Ant Keogh

Up until August 2017 Executive Creative Director at Clemenger BBDO Melbourne, Ant was named #4 Creative Director in the world by the Won Report and amongst the top 10 “Creatives You Should Know” in 2010 by Ad Age, U.S.A. He is currently No.1 Creative Director in the Campaign Brief and Campaign Asia rankings.

As a copywriter, his most famous work is the on-going Carlton Draught “Made from Beer” campaign featuring “Big Ad”. Voted “No.1 Beer Ad of the Last 15 Years” by OneShow and included in the Sydney Power House Museum's "Top 10 Greatest Australian Ads", gold awards at Cannes, One Show, New York Festivals, etc. Follow up ads such as “Flashbeer”, ” “SloMo” & "Beer-Chase" and promotions such as “Drop The Bomb” also won Gold around the world.

In the last six years, serving as ECD, he guided campaigns such as Carlton Draught “Beer Chase” (Gold at Cannes, Spikes), NAB “Breakup” (Grand Prix at Cannes), Four ‘n’ Twenty’s “Magic Salad Plate” (Gold at Cannes), Australian Guide Dogs “Support Scent” (Gold at Cannes), Carlton Draught “Slo Mo” (Gold at Cannes, Spikes).

He also helped Clemenger BBDO Melbourne rank #10 worldwide on the Big Won Report and win Campaign Brief’s Australian Agency of the Year for the last FIVE years in a row. He also served on the Cannes Lions 2010 Print Jury and 2013 Film & TV Jury and perhaps most interestingly in 2012 he was a member of the Cannes 'Chimera' - a group of Grand-Prix-winning mentors that served for the Bill Gates foundation in Seattle helping develop media projects serving the third world (ten or so $100,000 grants each year, pitched to the Gates Foundation by members of the public).

Previously he worked at George Patterson Y&R and Publicis Mojo, Melbourne.