Mentor, Mensch, and “Masterful Pusher of Buttons”: Tributes Flow for Ari Weiss
Ari Weiss, the acclaimed founder of Quality Experience and former global CCO of DDB, died last week after a long battle with cancer. He was 46.
Since then, the people and companies that he knew, worked with, and called friends, have been remembering the impact that he had on their lives. LBB’s managing editors Addison Capper, Brittney Rigby, and Alex Reeves have gathered tributes from across the globe, which you can read below. We will be updating this page, so please get in touch with addison@lbbonline.com if you would like to share a contribution.
Ari's final interview was with LBB just a few weeks before his passing. We have published it in full here.
Ari's final interview was with LBB just a few weeks before his passing. We have published it in full here.
To see a Collection of Ari's most lauded creative work, click here.
Cristina Reina
Chief creative officer and partner at Quality Experience
Ari Weiss was a force. A mentor, a friend, and the kind of person who made everyone around him better. It’s hard to accept that he’s no longer here. He is already so deeply missed, but his legacy will live on in all of us who had the privilege of knowing him, learning from him, and being challenged and inspired by him. Thinking of his family, his friends, and everyone who was lucky enough to have him in their lives. Rest in peace, my friend.
Amir Farhang
Freelance ECD
Go to work. In the office. Meet people. Forge relationships. Go to lunch. Get coffee. Get drunk. Get sober. Date. Break up. Form a bond. Connect. Make friends. Show up for those friends. Inspire those friends. Be inspired by them. Work with them. Compete against them. Win. Lose. Throw things. Pick them up. Figure it out. Burn it down. Build it back up. Be exhausted. Be silly. Be happy. Get mad. Be disappointed. Listen. Hear. See. Play jokes. Talk shit. Get caught. Hold hands. Be in it. Go through it. Get recognized. Get euphoric in the wins. Celebrate them. Hug one another. Hold on tight. This is the best time in your life. It’s happening right now. If we don’t have people to share any of this with, none of it will matter.
Love you, Ari Weiss.
Ben Wolan
Freelance CD and former ECD at DDB
When I received a text that my good friend Ari Weiss was moving into hospice care, it shattered the wall of hopefulness and naïveté I had built over the last six years.
During that time, Ari wasn’t just my friend since we were 6 years old. He wasn’t just someone I played lacrosse with in high school or a friend I had reconnected with as a creative in New York. After all of that, he was my boss for 6 years.
He was a boss who cared about me. Who was always there for me. Who cut through the bullshit to help me.
And in that part of our relationship, I suppose it helped us both to construct a reality where things were better than they actually were — where the pressures of the (holding) company weren’t totally in conflict with our passion for wild creativity, where pitch losses happened because “it wasn’t the right fit anyway,” and where Ari was really sick, but he had time, great doctors, and was going to get through this.
Other friends knew it was unlikely he would be OK, but I didn’t.
So when I got a second text hours later telling me that if I wanted to send a message to Ari, now was the time — that this was my last chance — I fell apart. I thought I would have weeks, at least days. Not hours.
Sitting up in my bed in the dark, phone in hand, I started composing a final message to my friend — to the person who gave me opportunity, confidence, and often in a single dose vulnerability and reality. The person who had somehow become my mentor.
The walls came crashing down.
Writing through a stream of tears running down my face, into my ears, collecting in my clavicle, I tried to say goodbye. With a shaky hand, I pressed send.
And what I sent was OK. The subject was good. It was about what an incredibly giving person he had become. But the execution was poor.
I never would have sent writing like this to Ari when he was at full strength, or at least pretending to be. And in my final message, I sent this?
Even in this most delicate, ephemeral moment, I wanted to do better for him. I wanted to live up to the high standard he set for himself and those of us who created around him and with him.
This wasn’t up to that standard.
And so I imagined him — the vital, funny, sharp person I loved — reading it.
“It’s good. It’s a good idea, Ben. It just needs a lot of work.”
I’d agree.
“What if we gave Peter Rosch a few days to rewrite it?”
He was right. Peter would probably take the handoff and crush it.
“Or maybe Nathaniel?”
No. I wanted this to be serious and earnest. Nathaniel would make it amazing, but funny and weird.
Then again, maybe he was right.
