Asa Bailey and Cream Make Naughty with Saatchi

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Asa Bailey and Cream Recruitment tag-teamed to poach a bit of business — and maybe some creatives, too — from their new London neighbour: Saatchi & Saatchi.

The pair pretended to “hack” the Saatchi site (its actual site is located at saatchi.co.uk: SaatchiandSaatchi.co.uk sports subversive scribbles and a video that lends unattractive insight on the big agency’s goings-on: how it crushes the dreams of earnest creatives, etc. The video’s end promotes Cream Recruitment, but the lower left-hand corner features also subtle pluggery for Asa Bailey Viral Advertising.

Cold, man, cold. Though to be fair, any agency that thought this was socially acceptable behaviour was just begging to have their interns snatched.

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