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Screenvision Is The Worst Company In The World!!


Posted on 07/19/2008 by LP JR Guy
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I worked for about eight months in advertising sales for Screenvision, selling onscreen theatre advertising. Warning: Onscreen advertising is one step above being a total scam and a completely ineffective means of spending your advertising dollars. The commercial spots are an insignificant 10 seconds, and are shown mostly in half-empty theatres, to kids with no buying power or people who regard onscreen ads as little more than an annoyance. They are totally ineffective. The company has something like an 8% renewal rate! That's abysmal. It also meant I was searching for new business all the time. Here are more gripes:

The company's compensation plan is a joke. It's really hard to make any money.

The company management is made up of idiots who are out of step and totally clueless as to the realities of the world we live in.

The regional VP was located in our office. I have known door knobs with more brains than this idiot.

My immediate supervisor was a sarcastic jerk who loved to throw around caustic remarks and insults.

I grew to despise the product and the company so much, I started having panic attacks. I felt I was compromising my personal integrity by selling this product.

Screenvision (or as I like to call them, "Screamvision"), has nothing but contempt for their customers once they sign the long-term contracts they demand. I saw too many examples of this.

They bust your stones constantly about weekly quotas (give me a break! A WEEKLY quota?), and the accounts payable people, particularly one girl in the Rochester office who handles the payment of legitmate bueiness expenses, was a complete pain in the rear.

Since I left Screamvision for a much better position, my blood pressure has gone down, my EKG is normal, and I'm done with the panic attacks.

DO NOT ever do business with Screenvision, and don't ever consider going to work for them! They're the Anti-Christ of the advertisnng world.







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post a commentPOST A COMMENTCorporate Ladder Rung: MailroomAd Man(10/01/2009)
LP JR Guy,
You sound like a sniveling, disgruntled employee, who couln't cut the mustard.
I'm surprised they put up with you for 8 months!


EX Screamvisioner(08/03/2010)
Did you ever work for Gene Sanderfield the Director of Sales, Southeast Division for Screamvision?

JR Player(04/12/2011)
Ad Man...And you sound like a complete douchebag.

Corporate Ladder Rung: AssociatePrinting Fool(04/15/2011)
This really sounds like a bogus company, I also have heard many negative comments about this company. Your statements just validated all of that. You have to realize that they have people on line to try to minimize the fallout of their ineptitude. Stand strong and call a spade a spade. I believe you.

Ex employee(01/20/2012)
I started when the company was small & worked for them until they were bought out by a much larger company. Started out being a valued employee and then...became a number. Clients still request me 5 years after I've left. They suck but hey...thats the corporate, kiss ass world. I'm a better person and am more successful having left there.

Todd(05/28/2013)
I worked for Gene at GSTV. Great salesman.


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Ex screenie (07/21/2008)
Having worked with them for many years, I truly understand your frustration. I do however think that they have tainted your view of cinema advertising. It is a great medium that truly does offer great value to the advertiser. I had a very high renewal rate. Most of my time was spent keeping Screenvision away from my clients. Unfortunately Screenvision does suck in all that you said. You should see what they do to you when you leave them and are producing. Just wait for the audit from the IRS. They truly are evil.

meat guy (12/04/2008)
I am an advertiser in lowell ma. I have been in business thirty years. I was flat out lied to and misled by this company. My ad runs twenty minutes before the movie begins. I asked six times when it would run and I was told it would run once at the begining and once about five minutes before the movie. LIE It is money thrown away. These people are arrogant jerks.

the_only_one_not_boffing_the_RVP (02/11/2009)
Amen to the audit. One girlfriend of mine had tax problems because the didn't withhold enough (funny because out of a $2000 commission check i got to keep $1200 of it).

GET THIS!!!! They dont have a business license for North Carolina! NONE! Check it out in your state, they probably don't have a license to do business there either. I had to pay $400 for state income tax to NC because they didn't pay it.


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