Month in a Minute: August’s biggest agency stories
Mumbrella wraps up the biggest news of the month across media, creative and PR.
In August, Marcel’s CEO resigned, The Royals lost iSelect’s creative account after less than a year, Uber hired a new director of communications, Edelman Melbourne appointed a new MD and Group M’s Mindshare and Mediacom won multi-million dollar accounts
August’s creative agency wrap:
1. TBWA Sydney found itself in the midst of a legal battle
The legal battle began after a former employee filed documents in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia claiming she was fired for lodging bullying and harassment claims against the ad agency’s Sydney managing director.
TBWA strongly denies the claims, and instead alleges the former planning director was let go due to serious misconduct.
Good to see half of these news stories were lifted from AdNews. Keep up the good work
Hi ‘Exclusive’,
Sorry you feel this way. Month in a Minute is an original monthly column I started at the beginning of the year. As you can see, all the stories I refer to are linked to a full Mumbrella article. As the industry isn’t very large there is a lot of cross over in content and therefore because it is news worthy, both AdNews and Mumbrella cover the same stories as do B&T and Campaign Brief.
Hope this might have cleared up any confusion you had and for your reference, here are the other monthly columns:
https://staging.mumbrella.com.au/month-in-a-minute-mays-biggest-agency-stories-518292
https://staging.mumbrella.com.au/month-in-a-minute-junes-biggest-agency-stories-524106
https://staging.mumbrella.com.au/month-in-a-minute-julys-biggest-agency-stories-532302
Thanks,
Abigail – Mumbrella
All omnicom companies seem to have the same strategy for dealing with the bad behaviour of their managers – blame the employee, get rid of them and then make up lies about them. Shame
Hi Abigail
What is the latest on the TBWA legal battle? Have other people come forward corroborating the stories of bullying and abuse?
Thanks
Hi “What’s the latest?’,
The matter is now before the court and there is a hearing at the end of the year.
I will be sure to keep you updated when it is heard before the court.
Cheers,
Abigail – Mumbrella
Thank you. Here’s hoping the fact this is before the courts makes other people in power think twice before they act.