Comments on: Crispin Wins Microsoft And It’s A New World Order

By: oldbaby

oldbaby — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:39:22 +0000

i worked on this pitch. And they totally messed it up. Walt Connelly ran it and had no clue what he was doing, on top of the fact that they hired about 20 ECD freelancers, lots of chiefs and no indians!

By: a whore, but not a cheap one

a whore, but not a cheap one — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:54:31 +0000

What’s interesting is that now they are tasked with bringing in people who are able to work on microsoft (much needed with so many regular departures now), but are still crying poor when it comes to paying them. How big is this account and how long will Crispin’s “this is the only cool place to work so we have you by the balls” pay-scale hold out?

By: TwiceFunded.com :: Crispin, Again

TwiceFunded.com :: Crispin, Again — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:58:47 +0000

[...] just in the “Crispin seems to be everywhere lately” way. Just the other day, I saw that Crispin won Microsoft’s ad business here in Seattle which will put me in close proximity to them once [...]

By: manrey

manrey — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:58 +0000

I wish I would have thought of Butt-Plug-osky.
Back to my burger job. Sigh.

By: Feh

Feh — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:54:02 +0000

Seriously, even most of the stuff Crispin wins awards for is way boring. Props to Freakout, but Manthem, ALL the VW work, and the Haggar turd pile are not just bad but embarrassingly so. Goodby, weiden, Fallon etc does work that is just as good if not better without having to suck 20 of the 24 hours in a day out of everyone who works here. It’s a CULT.

By: the7thfloor

the7thfloor — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:08:32 +0000

these clowns suck donkey balls, and VW’s (the only client they consistently speak of besides Burger King) American sales are dropping so fast it will not be long before VW starts the search for a new home…. Isn’t the goal of advertising to increase sales and ROI? Were sure these turds will not help Microsoft’s cause either; but at least Butt-Plug-osky can submit their lame and tired work for 1 million plus awards!!

By: Greenman

Greenman — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:27:07 +0000

Man, I bet their first creative brief meeting will be just like the apple ads…

By: barnaby rudge

barnaby rudge — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:29:21 +0000

Crispin is same shit different bag. They’re an advertising agency, organized and run to make a profit, and any pretensions of “art” or “pimp shit” are empty contrivances designed to drive profit, nothing more. Artists make things to reveal deeper human truths, challenge conformity, create beauty, etc… Advertising agencies make things to sell video games and tampons and computer operating systems.
Pretending otherwise is dishonest and self-deluded. I bet the people at Crispin get this, and that’s why they happily pitched Microsoft knowing the only benefit might be vast, overflowing barrels of cash, rather than the awe of some pathetic, creatively confused ad geeks.

By: nottelling

nottelling — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:00:21 +0000

this is great news for all of the smaller emerging agencies who still have their creative cajones; after CPB arrives at their “300M greener pasture” they will soon find themselves shackled, working for their new slave driver Microsoft, and the creativity will drain, leaving the real pimp shit to come from those agencies who are in it for the passion, ….that grass always looks greener on the other side… You know Pharell refused to work with Paris Hilton (on her so-called music career) no matter what the price was, he reportedly said he “didn’t feel it” …only if agencies thought this way…

By: Yup, yup

Yup, yup — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:53:05 +0000

@Bilbo:

I think you may be onto something about Crispin starting to sell out. I did hear from a trustworthy source that the only reason the Boulder office opened was to keep Alex from leaving. Also, alot of creatives are not digging the Boulder office, which has been described to me as a windowless warehouse out in the boondocks. Yay!

In terms of top creative people leaving, you can’t fall much farther than Crispin to Doner. Even Grey NY does better work than Doner. And Detroit advertising lives and dies on the whim of the big 3 car companies, known for the epitome of dinosaur thinking. Hard to understand that one.