Colenso BBDO hires hot young UK team
Colenso BBDO, Auckland has recruited hot young UK creative team Will Bingham and Victoria Daltrey.
The pair originally teamed up at Central Saint Martins Art College in London. On graduating, they won a year-long scholarship, sponsored by Diageo, working at three of their roster agencies: AMV BBDO, JWT and BBH. They were then hired by BBH and have been there for five years before deciding to come out to NZ to join Colenso BBDO.
Whilst at BBH they were named Campaign’s No.1 young creative team ofthe year and have produced campaigns for Levi’s, British Airways andAudi.
Colenso BBDO ECD Nick Worthington told CB: “I am reallyexcited Will and Victoria are joining us from London. Together withpreviously announced appointments of Levi Slavin from Saatchi’s Londonand Tom Paine from Ogilvy Auckland, it’s a great start to 2010”.
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Message to young kiwi creatives: you’re dreaming
or do young kiwi creatives not go there cos they’ve all heard the story about the big bad wolfie who steals ideas in the night?
colenso’s a great agency but the intern system is shit. too bad steve doesn’t oversee the juniors.
Great – more geezers to the pot.
No issue with good teams getting jobs but how do the likes of Axis and AUT manage to attract 20+ students a year at 10K each and then tell them there will be jobs for them. Look at all the people without internships. If there are no jobs how are these schools actually operating legally.
Anyone want to set up a grooming course for male prostitutes ?
Did no one read the five years at BBH bit? Maybe young Kiwi teams should try doing that.
This team must be the goods, I’m just surprised and disappointed that the industry doesn’t invest more in homegrown talent.
As part of New Zealand’s captive breeding program, we like to lure fresh DNA to our little island with promises of lots of awards for ads that never really run.
We then get them drunk on locally made Heineken and steal their seed, which prevents our progeny from having excessively awkward curly hair or more than the International Rugby Regulation number of fingers.
After this, we send our inferior, inbred relations to Sydney where they bring the collective GDP of the Great Big Kangaroo Nation down, making NZ look even more prosperous in the lower right (but not too far right) asia-pacific region.
I’d officially like to congratulate Will and Victoria for signing up for our nations cross pollination program.
They have posh names.
Yep five years at BBH good. The Audi fuel hose ad not good.
For the record AUT doesn’t charge anybody anything like $10,000. This year’s fees are around $4,800. (Media Design Schools’s fees are $8,000+) AUT doesn’t promise anybody a job either. In fact students are told that getting a job in NZ is going to be the toughest thing they can possibly try to do. If you were a young wannbe creative would you like to get the best chance you could of getting into the bizz, no matter how hard that is, or would you prefer to be told (as people have always said) that there are virtually no jobs for creatives going, so think of something wlse to do with your life? I wonder what would have happened if Peter Jackson had been told that there’s virtually no money around to make films in New Zealand so why bother trying. Since when did kiwis let a small economy stop them trying to be amongst the best in the world at whatever they choose to do?
You missed the apostrophe in nations
haha those new guys will probably read all this and decide not to come!
All the AUT grads from my year who deserved jobs got them. Not always at the most illustrious agency, but what does your first job really matter? Everyone else on the course either worked out they were violently allergic to advertising or became a suit, so I’m sure they’re all living the dream in their own special way. It’s not that painful so long as your folks are kind enough to pay your rent during the 12 months you’re being shafted.
Good luck guys!
what about those that just got fired from an intership, to make way for another years worth of graduate interns. can think of at least 2 from 2009.
hey everyone. i’m a young student in the course, starting to think about internships. this string has been very informative for us. i’d love some advice on which agencies take advantage, and thus would be wise to avoid.
as an advertising student in this program, a few of us in my class are finding this thread very helpful. it would be great to know which agencies treat their interns like this, so we’ll know which places to avoid.
One brief over one week would probably id talent as effectively and much more efficiently.
Dear Anon #5
Maybe if the young creatives in this country got some respect they would have a chance to prove themselves? We’re students for god’s sake, not idiots with concrete where our brains should be. We’re signing up for a course in advertising, not a job. If anyone signs up to these things without having researched the job market/how the industry shafts us, then they’re bloody idiots. We all know, and are made well aware of the fact that the odds of landing a job (in advertising) are low. We’re not just mindless sheep led astray by Ad School propaganda. No wonder with the amazing opinion you have of students that the majority never want to bother with the industry.
