People employed in Advertising NYC
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- martinadolfsson
I just had a discussion with a friend regarding the number of people employed in The Advertising world* in NYC and I estimated it at being around 100,000 people. What's your guess?
*Full service agencies, digital, boutique.
Not incl. PR, production companies or Media agencies.
- e-pill0
100k is not many people in nyc, that is a small block in itself.. is that the size of the area that ad people work in?? i doubt it.. it must be bigger than a block.. although korea town is only 1 real block long.. you have to imagine there is much more than 100k people there.. so i think your estimation is off.. by a lot
- 20020
100k is way too much.
Omnicom worldwide employees 71,100.
Ogilvy has about 2400 employees in US.
AKQA has 1600 worldwide.
Ogilvy NY has about 1500.
R/GA NY has about 600.You would need
100 agencies x 1000 people = 100,000
- freedom0
Are we counting the people who do "menu design" on Craigslist?
There are only 34,500 people employed by the NYPD.
- freedom0
10,000 might be high.
- cannonball19780
100000 is right
- fate0
Agree with freedom.
10,000 would be the ceiling for people working in advertising in NYC.
- pinkfloyd0
Lots of souls lost
- fate0
No it should be more.
- 20020
my guess is 5,000,000
- moldero0
my guess is 8,405,837
- 20020
Hmmmm
Let me revise.
6,283,461 exactly
- martinadolfsson0
So in other words no one has a clue?
So I just found out that Grey has 1200 employees in NYC. I guess there must be 6-8 other agencies of that size as well. So that's 10,000, not counting all the small and mid-sized agencies.
- 20020
only 90,000 to go !!
BTW you have to cut that 10,000 number by at least a third or more because 1200 at for Grey Group including PR etc
- lowimpakt0
that's a lots of blowjobs for satan
- citizen_h0
Advertising is the Devils work!