Topic: Akqa
"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…
Tumblr has announced a dozen ad agency and technology vendors as the first participants in its A-List Partnership Program, which appears to be similar to Facebook's Preferred Developer Program. Notable…
AKQA's win of digital responsibilities on Anheuser-Bush's core brands comes during a year of steady growth at the digital shop. Earlier this year, the agency landed Verizon Wireless' digital account. That…
In the two days since Hurricane Sandy slammed New York City, digital ad agencies in flooded Lower Manhattan and across the East River in Brooklyn haven’t stopped working. With public…
This summer, I hosted a trip for Madison Avenue’s digital elite—and Brooklyn’s too—to meet the leaders of Silicon Valley on the tech industry’s Northern California turf. The idea was to…
Newly-minted WPP agency AKQA has opened two new offices in the U.S. to support current accounts in those markets, the agency announced Monday. AKQA has staffs of about a dozen each…
Publicis Groupe has reached a conditional agreement to buy the agency LBi for $540 million, ending months of speculation about which holding company—WPP, Interpublic and Omicom being the others—would snag…
When Google formed its Creative Council more than two years ago, its creative agency members told the search giant to lay off handing out awards. “They were concerned whether or not…
AKQA has moved quickly in replacing Pierre Lipton as executive creative director in its San Francisco office, naming Neil Robinson and Stephen Clements to collectively fill the role Friday (Aug.…
Nissan is tooting its own horn about recent AKQA-engineered promotions in London and Amsterdam that offered free taxi rides in Leaf electric vehicles in exchange for people tweeting their destination…