If Ari really liked it, if he thought it had potential, he’d secretly start sharing it with the people he trusted and respected. Maybe he’d reach way back and call Aaron, his partner from the early aughts, or Amir, another part of his Circus crew. He’d most certainly share it with his mentor and close friend Eric. He’d pull in opinions from Rick and Colin. I was always nervous about their judgment, sound as it might be.
“You know who would art direct the hell out of this? Cristina. Or Nate. Or maybe Ruth — it could use some of her style.”
He’d want it to get better. To push me. To bring my idea to life.
“What if we got Noam to direct it?”
No. Please. I don’t want to deal with Noam, I don’t care how good he is. I’d hear Ari’s ridiculous laugh that hadn’t changed since we were kids.
“Yeah, but he might kill it, dude.”
No. Just call Patrick. He always comes through for you.
Ari would agree with me.
He would want it to be better. He’d want to share it, to keep building it up through us — his network.
“Yuck. Bad word. Try ‘group of friends’? Or maybe ‘trusted creative people’?”
How about: A whole world of thinkers whose brains he loved and helped sharpen.
All these people he gave to, all connected through him. All pushing to do something he thought — and we thought — was good, interesting, and beautiful.
He cared about all of us.
He gave to all of us.
He deserved better than what I could write in that moment of deep sadness. In fact, he could have written it better himself.
A few years ago, even a few months ago, he would have just rolled up his sleeves and done just that.
But he couldn’t do that now.
And for the first time ever, I sent him something and never heard back.
If we had one more hour together, I’d want to write with him. To workshop this thing and come up with a better ending than this.
Susan Credle
Creative advisor at IPG
How was Ari so young and, yet, so accomplished? That’s what I asked when I first met Ari decades ago and what I am still asking myself today.
Maybe Ari had a keen sense that his life would not be defined by the quantity of days on this earth but rather by the quality of those days.
As Ari famously wrote, “there can only be one.” For me, Ari was that one.
Sofia Colucci
CMO at Molson Coors North America
One of my favourite moments with Ari Weiss. It was December 2022 and we were filming a Miller Lite campaign in Toronto. Our teams had just come out of a pandemic-led run of slightly ridiculous but very fun creative work - Ari’s specialty. At this point we needed to move forward and we could all feel the optimism on set. We were in it together.
What you can’t tell in this picture was that Ari wasn’t feeling well. But he was so relentless to support, to show up, to be a part of it with the team. That was the thing that MSJ and I always said about Ari - he always showed up. He was there no matter what, through the good and the bad times. And what became clear to me over the years was that Ari’s obsession with the work was actually a deep love for the people he mentored and the connections he built.
Ari, you have left a legacy not just as a brilliant creative mind but a kind and generous human. Thank you for your friendship and mentorship. Your fingerprints are all over the creative spirit at Molson Coors. Our deep love to Dara and your family.
Armando Turco
President at Mojo Supermarket
No one pissed me off like Ari Weiss.
Literally no one. Not a boss, not a client. Not even my husband got under my skin the way Ari did.
Many lovely things have been said about Ari over the past couple of days. Creative genius. Adoring husband and father. Survivor. All of those things are true, but there is one trait I will remember more than any:
Ari was a masterful pusher of buttons. He was a pain in the ass, and I think he’d want some recognition for that.
One time Ari walked into my office TWENTY MINUTES before a big presentation to the PlayStation client and asked me to cancel the meeting. I laughed, assuming he was kidding. He wasn’t. When I asked him why, he said, “It’s not ready” and walked away.
Another time I was stressing because the client had requested we make a change to the work, and Ari was refusing to make it. He could tell I was heating up, but he didn’t budge. When I was just about to break he said, in the calmest of voices, “I’m sensing a lot of fear coming from you right now, Armando.”
I told him to fuck off in front of our team, and stomped away.
These were regular occurrences over the many years we worked nearly side by side, but three things are true:
He was almost always right.
It was never about us. It was always about the work.
It was always resolved with a handshake, a hug, and/or a cocktail at Tribeca Tavern.
We loved as hard as we fought.
“I think we really scared the kids this time,” I remember saying one night through our gut laughter.
Ari pushed buttons because sometimes buttons need to be pushed in order to achieve greatness.
What I wouldn’t give to go one more round with the best sparring partner a person could ask for.
I will think of him every time the work isn’t quite ready.
Keep pushing us, Ari.
