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Maxus India wins agency of the year again! This time at the exchange4media PrimeTime Awards 2015. Watch here for the reaction from Kartik, MD of Maxus South Asia:

And read here for more information from exchange4media >

And here is their award winning work for The Power of 49 - crafting media to make positive changes to society:

Read more about the win in AdWeek >

Congratualtions to our teams in Maxus USA, Maxus Canada & Maxus Mexico!

Congratulations to Maxus India for winning another media agency of the year award! Campaign India crowned Maxus India with gold at the South Asia awards last night. A very proud Kartik Sharma and Unny Radhakrishnan collected the award for the team. Well done everyone!!

Congratulations to Maxus Turkey, Maxus Hungary and Maxus Hong Kong for their recent award wins.

Maxus Turkey picked up a silver gong at the MMA Smarties in the Rich Media/ Video category for their Yandex campaign.

Maxus Hungary won a bronze Effie in the launch category for their work with PoliFarbe.

Maxus Hong Kong won five awards at the Marketing Excellence Awards last week:

Excellence in Media Strategy Bronze: Maltesers
Excellence in Targeted Event Bronze: Tissot
Excellence in Gaming Silver: Zurich
Excellence in Consumer Insight Bronze: Prime Credit
Excellence in Data Driven Marketing Silver: Sheraton Macau Hotel 

Congratulations to Maxus London who took home the award for Agency of the Year at Media Week awards last night!

GroupM today announced the appointment of Lindsay Pattison as Global CEO of Maxus.
 
The announcement was made by GroupM’s Global President Dominic Proctor. Lindsay has been successfully leading Maxus in the UK for five years, taking it in that time from a ranking of 14 to a number 7 position, and from 30 people to now over 250. She has also held the global Chief Strategy Officer role for the last two years, overseeing product, planning, marketing, new business and effectiveness. Lindsay will co-locate between London and New York and will report to Proctor; she replaces Vikram Sakhuja, who will remain in the group.

Under Vikram, Maxus was the fastest growing agency in the world. It expanded its network footprint and added major new accounts such as NBC Universal and L’Oreal.

“Lindsay has a proven reputation as a leader and is held with enormous regard both internally and by her clients,” said Proctor. “She exemplifies the spirit and ambition of the Maxus culture and we are confident she will take the network into the next stage of growth.”

Lindsay said, “I am thrilled to step up into this role. I love the energy of Maxus and I relish opportunity that comes from our unique and fortunate position as the challenger brand within GroupM. At Maxus we have a mantra to lean into change. In fact it’s really to lead change for our clients, navigating the complexity and embracing the possibilities offered in a digitalised, mobile, always-on media landscape. It’s an incredibly exciting time to lead a media agency.”

She will be succeeded in the UK CEO role by Nick Baughan, currently the MD. Nick will continue to report to Lindsay, who said “I am confident that Nick will step into my shoes brilliantly in the UK; he is whippet-smart, highly ambitious, popular and has been instrumental in our growth for the last two years as MD”.

Baughan joined Maxus in March 2012, having worked at Mindshare for two years as its head of business development. Baughan said “Over the last five years Lindsay has led our team brilliantly in the creation of an agency that has become a major force in the industry. I'm hugely proud to have been part of that success and even prouder to have the opportunity to lead our incredible team into the next chapter”.

Maxus and Metalworks by Maxus are on stage next week at this year's What's Next conference in New York. Nico Abbruzzese, Global Director of Creative Technology for Metalworks, will be interviewing Robyn Peterson, CTO for Mashable on the Five Tech Trends to Buy or Sell. Click here for the programme >> 

What’s Next is a forum to inspire new thinking, ignite conversation and deliver exposure to concepts, original thinking and unexpected change agents.

What's Next sets the stage for GroupM agencies and clients to amplify innovative thinking, identify opportunities and continue the conversation as it relates to their brand and business. Content at What’s Next addresses consumer behavior, marketplace trends, innovation, brand strategies, technology and more, across the broad media landscape.

The event provides attendees – both clients and agency executives – with a forward look at key areas of evolution in our collective business that advertisers must be prepared to address in order to lean into change and gain an advantage in traditional, digital and emerging media ecosystems.

