Facebook hires Clemenger BBDO’s Daniel Walton and three others to its Creative Shop
Facebook Australia and New Zealand has appointed four new people to its Creative Shop, including Clemenger BBDO’s creative group lead Dan Walton.
Walton was at Clemenger BBDO Sydney for over two years and joins Facebook as a creative strategist in the social media platform’s growing Australian and New Zealand support teams.
Walton joins from Clemenger BBDO Sydney
Interesting times creatively at BBDO. I note that over on CB right now, they’re plugging their new Tent City website which they’ve just launched with “Mayor of Martin Place, Lanz Priestley”, who they’ve listed at the top of the agency credits.
I’m surprised BBDO would think this is a good idea given Priestley’s violent criminal record and multiple jail stints (as recently as 2014), which have received extensive media coverage.
Just this snippet from The Australian should surely have raised questions about whether this is really the sort or person or conduct BBDO want to be endorsing so publicly:
“The part-time homeless ‘mayor’ of the tent city in Sydney’s Martin Place has a long criminal history of serious assaults against young women and police, as well as theft, threat and driving offences.
Lanz Priestly has crafted a web of misdirection about almost every part of his life, refusing to answer questions about a business of which he was a director and using a list of aliases across the country…”
The full story is worse:
http://www.theaustralian.com.a.....bb72b48960