Ken Hudson

“CEO AT 34 AND HUNGRY FOR MORE.”

It would have been easy for Ken Hudson to be a car dealer. After all he is the first born son of Time Magazine’s “Car Dealer of the Year.” He spent his weekends washing cars and when he grew a bit older he spent his summers being a lot porter and learning how to sell. He even left his Columbia, South Carolina home at 18 to attend the prestigious Northwoood University, a college renown for grooming the future dealer principals of the car world. But Ken has never taken the easy way; he has always been compelled to follow his dreams and true passion. That true passion is advertising.

While working with the advertising agency that handled his family’s dealerships, he became intrigued by what they did and decided to head to South Florida to dedicate 100% of his time to learning all he could about the advertising industry. Fast forward 12 years later and at the age of 34 when most people are still climbing the proverbial corporate ladder, Ken decided it was time to run his own show and became the founder and CEO of Omni Advertising.

Omni has been the leading agency for the automotive industry for the past 6 years. With a client roster that includes the largest privately help dealer group, Van Tuyl Automotive Investment Group as well as some of the largest dealerships in more than 40 markets across the country, Omni knows what it takes to move metal. In fact, Ken is credited with helping to resurrect Honda’s Tier Two advertising. At a time when only national and local advertising existed for Honda, Ken showed Honda execs how they could reclaim lost market share, making a case for a regionalized advertising tier. For the past four years Ken has helped to form Honda dealer associations across the country and has given them the marketing and advertising tools they need to increase their market share and net profits.

For most in Ken’s position, this kind of success would be more than enough. Not for Ken. When most of his peers are satisfied with a single digit growth percentage in their client’s business, Ken has never been satisfied with anything less than double digit growth. He is now applying the same formula for success to expand the Omni brand to other industries such as education and hospitality. Ken is a hard worker. He is constantly studying, selling, marketing and fueling his passion to dominate the market of every product he touches. His devoted leadership and courage to fulfill his vision of success is what makes Omni Advertising a true champion among agencies.