SARAH BARCLAY DEPARTS SAATCHI & SAATCHI FOR ECD ROLE AT JWT NEW YORK
After five years at Saatchi & Saatchi New York as the Global CD on Ariel and Dash, Australian expat Sarah Barclay has accepted an ECD title at JWT New York under CCO Ty Montague. She will be working on Johnson & Johnson, Cadbury’s Trident, Bubalicious and Halls, and is global ECD on Schick.
“I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Saatchi and having the opportunity to work with so many interesting and talented people but felt it was time to accept another challenge. I am really looking forward to the opportunities at JWT and getting to work with fellow aussie, worldwide CD Craig Davis who left Saatchi as I joined,” Barclay said. “We’re finally catching up.”
Barclay is on the print jury at Cannes this year and said she is looking forward to seeing everyone who will be there.
Prior to going to the States, Barclay was a senior creative at Clemenger BBDO Melbourne and before that The Campaign Palace, Melbourne. She is best known for co-creating two of the all-time greatest Australian commercials: Antz Pantz ‘Sic em Rex’ and Milk ‘Legendary Milkman’.
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Congratulations Sarah. Don’t know you from a box of Ariel, but well done. I find it strange that this announcement doesn’t elicit the torrent of comments that similar successes of Aussie expat blokes always elicits from their mates and otherwise….
That’s because, 5:58, the infants who mostly frequent this blog wouldn’t know Sarah from a box of Ariel either. But anyone, and particularly a woman with a background of some of the best, most awarded ads of the 80’s who turns their back on the bitchy Australian advertising scene to be New York based global CD on P&G for what must have been 5 very long years and then takes this latest challenge deserves our respect. I just wonder if she still dyes her a hair a funny shade of crimson. Sarah?
I think it’s incredibly inspiring to see any Aussies get ahead OS. The fact that Sarah Barclay has done so, in such a male-dominated industry as ours, is even more inspiring. Cue golf claps.
Met her once in Cannes, congrats on your move. Taking Sammy and Amy with you?
Sarah Barclay. Legendary Stuff.
Sarah worked at the Palace and killed it when you pups were in year 8.
Unlike people on this blog here who complain about the local industry ,she had the guts to get on a plane and get a job. in NYC !
You want to be a star? Australia or NZ aren’t going to do it for you.
Catch a plane..otherwise you will be like a few I could mention ….too scared to go anywhere where you aren’t the biggest fish in a really small pond.
7:39: My thoughts exactly (5:58)
11:14, I prefer a good wave and a cold beer in AUSTRALIA, than stardom in NYC.
They actually have surf and refrigeration in the US. Not that it’s obligatory to move overseas to have a serious career in advertland. But the Australian scene is very myopic.
Sorry, what’s cool about working on soap suds in a city where terrorists drive jets into your office!
Well I would say apart from being the epicenter of almost everything you buy / emulate / desire/ copy/ 2 years later back home, I can’t think of much.
Terrorists should drive jets into the MADC dinner.
The world would be a few dozen wankers lighter and the next generation of tossers could have a go.
Clearly 11.04, you haven’t worked there.
Nice place to visit tho.
And another thing 11.04, NY coffee tastes shit!
And isn’t that the real centre of the universe?
Where was Lionel Hunt when she wrote Ants Pants?
Sick ’em Lionel!
Unfortunately for Lionel, many CB bloggers wouldn’t have a clue who you’re talking about 3:05. To today’s juniors, the great man just may be in the fourth phase of fame:
Phase 1: Who’s Lionel Hunt?
Phase 2: Get me Lionel Hunt.
Phase 3: Get me someone like Lionel Hunt.
Phase 4: Who’s Lionel Hunt?
Sarah is the coolest most down to earth girl I have ever met and she deserves all her success. She’s an inspiration to women in advertising. Love your work Sarah.
Sarah is a national treasure – soooo talented and beautiful too. Go girl. What a wonderful promotion for her. So well deserved.
Thankfully the NY advertising scene isnt the precocious, mysogynistic pit most industries are in Australia. Its just fun guys & gals working on sometimes great stuff… all that loathsome (& macho) attitude is a uniquely australian trait.
As for coffee… just as in Australia there is crap coffee & good coffee as much as some of those precocious, loathsome types would like to beleive otherwise 😂