Sam Stuchbury

Agency: Motion Sickness

New Zealand

Sam Stuchbury has led extraordinary advancement for Motion Sickness in 2024, with a strategy to position the agency he founded in a student flat as ‘an advertising agency bored of conventional advertising’, breaking the traditional agency mould to disrupt the industry and make its 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 Young Business Leader of the Year, Agency Growth 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. As Motion Sickness celebrates its 10th anniversary of year-on-year growth, 2024 has been the agency’s most successful year yet; new premises, new business and new thinking resulting in revenue and profitability growth in excess of 60 percent. Outstanding achievements realising Sam’s vision to succeed by doing some of the best quality work in the world, from a small, independent agency proudly based in Aotearoa New Zealand.