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WPP announced last week that AKQA Group CEO Ajaz Ahmed has resigned from the agency he founded in 1994.

It’s a significant moment for marketing as AKQA was one of the pioneering agencies that introduced digital to the mix at the dawn of the World Wide Web, as we used to call it.

On a personal note, I remember competing with Ahmed and AKQA in the late ’90s as part of a scrappy digital agency in the north of England called Brand New Media.

AKQA was the bellwether we looked up to and aspired to emulate. It was part of a small group of new firms that wrote the rulebook on the earliest days of digital marketing, also including the likes of Razorfish, Organic, and Syzygy.

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Soon thereafter, I pivoted to journalism and got a job with Haymarket Media’s Revolution, which took on titles such as The Industry Standard in covering digital marketing when our established sibling brands such as Campaign and Marketing slightly look