I had a great response to my last post. The importance of trying to get some value out of the pain of losing pitches clearly resonated with people – from both sides of the agency/client divide.
When I was young lad, starting out in the industry, advertising seemed like an exotic and enticing other world. Where everyone had shoulder pads and drove BMW 3 Series Convertibles or Porsche 911s or Golf GTIs. The highest profile agencies created work approaching high art and stole headlines by making audacious bids to buy high street banks. This was the eighties and was truly a different time.