THE WORLD'S LARGEST CREATIVE RANKING
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We have most complete international ranking of Creative Directors which reflects their achievements at the world’s top advertising festivals. If you’ve received an award at one of them, you will appear on the PIAFYS ranking. Festivals are divided into four categories, and each award has its own rating. PIAFYS is based solely on the publicly available information sources. If a given festival doesn’t put out the name of an awarded ad’s Creative Director, the points for it might not be included in PIAFYS.
The annual ranking will be announced at PIAF. The entries awarded at PIAF are the last ones to be included in this ranking. But you can follow the evolution of the ranks all year long on the webpage www.piafawards.com.
FINAL RESULTS OF PIAFYS 2010/11 include following festivals and awards:
ADC Europe, ADC Germany, ADC Global, Andy Awards, Asia Pacific Advertising Festival, Cannes Lions, Clio Awards, Cresta Awards, D&AD, Dubai Lynx, Eurobest, Golden Drum, Kiev International Advertising Festival, Loerie Awards, London International Advertising Festival, MENA Cristal Awards, Moscow International Advertising Festival, New York Festival, PIAF, Spikes Asia, The Cup and The One Show.
TOP 10 WORLD CREATIVES
1.LUIZ SANCHES
Creative Director at AlmapBBDO, Brazil |
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2.MARCELLO SERPA
Chief Creative Officer at AlmapBBDO, Brazil
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The most awarded creative professional in the world has been working at AlmapBBDO in Sao Paolo for 15 years. His leading role at AlmapBBDO has been instrumental to the agency’s showings in 2010 and 2011, when it was honored with the Agency of the Year title at Cannes. Luiz has won countless of awards at famous festivals including Cannes Lions, D&AD, Clio Awards and The One Show. He worked on numerous international accounts such as Volkswagen, Audi, Pepsi, FedEx and Embratel.
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Marcello is widely recognized as a driving force in bringing international acclaim to Latin American Advertising. After spending 7 years in Germany, he returned back to Brazil and for DM9DDB won Latin America’s first Grand Prix. In 1993 he became partner at AlmapBBDO and for the next 18 years he lead it to be the most creative agency in the world.
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3. DAVID LUBARS
Chairman and Chief Creative Officer at BBDO North America, US
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4.ANDY DILALLO
Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett, Australia
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| Since starting his career in 1981, David won every major creative award in the world several times including Cannes Titanium Lion for his outstanding achievement represented by the internet films for BMW. Since 2004 as Chief Creative Officer he oversees BBDO’s transformation into a 21st century agency- agency that is not only brilliant in traditional mediums but is able to create extraordinary things for clients in mediums yet to be defined as well. |
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In 2010 Andy was named the number one ECD in Asia Pacific by Campaign Magazine. Under his creative leadership the agency won three Grand Prix across different international awards shows, Media Agency of the Year title at Cannes and 11 Lions in a single year. His most notable campaign is the world’s largest mass election campaign for WWF Earth Hour.
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5.JAY BENJAMIN
Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett North America, US
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6.DULCIDIO CALDEIRA
Creative Director at AlmapBBDO, Brazil
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| Jay is considered to be a new breed of creative thinker. In his former engagement, Leo Burnett Australia, he was responsible for many creative pieces from ground-breaking social networking platforms to music videos and the great audience engagement campaign „EOS Photochains“ for Canon. He has been honored with many awards including Cannes Lions, Clio, One Show. |
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Dulcidio started cooperation with Almap BBDO in 2000 and during next six years he joined the creation of successful ads for Surf, Pepsi and Passarinho brands. After spending two years in BBDO New York and working on ads for Guinness and Mountain Dew with some of the best ad directors in the world, in 2008 he returned back to Almap. With the ad Balloons for MTV he won 3 Lions at Cannes Lions 2011. |
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7. ALEXANDER SCHILL
Partner and Global Chief Creative Officer at Serviceplan, Germany
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8. STEPHANE XIBERRAS
Co-President and Executive Creative Director at BETC Euro RSCG, France
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His career started in Springer & Jacoby, where he became one of the youngest creative directors ever. Under his leadership the agency experienced its best years – in 2005 S&J won 7 Cannes Lions and had 20 shortlists. In 2006 Alex became Global Chief Creative Officer at Serviceplan Group, one of the biggest independent agencies in Europe. Within four years he managed to push Serviceplan to number two in the German Creative Ranking.
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Stephane joined BETC as creative director in 1999. Since 2007, as president and executive creative director, he is in charge of key agency accounts such as McDonald’s, Peugeot and highly awarded CANAL+ account. Stephane is also the inventor of CAI (Creative Artificial Intelligence), the machine that makes ads. |
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9.MARK FITZLOFF
Executive Creative Director at Wieden + Kennedy, US
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10. SUSAN HOFFMAN
Executive Creative Director at Wieden + Kennedy, US
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After joining Wieden + Kennedy in 1999 and working as copywriter for AOL, AltaVista and Siemens, he found his true talent for breathing fresh life into iconic American brands on Coca Cola and Old Spice account. His career highlights include multiple super bowl ads, recognition by top awards shows such as Cannes Lions, The One Show or D&AD.
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Working for Wieden+Kennedy 27 years, Susan was responsible for several accounts such as Nike, Coca Cola, Microsoft, Heineken, Google and Target. Together with Mark Fitzloff she created the very talked-about and very awarded Old Spice campaign „ The Man Your Man Could Smell Like“.
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