Comments on: Biz dev guy loses the thread in Ad Age http://www.gabardine.com/thread/biz-dev-guy-loses-the-thread-in-ad-age/ A continuous dialog with Gabardine Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:33:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Bob Allen http://www.gabardine.com/thread/biz-dev-guy-loses-the-thread-in-ad-age/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Bob Allen Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:28:24 +0000 http://www.gabardine.com/thread/?p=506#comment-406 Shame on him or great job getting Ad Age to allow him to promote his company? I think the latter, eh? Shame on him or great job getting Ad Age to allow him to promote his company? I think the latter, eh?

]]> By: Peter http://www.gabardine.com/thread/biz-dev-guy-loses-the-thread-in-ad-age/comment-page-1/#comment-405 Peter Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:58:20 +0000 http://www.gabardine.com/thread/?p=506#comment-405 So, a friend and business partner (I'll call him Bob) wrote to say that, while I had the R/GA-IPG relationship technically right, there's actually more to it. Specifically, he said, "R/GA has always been a little bit independently run. It's a bit of a legacy issue, as no one ever really knew what to do with them...their business was so different from the traditional agency businesses--besides interactive, they had a huge special effects/digital production component to their company." Well 'Bob,' it's funny you should say that, because before I checked into the independence issue, I was all keyed up to take the post in an entirely different direction. That is, calling out Mr. Wacksman AND AD Age for such a thinly veiled piece of self-promotional schlock. As I point out at the top of the piece, everyone who writes a column and also has a related business is working some sort of angle. But if Wacksman really fancies R/GA a "large, independent digital-age" agency, and was using the column primarily as a propaganda piece, well shame on him and on Ad Age, as well, for running such tripe. So, a friend and business partner (I’ll call him Bob) wrote to say that, while I had the R/GA-IPG relationship technically right, there’s actually more to it. Specifically, he said, “R/GA has always been a little bit independently run. It’s a bit of a legacy issue, as no one ever really knew what to do with them…their business was so different from the traditional agency businesses–besides interactive, they had a huge special effects/digital production component to their company.”

Well ‘Bob,’ it’s funny you should say that, because before I checked into the independence issue, I was all keyed up to take the post in an entirely different direction.

That is, calling out Mr. Wacksman AND AD Age for such a thinly veiled piece of self-promotional schlock.

As I point out at the top of the piece, everyone who writes a column and also has a related business is working some sort of angle. But if Wacksman really fancies R/GA a “large, independent digital-age” agency, and was using the column primarily as a propaganda piece, well shame on him and on Ad Age, as well, for running such tripe.

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