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One Show 2014 Radio Jury

Wade Alger

Creative Director

The Martin Agency

Richmond

Wade is currently Group Creative Director at The Martin Agency. Since joining in 2008, he has worked on some of the agency’s most memorable campaigns. Wade helped create the award-winning sites We Choose The Moon and Clouds over Cuba for The JFK Presidential Library and Museum. He has also penned numerous campaigns for GEICO including the “Rhetorical Questions” campaign.

Prior to joining Martin, Wade worked at GSD&M in Austin, TX, where he helped BMW launch the new M3 and the BMW 1 Series. And before GSD&M, Wade worked at TM Advertising where he co-created the award-winning “Life Comes At You Fast” campaign for Nationwide Insurance.

Wade’s work has won awards at Cannes, The One Show, D&AD, FWA Site of the Day, Month and Year, The Art Directors Club, AICP NEXT Award, ANDY’S, The Webby Awards, Communication Arts and most recently an EMMY for Clouds over Cuba. In 2010 and 2013, Wade was named by Creativity Magazine as one the top 10 most awarded writers In 2012 Business Insider named Wade one of the top 25 most creative people in advertising.

 

 

 

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