PADC to investigate video footage leak
The Perth Advertising & Design Club has been forced to apologise for a leak of video footage captured within several Perth agencies without the agencies’ knowledge.
The footage was captured by cameras placed within PADC Skulls without the recipients knowledge.
The agencies affected are 303MullenLowe, The Brand Agency, Meerkats, Marketforce and Block.
PADC President Mark Braddock issued this statement this morning:
Last night it was brought to our attention that video footage captured by the PADC was leaked online. This is a very strange and very regrettable happening and represents a major breach of trust our members have placed in us for over 30 years.
The PADC had placed small recording devices in several gold Skulls awarded over the past few years as a guerrilla digital idea. These recording devices were placed without the agencies knowledge. Footage from these devices has been leaked by a third party much to the embarrassment of the Club.
We are investigating how and why this happened, but we are extremely embarrassed to have betrayed the trust of our membership and agency partners over something that was intended to be an amusing creative exercise.
Of the many hours of footage collected it appears that only a small amount has been leaked and we are confident that this will be the limit of the damage.
Our investigations are continuing and we will be issuing a full explanation to all the agencies involved in the very near future as the details become clearer.
In the meantime we ask any agency that has won a gold Skull over the last four years to please check the statues and get in touch with our Club Manager if you have any concerns.
15 Comments
“These recording devices were placed without the agencies knowledge”…the last time I checked that was called an invasion of privacy and is a federal offence!
I smell setup a mile away..
*yawn*
April fools day was 4 months ago… the entire thing is clearly a hoax.
This is a scam, right?
Wow, this is a really big story….it’s actually quite unbelievable that the PADC would sanction this covert operation. It’s all very well to try and palm this off as “an amusing creative exercise” It isn’t.
The blame doesn’t lie with whoever leaked it, but on the people who sanctioned it. Shame on you.
This doesn’t smell right. I hear PR cogs turning here.
Concerns… you’ve been spying on agencies for “years”.
‘See the footage here.’ Masturbation in Agency Boardrooms. The President of the PADC watching gay porn. Absolutely disgraceful. Shame on you CB for posting and endorsing this material and the people responsible for this.
This looks like a fun place to work, got any gigs going? My mate Eddie might be interested too.
Hoax
I’m surprised no one was offended by the amount of time Rich Berney spends having his hair tended to. At least Lindsay would leave the agency for hair appointments!
SO OBVIOUSLY THE PADC CALL FOR ENTRIES IS DUE THEN, IS IT?
So Perth!!!!!
How dare you use my logo! The Phantom. (Signed by the skull stamp.)