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Re: Which Ad is Better: iPad v. Slate - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:50:38 -0000

Sorry - couldn't see the ad on my iPad. WIFI keeps dropping out...

Re: AdAge Selects New Digital Editor: Me - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:51:49 -0000

Pity.

I saw this woebegone blog possibly improving.

What would make this little April hoax truly funny would be for mediabistro to give you your walking papers anyway!

Re: Bill Bruce Does Exactly What We Told You He Would - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:12:15 -0000

I'm looking forward to some really "hip" commercials, or spots as those in the know call them...

Re: Ogilvy New York Waiting for a Train That Will Never Come - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 18:01:33 -0000

Maybe Lynn Roer can blackmail somebody...

Who knows? Maybe Itai already has negatives of Bloomberg doing lines with Patterson.

Re: We Hear: WONGDOODY Bought Ground Zero - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:14:04 -0000

It really speaks well of all concerned that even the haters that post on this godforsaken board can't say a bad work about these crews. (although GZ does have some senior level Bosox fans...)

Good luck to both agencies, whatever may happen.

Re: BBDO New York CCO Bill Bruce Looking for a Director Gig - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:42:14 -0000

You want to see how creative directors turned directors (even successful ones) handle long form, check out the emperor's new clothes turd called Dog House by Brian Buckley for JC Penny. No pacing, flat as a fucking pancake. Like a bad Saturday Night Live skit, the joke was over 30 seconds into the gig and then it dragged on for another half hour...
Not to mention that should they ever be so lucky as to actually get into the studio system, these petty martinets, cowed over on commercials sets, are shocked to discover that they're just cogs in a machine where the true "stars" are actually - stars.

Re: BBDO New York CCO Bill Bruce Looking for a Director Gig - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:26:33 -0000

You've left out approximately 800 names of the ones who didn't make it. Of course nobody thinks of them. Those successes stand out while the failures become invisible. Like those poor unfortunate souls at the bottom of the sea in The Little Mermaid...

Re: BBDO New York CCO Bill Bruce Looking for a Director Gig - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:22:50 -0000

Isn't that the "hip" thing to do? Become a director.
Jump right in Bill baby. Plenty of room out there. No doubt RSA would be delighted to add another name to it's storied roster. Lease yourself a new car. Something big and black. I hear commercials are the next big thing...

Re: Grey Employees Whine Over Wall-Less New Digs - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:36:52 -0000

It looks fucking hideous.
Maybe open space plans work for little child slaves gluing Nike soles in Vietnam but for creative/experience/production to be sharing a din... What a fucking nightmare. And this from the dude who made the whiney youTube video about being on the wrong floor...

Re: The New Yahoo! is All About You Not in Front of Your Computer - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:06:48 -0000

Yeah whatever... they got them to spend some money. Godbless...

Now what about Lynn Roer and the Avon scandal?

Re: Blind Item: Which Agency's Employee's Got Some 'Splainin to Do? - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:42:12 -0000

Director of Broadcast at Ogilvy and Mather? It's about time. That Avon scandal deserved more attention than it has recieved.

@Ad Sluts & @namerequired - I agree. This is a bullshit blog. But I still look in from time to time...

Re: We Hear: R/GA Layoffs to Begin Today - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:34:38 -0000

But I though that they were all digital and everything???
I'd type this faster but my fingers are loaded down.

Re: Blind Item: Which Struggling (And We Mean Struggling) Agency Sent an Employee to The Egos, a Ping Pong Tourney? - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:29:09 -0000

is there really someone who calls themselves "golden shower" here? That's disgusting!

Re: Blind Item: Which Agency Has Recently Had More Drama than a Scorsese Film? - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:50:04 -0000

Ogilvy. They've shitcanned their creative director and there's the lingering stench of the Avon scandal which really should bring down Lynn Roer, the head of production - although the fact that that talentless hooer has stuck around this long would suggest that she's got some swell negatives...

