Ezra Burke, former in-house West Coast rep for bicoastal Cohn+Company, has been named head of sales & marketing for bicoastal Notorious Pictures. The Santa Monica-based Burke will additionally handle West Coast commercial sales for both Notorious and its recently launched design arm….Bicoastal companies Giraldi Suarez Productions (GSP) and Playroom have hired Roxanne Artesona and Jeff Bowman of Roxanne and Co., New York, for representation on the East Coast. In-house sales rep Wil LaFayette will handle the West Coast for GSP and Playroom….Bicoastal Villains has signed Sean Sullivan of Sullivan Creative Management, Chicago, for Midwest representation….Delores Hively and Dawn Schiffman of Buzz Management, New York, are handling East Coast representation for Santa Monica-headquartered Plum Productions and PS 260, New York….Santa Monica-based production house Thomas Winter Cooke has secured representation in Canada via Imported Artists Film Company, Toronto….Jared Shapiro of Moustache, New York, is handling East Coast representation for bicoastal CreoCollective….San Francisco-based Pond Radio Entertainment has signed Boss Talent, Venice, Calif., for West Coast representation….DP Aaron Phillips has completed photography for the documentary Surf Rasta and is now available for commercials via Sherry Rousso Associates, New York….
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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