Coming across some really bad advertising and branding lately, from some of the world’s leading agencies, I realised the following:

Every creative agency evolves to the point where it has the highest chance to have bad ideas approved by clients and implemented.

How?

• Every creative process involves the creation of some bad ideas along good ones.
• Creatives are often not objective about their own ideas, and will occasionally try to pitch them to clients.
• You’d think that the better an agency’s reputation is, the more clients expect, but the reality is that this reputation will have a certain voodoo affect, intimidating clients into believing that maybe not getting the agency’s ideas is their own fault (emperor’s new cloths).
• The fact that successful agencies tend to become better and better presenters and sellers of ideas as they evolve also helps.
• The amount/rate of bad ideas succeeding in traveling outside of the agency may decrease with experience, but then ego, which grows with reputation, kicks in and “mitigates” criticism.
• So a top-5 agency, has a better chances of selling a bad idea to it’s client than anybody else. QED
  
  Wikipedia: “The Peter Principle is a theory originated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter. It states that successful members of a hierarchical organization are eventually promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to a level at which they are not
  competent.”

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