Honourable mention — Media Experts

Canadian media industry maverick Mark Sherman and his team earn a respectable fourth place finish this year with strong plans for Telus, WestJet and new client Kodak Canada. Media Experts, which has offices in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal (where it all began in 1982), hired 15 new staff this year to bring the total employee count up to 120, in part to service new business wins like Cobs Bread and BMW/Mini, after a strong run of new accounts in 2008 including HBO Canada and Playhouse Disney Canada, the UPS Store and Koodo.