do as they say not as they do →
Q. — As a general rule, what industry (as a whole) has the worst web sites?
A. — Ad Agencies.
I’ve noticed most agency web sites have a few common characteristics:
- Rule #1: Flash!
- Staff / Management Bios: Wacky, fun, and meaningless. There is a über-creative photo of the person pretending to have fun.
- Site Navigation: Not at the top, bottom, left, or right. In order to click around to the other pages on the site, you’ll need to take a bus to another location.
- Contact Info: Phone numbers, emails, etc hidden on the most illogical page possible.
- Office Pictures: Two ways to go here. 1) If it’s an “agency” of one guy with a Mac in his bedroom, then you’ll see some creative use of stock photography. 2) If it’s a real “agency”, the wackiness continues with pics of the foosball table, the aquarium, and the video game area to show potential clients how their billable hours are being wasted while creativity happens.
- Philosophy: Starts off with “We’re a new type of agency.” and the rest is filled with meaningless jargon and buzzwords.
- I don’t think we can say it enough: Flash!
- Portfolio: Just a few logos. Maybe a shot of an ad. The ROI is never mentioned. This link is always called “the work”
- Blogs: All staff members seem to take turns “writing posts” by copying / summarizing chapters out of the advertising textbooks they couldn’t sell back to their college bookstore.
- Content: It seems everyone shot down everyone else’s ideas until there was no content left
- Timeliness: Site is never updated. (except for every few years when the whole thing is torn down and replaced with something similar.) Rinse. Repeat.
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youmightfindyourself: This article about Ad Agency websites is 100% true… but here’s the thing. Agencies are B2B not B2C...
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