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It feels like an ad agency has more to lose with appearing unprofessional in handling their clients. For better or worse, ad agencies are ridiculously highly pa

It feels like an ad agency has more to lose with appearing unprofessional in handling their clients. For better or worse, ad agencies are ridiculously highly paid to sometimes take a few punches for their clients or let their clients take the visible public credit for their work. If you're an ad agency, you have to check your ego at the door for your clients, IMO, and handle any conflict internally. I don't particular care about this kind of nuanced back and forth, he-said/she-said type of story. In any other industry, this kind of minor drama might end up as a footnote in some industry trade blog, at best. But because crypto is attached, suddenly it gains traction on HN because people can find another excuse to take pot shots at something they dislike.

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hitekker 5y ago
The Chief Marketing Officer of Coinbase said they collaborated with Accenture, an Ads Agency, to produce the ad: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6899028049740869632/ https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6899028... You have the people who worked on the Ad on one side and a lying billionaire on the other. It's only a "nuanced back-and-forth" if you're afraid to call a lie a lie.
- meepmorp 5y ago
  Accenture has an ad agency now? The trainwreck becomes less perplexing.
  - sangnoir 5y ago
    Accenture probably has a unit for every "X" in CXO
- lupire 5y ago
  Ad companies are professional liars, as is Accenture
etchalon 5y ago
There's vastly more value in being the agency responsible for "creating a winning ad" than an agency that outed someone who took credit for their work. Because everyone wants a winning ad, and most people don't take credit for someone else's work.