Crispin Porter + Bogusky sells its interns on eBay

Posted in News by Nimi @ May 21, 2009

Leading creative agency Crispin Porter + Bogusky recently decided to auction off their team of hard working interns on eBay. Creative head Alex Bogusky was behind the idea and launched bidding with a tweet last Saturday, the starting bid at $1.00.

I just had a look, and the current bid is sitting at $5,400 with 6 days and 7 hours to go, that number’s got nowhere to go but up.

So what do you get if you are the winning bidder? The Crispin Porter + Bogusky intern team will put together a creative presentation for you over a three month period, this includes strategies, brand repositioning and concepting. Production or any advertising materials is not included, either is travel expenses or any other collateral for the interns – pick up only.

Every year they spend part of their time working on pro bono assignments so the winning bidder will replace this activity; “It would be great if the high bidder is a cause-related thing,” Mr. Bogusky said. However they have specified that “CP+B reserves the right to decline services in the event of a conflict with any of our existing clients or for any other reason (like if you sell cigarettes) in our sole discretion.”

In a similar vien Art Director Jon Kubik and copywriter Adam Noel who recently left the agency side of life have launched there blog Steal our Ideas.com. Just shy two weeks old the blog is the concepting board for these two creatives to throw out ideas for any agency/ company/ designer to steal if they wish. They have even explicitly stated that they are happy to put together ideas for specific briefs. So if you can’t afford the Crispin interns you can always try these two.

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