- Media All Star: Shane Ankeney in
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01/16/2020
Shane Ankeney, our 2019 Media Executive All-Star, is proof positive that nice guys can finish first. In the four years that the deeply experienced media veteran has served as Havas Media's President,
North America, things have gone tres bien for the French-owned agency. His tenure has been marked by 40% revenue growth and 35% staff growth. And in 2018, the shop was named MediaPost's Media Agency
of the Year.
- Creative All Star: Scott Donaton in
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01/16/2020
MediaPost 2019 Creative All-Star Scott Donaton has a simple philosophy. Deceptively simple. "For me the best definition of a brand is that it's a promise," he told attendees at last year's Digital
Upfronts. "But what good is a promise that no one believes?"
- Creative Agency of the Year: Giant Spoon in
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01/21/2019
Attendees at last year's SXSW were no doubt down for just about anything. Chances are, though, they never expected to find themselves in Sweetwater, the Wild West theme park featured in HBO's smash
hit "Westworld."
- 2018 Media All Star: Helen Lin in
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12/21/2018
- 2018 Media All Star: Angela Steele in
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12/21/2018
- Media All Star: Clint Simpson in
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01/19/2018
The self-described "data-driven" executive's 20 years of experience here and in APAC and Australia for UM, Carat and others, has paid off handsomely for the world's largest digital agency.
- Media All Star: Michael Epstein in
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01/19/2018
The Carat USA CEO's hypersonic ascent -- he came on board as Carat's first chief strategy officer from Mindshare barely four years ago -- has been fueled by his flair for innovation and the conviction
that "people-based marketing" is the key to ongoing success.
- Creative All Star: Sarah Hofstetter in
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01/19/2018
Fearless and agile, 360i's leader Sarah Hofstetter has shown a singular flair for developing novel solutions to business problems and imaginative efforts that capitalize on client opportunities.
- ANA CEO Bob Liodice: 2017 Media Executive of the Year in
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01/24/2018
In marketing and media today, disruption is so constant, so fast and so furious, that it is the status quo. Yet the most disruptive force in the business today is neither a breakthrough technology nor
a killer concept. Rather, the agent of overwhelming change is a thoroughly conventional, 107-year-old trade organization, the Association of National Advertisers. Leading its charge is a most unlikely
revolutionary: ANA CEO Bob Liodice, now also Mediapost's 2017 Media Executive of the Year.
- Creative All Star: Alex Bogusky in
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01/06/2017
Alex Bogusky. What just went on in your head when you read those words? Envy, perhaps? Admiration? No doubt a confusing mix of love and hate as well. Advertising loves its heroes. However, few of them
are compared in gushing magazine articles to Jesus, or described in the blog of a fellow creative director as a "demi-god of advertising." But Bogusky was.