We'll be posting up content from the event on our blog as it pans out - watch this space!

Congratulations to Maxus Delhi for winning the prestigious Crème de la Crème Media Award, for their incredible campaign 'Power of 49' for Tata Tea Global Beverages.

WPPed Cream Awards showcase the best work across all WPP agencies, judged on creativity and outstanding results. Each year the judges select the best work from across the agencies and this year we are thrilled that Maxus Delhi have been highly awarded.

To view the video on YouTube click here

 

Maxus North America announced today it has appointed Jonathan Adams to the role of Chief Digital Officer in North America. 

The announcement was made by Maxus North America CEO Steve Williams. The move marks Williams’ first hire since joining the company in June, and reinforces Maxus’ commitment to digital and data-driven innovation and execution.

“Maxus is a young and agile network, born in the digital age. We think and execute horizontally, not just vertically,” stated Williams. “Our agency is designed around the idea; and ideas flow across territories, disciplines and channels. Jonathan is one of those exceptional people in the business who thinks and operates in this way. He’s smart, he cares, and his client partnering skills will help take us to another level when it comes to innovating with digital and data.”

In his role, Adams will be responsible for harnessing digital performance and maximizing its potential, while mentoring and designing frameworks with Maxus planning teams to optimize communications across all platforms. Adams will be based in New York and report to Williams.

“I see seismic changes still to come for digital media. The video landscape is exploding with innovation, data and storytelling opportunities; and the potential for digital performance will be realized when brands truly place consumers at the center of a marketing mix,” said Adams. “Maxus has demonstrated how it continues to transform the expectations of what a media agency is all about, especially with its consumer and data-centric approaches to planning. I’m thrilled to be joining an agency and a network that can have a profound impact on the rest of our industry in the coming years.”

Adams returns to GroupM and the WPP group of companies, having previously worked at OgilvyOne, Lowe & Partners, and The Media Edge (now MEC), where he established an acumen for media innovation that has served as the foundation for his career in media. He joins Maxus from iCrossing, where he was Senior Vice President and Lead of North American Media. At iCrossing, Adams directed the rapid growth of their media and analytics practices, and led teams managing media for clients including DIRECTV, William’s Sonoma, PNC Bank, LEGO, Kellogg’s, Belk and Coca-Cola. Previously, he spent nine years with Digitas, which included tenure as SVP, Global Media; leading the company’s Stamford, Conn., and Atlanta, Ga., media practices; managing a wide variety of client relationships, and being an active member of Digitas’ NY Senior Leadership Team. Adams served as Chairman of the AAAA Digital Marketing Committee (2003 - 2006), has received honors from both Advertising Age and Media Magazine, and has held advisory board posts with iMedia, Digiday, the ARF, IAB, Microsoft and Google.

The hiring of Adams signals Maxus’ intent to assert and invest in its Lean into Change philosophy, driven by Williams. It also builds on the momentum represented by the agency’s win of NBCUniversal’s digital business, one of the largest account moves in the U.S. this year.

“Jonathan has an impressive pedigree in the business, and with his deep experience, he will help us continue to differentiate our product,” said Williams. “He will help grow our people and change the game for our clients. Jonathan’s strategic acumen and deep analytical skill, alongside the fact he is a great client partner, will serve Maxus well as we enter the next phase of our development in North America.”

Maxus Australia has won BRW's greatplaces to work - a national annual study of the best workplaces acorss all industry sectors. They were awarded the fourth best company with employees under 100 staff at the awards last night, and were the highest ranked media agency in the category.

For a full breakdown of the winners see the list on BRW's website here

This week Recma released its annual overall activity billings reports, and as a result, for 2013 we are pleased to have achieved the following:

Maxus Global is the world's fastest growing media agency over the last 5 years.

Maxus UK had the most sustained growth of the Top 10 media agencies.

Maxus India is the most dominant media agency.

Maxus Belgium is the fastest growing media agency.

Maxus Canada is also the fastest growing media agency.

Congratulations to these offices, and also to all of our others for another great year of global growth!

It's been a very vibrant, celebratory time in our Indian offices where