Re: escape from LA

bringoutyourdead — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:50:47 -0000

As if the State of California can afford to rebate 30% of anything at the moment...

I remember lazing on a nice, Naugahide couch in front of a fake fireplace watching the Yanks on a 50" HD TV in a pop-out trailer while we were doing some expensive piece of crap spot for some national chain that was being fleeced, both creatively and in terms of production costs.

I can also remember standing around in the dirt, outside a secondary European city, sipping espresso and eating a delicious panini as I watched a small crew of maybe 30 producing an elaborate effects-laden spot that ended up winning a bunch of awards.

LA film production got as fat and lazy as Detroit auto production and now they're paying for it Jerry. It's useless to try in any event but the state isn't the issue, it's the CYA culture of film production in LA, the 5 & 5 and 6 & 6 crews that once were 3 & 3 and 4 & 4 (and in Europe, South America and some of the "rebate" states - remain). It's production designer assistants and staffs and staff's assistants. Oh yeah, it's also the craft service that might make Nero blush...

Re: blogging

bringoutyourdead — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:13:57 -0000

Oops. And I like the MIT site

Re: blogging

bringoutyourdead — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:13:20 -0000

So what are your favorites?
Mine are AdScam and Talent Borrows, Genius Steals. Agency Spy started out well but has gotten rather lazy of late...

Re: Where Everybody Knows Your Name - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:06:22 -0000

Seriously...

I thought that the mission of a blog called "Agency Spy" was to reveal news that, because of it's sensitivity, timeliness or good gossip value was unlikely to find it's way into the traditional trades. If that were indeed the mission, then anonymity would be necessary.

I'm probably something of a medium-weight in the industry but, in an effort to set the record straight (always in defense of others), I have used my real name from time to time.

Granted, given the communication skills of many of the followers of such a blog, things might become a tad pithy from time to time but, what the fuck? That can be fun.

Sadly, all I've seen recently on Agency Spy has been the same kind of rip-and-read drivel that one can easily find on any of the print-based trade publication's web sites. Hardly worth commenting on anonymously or otherwise.

That said, props to Agency Spy for providing a useful forum for dialogue. For once...

Re: Where Everybody Knows Your Name - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 17:36:45 -0000

If my name was "GoldenShower", I'd be embarrassed to reveal my real name...

Re: The New Ogilvy, Part Doo - AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:08:22 -0000

Actually, they're moving from a crappy neighborhood to a crappier one. 49th & 8th isn't exactly "midtown", at least not like 48th between Madison & 5th, where they once were.

Hey Mr. Agency Spy! Is your eyesight as myopic as your godforsaken blog (if that's what this is...)? You don't recognize (or you're not sure you recognize) the Worldwide Plaza building??? OMMFG!!!!!!

I bet you know exactly what Doner's Detroilet HQ building looks like - that's where you really scoop the biz!

Re: You Be The Judge: The Old Navy Ads From Crispin Porter & Bogusky - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:56:38 -0000

No. I sure as shit have not! Don't tell me you have???

Re: You Be The Judge: The Old Navy Ads From Crispin Porter & Bogusky - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:55:21 -0000

Why that's the best mannequin ad I've seen all week! Of course, it's only Tuesday (and Monday was a snow day).
Who was the dummy who said "let's see how big we can get before we get bad"?

Re: Crispin Debuts Old Navy Work - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:20:44 -0000

Geeze, that's the best "talking mannequins" spot I've seen so far this week... But it's only Tuesday (and Monday was a snow day).
PS: Who was the dummy who said "let's see how big we get before we get bad"?

Re: An Interview with Sir Martin Sorrell - AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:31:55 -0000

It that the Norwegian ad where they're listening to a song called "I Want to Fuck You in the Ass"?

Re: You're Out of Work, So What Do You Do With Your Time? - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy

bringoutyourdead — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:20:15 -0000

North: Big, East: Jackson, South: Snowbird/Alta, West: Squaw. Nice outfits at Sun Valley though...