A Career as a Creative Director

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America is an impressionable society. It is a creative director’s job to take advantage of that receptive pliability to advertise different products to the public. Whether people realize it or not, every product they see has subliminal messages to appeal to different types of people. Each of these products has gone through a creative director and his or her team. Creative directors influence the world’s economy and the way consumers think by using a plethora of advertising tactics and sheer ingenuity.

What exactly is a creative director? A creative director thinks of advertising campaigns and slogans for different kinds of products (Snagajob). They are often assisted by one or more copywriters, or people employed to assist them in thinking of different tactics. When a slogan or campaign is agreed upon, the creative director or lead copywriter presents the idea to the company they are campaigning for (Snagajob). If the company likes the idea, it is launched and the agency for which the creative director works receives a percentage of sales money of the product (Snagajob). The advertising agency can handle multiple companies at once. Each assigned company s referred to as an “account” (Snagajob). Depending on revenue generated by the accounts, some may have a higher priority to the advertising agency than others (Groome, *). Some especially large companies may have their own personal creative director to handle business (Snagajob). The average annual income for a creative director is $102,000 (How to be a Creative Director).

Creative directors and their teams have multiple ways of advertising products. Each different way they could advertise is called an “angle” (Groome, *). Angles pertain to what type of person or group o...

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...hey indirectly shape the economy of the planet by molding the way products are advertised to the public. They make or break corporations and events the world over. The lives and minds of many people are changed by creative directors every day. Some of the most powerful and influential men and women on the planet call themselves creative directors.

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