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Global ad spend growth may have slowed slightly in 2015, but top
This year's ranking of the richest people in advertising, according to their annual take-home, sees most of the same familiar faces from last year.
However, there are a couple of notable exceptions: The only female in last year's list, MDC Partner Network CEO Lori Senecal, just missed the cut this year as her $1.9 million compensation was outside of our $2 million threshold. And MDC Partners' former CEO Miles Nadal only received $1.9 million from the company in 2015 (he took home a massive $14.7 million the year before).
Methodology: Our ranking looked at annual reports and SEC filings, taking account of total annual 2015 compensation, including salary, stock awards, option awards, and other incentives. That's an obvious flaw because a lot of people on this list hold a lot of their net worth in stock they have accumulated over previous years, and through other assets and investments.
This list is by no means extensive: We chose to look at public companies only. We also only looked at pure-play advertising agencies: Otherwise advertising execs at tech companies like Google and Facebook, or brand marketers would surely make the list too. Our rankings also begin with those who earn $2 million and above (there are plenty of execs in advertising who earn around $1 million.)