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BEN PRIEST TO CHAIR EMEA CREATIVE COUNCIL

June 15, 2015, London

DDB EMEA has named Ben Priest Chair of the regional Creative Council, effective
immediately. This post will be undertaken in addition to his current role as Founder and
Chief Creative Officer at adam&eveDDB.
The appointment follows an exceptional year for adam&eveDDB, which won 13 Agency
of the Year titles, including awards from Advertising Age, British Arrows, Campaign,
Cannes Lions, CLIO (top UK agency), Epica, Eurobest, LIA, Marketing Week, More
About Advertising, Shots and The Drum. In addition, the agency took home the IPA
Effectiveness Grand Prix for its work on Fosters.
Aside from the creative recognition which came with multiple Grand Prix wins for Harvey
Nichols Sorry I Spent It on Myself at Cannes Lions, and the highly anticipated
Christmas ad of 2014 for John Lewis, Monty the Penguin, adam&eveDDB was awarded
global and international business for high-profile brands such as Virgin Atlantic, Unilever
Walls, Sony, Diageo and Aviva. The agency also recently announced the win of the UK
supermarket account Waitrose and the FA brief to promote girls football.
DDB Worldwide Chief Creative Officer Amir Kassaei said: Ben is among the greatest
creative leaders in the ad industry. It is amazing to see how adam&eveDDB became the
best agency in the world, and I know that Ben can do great things for all our offices in the
EMEA region because of his talent, expertise, experience, personality and his values.
Priest said of his new role: "The very best thing about joining the DDB family has been
the amazing creative people I've gotten to know in different offices. Leading the EMEA
Creative Council is a chance to work closely with some of these remarkable people. It's
an honour and I jumped at the chance when Amir suggested it."
DDB EMEA took home the Network of the Year title at the 2014 Cannes Lions, and DDB
Europe was crowned Network of the Year for the fifth time in six years at the 2014
Eurobest Awards.

About DDB

DDB Worldwide (www.ddb.com) is one of the world's largest and most influential advertising and marketing
networks. At the prestigious 2014 Cannes International Festival of Creativity, DDB took home 87 Lions as
well as Agency of the Year and Regional Network of the Year honors for adam&eveDDB and DDB EMEA,
respectively. In addition, DDB has been named Agency of the Year numerous times by the industry's
leading advertising publications and awards shows. The Gunn Report has listed DDB as one of the Top 3
Global Networks for 12 of the last 15 years. The agency's clients include Volkswagen, McDonald's, Unilever,
Mars, Johnson & Johnson, and Exxon Mobil, among others.
Founded in 1949, DDB is part of the Omnicom Group (NYSE) and consists of more than 200 offices in over
90 countries with its flagship office in New York, NY.
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