Hasta La Creative!

One week ago, Digiday posted a story asking “why are agency people so unhappy?”

It’s been very popular for good reason. Here’s a relevant quote from Dan LaCivita of Firstborn:

“The people writing racist, sexist and awful comments on websites are the bottom of the barrel, and they’re employed, which means they’re making a whole bunch of other people miserable too.”

We have no idea which websites he might be referencing, but we wanted to learn more — so we decided to wade through the Digiday comments to more effectively gauge the agency world’s response to the piece.

In summary, the reasons readers gave for their own misery were:

• Overinvolved, increasingly demanding clients
• A focus on data/ROI over strong creative work
• Younger employees and their various senses of entitlement

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