Bellamy Hayden set to be merged into Naked as Photon Group EGM looms

Wow.
Not surprising.
But wow.

Feel for all involved who lost their jobs or are about to.

I’m just trying to figure out where they are going to put more bodies in the Naked office? hmm

The comment above can be hilariously misread…

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A farewell to an agency that delivers extraordinary work and goes the extra mile for clients – a shame! The competition pool has just been weakened.

You don’t realise until working on the inside just how much effort the bh team go to for any client on any task. All the best my friends..

Agreed Jase 🙂

Having dealt with BH over a number of years on the client side I can see how badly the quality of their work and service has deteriorated. They were ONCE one of Australia’s best comms strategy agencies, but no more I’m afraid. I’m not surprised.

@ NotSurprised
I think the fact that they were the top media agency in Australia for Media Federation finalists might suggest the quality of their work is not in question

@Anonymous

Finalists are different from winners last time I checked.

Surely that’s a little ignorant. By being nominated so many times, their work is regarded as some of the best in the industry. If they win, that’s just even more credit to them.

@Anonymous
Unfortunately for BH, there is a difference between winning peer reviewed awards tenuously linked to results and winning fee paying clients. Hence the situation they find themselves in.
I do very much feel for the staff at BH today though. There are a handful very good people there. Hopefully they’ll get picked up by other agencies, or move over to Naked.

I think today isn’t about the quality of bh work over the last few years people! The merging of these two agencies creates a formidable strategic force in australian media, which we will all be eagerly watching

bh may not continue, but there will always be the quote book!

xoxo peeps

It was nice visiting you bh people. You seemed like a nice crew.

The end of an era for an agency that showed the industry how its done; and a great bunch of people to boot!

Hard to imagine an MFA awards without bellamyhayden. Thursday night should be interesting. A Naked bh entity will now be a very difficult team to pitch against….

Pepsi were reviewing BH anyway – and they were about to leave them. Probably BH;s death rattle that news given they were the biggest client BH had.

Pepsi are about to announce they will be reviewing Clemenger as well and have already appointed another major agency on a ‘special project’….

JJ, you couldn’t be more wrong, both regarding Pepsi’s plans and that they are BH’s biggest client (not even close).

The quality of their work isnt even questionable, it led the way and set the benchmark for every other bog standard media and cretive agency to follow!

Great work, great spirit and great people – they produced the best thinking and work to come out of an Oz agency in the last ten years for sure. BH and Naked brains are going to be a real force.

@JJ
You really need to get better informed mate, Chris K is correct. A media review had just been done and bh were still the lead strategy agency on Pepsi. Less gossip, more facts thanks

Appeared on the pavement outside the Bellamy Hayden offices this morning. Communications Strategy FTW!

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@ Oh dear
As late a reply as this is, I wonder how good it feels to be at the agency with not only the most MFA finalist entries this year (a feat in itself), but also the most awards won last night.
Nonetheless, your bitchy comment about finalists being different from winners was stupid to begin with.