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5 Minutes with... Marta Llucià
McCann Spain, 3 days, 16 hours ago
Chief creative officer at McCann Barcelona on her Barcelonan spirit, feminist strike action and the least boring times of her life
Marta Llucià began her career in advertising over 20 years ago as an art director at Omnicom agency Adding Targis. It says a lot about her rem... Read more
5 Minutes with… Francesco Poletti
Y&R - EMEA, 1 month, 1 week ago
Y&R Italy’s new executive creative director on scandalous encounters in motels, shooting his first ad at the age of 10 and the most important word in his job title
At the start of this year Vicky Gitto stepped down from his position as executive creative director at Y&R Italy, leaving a big pair of boots t... Read more
5 Minutes with… Ayla Owen
BBH London, 1 month, 1 week ago
Head of Music at BBH London and The Most Radicalist Black Sheep on the anthropology of music, the laddism of the ‘90s indie scene and the beauty of silence
Music has always played a huge part in Ayla Owen’s life. From her pre-school fixation with the violin to kicking about with the indie kids of Britp... Read more
5 Minutes with… Kay Hsu
LBB Editorial, 1 month, 1 week ago
Global director for Instagram Creative Shop on why being a middle child made for being a good planner and building Instagram’s ad platform from the bottom up
800 million people visit Instagram every month. 500 million of those visit every day. That’s a lot of eyeballs and so it should come as little surp... Read more
5 Minutes with… Javier Campopiano
LBB Editorial, 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Mastermind behind ‘It’s a Tide Ad’ on leaving an uber successful tenure at Saatchi & Saatchi NY to take the reigns at FCB Mexico
During this year’s Super Bowl there was one campaign that stood out head and shoulders above the rest. Saatchi & Saatchi New York and Tide’s su... Read more
5 Minutes with… Scott Goodson
StrawberryFrog, 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The StrawberryFrog founder on the importance of kindness, Scandinavian values and the opportunities of helping blue-chips behave like disruptors
Next year StrawberryFrog turns 20. The agency co-founded by husband and wife team Scott Goodson and Karin Drakenberg has always done things a bit d... Read more
5 Minutes with… Emma Sharkey
Rothco, 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Rothco creative director talks zombies, stealing ads and the wonders of “mommy vloggers”
Emma Sharkey can be found in agency Rothco’s Dublin office, at the creative coalface working on clients like Heineken cider brands Orchard Thieves ... Read more
5 Minutes with… Harsh Kapadia
VML, 1 month, 3 weeks ago
VML London’s ECD on his underdog spirit, his voracious curiosity, and getting a thank you note from Michelle Obama
The first and most important thing to know about Harsh Kapadia is that he is definitely a dog person. It’s written all over him. His optimism is bo... Read more
5 Minutes with… Bettina Olf
Geometry Global, 1 month, 4 weeks ago
The new CCO of Geometry Group Germany on launching the iPhone in her home country and the task of fostering “give-and-take communication”
“Experiences have become way more important than before,” Bettina Olf says when musing about her decision to join Geometry Group Germany in March a... Read more
5 Minutes with… Raquel Chicourel
M&C Saatchi London, 2 months ago
M&C Saatchi’s chief strategy officer on her surprisingly swashbuckling adventures, how her journalism training feeds into planning and her love of sci-fi
Raquel Chicourel may well be one of the most interesting people you could choose to have a conversation with. She’s a collection of intriguing cont... Read more