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VML: Strategic Hiring
VML appointed Mark Verhagen as Group Executive Creative Director for Brisbane and Perth offices. Verhagen joins from VML Indonesia where he served as ECD and helped elevate the office into one of Indonesia's most awarded creative agencies.
Source: B&T Magazine
The leadership read
A hiring build-out like this points to deepening media executive bench strength over the coming quarters.
Market context: The wider read — a Talent Market Index of 105.8 (Hot), down 2.4 month-on-month — shows Oceania signal flow steady (-0.1pts).
VML: 2 signals in the last 90 days — in line with the Media median of 2 across 12 tracked companies; 0.1% of MitchelLake's EMEA signal flow; 3 tracked across 57 days.
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