Zoo Film, Hollywood, has signed director Lesli Linka Glatter for spot representation. She is best known for directing episodes of such TV series as Madmen, Grey’s Anatomy, Heroes, ER, House, West Wing, NYPD Blue, Numb3rs, The Closer and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks for which she earned a DGA Award nomination. In features, she directed The Proposition, starring Kenneth Branagh and William Hurt, and several HBO films–State of Emergency, Into the Homeland and The Promise….Elaine Strom Behnken has been promoted to executive producer at Santa Monica-based commercial production companies GARTNER, tight, and Outsider USA. While maintaining distinct directorial rosters, the three houses operate under the aegis of partners/executive producers Don Block and Rich Carter. Behnken previously served as head of production for the companies…Jennifer Patterson has been named executive producer of Irvine, Calif.-based editorial house Shelter. Her background includes producing for such Santa Monica editorial companies as Beast, Crush and Cake….
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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