Saatchi & Saatchi Australia named Campaign Brief Australian Advertising Agency of the Decade
Saatchi & Saatchi Australia has been named the Campaign Brief Australian Advertising Agency of the Decade, with second place going to Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne and third spot shared by BMF Sydney and DDB Sydney.
During the noughties, Saatchi’s was placed in the top 5 of Campaign Brief’s annual Hot + Cold Chart for every year except 2007 – and during the decade won the Campaign Brief Agency of the Year title three times: in 2003, 2004 and 2005 – during the period David ‘Nobby’ Nobay was ECD. Nobby’s predecessors Mike Newman (left 2001) and Malcolm Poynton (2001 to 2003) and successor Steve Back (2007 to present) contributed to the points accrued during the decade. The four are pictured above.
The noughties of course aren’t actually over yet. That will happen atthe end of 2010, but given Saatchi’s unassailable lead, it won’t affecttheir #1 status.
Campaign Brief worked out the top agencies ofthe noughties by allocating 5 points for Agency of the Year down to 1point for the #5 place for each year of the decade. The top 5 for 2009will be published in our January/February 2010 issue.
TOP AUSTRALIAN AGENCIES OF THE DECADE
1. Saatchi & Saatchi Australia (32 points)
2. Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne (19)
=3. BMF Sydney (15)
=3. DDB Sydney (15)
5. The Glue Society, Sydney (13)
6. Host, Sydney (12)
7. M&C Saatchi, Melbourne (10)
8. GPY&R, Melbourne (8)
9. Leo Burnett, Sydney (7)
TOP 5 IN 2000
1. Leo Burnett, Sydney (Agency of the Year – ECD: Nick Souter)
2. Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne
3. M&C Saatchi, Melbourne
4. Saatchi & Saatchi Australia
5. Mojo, Sydney
TOP 5 IN 2001
1. M&C Saatchi, Melbourne (Agency of the Year – CD: Paul Taylor)
2. Saatchi & Saatchi Australia
3. Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne
4. Leo Burnett, Sydney
5. Mojo, Sydney
TOP 5 IN 2002
1. DDB Sydney (Agency of the Year – ECD: Garry Horner)
2. Saatchi & Saatchi Australia
3. BMF Sydney
4. M&C Saatchi, Melbourne
5. Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne
TOP 5 IN 2003
1. Saatchi & Saatchi Australia (Agency of the Year – ECD: David Nobay)
2. BMF Sydney
3. DDB Sydney
4. Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne
5. Host, Sydney
TOP 5 IN 2004
1. Saatchi & Saatchi Australia (Agency of the Year – ECD: David Nobay)
2. BMF Sydney
3. Host, Sydney
4. DDB Sydney
5. GPY&R, Melbourne
TOP 5 IN 2005
1. Saatchi & Saatchi Australia (Agency of the Year – ECD: David Nobay)
2. The Glue Society, Sydney
3. Host, Sydney
4. GPY&R, Melbourne
5. BMF Sydney
TOP 5 IN 2006
1. GPY&R, Melbourne (Agency of the Year – ECD: James McGrath)
2. Saatchi & Saatchi Australia
3. Host, Sydney
4. The Glue Society, Sydney
5. BMF Sydney
TOP 5 IN 2007
1. DDB Sydney (Agency of the Year – ECD: Matt Eastwood)
2. Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne
3. The Glue Society, Sydney
4. JWT Sydney
5. Host, Sydney
TOP 5 IN 2008
1. Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne (Agency of the Year – ECD: James McGrath)
2. The Glue Society, Sydney
3. Saatchi & Saatchi Australia
4. BMF Sydney
5. Host, Sydney
10 Comments
Surely the noughties do end this year… think about it -the sixties started in 1960 and finished in ’69
Fuck. This topic could go nuts!
Yes, but are they happy?
That’s nothing. Win Agency of the Millenium. Then we’ll talk.
Are they called the tens or the teens?
To get really pedantic, they aren’t called the noughties and never have been – some overpaid undersexed journalist came up with that hideous saying because we had the twenties, thirties, sixties, and he wanted a word to define his sad pathetic generation.
Last century they were called the nineteen-hundreds, then the nineteen-tens. This century it was called the two-thousands until lame people started saying the noughties in around 2004, so I’m guessing it caught on to popular culture around 2007-08.
So to be really pedantic, this should be called the ‘two thousands’, next decade the ‘two thousand and tens’, then the one after we could call the twenties, however to avoid confusion (as there was really only one roaring twenties) we should call it the ‘two thousand and twenties’.
To be honest, I hope I’m alive in 2020, because the music has been fucking shit this century and shows no signs of getting any better.
Whenever I heard someone refer to the noughties, I just assumed that it was just some australians refering to the 90s. The australian accent can be cruel when english is your second language.
Whatever became of Poynton?
It is the last year of the decade.
otherwise there would be 11 yrs in the decade.
2010 will be the first year of the new decade.
We had the same conversation last decade.
decade.
Come on, noughties is far better than 2000s, what sort of an ass are you, who cares if we refer to the 2000s as noughties, nobody is bored, just you anally pedantic boring critics who have no better way to spend your time but replying to chats like this. Oops how noughty of me