Est. 2001·3,000+ placements · six offices · four regions
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Product Launchcurated sourcedetected 2026-05-06 · confidence 90%

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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 102.2 (Warm), down 1.7 month-on-month — shows Oceania signal flow rising (+3pts).

Never. Always.: 0 signals in the last 90 days — below the Marketing median of 1 across 26 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's Oceania signal flow.

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