AKQA opens in Paris with Nike as founder client
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....
View ArticleMadison Avenue’s finest get their kit on for Forbes
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....
View ArticleExclusive: Ajaz Ahmed of AKQA – we want to keep growing so we employ 5,000...
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...
View ArticleMoney talks again as WPP buys AKQA for $540m
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...
View ArticleAKQA’s Rei Inamoto takes hot seat in New York
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...
View ArticleAKQA heads for Portland, home of Nike and W+K
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...
View ArticleMy pick of 2012: Audi’s ‘Ahab’, Wieden+Kennedy London and Ajaz Ahmed
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...
View ArticleThe big winners of 2012: Wieden+Kennedy London, Samsung/72andSunny and the...
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...
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