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Devin MacDonald

Devin MacDonald

Devon MacDonald, President and Co-Owner of Cairns Oneil, Canada's leading independent media agency based in Toronto; named Strategy Magazine's Media Leader of the Year in 2022.

Sep 23, 2026

33:34
What has your experience been around that? And how do you tackle those perhaps discussions when they might come up?
33:43
Yeah, great point.
33:46
In a creative agency or a media agency, yeah, there are people who have the final output of the picture or the image or whatnot.
33:56
But before them, there's nine or ten other people, and then a couple people after them.
34:02
Without everyone working together, it doesn't happen.
34:08
All of it is part of the process of creativity and ideation.
34:13
whether it's back to the person from the data team who cobbles together all the consumer information, product information, category information, and puts it together correctly or in a new way of looking at a consumer and uncovers an insight or an aha moment, or the strategist who takes her own cultural context and goes and looks at something and say, oh, here's a trend that I think would be relevant, or the account team or the planning team, They're all part of it.

7 MINS LATER

41:54
informs each other and um that's where sometimes really great ideas are born because you've alleviated some pressure right i mean have you seen that happen a

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