While that is undoubtedly true, I can tell you from my near-decade in the pitching business on the agency side (first at Arnold Worldwide and now with my own pitch consultancy for agencies), that agencies can smell pitches launched with the wrong intentions, or pitches run without being properly thought through.
Dear David , my apologies , your opinion sounded like that of someone pitching from over the pond , not someone who has been living here the last ten years.