Agency Expansion Plan

AKQA raises profile with new outposts from Paris to Tokyo, account wins from Gap and Google+

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"I’m based in San Francisco and on United Airlines,” says AKQA chairman Tom Bedecarré, sitting in the client lounge at his agency’s New York office. “That’s what I like to say.”

It’s a laconic but revealing answer to a question about how often the fifty something advertising exec visits his company’s various locations, which now number 11 thanks to the addition this year of outposts in Atlanta, Paris, Portland, Ore., and Tokyo. Meanwhile, offices in Brazil and other emerging markets are being discussed for next year.

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