Publicics Mojo fired their interns after 12 months to replace them with a fresh set. They wouldn’t be the only ones either.
I agree with 10.03 , if the CD can’t tell after 3 weeks whether you have what it takes or not then they probably shouldn’t be a CD.
Lets not forget though, this is about supply and demand. The ad schools are poking out graduates faster, much faster, than the industry can absorb them.
If you can’t make yourself indispensible in an agency after 3 months, maybe someone else should have the same chance….
http://www.careers.govt.nz/default.aspx?id0=103&id1=J32333 The job outlook for creatives, if you believe the govenment websites, is fairly poor.
hey it’s a bit like trying to find a job as a dive instructor, plenty of courses, but no jobs. But hang on….there are not divers queueing up for internships.
Why dont all these interns get together and undercut the industry with their own agency. I’m sure CAANZ would come running to help out 🙂
One of them reminds me of prince william.
Congrats Will and Victoria. Colenso’s heaps of fun.
Now to the hot topic.
A simple ‘rule’ that limits unpaid/$100 a week internships to three months should solve the problem. Let the team go or at least give them minimum wage.
If the team makes the grade but there are no jobs at the end of three months, the agency should make it clear whether the team will be hired when the jobs do come up. And leave it to the team to decide if they want to stay on as interns till that happens.
Maybe CAANZ or whoever should take a stand and make that ‘best practice’ or something.
5 years experience at BBH i would say they are mid-weights not juniors.
I cannot see the issue with young international talent coming to NZ. I think it’s great.
It’s good for the industry.
Leighton Howl.
The Pond.
What I don’t get is why do ya’ll want to be in advertising anyway?
Ten years ago I did too… that was the place to be for creative / design / media-type people.
There is a reason there aren’t jobs: The industry is shrinking. Advertising isn’t as important as it used to be. Not as easy to make money there.
Ever heard of the internet? it’s kinda big.
Do something constructive with your creative talent. Design & build great stuff that engages people, stuff they want to check out online & share with their friends.
Julian we want to be in advertising cos it’s a shitload better than designing websites for christian schools.
Leighton Howl has spoken, that should clear that up then? Righto pondies, back to your DL brochures.
The problem with Web Designers is they spend so much time online they have tunnel vision.
Good advertising creatives work across media, and those who aren’t so good, well they find other places to use the limited skills they have – web design for example.
The agency world is definately shrinking. What with so many ex agency people running around as clients it’s no wonder work is getting done in-house or by going direct to freelancers From what I’ve seen though the bar is set lower. If you can get something done in-house for a shit load less than using an agency everyone seems to be OK with the end product even if it is a bit rough around the edges.
10.19: The Pond is the best thing that ever happened to the contract / freelance market in NZ.
I use to pay $130.00 hour for a creative that would turn up late, wearing thongs and dressed like they had just come off the street.
The people i get from The Pond are first class, professional and truly creative.
No issues from my agency my friend!!!
thanks for that 5.22/ leighton howl, nice comeback.
You’re right 5.22 – footwear is very important.
Actually 9.26, As The Pond operates in NZ, I am assuming 5.22 takes offense at the underwear some freelancers turn up in, not the footwear.
Ad school juniors. Change career now for your sanity’s sake.
5.22 – Last time I checked we wore jandals not thongs.
Seems I hit a nerve. I wonder why.
On a related note – students/grads you should publish your names when you comment so you build a profile online. Potential employers would appreciate to see you engaging in forums like this, and expressing a passion for the industry.
I had never heard of The Pond, so cool to discover that. Definately will be first-call the next project i need creative-for-hire.
Good luck in the job hunt to the rest of you!
Would someone bring me a brewski on the way back from the agency beer fridge. Oh, and stick a fork in this… err, wonderful blog… it’s done.
One of them still looks like prince william
just stumbled upon this, to be honest didn’t realize how bad it was as all our lectures are very positive and pushing us out there, not directly into an agency but anywhere. and how could you expect us to give up, yea its not to easy to get a job out there but if we don’t have the balls to go for what we want then we shouldn’t be advertising anyway.