72andSunny Sydney executive creative director Micah Walker departs agency after eight months
72andSunny ECD Micah Walker has left the agency after just eight months.
Walker returned to Australia last year to join the agency in the role of ECD, leaving Wieden + Kennedy Portland, where he served as creative director for the past four and a half years, leading key clients such as Samsung, Dodge Chrysler, Booking.com and TurboTax.
72andSunny said in a statement: “72andSunny Sydney and Micah Walker have mutually agreed to part ways. We wish Micah all the best in the future and thank him for his creative contributions while he was with us.”
Walker has previously served as executive creative director at Sydney agencies including: The Monkeys, Mojo and Leo Burnett Sydney, and helped produce some of Australia’s most unique and memorable work.
In 2013 Walker left Leo Burnett Sydney to join Fallon London in the role of creative director and partner, where he stayed for four years, during the agency’s storied, creative run. In 2007 Walker returned to Australia to take up the role of ECD at Publicis Mojo Sydney, where he stayed until his departure from the agency in 2011. Walker went on to join The Monkeys in 2012 in the role of creative partner until returning to the US in 2013 to fill the role of ECD at Wieden + Kennedy Portland.
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I thought 9 months max…..
Can some ex 72ers post a Glass Door review so we can all have some insight in to what’s going on over at 72&S? The future = not bright, it seems.
Sadly that’s what happens when the CEO thinks he knows better than the ECD.
Who’s a frustrated creative.
Will he not make it at places in this country? 1 year at the Monkeys…..
One of my favourite creatives directors in and about Oz, even though I’ve never had the chance to work with him, but have admired his work from afar for years… Good luck to him.
I’m with Tom Donald – Micah is one of those creatives that I wanted to cross paths with. Good luck on the next gig.
These days you just can’t butt heads with anyone.
Another one out to pasture., maybe chance for some new blood.
Best not to be wedded to your “subjective” opinion these days.
Creativity can come from anywhere, as proven by the tsunami of quality work currently engulfing us.
Management always talk about how creativity is what drives the business but at the end of day they’re only focused on $ and not being too risky with clients. Micah is work-class, always striving for the very best and this has obviously pissed management off. It’s happening all over the industry, that’s why creatives are opening their own shops and taking work off the big boring agencies.
From what I saw in the clink on Bourke St, 72’s clients just expected quality… and professionalism. And got neither. Micah was the big hope. Reckon they’ll be following him out the door.
Delusion doesn’t keep the lights on unfortunately.
I would say this is just a great example of a brand that is good where it was born but not very relevant as it attempts to globalise.
Their entry into the Asia Pacific market is basically one big ham sandwich.
What a loss. Micah is incredible. They should’ve just stood back and let him do his thing. Idiots.
The clients that back Micah get amazing results. Time to put your own brand on the door.
Stats or it didn’t happen.
Marcel?
Rekt
Too right!
Spot on…
We did very well out of Micah’s time at Mojo…
Being nice to work with trumps talent in today’s corporate culture
Funny that, there is a whole breed of new CDs coming through who are nice to work with and much more talented than the thunder stealers of the precious generation. And they’re slightly cheaper, which seems to be the pervading pest for our industry.
I had the privilege of working with Micah a number of years ago. Talented and nice, tough but fair and was a great creative leader. Truly one of the good guys.
All the best Micah on what happens next.
Clemenger Sydney
What about Ben?
@ @long career. If the new creative directors are so talented where’s the work? It seems like no one is doing anything.
unfortunately this is still a business so talent and swagger only lasts you so long.
The talent drain is killing this business, you idiot.
Palau pledge, most awarded campaign in the world of last year not good enough for you?
Dolt.
Lots of ‘talented’ folk who cant work to real briefs and who piss clients off walking the streets. (Not suggesting Micah is) I Imagine you’re probably one of them asshole.
Talented clients pay for talent. If your clients are paying you to lunch them, you’ll both end up on the street pretty quick. And it’s spelt arsehole, arsehole.
Palau is great and all but let’s face it. It’s not a top tier or mid tier Aussie client. I’m talking Optus, CommBank, Toyota. Big brands. We all know agencies do side projects to win awards, but that doesn’t mean they are smashing it on the big accounts. You know, like the Defence Force.
72&Sunny APAC is just mediocre. Thanks to their creative lead. Who is it? Someone good?