LightStream reviews

For being an advertising agency, my creativity limits were extremely restricted and controlled. The language barrier from one of the partners is also an issue and carries over in the work that is produced. It's also a bit of a struggle when a good portion of the company is related to one another. I do not see this company going anywhere in the near future.

Definitely see the review called "Challenging" for a descriptive and accurate review. There are agencies where there's collaboration, and there are agencies solely run by the account side. Lightstream is the latter. With a few exceptions, many AEs had no agency/marketing experience before working here and had complete run of the show. Despite having many talented people, their work and input were generally disregarded or at least vetoed. It's unfortunate because many of them could really have made the agency shine. Overall, the thinking was completely backwards and thoughtful strategy was barely used - instead campaigns were tired, based on industry examples/competitors, and/or reused from client to client. The outright disrespect of many employees was appalling. Everything is siloed, and there's no productive communication or communication at all at times- despite being in the communications industry. And favorites, favorites, favorites! Plus, poor investments abound. But if you want to work where the partners and their spouses are head honchos/given promotions and take over positions, this is the place to go! Also it'd be interesting to see how their rating here ever changes if current employees weren't asked to write them vs anyone independently deciding to write them.