Multi award-winning creative lead Ben Coulson departs Y&R; replaced by McWhopper creative Josh Moore
The top creative for Y&R Group in Australia and New Zealand Ben Coulson has departed the agency and will be replaced by one of the people behind the McWhopper campaign, Mumbrella can reveal.
Coulson is one of the most awarded creatives in the Australian market, leading the agency group to dozens of international awards in his role as chief creative officer in ANZ.
Departed: Coulson
He is replaced as chief creative officer by Y&R New Zealand’s CEO Josh Moore, one of the creatives behind one of the standout campaigns of the last two years, the McWhopper campaign for Burger King.
There are many problems within the Y&R Group in Australia and Ben Coulson made up exactly zero of them.
Huge loss for the agency as the only truly talented person left has now gone
There’s the right way, the wrong way and the WPP way of doing these things. I agree with fleshpeddler, Ben is a huge talent and there are indeed many others at Y&R that are not.
@fleshpeddler
Winning awards above anything else. Including doing responsible hardworking advertising… is the real reason here I suspect.
One of the World most respected and consistently best Creative People. Coulson has done amazing things for his clients. It’s a huge loss for Y&R.
Ben is outstanding, don’t ever doubt that. I will call him the minute he announces where he goes.
Ben was the best thing at that firm, they’re crap without him.