Ad Student Hijacks Agency Hashtags on Instagram, Hoping for Job Interviews

Max Kurstjens wants to negotiate

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In hopes of landing an internship at an ad agency, Dutch student Max Kurstjens, who's studying in Sweden, took matters into his own hands. Kurstjens tells AdFreak via email that he struggled to get in touch with the agencies, so he targeted their Instagram hashtags instead.

"Why? To get their attention and to mock the hashtag phenomenon, especially in the advertising world," he says.

Kurstjens created different Instagram accounts to flood the feeds of certain agencies, including TBWA, Droga5 and Wieden + Kennedy.

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