McBride To World: "Relax, Everything's Going To Be Okay"
Lots of strange things happen in Adlandia, for it's a place populated by strange (sometimes wonderfully so) people.
Chuck McBride, heretofore to be known as Chuck McBlood, is one of the indsutry's more high profile oddballs. Yesterday he made a mock horror video, apperently in reaction to news that he would be leaving TBWA Chiat/Day to form his own firm.
Ad Age calls it "an innovative alternative to the standard-issue press release reassuring employees and marketer clients."
Of course, it's all just a big bad joke. No art directors nor copywriters were harmed in the making of this video. Reputations are another matter.
McBlood's message--that he killed the agency that supports him and his staff--is meant to reveal the absurdity of that claim. Sadly, the absurdity of the video overpowers the cleverness of the rebuttal.
January 24, 2007 by david burn | Permalink | 4 Comments
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That dude is crazy.
He's not crazy, he is a grandiose pretender.
Let's see: he loses Adidas to 180.
His inability to work with clients is making SF the joke of the Chiat network.
He's leaving to make a 'creative supergroup' before his chickens come home to roost.
And then makes this incomprehensible piece of trash to further deflect his failure--the failure of Chiat/SF.
And blogs take the bait. And the pubs take the bait.
I expect more from adpulp, dude.
I'm pleased to know we have such high standards. But, I don't see this as AdPulp taking any bait. Rather I see us pointing out how ridiculous and conceited Chuck McBride looks.