Production company B-Reel has brought veteran producer Michael McQuhae on board as executive producer and managing director. He will be running B-Reel Commercials together with managing director/exec producer Susan Rued Anderson.
McQuhae brings over 15 years of producing experience to B-Reel, including most recently a decade-long run as executive producer at HSI Productions.
Prior to HSI, McQuhae has worked at Propaganda, FM Rocks and Believe Media, producing award-winning jobs for high-profile directors, including Simon Cole, Brett Ratner, Joseph Kahn, Chris Applebaum, Ryan Ebner, and Michael Haussman.
Pelle Nilsson, founding partner at B-Reel said that McQuhae strengthens and solidifies the company's production team in Los Angeles. With offices in L.A., New York City, London, Barcelona, Berlin and Stockholm, B-Reel is an international production company with three divisions: Commercials and Branded Content, Digital, and Feature Films.
B-Reel Commercials' directorial roster includes: Drake Doremus, Anders Hallberg, Filip Tellander, Miles Jay, Steven Tsuchida, Josh Miller, Kief Davidson, Patrik Bergh, Tom Malmros, Emil Moller, Johan Perjus, Jens Sjögren, Anders Forsman, Mikael Marcimain and Jon+Torey.
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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