Postproduction/digital media company Utopic has hired Christopher Elliott as director of finishing. He served in the same capacity at Red Car for 10 years. Prior to that, he was on the staff at Optimus where he worked with Tim Kloehn, Utopic’s co-owner and editor.
Elliott’s move to Utopic also reunites him with fellow Red Car alumnus, Kevin O’Rourke, Utopic’s motion graphics designer who came on board in June. O’Rourke is a two-time AICE nominee for Best Motion Graphics Design.
Elliott’s credits include assorted national spots, such as McDonald’s Super Bowl 2013 ad “All American,” and McDonald’s Mighty Wings’ “Play Offs” (both directed by Joe Pytka of PYTKA), as well as Reeses Puffs’ “Ultimate Sessions,” and Miller Light “See and Say” and “Dating.”
Additionally Elliott has lent his talent to a number of short films and documentaries, including the NEA Big Read Series directed by Larry Bridges. Also, Elliott edited the animated short Stubble Trouble for Calabash Animation, which earned an Oscar nod in the Best Animated Short Category in 2001.
FCB Stays Atop The One Club’s Year-End Global Creative Rankings
FCB ended the year repeating its top positions in The One Club for Creativity’s Global Creative Rankings, with FCB New York again crowned Global Agency of the Year and FCB Global finishing as Agency Network of the Year for 2024.
The annual worldwide benchmark report is a comprehensive ranking of agencies, brands, countries, and individuals based on points earned from winning entries in The One Club’s eight global, regional, and local awards shows: The One Show 2024, ADC 103rd Annual Awards, Type Directors Club TDC70 competition, Art Directors Club of Europe ADCE Awards 2024, ONE Asia Creative Awards 2024, and The One Club Denver, San Diego, and Miami chapter 2024 awards programs.
“The Global Creative Rankings is the industry’s most comprehensive and transparent ranking,” said Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club. “There are no secret weightings in calculating the rankings, and unlike others, it’s not hidden behind a paywall. As the industry’s foremost nonprofit organization for the global creative community, The One Club is in a unique position to provide this free, definitive measure for global creative excellence to everyone in the industry.”
Highlights of the Global Creative Rankings 2024 are below.
Global Agency Rankings
FCB New York
Rethink Toronto
McCann New York
TBWAMedia Arts Lab Los Angeles
Serviceplan Germany Munich
Dentsu Inc. Tokyo
FCB Chicago
Marcel Paris
VML New York
Ogilvy PR New York, Publicis Conseil Paris (tie)
Independent Agency Rankings
Rethink Toronto
Serviceplan Germany Munich
Wieden+Kennedy Portland
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