ICM Makes TV Department Admin Change

COMMENTS (17)

• she cant be replaced. great agent and great person

  Comment by Anonymous — Tuesday June 3, 2008 @ 10:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• You mean Leigh Brillstein, not Lee.

  And yes, she’s one great agent, a total pro. I’d be happy if the new ones coming up the ladder had half her skill and even a quarter of her humanity.

  Comment by nyguy — Tuesday June 3, 2008 @ 11:29am PDT  Reply to this post

• Say what you want about leigh, but everyone loves that cougar! She is awesome, just like her dad.

  If leigh was the heart of that building, instead of ‘the iceberg’, icm would still be in the top three.

  Instead the leaders are like a bunch of Bilary Clintons. yikes.

  Comment by former icm'r — Tuesday June 3, 2008 @ 11:34am PDT  Reply to this post

• leave it to an obama-bot to find a way to interject clinton-bashing into every unrelated subject

  yikes, indeed

  and, btw, if you admire brillstein, a disparaging sexist term like cougar is a backhanded pointless way to express it

  Comment by Mark — Tuesday June 3, 2008 @ 12:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Leigh is wonderful and Mike is a star.

  Comment by Reena — Tuesday June 3, 2008 @ 4:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The tv dept from the Broder agency hasn’t been the same

  It’s lost energy, no longer ahead of the game

  Comment by show — Tuesday June 3, 2008 @ 7:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Leigh was great, but a fresh hand and modern view is what that company needs. If anyone can steer that ship from the TV end, it’s Mike Jelline. He’s a class act through and through.

  Comment by another former icm'er — Tuesday June 3, 2008 @ 8:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• As a client of Bernie’s, I would hope we all pray for his speedy recovery. Get better, buddy!

  Comment by FOB — Tuesday June 3, 2008 @ 8:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Is this an example of ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’?

  Comment by curious — Tuesday June 3, 2008 @ 9:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• @curious
  “Is this an example of ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’?”
  ************************

  Exactly. ICM is so 80′s.

  Comment by Anons — Tuesday June 3, 2008 @ 10:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• the problem with broder/icm is that broder was about the clients; after the merger, it became all about the agency.

  Sad, because the Broder firm was classy and had a heart; now those same Broder agents have been co-opted into the terrible ICM culture and have forgotten who is the client and who is the agent…

  Many, many former Broder clients are unhappy at ICM now.

  Comment by truth sayer — Thursday June 5, 2008 @ 10:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• “truth sayer” speaks true — tv director, writer clients are unhappy with the adequate but mediocre representation by former Broder agents

  Comment by truth too — Thursday June 5, 2008 @ 5:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

• am i alone in thinking the more moves ICM makes the worse its getting? seems the good people are leaving. they just had a wall street journal article about a joint deal with some third rate ad agency that basically said nothing. is it a leadership issue with chris silberman or has the agency been in steady decline since jeff berg was pushed to the back and its just coming to light?

  Comment by ICM client — Thursday June 5, 2008 @ 6:58pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I agree, ICM Client…ICM has run out of feet to shoot themselves in. How could a current ICM client even want their name attached to such a joke of an agency? They cannot stop the brain-drain of agents leaving in droves.

  RIP

  Comment by Anonymous — Friday June 6, 2008 @ 4:59am PDT  Reply to this post

• Nikki,
  Can you please investigate whether ICM really has unhappy clients? Or are these the comments of other agents portraying an ugly picture in the hopes of a major poach?
  Would love to hear the real story…
  Maybe you can get some quotes from some of the most important Broder clients that are still with ICM…are they feeling nervous? Unhappy?

  Comment by Nikki please investigate — Friday June 6, 2008 @ 10:52am PDT  Reply to this post

• Anonymous..I dont think its RIP, i think the business is under serious pressure but i seems that ICM is losing ground as one of the big three. i think they’ll be around, just less relevant. i havent had great experiences there as they dont appear to collaborate internally, which i was told was a great strength of ICM and ive yet to see the big benefit that was promised when i came over. and “comment by nikki” i am not an agent. im just asking a relevant question. im not sure any of the agencies have the answers but some seem to be handling the changes better than ICM. just looking to see if its just my perspective

  Comment by ICM client — Friday June 6, 2008 @ 2:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• @Nikki please investigate:

  THAT’S SILLY

  Dissatisfaction with Broder/ICM is commonly known.

  Comment by M. — Friday June 6, 2008 @ 4:56pm PDT  Reply to this post