Damon Stapleton
Chief creative officer at Droga5 Aotearoa and former chief creative officer at DDB Group Aotearoa
I first met Ari when we both worked at DDB. He had just been made global creative director. We were pitching for a massive global piece of business. It was a pretty stressful situation. Flying in from around the world. Multiple rounds and presentations. Jet lag mornings. Lots of agencies trying to win. You get the picture.
When I first met Ari I remember wondering if he perspired. He reminded me of Roger Federer. Not only because of the white shoes. But you got this feeling he could get to the ball twice as quickly with half the effort. You know, you are playing really well but you still lose the set 6-2 and don’t really know how it happened.
So Ari was very talented and yes he had very high standards. However, he had another very distinct talent. He had the ability to make everybody feel equal and part of something. He made you want to be better in a gentle yet unrelenting way. Make no mistake, the work was going to be good but he wanted everybody to get there together. In a business that is often all about ego, that is a rare and beautiful quality. Ari didn’t have to be the front man as long as the band got to the right song. His humility made you focus on what mattered and it gave you a strange creative confidence.
I lived in New Zealand and Ari was in New York so we would talk a lot but only see each other a couple of times a year. And for some reason Ari and I would always go for long walks when we would meet up. I am pretty sure that wasn’t my idea because my knees are buggered. We went for walks all over the planet. San Francisco, Miami, Mumbai, Cannes and London. We would talk about everything but the thing I remember the most was how much Ari listened. Everything you said was considered always with humour and kindness. It created a quiet space where it felt you could solve any problem. I will miss those walks.
The last walk I went on with Ari tells you the most about him. We no longer worked for the same company. I went to New York on holiday with my family. I hadn’t seen Ari for a while and reached out to him to go for a walk. Now, he was leaving his global job and about to start his own agency. Stress. I am also sure his health wasn’t great. He had a family. He was busy. He didn’t have to do this. But he did. He gave me his time. Which today seems unbearably precious.
We walked and talked for two hours in Central Park. We found the quiet space again to solve the world’s problems and then took the photo above.
C.S Lewis once said humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less. For me that was Ari. He balanced intelligence with humility. He always wanted quality. He only accepted excellence. But he used his humanity, integrity and his humour to get there.
In a word, Ari was a mensch.
And I will miss those walks very much. Rest in peace amigo.
Andreas Dahlqvist
CCO and CEO at NORD DDB
Ari was a good friend. He had that rare combination of being both nice and talented. He was great to be around and was always caring about, and open to listen to, the people around him and relentlessly on the hunt for the best idea. He will be very missed.
Joel Simon
CEO at JSM Music
The older I become the more I am aware of how unfair life can be.
Ari was simply one of the most genuine, kind, loving, talented people I've ever met. Unique. Caring. Brilliant. Passionate. Thoughtful. Funny. So fucking funny. New level brilliance and creativity. Professionally, he rose to the highest of heights in my industry more quickly than anyone else at such a young age. Personally, he was the best friend you could have. He always had time for me, and I for him. Amazing father and husband.
The last time I saw him we went to my favourite restaurant in Miami. Just the two of us. Last night Alli and I went to the same restaurant and I mentioned to her that the table we were sitting at was the same one when I was with him.
Ari had this quiet, powerful, intellectual and creative presence. Soft spoken with every word having such meaningful importance. I always found it fascinating that everything he wrote to me and on social was always in lower case. For so long I couldn't understand why he wrote like that until I realized that it made me lean in and focus on his messages and thoughts even more as a result. He wrote as he spoke. He wrote how he lived.
As the inevitable approached, his incredible wife, Dara, mentioned to me that she and Ari spoke of asking me to do an arrangement of their favorite song, "Can't Help Falling in Love." She told me today that they listened to it over and over again and how much he loved it. That will forever be their song.
Quite simply, Ari was the best of all of us.
He will be so greatly missed by all who loved him.
Hemant Anant Jain
ECD at ARGONAUT and former group CD at BBH
But do you want to make it good?
When Ari smiled and asked that question, you knew you were in trouble.
Hugo and Dean had printed those words out large and those words haunted us.
It’s on strategy. Sure, but do you want to make it good?
I see him now, walking about in the BBH office. His presence was truly “otherworldly”. He could inspire multitudes. And he would stand up for the work.
I see him now in that room getting angrier by the minute when our biggest client - the bread and butter of the agency got rude. Ari spoke then. And he said - Do. Not. ever. Say. That. Again. We give everything to the work and you will respect us.
Everyone in the room went quiet. People thought we had lost the account.
The client apologised.
