GPY&R Brisbane hires Leo Burnett, Melbourne’s Brendan Greaney for creative group head role
George Patterson Y&R, Brisbane has hired Leo Burnett, Melbourne creative group head Brendan Greaney to fill the same position in the Brisbane office.
Brissie boy Greaney, who holds a Bachelor of Business degree from QUT with double majors in marketing and advertising, came to the creative department via stints on the client side and in account service. His client portfolio includes seek.com.au, 7-Eleven, Connex, Wotif.com, Cricket Australia, Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix, Sportsbet, Chrysler Australia, Stockland, Nintendo, British Paints and Berger Paints, Suzuki Motorcycles.
Says Greaney: “Leo Burnett has been a fantastic experience but after 12long Melbourne winters, I’m looking forward to going home. And to bejoining GPY&R is the icing on the cake. Patts is an awesome networkand I’m particularly excited by what the team are doing up in Brisbane.I can’t wait to be part of it.”
“In Brendan we’ve found someone who will bring great levels of creativity, enthusiasm and maturity to our outfit and a proven trackrecord for developing strong campaigns for big brands. He’s a highlyexperienced, well-rounded senior creative with proven ideas,presentation and leadership skills,” says GPY&R Brisbane creativedirector, Piet Human. “Brendan will be a welcome addition to a teamthat’s gaining more and more momentum.”
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Congrats Brendan. Melski.
I’m Greaney with envy…
I’m sure this is well deserved, but is it national Get a promotion to CD/Group Head Week?
Welcome to the world of Suncorp. Are you being promoted or punished?
Onya. Good luck mate and thanks for the laughs. Road test a few pubs for us.
Dom
@ 7:54
he was already a group head…
@ 7:54
he was already a group head…
@ 12:06
Yeah, but it helps if you have a group
awesome, another useless thread… yet, here i am reading it…
Good luck mate, you’ll smash it up there.
nice one brendan.
have a sweet ass time.
This is absolutely rivetting news. I think I had better go and have a lie down. GP Y&R yawn. Brisbane ad scene yawn. Must be quiet in adland this week yawn.
2.52 I don’t work in Brisbane but I do know that the world’s most awarded campaign in recent times came out of there and the agency above was one of only around 10 in ANZ to get a finalist at One Show – but then you probably don’t know that because you were asleep…..fuckwit
Hello 6.05 PM. I’ve just woken up to read your delightful diatribe. Was it your dog I ran over on the way to work yesterday?
Did you get another crappyy little idea knocked back, or indeed were you knocked back yet again by a member of the opposite sex?
Listen dog breath, Brisbane advertisng is broadly B grade. So what if Cummins Nitro did ‘ the world’s most awarded campaign in recent times’. They have also done a lot of shite as well.
As for GP Y&R (sounds a bit like a molecular derivitive of botox), they are mundane and their Brisbane office has always created and produced average regional B grade work.
So just shut the fuck up.
Face it, Brisbane produces shit, B grade work so let’s ALL pretend that highly awarded campaign never happened. If Brendan produces any decent work up there, can we all agree that it will be a fluke, especially if it wins a pencil.
Name one agency that doesn’t do shite. They all do – even the best. Among the award winners are the ads that pay the bills – it’s always been like that.
For the betterment of the whole industry, people like 11.56 need to get their hand off it.
You are an embarrassment 11.56.
And in case you didn’t notice – it’s a blog – it’s where people are allowed to have an opnion – the last line of your post proves just what a toss you are.
But that’s just my opinion.
Well said, 440 – perfect concert pitch, just like the number.
Someone had to give the poor tool a tune up.
Today’s top gross generalization:
Everything that comes from brisbane is shit… but everything made in Sydney or Melbourne is earth shattering.
Dear 4.40 – I love this blog and I get a chubby when I bait little sooky la la’s like you. I’ll be back because you will continue to take the bait and I’ll get lots of chubbies! Yeah! Sincerely 11.56
@11:35
Getting “lots of chubbies” baiting “little sooky la la’s”?
Mate, I’d hate to think what that says about your Browsing History.
11.35 you are an outright loser.
I love it when the thread veers off-topic and all you girls start pulling each other’s hair.
Brendon, MAMMOTH MAMMOTH are playing the Espy tomorrow night with The Casonavas and Matt Sonic. You should go to that before you go to Brisvegas.
so, anyway, what were we talking about? Oh yes, the most awarded campaign and the one show finalist…
I forgot what we were talking about due to the rabble of dribbling delinquents frothing over who they might slate next in the name of ego and a vague pretense that the city they live in immediately elevates them to superstar level for no real reason. Livin’ the dream are we kids?
Brendon, MAMMOTH MAMMOTH are playing the Espy tomorrow night with The Casonavas and Matt Sonic. You should go to that before you go to Brisvegas.
This is great, just take the bait. Go the chubby!
WTF, Mammoth are playing?!?! Why isn’t this front page news?
More chubbies. Free chubbies, half price chubbies, buy one get one free chubby. It’s chubby season!
@11:57 (a.k.a 9:07, 11:35, 11:56, 2:52, etc.)
Clearly you were one of those annoying hangers-on at school who didn’t mind getting beaten up constantly because at least you felt included in a sad sort of way.
It shows dude, really.
Dear 12.56 as the original and one and only chubster, I resent being credited with all the fake chubbies that are on this blog. 11.57 is nothing to do with me (could be related) or maybe she/he is an aspiring chubster.
Neither is 9.07, another aspiring chubster I imagine.
I will take the credit for all other chubby posts.
What you need to understand here is that there would only be half as many comments on this particular blog if I had not tried to cause a riot.
And no, no-one slammed me at school, basically because I incited them all to slam each other.
The chubster rules.
Who is this chubster guy, love his or her style? Great mental torturer, eh? Loosen up all you precious little things or I will start the chubster fan club
Unfortunately the Chubster had no clue that he actually had an idea until it was pointed out to him. It would seem highly likely that is the defination of his normal day at work.
Hey 5.07 its very obvious that you are an illiterate art director. WTF is a “defination”?
Hey 8:39, “it’s” very obvious that you are an equally illiterate copywriter.
10.39 I’m actually a gynocologist, and I look at things like you all day. All the best, 8.39
Sounds like you really DO earn your money then, 11:53. But FYI, don’t give up your day job with the smelly metal duck because you’d never make it as a writer.