you with one thing, but actually something else is better.”
Treadaway: Agencies are under fire as brands bring marketing in-house
“I mean, I think you know, agencies are very much under fire right now. Brands are getting smarter. The reality is everybody needs to squeeze as much profit as they can out of the deals, you know, out of their businesses. And so they're looking for inefficienci…”
Britton: TV and digital convergence will return power to ad agencies
“When TV and digital come full circle, it's going to go right back into the hands of the agencies and it's already starting to go in that direction as everything kind of starts to shake out in that space.”
Sutherland: Advertising agencies falsely pitch intuitive ideas as sequential logic
“You actually invite the client in and you pretend that you arrived at this insight or flash of imagination through the deployment of sequential logical thought. And of course the whole thing is a complete misrepresentation of what happened. What you did is you…”