Any freelancer whose work has been mangled by pedantic copywriters or editors justifying their jobs will find these indignant tirades especially gratifying.

ECONOMIST: Letters

When I talk to ad directors and copywriters about Facebook as a creative platform, the question I get is Why are the ads so small?

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The Lions, arguably the most prestigious award show for agency creative people, used to be almost exclusively the stomping ground of art directors and copywriters.

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Copywriters, especially, can benefit from plain language and clear sentences.

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Artists and copywriters now slog for months unpaid.

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BT's copywriters had been reading Elmore Leonard.

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Certainly any local edge that big Japanese agencies might once have been able to claim has gone: the western agencies in Japan all employ Japanese copywriters who are just as good at churning out the surreal ads that Japanese consumers like.

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As the art directors scrambled to address last-minute requests and the copywriters (including yours truly) banged away on final, final versions of those blessed sentences no one supposedly reads anymore, it started raining hard as hell with thunder and lightning, a major rarity in Northern California.

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At Fiverr we see web designers and graphic artists working with voice over professionals and copywriters, purchasing services from each other in order to craft a better brand, not only learning from one other and profiting from the increased exposure, but more importantly growing as professionals by the exchange of knowledge and the recommendations of fellow vendors.

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