Advertising agencies, much like the products they promote, come and go. So while it might seem strange to some long-timers that CDP has shut its doors, even the article mentions that the feel of the firm had all the makings of a Shakesperean tragedy.

I spent some time working as a copywriter at a microscopicly tiny advertising agency, and we were forever discussings the supposed goings-ons at larger firms. The largest, DDB, was always on our mind and we had a hate/envy complex about the people who worked there and the work they produced.

The horrible thing about advertising, fashion, any creative field really is that the bigger, better, higher you climb – the happier everyone else in the world is to see you fall. Before reading this I had never even heard of CDP, but upon learning that it was a the largest, oldest British agency, a snarky little part of me was smugly happy. But don’t worry, somewhere in the world is another agency setting up to be the biggest, best and most dynamic shop out there. Perhaps our great grandchildren will be raising a glass to the demise of Crispin Porter some time around the end of the century.