It’s kind of amazing and amusing that I (Neil) have made it into the Guardian’s ‘Power List’ of the top 10 most powerful people in advertising. Not that that is a particularly powerful list, in comparison to, say, the top ten most powerful local authority employees, or top ten most powerful primary school teachers.

http://media.guardian.co.uk/top100_2005/index/0,16108,1513910,00.html

In at number 10 with a bullet!

Stephen Brook’s article says:

Winning the biggest advertising prize in the world, the film grand prix at Cannes, this year for its animated advert for Honda, plus picking up a major client in Pizza Hut sees Wieden + Kennedy managing director Neil Christie clinch a place in the advertising top 10, while Lord Saatchi, a partner and founder of M&C Saatchi, slips out of the list after the Conservative party he co-chaired failed to wrest power from Labour in the general election.

Seems a bit unfair on Lord Saatchi for his top level involvement in the Tories’ general election campaign to be unfavourably compared to my humble efforts at W+K. Still, my mum will be very impressed.

Anyway, what am I going to do with all this power? I feel the urge coming on for some arbitrary and wilful decision making…