A reckoning?
Welcome to Best of the Week, written (for a second time) in Tasmania on Friday night and Saturday morning. The first draft is sitting on my iPad which, according to my Find My app, is somewhere in Sydney Airport. Sorry to leave you on a plane yet again, little fella.
Today: Campaign Brief is under fire. But will there actually be a reckoning? And hard truths have been exposed about the culture at Nine. But will there actually be a reckoning? Plus, the shareholders give Enero a bloody nose.
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By Friday night this week I was so so tired. Tired of 20 years of unchecked misogynistic cronyism running through the industry. This piece has given me the spark of energy I needed. Thank you Tim.
Simone Gupta
Co-Founder of Supermassive
Thank you for the kind words, Simone
What a lovely day for a reckoning. Well said as per, Tim.
Thank you Chris
A great read Tim, actual journalism! It’s as refreshing as all the reckoning going on this week!
Thanks Paul – much appreciated
About time the machinations of the toxic male boys club in the ad industry were revealed! Thank you Tim for sharing your experience as the threatening digital upstart, giving the evil egotist a worthy competitor from day one of Mumbrella.
While it seemed pretty obvious that appearances on both the Best Ads platform and the Hot List of Agencies were funded by the agency coffers, there is nothing like hearing it first hand from the female creatives trying to get honest publicity for real campaigns. The final “lynch pin” was reading for the first time how Lynch used his interests in recruitment to blackmail the agencies. Wow. More transparency needed to stop the abuse of power.
As someone looking at all of this from the outside it’s great to get some context.