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Never. Always.: Product Launch
Brad Stevens (ex-DEPT, M+C Saatchi) launched AI-powered digital creative agency Never. Always., positioning it as disrupting traditional agency structures
Source: B&T Magazine
The leadership read
Never. Always.'s launch shifts talent demand before revenue catches up. In Marketing, taking a release to scale rewards product leaders with a commercial edge and operators who build the post-launch motion. Watch whether Never. Always. backs it with senior go-to-market hires across Oceania — that separates a platform move from a one-off.
Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 105.8 (Hot), down 2.3 month-on-month — shows Oceania signal flow steady (-0.1pts).
Never. Always.: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Marketing median of 1 across 26 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Oceania signal flow.
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