Thinking creatively about media

Joe Mandese looks at the relatively new world of creative media awards, and the reasons why Omnicon's OMD unit seems to win more than most.

Thinking creatively about media

Joe Mandese

Recently, the Gunn Report released its 2006 rankings for media 'creativity', and for the third year in a row Omnicom's OMD unit was recognised as the most creative media shop in the world. While the term 'creativity' can be subjective in any field – especially media – Gunn's method is based on a quantitative point system derived from the number of creative-orientated awards each of the agencies won over the past year. The system isn't foolproof, but at least tries to utilise an objective process to measure a subjective variable. So it is probably...

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