‘Business as usual’ at Ensemble after another boss moves to Initiative
IPG Mediabrands has insisted it is business as usual at its branded entertainment operation Ensemble after boss Michael Stanford became the latest member of the management team to move across to sister agency Initiative.
Stanford, MD at Ensemble, has become chief creative solutions officer at sister agency Initiative Australia, reuniting him with CEO Mel Fein.
Initiative CEO Melissa Fein and Michael Stanford
The newly-created role will see Stanford, who has a 25-year-career in advertising and media, “lead the development and direction of creative content across the myriad of media channels engaged by Initiative’s clients”, a statement from the agency said.
Wow, there certainly has been a huge amount of change at Ensemble…
I’m sorry but this is now a joke. Ensemble has been destroyed by Messrs Bass and Fein. Some terrible judgement calls. Everyone makes mistakes but at least acknowledge mistakes have been made and move on.
“The intersection between creativity and media is a very valuable place to be in people’s brand relationships. My focus will be to bring our clients’ brands to that point of maximum relevance in how people engage in their consumer journey.”
Did someone actually write that? – That is some serious advertising wank.
Deck chairs
Was Generate ever successful? And I mean industry respected commercially successful, not TEN successful.
Seems like everyone left and we’ve not heard anything more since.
What a total shambles, every few month a manager fired and someone new in charge of one of these agencies. Media brands has become a revolving door of managers. Hard to understand why any clients would work with such an unorganised group. So many better smaller independent agencies now that can offer some service and consistency.