A-List & Creativity Awards 2021: Standouts.

The agency had no layoffs for its 319-person staff last year; instead, it grew its employee base by 15%, recruiting new clients such as Amazon Studios, school textbook publisher McGraw-Hill and Columbia Care, the cannabis company. Barkley Independent Barkley had been quietly humming along and turning out great work for clients like Dairy Queen and its largest client, Planet Fitness. "It's a test of agency culture and being able to not only survive but thrive with our current clients and find ways to drive organic growth", says Kristin Barbour, a partner and managing director of the Chicago office. - Jack Neff Fig In late 2019, New York agency Fig was about to start a new chapter with a 15-year lease on a new office on New York's Spring Street, just across the way from restaurant Balthazar, where founding partners Mark Figliulo and Judith Carr-Rodriguez had sealed the deal to open shop. [Extracted from the article]