18 Top Creative Leaders Whose Ads Are Breaking Through Into Culture

Meet some of the U.S.'s top ECDs and GCDs

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Lane Bryant’s #ImNoAngel campaign. Werner Herzog’s internet documentary Lo and Behold. The unsmuttifying of Carl’s Jr. The tireless pursuits of IBM’s Watson.

The executive creative directors and group creative directors—and creatives of comparable rank—on the list below helped make all the work above, which has gone well beyond the confines of the ad world and permeated pop culture. Read below about the creators of advertising that moves the needle for clients, and is also embraced on a mass scale.

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This story first appeared in the June 12, 2017, issue of Adweek magazine. Click here to subscribe.