The 2010 Creativity 50 for Ad Agency New Business

There is a paradigm shift for how new business is being acquired for small to mid-size ad agencies.

Innovation and creativity are important elements for any small to midsize ad agency. They are also critical for ad agency new business. They can set your agency apart from the pack.

Creativity Online provides excellent innovative examples to spark some creative ideas of your own. Just be sure that you use some of your agency’s creative moxie for business development.

Just in case you missed it, here’s the inspiring 2010 Creativity top 50.

Ad Age and Creativity’s fifth annual list of the most inspiring and innovative thinkers and doers from among advertising, marketing, designers, directors, entrepreneurs, and others who have made the largest impact upon all creative cultures. Be sure to check out : Ashton Kutcher, Mike Hughes, Linus Karlsson and Paul Malmstrom along with Ty Montague, Ian Tait.

1. Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan, Founders, Posterous
2. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Architect, Microsoft Live Labs
3. Craig Allen, Art Director, and Eric Kallman, Copywriter, Wieden and Kennedy Portland
4. Karin Dreijer Andersson, aka Fever Ray, Musical Artist
5. Marco Arment, Lead Developer, Tumblr; Creator, Instapaper
6. Kathryn Bigelow, Director
7. Neill Blomkamp, Director, RSA
8. Alex Bogusky, Chief Creative Insurgent, MDC
9. James Cameron, Director
10. Roy Choi, Mark Manguera, Founders, Kogi
11. Damon Collins ECD, RKCR/Y
12. Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvedurai, Co-founders, Foursquare
13. Andreas Dahlqvist, ECD, DDB Stockholm
14. Bart Decrem CEO, Tapulous
15. David Droga, Founder, Creative Chairman, Droga5
16. Dave Eggers, Author, Founder, McSweeney’s
17. Daniel Ek, Co-founder/CEO, Spotify
18. James Farley, Group VP Global Marketing, Ford
19. Cindy Gallop, Entrepreneur, Founder IfWeRanTheWorld.com
20. Lady Gaga, Musical Artist
21. Christian Haas, Creative Director/Associate Partner, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners
22. James Hilton, Co-founder/CCO and Rei Inamoto CCO, AKQA
23. Damon Horowitz, Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, Aardvark
24. Mike Hughes President, Martin Agency
25. Jonathan Ive, Senior VP Industrial Design, Apple
26. Jan Jacobs and Leo Premutico, Co-founders, Creative Directors, Johannes Leonardo
27. Matt Jones, Director of Design, Berg
28. Spike Jonze, Director, MJZ
29. Linus Karlsson and Paul Malmstrom, co-founders/CCOs, Mother New York
30. Ashton Kutcher, Founder, Katalyst
31. Tom Kuntz, Director, MJZ
32. Michael Lebowitz, Founder/CEO, Big Spaceship
33. Carol Lim and Humberto Leon, Co-Founders, Opening Ceremony
34. Pranav Mistry, PhD Candidate, MIT Media Lab
35. Ty Montague, Co-president, CCO North America, JWT
36. Tor Myhren, CCO, Grey New York
37. Filip Nilsson creative director/chairman, Forsman & Bodenfors
38. David Nobby Nobay, Creative Chairman, Droga5 Sydney
39. Rob Reilly, Andrew Keller, Jeff Benjamin, ECDs, Crispin Porter Bogusky
40. Eric Rodenbeck, Founder/Creative Director, Stamen Design
41. Vivian Rosenthal, Jesse Seppi, Co-founders/Designers/Directors, Tronic
42. Matt Ross, Creative Director; Matt Oxley, Head of Tech, Tribal DDB London
43. Keith Schofield, Director, Caviar/El Nino
44. KR Sridhar, CEO, Bloom Energy
45. Roger Stighall, Robert Lindstrom, David Eriksson, Co-founders, North Kingdom
46. Matthew Szymczyk, Hans Forsman, Creative Directors, Zugara
47. Iain Tait, Global interactive ECD, Wieden and Kennedy
48. Andrey Ternovskiy, Founder of Chatroulette
49. Ray Tintori, Director, Partizan
50. Ge Wang co-founder, CTO, CCO, Smule

Care to share your favorites from this elite group?

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