The Life of Brian

In his blog Ignited executive creative director Mike Wolfsohn lamented that Zappos didn't spend enough time looking at his RFP. This set off a shit storm of comments from the typically anonymous commenters on Adweek, AdAge and others – including Ad Contrarian where in case you missed it Aaron Magness had an incredibly articulate response.

I'm the last person that wanted to see Zappos go into review. Do I wish the process was a little more under control? Of course. But Zappos was, and always has been, upfront with us and all the other agencies who made the decision to participate in the review. No one was forced into it.

But with that said, this post is really meant to point out that as an industry we love to whine and feel sorry for ourselves. And I'm including myself in this because I've certainly been guilty of it.

Well, I'm here to say get over it folks. Express your opinion. Do it constructively so people will take you seriously. Stop posting anonymous rants that make you and the advertising community as a whole look like whiney babies.

That's my whiney rant for the day and I'm all whined out now.