Publicis Mojo restructures creative department as Craig Davis exits
Craig Davis, the creative chief at Publicis Mojo Australia, is leaving the agency after a three-year spell.
His exit comes six months after the arrival of Joe Pollard as Mojo’s CEO.
The announcement from Mojo:
Today, Publicis Mojo Sydney announced a number of changes to their creative department.
Jumped, fell or pushed?
It was really pretty inevitable, no?
Can’t see the point in kicking around till March.
Now that really IS brand karma!!
I taught him everything he knows
Thats transparent.
“JWT’s former global chief creative officer Craig Davis is to take the lead at Publicis Mojo, in a move aimed at returning the agency to its glory days on the world stage” ……..quote from Mumbrella June 2009.
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What a bummer Mummy won’t be able to publish all the comments that flow from this delightful piece of news!
So are they going to have a creative department again now after all this time?
A very rare and truly humbling creative talent who was a lone wolf endeavouring to lift and sustain the agency’s visibility, while the (previous) local owner/managers were busily packing their bags in the departure lounge. I look forward to seeing Craig’s next creative foray into the wider business world.
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@Groucho
Hard to say. He’s leaving in roughly 3 months. Probably standard on a contract at his level for resignation (although most state 6 months at senior levels).
Then again, he’s not leaving to go anywhere else.
So that leaves a number of options. He was pushed, but decided to stay on for the notice period, he has found another position but he can’t mention it yet, or, as he said, he wants to get out of the industry and do something else for a change.
My money’s on the third one, hasn’t been a great time at Mojo recently and who can blame him for wanting to actually use his brain.
@Peter McDonald love your irony, that’s real class.Wish others had your restraint.
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What a shame my previous comment didn’t get up (apart from a lawyer’s nose)
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seriously Mummy – how many unpublishable comments have you had about this guy over the years?? do tell – please – in the interests of journalism
Well with out his ginormous salary, they could probably afford to rehire the entire Melbourne office for a year.
@Pedantophile the question was rhetorical.
And you got the answer wrong.
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i’d just like Joe to elaborate on the words ‘enormous contribution’.
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With all that moderating going on Mumbrella it looks like you have been threatened.
How come you can have a go at Event Cinemas but you run away from your responsibility to allow comment on (moderated by Mumbrella)?
Hi Freedom Fighter,
No we haven’t had any threats (or a complaint or contact of any kind since the announcement).
Our moderation policy is to not allow abuse of individuals. Reasoned criticism is acceptable, and we’ll give more leeway where somebody puts their name to it.
You mention the Event Cinemas piece. You may recall that I put my name to that.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella
How come one can’t call someone a clown on this posting?
Well gee Tim of course you put your name to it, it would have been meaningless without it.
In this case, as Knobby Piles has inferred earlier, there seem to have been many posts on this topic that haven’t got up. Selectively publishing them surely biases the resulting impression giving the person in question the image of a knight on a white horse, instead of one of perhaps a different colour.
In this case crticism and stating a negative point of view is surely not abuse but fair comment on someone who has continuously ‘put himself out there”
I do take your point, Freedom Fighter.
Cheers,
Tim – Mumbrella