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Mother's consistent new-business performance wins it the award for the second year running, but it was pushed all the way by Clemmow Hornby Inge and DLKW.
It's rare for an agency to win the accolade of Agency of the Year for two years running, but the performance the Clerkenwell hotshop put in again last year, sustaining its success in a recession, deserves recognition.
Mother's five partners - Robert Saville, Stef Calcraft, Mark Waites, Andy Medd and Matt Clark - steered the agency on an impressive new-business course, pulling in billings of pounds 81 million. The agency pitched seven times and won six, failing only to convert the COI Communications Sex Education pitch.
But perhaps the brightest new-business prize was Orange. Undoubtedly one of the most fiercely contested pitches of the year, the pounds 43 million review saw Mother beat Bartle Bogle Hegarty, WCRS and M&C Saatchi.
Mother also showed, once again, that a small creative agency can win multinational business by beating Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam to an international Siemens brief to launch a youth-focused mobile phone.
Back on the domestic front, Mother triumphed against Delaney Lund Knox Warren & Partners, Fallon and St Luke's to win the much-coveted COI Drugs Awareness pitch. And it fought off BBH, Saatchi & Saatchi and Lowe in June in a strategic pitch to consolidate more Interbrew business by picking up Castlemaine XXXX. Other wins included I Can't Believe It's Not Butter against HHCL & Partners, UK Gold against BMP DDB, and Red Letter Days.
And it rounded off the year by winning Selfridges and Fray Bentos.