ADC Awards
The ADC Annual Awards is the oldest continuously running industry award show in the world. Now in its incredible 102nd year, these awards celebrate the very best in advertising, digital media, graphic and publication design, packaging and product design, motion, experiential and spatial design, photography, illustration and fashion design all with a focus on artistry and craftsmanship.
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Agency of the Year is awarded to the Agency that garners the most points overall for winning entries (Cubes, Merits, Special Awards), allocated per the points chart.
Design Team of the Year is awarded to the year's highest-scoring design team that garners the most points overall for winning entries (Cubes, Merits, Special Awards), allocated per the points chart.
Points are only awarded to agencies credited under the Primary Agency listing. If several agencies are listed, the points are DIVIDED among them.
MULTIPLE AWARDS WITHIN A DISCIPLINE
If the same piece of work won multiple awards within a Discipline, the points for the one (1) highest award* in that discipline were counted.
*For work that received a Best of Discipline honor, the points for both the Gold win and Best of Discipline win were counted within that Discipline.
AWARDS IN MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES
If the same piece of work won awards across multiple Disciplines, the points for the highest award per discipline were counted.
For 2022, the rankings were determined based on the point values listed on this chart:
Gold Cube
Silver Cube
Bronze Cube
Merit
Fusion Cube
Designism Cube
Best of Discipline
Best of Show
45
21
9
3
90
90
90
135
Rank
Agency Rankings
Points
#
Leo Burnett / Chicago
672
#
The New York Times Magazine
603
#
alma DDB / Miami
291
#
Area 23, An IPG Health Company / New York
234
#
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
219
#
Wunderman Thompson Argentina
180
#
COLLINS / New York
156
#
MULLENLOWE SSP3 / Bogota
144
#
Wetransfer / Amsterdam
138
#
Shanghai Version Design Group / Shanghai
135
#
SCHOLZ & FRIENDS / Berlin
120
#
DENTSU INC. / Tokyo
113.50
#
AIDLIN DARLING DESIGN / San Francisco
99
#
The Martin Agency / Richmond
90
#
Zulu Alpha Kilo / Toronto
87
#
BACKBONE BRANDING
78
#
Sparks Innovation / Toronto
78
#
HAKUTEN / Tokyo
69
#
R/GA / London
69
#
Panoramatiks / Tokyo
67.50
#
L&C / New York
66
#
Leo Burnett GmbH / Frankfurt am Main
66
#
FCB / Chicago
63
#
BUCK
58.50
#
R/GA / New York
58.50
#
Jung von Matt AG / Hamburg
57
#
Indego Design / Macau
54
#
SUNDAY AFTERNOON / New York
51
#
the community / Miami
51
#
R/GA / California
49.50
#
Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco
48
#
OBSERVATORY / Los Angeles
48
#
SUPERUNION / London
46
#
There Is Studio / London
46
#
Who Wot Why / London
46
#
+1 Design / Guangzhou
45
#
Bito
45
#
BUNTIN / Nashville
45
#
CAPARO DESIGN CREW / Athens
45
#
DDB / Paris
45
#
DeVries Global / New York
45
#
Klim Type Foundry / Wellington
45
#
Leo Burnett / Riyadh
45
#
Matchstick / Cape Town
45
#
Mucho / San Francisco
45
#
TBWA\Media Arts Lab / Shanghai
45
#
XI'AN GAOPENG / Xi'an
45
#
W / Shanghai
42
#
dentsuMB / New York
39
#
FCB/SIX / Toronto
33
