Two advertising execs enter Big Brother house
Two ad agency executives feature in the new series of Big Brother, which debuted on Nine last night.
Michael Beveridge, a junior copywriter at Brisbane agency The Hoopla Family, joins contestants that include a computer geek, rock singer and check-out guy.
Another agency exec is Stacey Wren, a 24-year old account manager at Frost Design in Sydney.
Frost’s general manager Rion Shelley told Mumbrella that the agency had toyed with the idea of Wren wearing Frost-branding t-shirts while on the show, but the contestant had vetoed the idea.
“We did seriously think about Stacey wearing a different Frost-branded t-shirt every day, but thought better of using the show for shameless self-promotion,” Shelley said. “We also discussed that conversations in the Big Brother house about work are probably best kept to a minimum.”
“Stacey has our full support, and we’re delighted she’s on the show. We will miss her in the studio, but her job is covered for 6-8 weeks, assuming she goes the distance and wins.”
The show is to be hosted by Sonia Kruger on week nights at 7pm, with live nominations on Mondays at 7.30pm, live evictions on Sundays from 26 August and Big Brother Confidential from August 22.
The difference with this season’s reality show is that every housemate has a secret – someone is a multi-millionaire, someone is a juvenile offender and another has a very high IQ. The housemates have been tasked to find out which trait belongs to whom.
Nobody.
Seriously.
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Who is willing to bet on the account manager being the one with the high IQ?
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Stacey is wearing a wig and has “network plant” written all over her.
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Who cares? It’s vacuous!
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Hey, it could be worse. At least they aren’t on Everybody Dance Now.
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http://au.linkedin.com/pub/stacey-wren/3b/9a5/6b1
Stacey
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has the word ‘executive’ lost all meaning? these are people with 1-2 years experience. is that what an exec is now?
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Stacey is a gem to work with, she’ll make the show.
I was just thinking the same thing Shamma!
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Shamma is spot on.Normally I would skim past such a story (as I will do so for the show with my TV remote control) but hey, the oxymoron of “executive” and “junior copy writer” (and account manager for that matter) – I had to comment.
Or is it a social experiment from Mumbrella to get a reaction in writing that?
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+1 on “executive”
That is all.
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oops i mean I agree with Shamma et al there is nothing at all ‘executive’ about two very junior adlanders
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The marketing industry loves giving people fancy titles, in lieu of pay increases.
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No ear ring, pony tail and Porsche
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Wow, weird seeing a friend being trashed by faceless netizens.
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Bev has the high iq
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@shamma I actually agree with your point and have had an issue with this for a while. However the reality in large agencies is (obviously not an exact science)
For Account Service
0-12 months experience – Account Co-ordinator
12-24 months experience – Account Executive (here is the issue)
24- 48 months experience – Account Manager
48-60 months experience – Account Director
and so on
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Harold Mitchell is an ad exec as far as I am concerned. Not these two. Nothing against them but you wouldn’t call someone a ‘exec’ in any other industry with that little experience.
Yes yes, sweating the big things here.
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cant believe she’d put her blog on her linkedin:
http://danceasifyourfanniesonfire.tumblr.com/
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