Every year Fast Company magazine publishes a list of what they believe to be the most innovative companies in the world. This year W+K is on the list, in with a bullet at number 25.

Every year Fast Company magazine publishes a list of what they believe to be the most innovative companies in the world. This year W+K is on the list at number 25.

They say:

The 50 companies on our 2011 list have chosen a unique path. Today's business landscape is littered with heritage companies whose CEOs battle their industry's broken model with inertia, layoffs, lawsuits — anything that squeezes pennies and delays the inevitable. How many of these companies will be dominant in 2025? Few.

That world will be ruled by the kinds of companies on this list. They're nondogmatic, willing to scrap conventional ideas. (A mere 30-second TV ad? Let's do 200 online videos in two days, say the creatives at Wieden+Kennedy.)

It's a real honour to be included to be on this list, which mentions no other ad agencies and includes the likes of Apple, Google, Nike, ESPN and Amazon.