Confessions of A Junior Agency Copywriter

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A junior copywriter talks about life at an agency:
Confessions of a Junior Copywriter | Digiday

Highlights:
Who in agencies gets too much credit and too little?
Advertising has recently become a masturbatory industry. We're doing work for ourselves instead of the clients that hired us to sell their products and promote their brands. There's loads of work these days that is incredibly renowned and respected within the industry, and yet Dick and Jane have never heard of it.

What's the most frustrating thing about clients?
Fear that we only want do work that will satisfy our own egos as opposed to their balance sheets.
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  • Profile picture of the author perryny
    The article reads more like Confessions of a Whiny Junior Copywriter Who's One More Bitchy Remark Away From Finding Himself Forced Into Freelance Work.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shazadi
      He/she has a pretty harsh outlook. As a junior copywriter at an agency myself, all I can say is that I'm glad I work at a medium sized, results oriented kind of place. All of my coworkers are actually very open to hearing different perspectives - which is probably why our clients stick with us. I've heard of horror stories like this from larger agencies, but my question is, if the copywriter is so tired of it that he/she doesn't even ENJOY writing anymore... why are they there?

      Could probably be earning much more as a freelancer anyway.
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