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.

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.


The rankings were determined based on the point values listed on this chart:

AWARD
Gold Cube
Silver Cube
Bronze Cube
Merit
Fusion Cube
Designism Cube
Best of Discipline
Best of Show
POINTS
45
21
9
3
90
90
90
135

Rank

Agency Rankings

Points

1

Leo Burnett / Chicago

672

2

The New York Times Magazine

603

3

alma DDB / Miami

291

4

Area 23, An IPG Health Company / New York

234

5

SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich

219

6

Wunderman Thompson Argentina

180

7

COLLINS / New York

156

8

MULLENLOWE SSP3 / Bogota

144

9

Wetransfer / Amsterdam

138

10

Shanghai Version Design Group / Shanghai

135

11

SCHOLZ & FRIENDS / Berlin

120

12

DENTSU INC. / Tokyo

113.50

13

AIDLIN DARLING DESIGN / San Francisco

99

14

The Martin Agency / Richmond

90

15

Zulu Alpha Kilo / Toronto

87

16

BACKBONE BRANDING

78

17

Sparks Innovation / Toronto

78

18

HAKUTEN / Tokyo

69

19

R/GA / London

69

20

Panoramatiks / Tokyo

67.50

21

L&C / New York

66

22

Leo Burnett GmbH / Frankfurt am Main

66

23

FCB / Chicago

63

24

BUCK

58.50

25

R/GA / New York

58.50

26

Jung von Matt AG / Hamburg

57

27

Indego Design / Macau

54

28

SUNDAY AFTERNOON / New York

51

29

the community / Miami

51

30

R/GA / California

49.50

31

Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco

48

32

OBSERVATORY / Los Angeles

48

33

SUPERUNION / London

46

34

There Is Studio / London

46

35

Who Wot Why / London

46

36

+1 Design / Guangzhou

45

37

Bito / Taipei

45

38

BUNTIN / Nashville

45

39

CAPARO DESIGN CREW / Athens

45

40

DDB / Paris

45

41

DeVries Global / New York

45

42

Klim Type Foundry / Wellington

45

43

Leo Burnett / Riyadh

45

44

Matchstick / Cape Town

45

45

Mucho / San Francisco

45

46

TBWA\Media Arts Lab / Shanghai

45

47

XI'AN GAOPENG / Xi'an

45

48

W / Shanghai

42

49

dentsuMB / New York

39

50

FCB/SIX / Toronto

33

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