One of my favorite marketing dudes in the world gave this speech recently. I found it to be so inspirational. I think the same thing all the time when I hear people complain. I’m like, what about our grandparents and WWII and Natzi’s, and I’m like? Is your day bad? What about how bad our grandparents had it? Sometimes they didn’t make it through the day. You know what I mean without me creating an image in your head.
You are so lucky, you’re bored.
Read this and let me know what you think.
By Gary V =
I’m just going to leave you with this we have it so good that we think it’s bad.
We complain about dumb shit. Everyone’s like “It’s never been worse” the black plague was worse that Holocaust thing was no fucking joke like World War II was messy we are just so fortunate that we’re around to complaining about dumb shit. People talk about like “I don’t make 10 million a year i’m broke.”
We’ve lost our fucking way friends in marketing for damn sure but even in life so I think we need to be more grateful, more grounded, less materialistic, more humble the fact that you’re fucking breathing is a win.
We need to calm the fuck down we got to stop using Thank you we need to desperately desperately stop weaponizing words you’re not anxious you’re inconvenienced like we have really fucked our shit up we’ve created new words i have imposter syndrome you’re insecure we didn’t need another word so let’s just be grateful and let’s bring common sense and gratitude back it’ll be good for your life and it will make all of you much better marketers cuz our industry is full of shit you do not need to make TV commercials that cost millions of dollars and then spend millions of dollars to amplify it the world has moved on.
I’m sorry we bought buying the lowest cost programmatic CPMs i don’t know if you heard this you get what you’re paying for you get excited about $3 CPMs it’s on fucking mommy.org below the fold banner ad on the right it’s fucking garbage and don’t get me started with principal buying and all the other shit we make up to fucking make margin that’s good for the agency and not for the brands.
We need a fucking wakeup call as humans and definitely as a advertising industry otherwise it’s going to be much worse than you think so I ask all of you to have the courage to start telling the truth and start getting educated on what’s really going out out there because that will be good for everyone and I thank you for your time and I wish you the best possible ever thank you thank you.
—-> What do you think? Did that inspire you or meh you?
With Love, Laney