Ari. I see him now sitting at that Thai restaurant we used to frequent.
I see him in Prague reading poetry with Noam.
I see him laughing. I see him reading all of my 27 scripts and picking 2.
I see him in what I do and how I try to be because I haven’t been inspired by anyone more than Ari.
Ari Weiss. You are our forever man.
Nobody will ever be like you.
And I am sure up there the angels are running scared because you just asked them, “But do you want to make it good?”
Keith Reinhard
Chairman emeritus at DDB Worldwide
Ari never failed to inspire. I was inspired by his passion for our industry and our company. I was inspired by his pattern-breaking work for our clients, including the sold-out Broadway musical for Skittles that Ari conceived and produced for Super Bowl Sunday in 2019. But what inspired me most was his bravery. Even in the face of his toughest battle, with quiet resolve, he carried on—creating award-winning work, leading DDB creative teams across the globe, and playing pivotal roles in industry events.
Maria Elisa Vélez
Senior managing director at DoorDash and former global business operations lead at DDB
I struggle to find the words to express how empty it already feels. It hurts even to imagine that I won’t be able to pick up the phone and ask for your thoughts and free advice.
You were always there to make me see beyond the obvious and never let me stay in my comfort zone. You gave me some of the best moments in my career, and I will do everything I can to honour your memory and not disappoint you.
Diane Toth-Jackson
VP, global head of production at Makers and former head of production at DDB Chicago
I’ve been at Chicago O’Hare most of the afternoon watching flight after flight cancel as I try to get to NYC to say goodbye to my friend Ari Weiss.
Sitting at Gate K20, in hope that I may get out, has given me the time to read all of the wonderful tributes that have flooded in for Ari and for me to reflect on our years of working together, the work we created and all the fun and games we had. Oh and a few battles and stand-offs along the way.
We all know how talented Ari was, how driven and how second best was never an option. He pushed us all to be greater than good.
Like Bill Bernbach, Ari believed “an idea can turn to dust or magic depending on the talent that rubs against it”
Ari was tough on Producers because I think he actually was one and he held us all to the same standard he set himself.
He loved making.
He loved the collaborations, the creatives he inspired, the friends with trusted opinions, the clients he respected, the directors he admired and all the talented editors, composers, designers and craftspeople that made the magic happen.
Ari was happiest on production or in the edit suite, watching it all come together, while always looking for that little thing to push the work further.
We had breakfast together in Berlin last October and he was excited about being there and the trip he was taking. He was itching to show me the rough cuts of his latest work. He knew I’d wished I’d produced it and he was right.
Well, seems that AA774 is actually boarding in seven minutes. Ari taught me that when it matters, perseverance is everything.
Ari mattered.
Alex Hesz
Global chief strategy officer at IPG and former global chief strategy officer at DDB Worldwide
Ari did nothing without a relentless belief that it could be made better. He was that glorious, and impossibly rare, combination of a perfectionist, a phenomenal practitioner, and a humble doubter. He always asked. What do you think? Does this work? How would you do it? His source of authority was the work, not the title. His source of reputation was the esteem in which he was universally held by everyone who ever encountered him. But his source of joy, of strength, was his family. He spoke about them so often, so openly and with such gratitude. It was clear that the kind, happy, extraordinarily gifted man he was, was due to his love for them. It’s to them, his family, that I send all my love. There are no perfect words that come to mind. Ari would have been able to help with that…
Susie Walker
Global chief creative operations officer at DDB
Ari was one of the most talented people I’ve ever had the privilege of working with. He was kind, honest and had deep integrity.
Ari once described his approach as ‘creatively fuelled obsessiveness’. He had endless stamina for the work. Once, after 358 rounds of feedback, I asked him how he knew when a piece of work was done. And he took a pause, and said, 'the truth is you always know deep down it could have been better.' He said, 'this can be a brutal business, and you have to kind of be a masochist. But when you get it right, there’s no better feeling'.
I’m so grateful he trusted me to work for him, and I’m immensely proud of what we achieved together. When DDB won Network of the Year at Cannes Lions, it was bittersweet because he wasn’t there to celebrate with us. It was a validation of everything he’d been working for. He rocked it and the world saw.
Nick Stoner
Global group creative director at Ogilvy
The first thing Ari ever asked me to do was write 100 potential jokes for a script. He wanted them by midnight. We emailed exactly 100 at 11:58pm. (He went with his own, of course.) Which was ok, because over the course of those 100 jokes, I learned something about writing and thinking and myself.
