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Fire Kite launched in late 2024 — by 2026, they'd won Nashville's top creative honor twice in a row
Sydney Tomasello of Fortnight Collective on why strategic honesty is the most valuable — and most avoided — service in the business.
Mike Bucchino of CYLNDR Studios on why the safest bet in advertising has nothing to do with famous faces — and the test that proves it.
Michael Stoopack, Mike Rovner and Tom Christmann built an agency where one vote means go — and they can never have an even number of partners
Michael Stoopack, Mike Rovner and Tom Christmann built an agency where one vote means go — and they can never have an even number of partners
Jonah Ballow, Keith Stoeckeler and Eliot Gerard left a holding company during COVID, started a collective and now build trophies for the NFL Players Association
Danny Weisman and Barry Dan launched Obsessed Media to fix what holding companies won't: where your money goes and whether anyone sees it
Made Music Studio has been turning 3 seconds of sound into decades of brand identity — and the work they're most proud of is the stuff nobody knows how to categorize
Sydney Tomasello of Fortnight Collective on why strategic honesty is the most valuable — and most avoided — service in the business.
Mike Bucchino of CYLNDR Studios on why the safest bet in advertising has nothing to do with famous faces — and the test that proves it.
Howard Moggs has heard it all. “We work with clients big and small, across all categories.” “We create breakthrough work.” “We’re big agency talent in…
Highdive, Born and Raised and Allen & Gerritsen made leadership hires this week that have nothing to do with filling vacancies
Fire Kite launched in late 2024 — by 2026, they'd won Nashville's top creative honor twice in a row
Belfast indie launches a government-funded campaign that uses BAFTA-level filmmaking to confront Northern Ireland's rising road death toll
Mike Bucchino of CYLNDR Studios on why the safest bet in advertising has nothing to do with famous faces — and the test that proves it.
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