If you happened to be frozen in cryonic suspension over the past decade, you missed a lot.
    Steve Jobs and the iPod reinvented the music business. Sergey Brin and Larry Page tamed the Web. Ad shop Goodby, Silverstein & Partners rewrote the creativity book. And this thing called social media put amateurs in charge of just about everything else.
    Sound like chaos? Not compared to the way the '90s ended, it wasn't. If anything, the last 10 years witnessed something uniquely new for the Web: a measure of rationality. From the overhyped, speculative ashes of the dot-com boom, the Internet saw itself reborn and reorganized—and panting at the end of Google's tight leash. And this time, the business opportunities were real. Sure, social-media sites like Facebook and YouTube might not be raking in the dough—but they're viable tools for the branding, marketing and media execs who are learning to use them.
    This time around, they weren't all 21-year-old whiz kids, either. Along with the maturing of the Web came the reassurance that technology means little without a quality brand and experienced leadership to go with it. How else to explain the ongoing dominance of 123-year-old Coca-Cola? Why else would 78-year-old media mogul Rupert Murdoch be at the top of his game?
    To wind up the 21st century's first decade, we've spent the past month working on a list of the best and brightest in the branding, marketing, media and agency world in 33 categories over the past 10 years. Check out our choices at the links below, or click here to start with the first category. As a reality check, we sought your input here on this site over the past month. Those results are presented here, next to our selections. Much of the time, we agree. Other times it's not even close. But open exchanges like this were still another feature of the past decade—the reason the Web added that dignified 2.0 after its name.
    Happy reading, and we'll see you next year. —The AdweekMedia Editors

MEDIA	AGENCY
• Media Company of the Decade	• Agency of the Decade
• Media Executive of the Decade	• Small Agency of the Decade
• Media Entrepreneurs of the Decade	• Agency Executives of the Decade
• TV Show of the Decade	• Agency Creative Director of the Decade
• Broadcast Network of the Decade	• Multicultural Agency of the Decade
• Cable Network of the Decade	• Digital Agency of the Decade
• Magazine of the Decade	• Media Agency of the Decade
• Radio Personality of the Decade	• Media Agency Executive of the Decade
• Web Site of the Decade
• Blog of the Decade	BRAND
	• Marketer of the Decade
CREATIVE	• Marketing Innovation of the Decade
• Commercial of the Decade (Non-Super Bowl)	• Brand of the Decade
• Super Bowl Spot of the Decade	• Product of the Decade
• Campaign of the Decade	• Promotion of the Decade
• Commercial Director of the Decade	• Product Placement of the Decade
• Print Ad of the Decade	• Digital Device/Platform of the Decade
• Out-of-Home Ad of the Decade	• Digital Company of the Decade
• Digital Campaign of the Decade