Creativity just published their annual 'top 50' list of the people who made a mark on the cultural consciousness in the preceding year. Our man Wieden made the list again.

Here's what they say:

It's no doubt difficult to be burdened with a creative legacy stocked
with the likes of "Just Do It," ESPN and the more recent revitalization
of the Coca-Cola brand, but Wieden Kennedy continued to live up to its
reputation with a creatively stellar 2008. Last year, the agency turned
out more standout work, from the David Fincher-directed "Fate" for Nike and Coke's charming "It's mine" balloon fight, to Old Spice's "Swagger" and the voyeuristic "Somebody Else's Phone" web effort for Nokia.

The agency saw new creative management shifts with the promotion of
Mark Fitzloff and Susan Hoffman to ECDs in Portland, roles previously
held by Jelly Helm and Steve Luker, and with the hiring of new creative
blood, like former TBWA Skittles duo Craig Allen and Eric Kallman,
who were behind award winners like "Touch," "Beard" and "Pinata." The
shop continued to develop its extracurricular side, launching W K Radio
online and producing more musical releases out of the W K Tokyo Lab
record label/workshop run by ECD John Jay. Co-founder Wieden says he
also plans to expand into South America in the near future, yet no
matter how big the agency grows, he has no intentions of changing its
intimate and fluid creative environment. "It's a homegrown network," he
says. "We hire in-country and we move folks around quite a bit from
office to office, so all our fights are family fights. It really
enriches our culture and creates the ability to communicate a lot
easier because we're coming from the same bias."

Wieden, on his outlook for 2009: "We are full-steam
ahead on digital and we're thinking of some ancillary surprises. If you
can't redefine what an advertising agency is in the next couple of
years, I think you've got some big problems. It's turned upside down,
but for us, it's the most exciting of times."

Andrew Littlemore who joins us as our new Nokia Finance Assistant.

Andrew should be familiar with Nokia as he joins us from Fitch where he was billing Nokia for instore POS, pop-up events and guerrilla marketing.

And this is Jacqueline Hall who joins us as maternity cover to June Payton. 

Jacqueline joins us from BBH where she has been WIP-ing them into shape for the past year.  She now steps into Ed’s size nines looking after the billing and WIP for Nike, Honda, Cravendale, Lurpak, Guardian, Observer………. (basically everything except Nokia!)