I learned what an idea was.
I didn’t know what an idea was until I worked for Ari.
I knew ideas could be big. Expensive. Cool.
I didn’t know they could be real.
I didn’t know you could produce Broadway shows.
I didn’t know you could film light beer ads in black and white.
I didn’t know you could put advertising in art galleries.
Ari taught us that ideas aren’t jokes. They’re not scripts. They’re not PR headlines.
They’re theses.
That’s the best way I can describe the sorts of ideas that got him excited.
It was the sort of thinking that—through agonizing, logical debate—might make you realize your problem wasn’t long. It was vertical.
My voice shook every time I read a script to Ari. That doesn’t happen with anyone else. Maybe it was because the first case study we crafted under his watch exceeded a few hundred versions. Maybe it was because, when he was the Global CCO of DDB, he called me for AN HOUR to tell me why a single radio script for Miller Lite wasn’t good enough. And, after lambasting, proceeded to give me a 1-on-1 lesson on radio writing.
That’s what he did. That’s how he worked. To me, that radio script didn’t matter. It wasn’t winning an award. It wasn’t going in my book. But Ari made it matter, because he believed taking pride in our craft, finding joy in our work, doing things for REAL—matters. And by doing that, not so incidentally, he made me believe I mattered too.
I’ll never forget the night we were driving back from an edit house in Santa Monica together. He was driving one of those big Escalades. I was in the passenger seat. We’d been editing for 14+ hours, and now we were just driving back to the hotel down the 405, under that palm-tree studded sky. I remember feeling like a kid in that car, driving home after a game with my Dad, wondering how I played.
Hoping I’d made him proud.
Thank you, Ari.
I’ll get those jokes to you by midnight. Promise.
Lindsay Bennett
Global communications specialist and former global head of marketing at DDB Worldwide
I remember watching Ari Weiss review a case study for hours, analysing each frame. He was meticulous in his feedback. A perfectionist. A true lover of the craft.
Ari pushed the work to be better. He pushed everyone around him to be better. He pushed me to be better.
I will cherish the years I spent working with Ari at DDB. His legacy lives on in the way he shaped the way I, and so many others, see creativity.
Ari, you’ll be missed but not forgotten.
Matt Blitz
EVP, executive director agency production at FCB Chicago and former head of integrated production at DDB Chicago
Thank you, Ari, for your unwavering belief in me, your mentorship, and the incredible wisdom you’ve shared with me. I’m so grateful to have had you as my champion when I needed it most and for your humility when you were wrong. Your companionship, friendship, and guidance have been invaluable to me. I will miss your words of inspiration and the awe I felt listening to you talk about the work.
When you left DDB, I expressed my appreciation for everything you’ve taught me. You responded with a simple yet profound statement, “No, Matt, thank you.” I was taken aback by your gratitude and asked why you were thanking me. Your response was, “You taught me so much.” It’s humbling to realize that I’ve been more than just a producer to you; I’ve been a partner, a friend, and a confidant. I’ll miss you dearly every day.
Here is a picture I took of Ari watching Marcos Menendez watch the Skittles Super Bowl ad that we made only for Marcos. The joy Ari had watching Marcos react was so genuine.
Matt Miller
President and CEO at AICP
So much has been said about Ari in the shock of recent days as a man, a friend and a decent human being. All who knew him have our memories of these special qualities. He also simply loved this industry, what it stood for, and what it could be at its best. In the past, he gave himself as an active AICP Show curator three times, and even in the recent downturn in health, had enthusiastically agreed to serve again this year—he truly cared about seeing, discussing and rewarding great work—and being with those who shared that passion. He also loved doing entertaining, ground-breaking work, having been honoured by AICP 13 times over the span of his all too short but impactful career. His contributions to this community will not be forgotten, and his gentle and hilarious traits should stand to inspire those lucky enough to have spent time with him.
Amy Ferguson
Partner and CCO at Special US
I never worked with Ari. I met him because we studied abroad together in college before either of us was even in advertising. When he found out I was from Atlanta, he said “oh I’m going to school there next year.” I asked where and he said “the creative circus.” “What the fuck is that?!” I asked. He explained and it sounded amazing and weird and it stuck with me. And then when I graduated college a year later, aimless, lost, and with no clue what to do with my life, I looked up that creative circus place. And the rest I guess, is sort of history.
