Bay Area-based ad agency producer Stacy McClain has joined digital studio Radium, with facilities in San Francisco, Santa Monica and Dallas, as executive producer. She will head up the San Francisco shop. McClain started her career at Young & Rubicam, San Francisco, before moving over to Goody, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, as a producer. She then became head of production at Black Rocket (now Heat), San Francisco, and had most recently been freelancing for several Bay Area agencies. Also coming aboard Radium is designer Angela Ko, who will work out of the Santa Monica studio. Ko had been working as a freelance designer/animator at such studios as Stardust, Logan, Imaginary Forces and Motion Theory….Bluerock has promoted Dana Gerolimatos to full-fledged editor. Formerly an assistant editor at the New York shop, she regularly collaborated with Bluerock cutters Laura Milstein and David Mester….Philadelphia ad agency Red Tettemer has hired Ben Mallory as its first ever interactive creative director and Ryan Blain as interactive designer. Mallory has been tasked with defining the agency’s interactive capabilities, from core functionality to pathways and overall user experience. He will work for clients such as Advanta, Comcast, Hatfield Quality Meats and kajeet, as well as on new business projects. Mallory came to Red Tettemer from Digitas Health where he was creative director responsible for Crestor. Prior to Digitas, Mallory was creative director at SFGT, Philadelphia. His career also includes stints at AOL, Casio, Commerce One, WeMedia, Zentropy Partners and TheKnot.com. Meanwhile Blain was formerly interactive designer at 160over90, a Philly marketing communications agency…..
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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