Industry news: agency of the year, mag covers of the year, and more

Wieden+Kennedy's Old Spice Red Zone campaign ruled.

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Wieden+Kennedy, whose Old Spice Red Zone campaign became a pop-culture phenomenon, was named AdweekMedia’s Agency of the Year. “…the Portland-Ore.-headquartered indie has had one of its best performing years in its 28-year history. It saw client growth in both Portland and New York, and increased its U.S. revenue and billings nearly 22 percent (billings to $1.5 billion, revenue $145 million).”

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Magculture.com posted its look back at the year in magazine covers, including Elle‘s surprising soft-focus portrait of Kylie Minogue.

Is that you, Kylie?

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Magtastic Blogsplosion’s “Magazine Year in Review” covers a wide swath of the publishing industry, from Creative Review’s redesign by Paul Pensom to the independent, and widely praised, food magazine Put a Egg on It.

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Some promising news from Ad Age: “Ad Industry Employment Is Starting to See a (Slow) Rebound. Digital Accounts for One in Eight Media Jobs” and “U.S. Seeing Solid Gains in 2010 Agency Revenue, but Agencies Still Cautious About Adding to Headcount.”

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From Folio magazine: “There were 193 new magazine launches in 2010, while 176 folded, according to magazine database MediaFinder.com. That’s down from 596 magazine closures in 2009.”

And from Mediaweek: “The fastest-growing titles of 2010 were newbies Food Network Magazine, which grew 79 percent; and People StyleWatch, up 49 percent. … But others with a distinct point of view and/or strong integrated sales approaches also did well, like the 153-year-old Atlantic, which was up 24 percent. Other big gainers were Elle Décor, up 35 percent; and Fast Company, up 27 percent.”

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BBC Four has posted its excellent series “The Genius of Photography” at YouTube. Below is a link to Episode 4, “a fascinating look at Robert Frank’s odyssey through 50s America, William Klein’s one-man assault on the sidewalks of New York, Garry Winogrand’s charting of the human comedy in Central Park Zoo, Tony Ray Jones’s dissection eccentricity at the English seaside, and finally, William Eggleston’s guide to Memphis and the American South. Episode four of the series also examines the arrival of colour as a credible medium for serious photographers, as controversial at the time as Dylan going electric.”

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Forbes announced “The Year’s Most Unforgettable Ad Campaigns,” among them Betty White’s Snickers spot.

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A pair of young filmmakers are trying to raise $20,000 by March to help complete their documentary on street photographer Vivian Maier.

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