More High Level Departures At Saatchi
November 14, 2007
Creativity Online writer Ann-Christine Diaz has a hot scoop: Tony Granger is leaving Saatchi for Y&R.
Saatchi has recently seen some other high level departures include Jan Jacobs and Leo Premutico, Droga5 scooped up David Nobay and the folks at S&S’s Los Angeles shop are rumored to be looking for an out, too. Hmmm…. what is going on over there? Do tell: agencyspy at mediabistro dot com or IM: agencyspy
Meanwhile, Granger is known as an “agency Midas, bringing to life flagging creative departments of agencies he’s touched.” This year, Saatchi won the Cannes “Agency of the Year” award due to the work turned in by Tony and his team on the Folgers, P&G, JCPenney and Wendy’s accounts. Read the entire Creativity Online piece here.
Shit is hitting the fan. Duck.
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November 14, 2007 at 8:14 pm
I have known Ann-Christine since her days as a cub reporter in elementary school and she has always had a nose for a good scoop.
November 14, 2007 at 8:31 pm
the creative department at Y&R better brush up on making big, fake visual ads if they expect to catch tony’s eye.
hey agency spy, why don’t you do some digging on granger’s “cannes initiative” at saatchi.
what is it? well if you do some digging you should find out that he sat aside close to a million dollars to produce and enter fake ads. now that he left saatchi high and dry, people over there may be willing to speak up.
November 15, 2007 at 2:41 pm
[...] out the creativity of the young guns. Inertia takes over and the agency gets institutionalized. It’s possible to fight this, as Saatchi has done lately with Tony Granger in New York and Harvey Marco in LA, but it’s also [...]
November 15, 2007 at 5:11 pm
this is why i hate the industry, harvey marco deserves so much more credit than tony. he’s making REAL, good ads on a tough client. toyota is the high water mark of car advertising in the US.
can anyone name the publication those tide ads ran in?
November 15, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Yes the rumors about Granger (and his two recently departed sidekicks) doing scam ads has been around for years. It followed them from London. Back in South Africa Granger earned the nickname Stroke because he was always adding his name onto the credits of other peoples work. It seems like the guy has an unhealthy obsession with awards and winning them at any cost and by any means
November 15, 2007 at 5:41 pm
[...] & (un)Remarkable is making another big change, bringing in Tony Granger from Saatchi & Saatchi. While this move seems to make sense [...]
November 15, 2007 at 7:33 pm
Chico - You are spot on about Harvey Marco. Not only is he a great guy, but he is solid gold in terms of ability and the work that he turns out. He turned Toyota around, and I can’t think of another auto company doing better ads.
November 16, 2007 at 2:56 am
chico,
what the creatives at y & r really need to get ready for is someone who will give a shit about selling their work if it’s good, someone who’s approachable and someone who’s a great thinker and listener. someone who always gives his employees credit before taking any himself. in other words, someone unlike gary goldsmith.
November 28, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Tony Granger was never called stroke. He was a God. Gods aren’t usually called stroke. Like any god his wrath may have been feared, but most creatives would follow him to the ends of the world. Hence Jan Jacobs and other foreign sounding names. If New York is a melting pot, he is simply picking one or two carrots. Sorry I didn’t find this article sooner.
March 26, 2008 at 5:52 pm
[...] Granger is supposed to be working at Young and Rubicam, but if you recall, that big bad dawg named Kevin Roberts was determined to [...]