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By Stephen Foster on December 19, 2012
OK, here we go: after a not very scientific analysis of the ruminations of Paul Simons, Giles Keeble, Jerry Judge, George Parker, Stuart Smith and myself we come to: Agency of the Year Wieden+Kennedy London. For lots of good stuff, TV, online, posters and print. The big test, for W+K London, as we’ve said before, [...]
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By Stephen Foster on December 18, 2012
These are my choices for ad/campaign of the year, agency of the year and person of the year. Tomorrow (or maybe the next day) we’ll try to reach a consensus about the ultimate top dogs of 2012. So to ads: BBH’s Three Little Pigs for the Guardian was undoubtedly the tour de force of the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged ad of the year, agency of theyear, ahab, Ajaz Ahmed, akqa, audi, cravendale, facebook, London, person of the year, portland, southern comfort, Tesco, venable bell, wieden+kennedy
By Stephen Foster on October 2, 2012
You can imagine the conversation can’t you – Ajaz Ahmed of AKQA (left) and Sir Martin Sorrell (not for the first time). “Look Ajaz, come in with us and we’ll back AKQA to be the biggest and best digital network in the world.” “It already is.” “Well even bigger and better than it is now.” [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged Ajaz Ahmed, akqa, atlanta, lbi, nike, portland, Sir Martin Sorrell, Tom Bedecarre, wieden+kennedy, WPP
By Stephen Foster on September 26, 2012
Digital network AKQA was bought by WPP for $540m a weeks ago and now Rei Inamoto (left), who helped to found AKQA’s New York office in 2004, has been made its boss. He was previously CCO but now takes over the rest including client services and, presumably, finance. AKQA is important for WPP as the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, News | Tagged Ajaz Ahmed, akqa, lbi, publicis groupe, Rei Inamoto, WPP
By Stephen Foster on June 20, 2012
And then there was – nobody of much note (LBi possibly excepted) among digital agencies and Wieden+Kennedy and Mother holding out against the mighty wallets of the big marcoms companies in the creative sector. AKQA, the world’s biggest digital agency, has agreed to become part of Sir Martin Sorrell’s WPP empire for about $540m; some [...]
Posted in Agencies, Finance, News | Tagged $540m deal, Ajaz Ahmed, akqa, digital agency, Sir Martin Sorrell, takeover, Tom Bedecarre, WPP
By Staff on June 18, 2012
Ajaz Ahmed, founder of digital agency giant AKQA is one of the co-authors of a new book Velocity, a best-selling guide to surviving and prospering in the digital age. Here he explains why their thinking is relevant to all kinds of companies, what independence means to him and why he wants AKQA to grow to [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, Finance, Media, News | Tagged Ajaz Ahmed, akqa, apple, independence, nike, red bull, Sir Richard Branson, Stefan Olander, velocity, virgin
By Stephen Foster on May 8, 2012
OK darlings, here we go. Forbes magazine has persuaded (bet it didn’t require much) some of Madison Avenue’s finest to parade in their best kit for an article The Real-Life Mad Men (And Women) of 2012. There’s a slide show in the link. It’s quite hard not to look or sound a prat in these [...]
Posted in Agencies, News | Tagged Ajaz Ahmed, akqa, apple, bally, caroline herrera, fashion, Forbes, kirshenbaum bond senecal, Lori Senecal, madison avenue, nobu, prada, real-life mad men and women
By Staff on January 30, 2012
Leading independent digital agency AKQA is opening its eighth network office with a new outpost in Paris. The St Germain-based agency’s first account is Nike which AKQA has worked with for 12 years. AKQA Paris will be be led by four senior creatives – CCO James Hilton plus creative director Peter Lund and Nicolai Smith [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged Ajaz Ahmed, akqa, digital agency of the year, france, James Hilton, Julien Veillon, Manuel Douchez, new paris office, Nicolai Smith, nike, Peter Lund, st germain
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