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Person of the year This was the easiest for me as David Droga deserves to be voted most influential person on the planet at the moment for the performance of Droga5 in 2013. In just seven years in New York ...

Robert Jenkins is a New Zealander who has worked in Australasia, Europe, the US and Asia – mostly for big international advertising agencies including Ogilvy, Grey and BBDO. He opened his own agency in London and eventually sold it to ...

Graham Fink began his career at Collett Dickenson Pearce as the youngest member of, arguably, the most talented creative department ever in the UK. He went on to produce award-winning work at GGT, Saatchi & Saatchi and WCRS before becoming ...

Laura Wade is the head of Maxus Partnerships, a new division at the WPP-owned media agency that aims to build content-focussed relationships between consumers, clients and media channels. Here she explains why the focus of branded content needs to move ...

Agency of the year Droga5 No surprise, ‘cos I’ve been pimping them all year. I’m with Mike Lee for all the logical reasons he lays out… Plus, any agency with the balls to sell a client a wonderful spot like ...

Katarina Nielsen, a consultant at integrated marketing consultancy Flock Associates, finds that some hotel groups are leading the way in using a combination of their own data and social media to improve life for customers. Marketers across the board can ...

Michael Lee is a former ECD of Euro RSCG New York handling Volvo Worldwide. Born in England, he spent 20 years working on integrated accounts including Intel, JP Morgan, ExxonMobil and Jaguar. In 2012 he set up agency search consultancy ...

It’s that time of year again, as we keep keep saying, and we’ve asked our panel of distinguished columnists to choose their agency, network, ad or campaign and person of the year. First up is Fearlessly Frank chairman and man ...

WPP is merging its 24/7 Real Media business, which represents online publishers, with its own invention, Xaxis, which buys ad impressions in bulk and then, supposedly, targets them at the right audience. At least that’s what I think it does. ...

It’s not been a good couple of weeks for Havas CEO David Jones with Havas in the UK losing the big Santander banking account to WCRS and now the rather larger global Volvo account shipping out from Havas network Arnold ...