About Agency Spy
June 21, 2007
We’re not telling. However, if you want to chat with our spies, they’ll chat back. Contact us at: AgencySpy AT mediabistro Dot com or via AIM, user name, agencyspy.
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July 12, 2007 at 9:11 pm
why are you hosting this at wordpress… is this a mediabistro product?
July 19, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Hello,
We would like to do an interview with you about your blog for
http://www.BlogInterviewer.com . We’d like to give you the opportunity to
give us some insight on the “person behind the blog.”
It would just take a few minutes of your time. The interview form can
be submitted online at http://bloginterviewer.com/submit-an-interview
Best regards,
Mike Thomas
August 2, 2007 at 9:50 pm
obviously if the email address is mediabistro, then it’s there’s a pretty high chance that it is a mediabistro site of some sort.
August 3, 2007 at 4:56 am
do you have an rss feed?
August 3, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I second Margaret’s question about an RSS feed. Where is it?
Thanks!
August 3, 2007 at 2:40 pm
RSS? Sure. See that orange square with the white stripes in the right hand corner of the address bar? If you click on it, a drop menu will appear. Click on “add AgencySpy RSS feed as a live bookmark.” The rest is pretty self-explanatory.
Hope that helps!
AS
August 22, 2007 at 7:22 pm
I’ve said it elsewhere – this is my fave blog at the moment. A for-realsies blog in the least bloggy industry I can think of.
Two features I’d really love to see:
–> Preview of comments – sometimes my links don’t work
–> Search – You know I’m lookin’ for people I know. Who wouldn’t?
Other than that, I’m all colon dash close parens!
September 14, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Great place for all that juicy information, invaluable place of info. Thanks a ton!
October 25, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I’ve been reading this blog very closely since I was offered a job at the Martin Agency a few weeks ago. It has given me some useful insights into how the industry works. Any current employees want to offer up some advice?
October 29, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Minor point, but if you allow viewers/readers to ‘SEARCH’ you might get more traffic …
Find I’m trolling… looking…it’s bugging me. I want ’specifics’ that I can’t find, feeling restricted.
Cheers, c
October 31, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Guys well done you were in Campaign last week, with the link to the JWT Grads post!
November 8, 2007 at 4:44 pm
Visa are putting their $417.8m buying up for grabs, any word on who’s in the race?
Kat
December 6, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I’m new to the ad industry. I just discovered this site while checking out some other ad agencies. I like keeping up on all the dirt on this site !!! Just wondering-why do you hate McCann Erickson ?
Nanci
January 10, 2008 at 9:51 pm
How many posts does your agency need to get before it gets its own “Categories” listing?
January 12, 2008 at 3:41 am
DDB Chicago laid off more creatives today. Most of the State Farm group.
January 17, 2008 at 9:26 pm
do you have an rss for my website?
http://www.giornale.fm
January 21, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Nice blog. I’ve added you to my blog roll.
Robert
February 14, 2008 at 4:10 am
I’m amazed at how Carmichael Lynch avoids major dirt slinging. Last year they lost… Porsche, American Standard, Gibson Guitars, and the Trex Decking accounts. They were cleaning the creative house until Suburu did the agency switch-a-roo and saved their asses.
February 19, 2008 at 9:14 pm
pleeeeeease implement a search function. We need it.
February 19, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Search function. Right. How could we overlook it?
Working on it…
AS
February 22, 2008 at 1:49 am
How can I get some dirt to you? Contact?
February 22, 2008 at 6:14 pm
Is it ok when a big bad agency takes credit for another shop’s work?
February 27, 2008 at 4:11 am
Have a nice day !
February 28, 2008 at 10:35 pm
I would be interested in interviewing the ad exec(s) who knows the insiders game of social media and mobile and who’s making money. the interview would be posted on entrepreneurial site http://www.mysuccessgateway.com thanks. my mail is jpeake -at- speechrep.com
March 3, 2008 at 6:31 pm
Thank you for what you do!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 4, 2008 at 2:15 pm
***Agency Spy Ad Scam and George Parker should be held accountable for their defamation of Paul. I hope there is a push to file suit on behalf of Paul, perhaps to establish a fund for his children.
By Bob Tedeschi
New York Times News Service / March 3, 2008
Advertising blogs churn out some of the Web’s more scathing, and personal, vitriol. Last week, the bloggers absorbed some body blows of their own.
