Young Ones Student Awards

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Young Ones 2017 Portfolio - Advertising Jury

Damon Stapleton

CCO

DDB Auckland

Auckland/New Zealand

Damon is Chief Creative Officer of DDB New Zealand. He was formerly Executive Creative Director of Saatchi & Saatchi Australia and TBWA Hunt Lascaris, which was voted South African agency of the decade in 2010. He has worked on global brands such as BMW, Toyota, Nissan, Heineken, Visa, Cadbury and the World Cup 2010 campaign for Adidas.

Damon has collected awards at some of the most prestigious international advertising festival shows, receiving 36 D&AD Pencils – including 4 yellow and the first and only Black D&AD Pencil ever won in Africa. He has also judged D&AD twice. He’s won 45 Cannes Lions, including the Grand Prix and eight Gold Lions including a Titanium and Innovation Lion, two Grand Clio, 9 One Show Gold Pencils, and the first ever ADC Black Cube ever awarded.

He is most known for his “Trillion Dollar” bill campaign for The Zimbabwean and Penny the Pirate for OPSM which have won over 200 international awards between them. Penny the Pirate was judged to be the most effective campaign in the world by the WARC 100 last year. The Zimbabwean is in the permanent collection of the British Museum.

He has been recognised as one of the top 10 Executive Creative Directors in the world by both Creativity Magazine and the Big Won Report. In 2011, Finance Week awarded him Achiever of Year in South Africa. He’s had a variety of short stories published as well as articles for various magazines and writes a blog called damonsbrain.com. It is stuff he thinks about instead of world domination. Damon also went to sixteen schools as a child and was only expelled twice. He received no reward for this achievement. This still bugs him.

 

 

 

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