Topic: Akqa
While AKQA’s sale to WPP this week may represent the last major privately held digital agency entering corporate waters, industry players say holding companies will continue to cast their nets…
Facebook has announced the formation of a Creative Council, a 14-member body tasked with providing the company with a forum to discuss ad product ideas and agency concerns. Naturally, the…
For some 12 years, AKQA has been on Nike's digital roster. Now, top brass from the agency and brand teamed up to write a book—somewhat ironically, available in print—that offers…
Here we go again. The people problem, a perennial fear of agency bigwigs, has begun percolating again over the past year or so, starting in the way that many a…
Television may soon regain its place as a social linchpin—at least for those in MTV's youth demographic. Gone (for the most part) are the days when family members would gather…
Thanks to Nike, AKQA’s Parisian dream is coming true. Adweek’s 2011 Digital Agency of the Year is opening an office in the Saint Germain quarter of the city, fueled by…
AKQA, Adweek's 2011 Digital Agency of the Year, has promoted Pierre Lipton to executive creative director, the agency announced Monday. Lipton, already a group creative director at the agency's San Francisco…
AKQA has hired Jason McCann as a creative director for its New York office, the location's third such addition this year. McCann joins AKQA from TAXI Toronto, where he served as…
Digital agency AKQA is adding two creative admen to lead work on its Xbox 360 account, the shop announced. Jaime Diskin, previously an associate creative director on PlayStation Europe at TBWA…
Digital creative leader Lars Bastholm’s high-profile crossover into the hierarchy of a traditional agency has ended after just two years. Bastholm joined Ogilvy & Mather in 2009 as chief digital officer…