A posting on the AgencySpy blog said that ad executive Paul Tilley (left), “thought he could make it as a game show host. Doesn’t one need to be charming for that?”
TARGET OF ANONYMOUS SCORN
Visitors to AgencySpy and AdScam, two blogs written by advertising industry insiders, posted comments blaming the sites for contributing to the suicide late last month of Paul Tilley, 40, the creative director of DDB Chicago.
“We’re certainly used to criticism in the agency business,” said Nina DiSesa, chairwoman of McCann Erickson Worldwide’s New York division, who posted comments on AgencySpy.com in defense of Tilley, whom she called a friend. “But when blogs attack someone personally, without justification, and they do it anonymously, it’s just wrong.”
Tilley, who oversaw teams that created the “I’m Lovin’ It” campaign for McDonald’s and the “Dell Dude,” ads, apparently jumped from an upper floor of the Fairmont Chicago hotel on Feb. 22. The Cook County medical examiner ruled his death a suicide.
Gregory K. Brown, a specialist on suicide at the University of Pennsylvania, said that public humiliation could play a role in suicide because “hopelessness is often a major risk factor, and if you’ve been publicly humiliated and your reputation has been tarnished forever, you could see how someone could become hopeless.”
Tilley had come under particularly harsh criticism on the advertising blogs. AgencySpy, which is written by an anonymous advertising industry employee, was perhaps the most biting.
In a Feb. 19 posting, the site quoted an internal e-mail message Tilley had sent to subordinates, in which he wrote: “Too many of you are only doing good work. And some of you are doing work that simply isn’t good enough.”
AgencySpy wrote that Tilley “needs to go back to management 101.” The site then published 12 comments peppered with insults aimed at Tilley – among them an insult signed by George Parker, the author of the AdScam blog.
Advertising blogs have a reputation, even among bloggers, of being particularly wounding, Parker said. Since many agencies are now part of publicly held companies, he said, workers are under increasing pressure to show short-term results.?
***Agency Spy Ad Scam and George Parker should be held accountable for their defamation of Paul. I hope there is a push to file suit on behalf of Paul, perhaps to establish a fund for his children.
March 11, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Cathy Taylor tells of talk of your outing at Verve. I twittered “I doubt it. AS is wikkit smaat.”
March 11, 2008 at 5:30 pm
http://tinyurl.com/36h2ed
A tags non-rendered or did I biff ‘em?
April 3, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Can you guys please read up on the correct usage of “of” vs. “have”? When partnered with could, would, or should, there’s simply no way “of” is able to follow linguistically. It comes across as unsophisticated when you’re writing a nice little tirade about the agency du jour, something which I definitely enjoy!
April 4, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Merger to bail out DDB in works?
ADVERTISING | 2 Omnicom Group agencies may be folded into ailing agency
April 4, 2008
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LEWIS LAZARE llazare@suntimes.com
Is a merger looming? Sources familiar with developments say one daring plan that has been floated to resuscitate DDB/Chicago involves folding two sibling Omnicom Group agencies into DDB, which over the last several years has been pummeled by major account defections (including last week’s loss of Lenscrafters), as well as upheaval in the executive suite and the suicide of top creative Paul Tilley in February. Sources say the plan would entail folding Element 79/Chicago and Downtown Partners/Chicago into the larger DDB. The scenario also would put Element 79 Chief Creative Officer and former DDB creative Dennis Ryan in the top creative post at DDB. A DDB spokeswoman maintained DDB CEO Rick Carpenter had held no such talks about a merger.
But observers familiar with the situation say it would be a quick way to boost DDB’s fortunes with an influx of new clients. But before the merger could happen, potential account conflicts would have to be resolved. Element 79’s Gatorade account could conflict with DDB’s Anheuser-Busch business, and Downtown Partners’ Northwestern Mutual account conflicts with DDB’s State Farm. But Element 79 has been on shaky ground with Gatorade, and DDB has struggled with the State Farm account.
Interestingly, DDB already handles most of the back-office functions for both DP and Element 79, which would make the merger much simpler. One source said Element 79 leader Brian Williams called together his staff to tell them the rumors about a merger weren’t true. Said one source: “That probably means the rumors are true.”
July 2, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Pauls death is a great shame.
I do not think a few words from people on a blog would take a man of that power to his death. I would think depression was more of a factor here. We all get stick from people and we all have to deal with it. My thoughts are with his children.
PS There is no need to be so bitchy and childish about others in there work. We all fuck up.