Sam Stuchbury

Agency: Motion Sickness

New Zealand

Sam Stuchbury believes great creative leadership is steering the ship without people really realising you’re holding the rudder - a confident, smart, touch rather than a heavy hand. And it works - Sam has raised the bar for creative excellence in 2024, positioning Motion Sickness, 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 his mark on the global stage.

In an exceptional year, his leadership and individual achievements were recognised with a hat trick of Gold - for the 2024 Campaign Australia/New Zealand Young Creative Person of the Year, Agency Growth Leader of the Year, and Young Business Leader of the Year, a swag of creative awards - including the Axis Idea of the Year, topped with 3 from 3 major creative pitch wins. As Motion Sickness celebrates its 10th anniversary of year-on-year growth in beautiful new premises, 2024 has been the most successful, creatively awarded year yet - an outstanding achievement realising Sam’s vision - and hands on approach - to do some of the best quality work in the world from a small independent agency proudly based in NZ.