I followed his phenomenal career like all of us did, in awe of everything he made. Jealous and motivated. And years later when I judged the one show with him, I reminded him of the study abroad/creative circus connection. “You’re basically kind of the reason I’m here,” I said. He laughed and said “I’m sorry.”
No need to apologise, Ari.
Hope you rest well. The industry will certainly miss you. Love to all who knew him better than I did.
Shayne Millington
Chief creative officer at McCann New York
Ari loved this industry and loved creativity. But what always struck me as so totally Ari was the way he approached everything—with a simple, optimistic confidence behind a soft but knowing smile. That smile knew how to inspire and push at the same time. It was an art that few can perfect, and I think he invented it.
He never wavered and never gave up on anything. Which is why this loss is so hard—for someone so young, so full of the purest form of creativity that is rare and irreplaceable.
We all will miss you, Ari.
DDB
We are deeply saddened by the heart-breaking loss of our former colleague, Ari Weiss. Along with the wider advertising and business community, we mourn the passing of an advertising giant, someone whose leadership, creativity, and integrity left an indelible mark. Ari’s contributions to DDB were significant, and his influence shaped not only the agency itself, but also the people he worked alongside.
During his seven years with us, he led with both strength and humility, championing ground-breaking work. Under his leadership, DDB reached new heights, culminating in being named Global Network of the Year at Cannes Lions in 2023—a first in our 75-year history. This achievement was not just about awards; it was a testament to the culture of innovation, ambition, and integrity that Ari fostered.
Our thoughts are with Ari’s family, friends, colleagues, and everyone who had the chance to work with him. His impact was immeasurable, and his legacy will forever remain a part of the DDB story.
adam&eveDDB US
Everyone at adam&eveDDB US is heartbroken by the loss of former DDB Global Chief Creative Officer and dear friend, Ari Weiss.
Ari wasn’t just a creative leader—he was a force. He challenged us, inspired us, and made us all better. His vision, passion, and relentless pursuit of great work shaped DDB in North America and beyond, in ways that will be felt forever.
Our hearts are with his wife and children, his friends, and everyone lucky enough to have known him. His impact is immeasurable, and his legacy will live on in the work that we do.
Alma
Today we’re joining so many others in the industry and across the DDB network in celebrating the life of Ari Weiss, who was not only an inspiring and creative master in advertising, but more importantly a father, a husband, a friend, and a wonderful colleague.
As part of the DDB network, many of us at Alma worked alongside Ari and were lucky to experience firsthand his support and passion for great ideas, and his love for championing and inspiring thoughtfulness, fun, and joy in the work we all do.
All of us at Alma offer our deepest condolences to his family and the many other friends who we know are joining us in remembering him.
SMUGGLER
Ari Weiss. Our friend. Brilliant, loyal, loving, kind, rare, relentless, inspiring. Ari made life feel more precious, more exciting. He made us all appreciate friendship and love more profoundly. He was indeed relentless, but he was the brilliant, “Fuck yes, let’s do it, we can do anything” kind of relentless.
Ari was and always will be the best of us. He will always be loved, thought of often and will live on through his brave and beautiful family.
He is so very missed and will be always.
WPP
Ari Weiss was a true visionary whose creative brilliance inspired everyone around him. His passion and leadership lit the way for so many in our industry, leaving a lasting legacy of imagination and possibility. WPP’s deepest condolences go out to his family, friends, and all who had the privilege of creating alongside him.
Ogilvy
With heavy hearts, Ogilvy joins those mourning the loss of Ari Weiss, a true Giant whose creative spirit illuminated our industry. He understood the power of ideas to move the world forward, leaving behind a legacy of brilliant work and inspired leadership. Our deepest sympathies are with his family, friends, and the countless colleagues whose lives he touched.
McCann Worldgroup
The advertising community around the world is saddened for the loss of a one-of-a-kind talent in the passing of Ari Weiss. You might have not known Ari personally, but if you love creativity, you have known him, through the fun, innovative and beautiful body of work he made and led others to make. Ari will be deeply missed. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and all who had the privilege of knowing him.
Leo Burnett
We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of industry great, Ari Weiss. Ari was a creative force whose work and leadership has had a profound impact on our industry. He leaves behind a remarkable legacy, one that we have all been lucky to witness. Our heartfelt condolences go out to his family, friends, and the enormous number of people he touched.
You will be missed Ari.
