Tag Archives: David Droga

The final verdict on Advertising Week Europe will have to wait (and I’m not the person to give it ‘cos I haven’t been there). Campaign and The Drum have striven manfully to make it sound interesting but, alas, have failed. ...

My prediction for 2014 in the world of advertising is we will see a few start-ups shake up the UK industry. It’s a long time overdue. The climate is heading towards the perfect conditions for new, shiny and interesting agencies ...

This is all a bit complicated so let’s take it from the top. IMG, the sports marketing company founded by the late Mark McCormack, has been sold to talent agency William Morris Endeavor, which now owns 49 per cent of ...

Well we’re almost there – here are my choices of the above plus Giles Keeble, who has invented his own categories. Final result next week when some stragglers have straggled in (maybe).   Agency of the year Really tricky because ...

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 ...

Where would I like to work if I was still inclined to work in the ad biz! Stephen has been kind, or insane enough, to include me in the coterie of Ad Greats, Almost Greats, Wanna be Greats, and never ...

  In just seven years Droga (above), 45 and one of his six children raised in Australia, has created an agency that ranks with BBH and Wieden+Kennedy (both 30 years old) as one of the best in the world, one ...

It’s the end of the summer (booh!) and therefore back to work. So a new business year awaits when the battle between Sir Martin Sorrell’s ‘math men,’ the number crunchers he thinks will take over the world, and people trying ...

Turn your back for a moment and what happens? The agency merger of the decade (or perhaps ever) happens while you’re enjoying the primi and secondi at the charming Ristorante Palmieri in Puglia’s Monopoli. My thanks to Stuart Smith and ...