BRAMMALL & HATTON LURED TO THE PALACE
CB EXCLUSIVE – In their first major hire, The Campaign Palace Melbourne creative directors Gerhard Myburgh and Brent Liebenberg have signed award winning creative team Robbie Brammall and Ant Hatton.
The pair joins from Saatchi & Saatchi Auckland where they have enjoyed a highly productive year, picking up silver at Cannes with work also recognised at AWARD and Caxtons.
Myburgh and Liebenberg said the Aussie team would add significant weight to The Palace creative department. “We saw about a dozen creative teams and some really hot work, but the guys just stood out from the start. They have that magic mix of rationality and insanity that keeps you wondering what they’ll come up with next, and we’re very excited to have them on board.”
The gig reunites Brammall and Hatton with their former GPY&R Melbourne colleague Tom Cooper, now the Palace md. “We loved meeting Gerhard and Brent and jumped at the chance to play a significant role in helping to realise their ambition to make The Palace the best agency in the region. We’ll put the hours in and do our best to achieve that.”
They join the agency next month.
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Whats all this bollocks about the magic mix of rationality and saintity? One of them is constantly trying to belt someone in the knee cap while the other tries to stop him.
Going to be good to have a bit of mongrel back in the country.
Can’t wait to wax your balls again hatsy, it has been to long!
Robbie you can watch this time if you want.
those guys are awesome…
WWF ad “no one else is doing it” is just amazing…
you rock guys…
nice work boys.
welcome back.
dazza.
About time. Looking forward to having a thousand when you arrive.
Northo
Glad to have you boys back xxx
I feel slightly inadequate because I have no in joke to add.
Good work guys. welcome back to melb.
I still wonder why the Palace fired the best team they had, which will go on and pick up awards all over the shop for Quit, and then spruik that they’re looking forward to making the agency the best in the region. seems weird. It will be interesting to see if the Palace enter quit into awards and then claim the glory.
But as i said, good luck to the hobbits, they rock.
Tops! I’m expecting an extra special Friday Ladies today.
This release fails to mention that Ant Hatton also won an award for having the biggest pair of balls for a man under 5 foot. Congrats Ant.
Who did Palace fire?
‘Lured’? Like you do to fish before you kill them and eat them for dinner?
For those of us old enough to remember when the Melbourne Palace was the only hot agency in the country, and totally in a league of its own, it’s kinda sad to see them ‘rebuilding’.
I love these guys!
Welcome back to Melbourne.
Yet another slightly overrated team. Will be interesting to see how they go though…
1:08 I am guessing they fired 11.47am.
Rather odd to talk about a fired team, then mention a product and assume that only a creative team are responsible for bringing it alive when everyone knows it takes many sections of an agency, a production company, a sound house and a dam good client. That could explain why they were fired.
And this blog isn’t about them.
Welcome back to australia guys
is it possible that we will see a happy hatton?
nice one Steel, nice one Lad.
You’ve come a long way from ‘Grab an Uncle Toby’s Up’n’Go’
well done, i’m proud of yas.
wassef
Go Hobbits! Well done…. xx
5.17PM, no ifs, no butts, you’re a complete and utter tosser.
Why bother writing that?
No wonder this industry has a rep for being full of wankers.
Take a bow.
5.17, you dickhead.
I’d like to know who you are, as would the rest of us. where do you rate, tosspot?
I worked with the boys and they have got where they are today by doing the hard yards. They don’t sit back and whinge like you obviously do. They get on with the job and do it extremely well. They make shit happen.
you’re just a fucking bitter hack by the sounds of it.
When new CD’s come in ya get a new logo and a new creatives – thats how it works. Can’t have any leftovers from the old regime.
Who reckons 4.45pm and 8.37am are the same person?
Here we go, another creative pissing competition on the CB forums. Brings to mind the old adage of “Arguing on the internet is like running the Special Olympics. Even if you win, no one else gives a shit.”
i’m 8.37, and i didn’t post 4.45.
you fucking idiot, 3.55.
I only hope they bring enough lamnas bread for the journey.
‘He said, she said’ crap
Actually 4.45pm was brave enough to leave his name, so I don’t think it’s the same person
But nice attempt at deflection away from their points!
Well done Robbie & Ant. Good to have you boys back in Oz.
Kelly x
Hamish & Andy. Is that you?