Saturday, September 20, 2008

How creative can ad agencies get?

Sometime back, Adweek rightly moaned that ad agencies and law firm names are beginning to sound eerily alike. That might have been the case with the pre-2000 agencies. The new ones are making adventurous choices. I've put together, the most comprehensive list of 'creative' ad agency names. Just run your eye through the list. There are some fun names out there. If there's a Mother in London, there's a Bigdaddy in Amsterdam, a Grandmother in Mumbai, and a Baby, again in London. There are 3 types of frogs: Sagefrog, Strawberry Frog and Greenfrog. For every Monkey, there's a Rabbit, Mongoose, Zebra, Giraffe, Holy Cow and even Mad Dogs. My own agency, tops the list by virtue of enjoying the number advantage. Dang! Lost the advantage. Just discovered an aussie firm called 1house...

016
1house
1pointsize
3 Fish in a Tree
6 Days
7Field
10 ml
17
32nd December
52nd
180 Amsterdam
180 Degree
303
361 Degrees
760 Media
9zero9
1000 mercis
A Fish in Sea
Acknowledgement
Acne
Adam & Eve
Add Agency
Adendum
Adhesive
Adrenaline
Agitprop
Aha!
All Sorts
Alphabet
Alt.
Ambition
Amoeba
And
Angel
Anthem
Anti Advertising Agency (spoofs 'invasive' outdoor advertising)
Antidote
Arrowred
Atlas
Audacity
August
Baby
Beehive
Be Positive 24
Big Fish
Bigdaddy
Birddog
Black Cat
Black Coffee
Blackbeltmonkey
Blacksheep
Blank Slate
Blast Radius
Bleach
Blink
Blue Barracuda
Blue Crayon
Blue-C
Bluerock
Boy Meets Girl (No longer around)
Bread, Butter & Jam
Bonsai
Boo!
Boutique5
Brahma
Breed
Brownchild
Carnage
Carpe Diem
Cartwheel
Carve
Catalyst
Catch
Che
Chemistry
Cherry
Chlorophyll
Collective
Consider This
Contagious
Contract
Cranium Studio
Crayons
Creative Juice
Critical Mass
Cuba
Cunning
Curious
D2E (Down 2 Earth)
David & Goliath
Deep
Deep Sea
Delete
Denmark
Desire
Doctor Propaganda
Dogstar
Doublelix
Draft
Eew!
Eight Eleven
Element 79
Elvis
Epicenter
Evidently
Facts n Fiction
Farm
Feed
Feel
Fifth Estate
Figuratively Speaking
Fin
Firedog
FirstBase
Fish Eye
Flo
Floh
Fountainhead
Four
Four Corners
Frank
Fred
Fresh Lemon
Fresh Lime
Fresh Page
Fresh!
Fuel
Giraffe
Glue
Goldforest
Goldwire
Good Results
Grandmother
Grasshoppers
Greenfrog
Greenlight
Grey
Happy
Hat
Hatch
Here & Now
Hive
Holy Cow
Hoo-Ha
House of Blues
Hurray
Hydrogen
Hypenotic
Ignition
i-Level
Immaculate
Indigo
Inferno
Ink
Jam
John Doe
Junior
K2
K4
Kaos
Karmarama
Known
Kut
Last Exit
Lavender
Lean
Lemon
Lemonade
Lemon n Chili
LevelTwo
Lexicon
Litmus Blue
Little Yellow Duck
Look
Loop
Loud
Mad Dogs & Englishmen (No longer around)
Marmalade
Maroon Island
Marvellous
Maverick
Mercury
Modernista!
Mojo
Mongoose
Monkey
Moonshine
Mother
Mudra
Munday Morning
Muse
Mustard
My Agency
Mystic Monkey
Naked
Night & Day
Nitro
O2
Ocean
Octopus
Odd
Oddfellows
Odd Scouts
One Two One
Only Dead Fish Swim With The Stream
Orange
Orangehammer
Orchard
Oxygen
Ozone
Peak
Pepper Square
PhD
Phoebus
Pickle
Pie
Plan B
Platypus
Point B
Poke
Poppadam
Pure
Pyper
Pyro
Quadrant
Quick Silver
Rabbit
Radical
Rainmakers
Red
Red Route
Red Sky
Redblue
RedStone
Rediffusion
Red Urban
Resolution
Richter7
Rife
Rubber Cheese
Rubecon
Ruby
Sagefrog
Saints & Warriors
Salt (Chennai)
Salt (London)
Seven Squared
Seven Stones
Shop
Shout
Silence
Six Inches
Smudge
Soda Art
SomeOne
Souk
Sputnik
Square
St Lukes
Steak
Stimulus
Strawberry Frog
Surge
Swim
TAXI
Temple
Tequila
The Black Ink
The Concept Farm
The Engine Room
The Flea
The Furnace
The Jupiter Drawing Room
The Piper
The Red Brick Road
The Rooster
The Surgery
The White Agency
The White Room
Thirteen Degrees
Thirty Three
Tibet
Traffic
Trapeze
Tribal
Tribe 10
Triton
Tug
TwentySix
Two West
Two9Two7
Umbrella
Umovoacavalo (Portugese for 'one egg on top of a horse')
Underwired
Untitled
Uproar
Vitamin
Vitamin V
Vivid
Weapon7
Welcome to Orange County (still around?)
Wexley School for Girls (Dabitch's contribution)
Whirligig
Why Axis
WOC (Winds of Change)
Wonderberry
Yellow
Yes Yes, Why Not
Zebra
Zeus
Zig
Zion & Zion
Zulu

NOTE: If I've missed out some names, it might be because of oversight or lack of knowledge. Kindly pardon my ignorance and add on to the list.