Agency-of-the-year: An agency in the top 95% of all agencies.
Brain-storming: 52 minutes of caveats,
eight minutes of unexecutable ideas.
Brand mission statement: A concise declaration
of things a brand will never do or values they'll never uphold.
Brave: A client who approves an ad with fewer
than 14-seconds of product shot.
Customer-centric: A focus on a customer’s centricity.
Customer-engagement: Junk mail or commissioned salespeople.
Data ethics: A surveillance state oxymoron.
Deck: The sole deliverable for 97% of all
people in advertising.
Engagement: Any contact with any sentient creature, whether they want it
or not.
Experience: A word appended to other words to complicate communications and
confuse the viewer. (ex. ‘How was your bathroom experience?” “How was your GoGo
experience?” “How was your medical test experience?”
Future: A time that will never arrive. And no one will be there
when it does.
Humble: Modern boastfulness.
Hustle: Vaynerchukian synonym for flatulence.
Influencer: A ubiquitous loudmouth.
“It's awesome”: How to say, “It’s been three days and I
haven't had time to look at the work you sent” without admitting that it’s been
three days and you haven't had time to look at the work that was sent.
Linked-In: A job-hunting site for people who will never get another
job.
Narrative: Random language, usually laden with
jargon, containing no discernible meaning or practical purpose.
Raise: An increase in pay. A relic of advertising’s
Golden Age. Eliminated by holding companies delivering shareholder value
through the undervaluing of their own employees.
Robust: Expensive banners or websites that no one will look at and are
hard to produce.
Rockstar: What’s needed for any and every open hire.
Scrum: 14 people in a conference room for no apparent reason.
Vision statement: The first 51 minutes of an hour-long presentation.
Views: The number of people who accidentally click on your
pre-roll.
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