Sam Stuchbury

Agency: Motion Sickness

New Zealand

As Motion Sickness celebrates its 10th anniversary of year-on-year growth, Sam Stuchbury has delivered extraordinary commercial advancement for the agency, moving into new premises and lifting revenue and profitability by more than 60 percent to make 2024 its most successful year yet.

With a strategy to position Motion Sickness as ‘an advertising agency bored of conventional advertising’, Sam has broken the traditional agency mould to disrupt the industry and make his mark on the global stage. His leadership and individual impact on an exceptional year was recognised with a hat trick of Gold - for Campaign Australia/New Zealand Agency Growth Leader of the Year, Young Business Leader of the Year, and Young Creative Person of the Year 2024, topped with 3 from 3 major creative pitch wins - including the prized Pizza Hut account. Growth born from Sam’s vision to do some of the best quality work in the world from a small independent agency, proudly based in Aotearoa New Zealand.