ADC Awards
The ADC Annual Awards is the oldest continuously running industry award show in the world. Now in its incredible 101st 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.
Filter
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 chart.
Points are only awarded to agencies credited as Primary/Secondary. If several agencies are listed under Primary/Secondary, the points are DIVIDED among them.
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
15
7
3
1
30
45 (15 + 30)
45 (15 + 30)
90 (15 + 30 + 45)
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 towards 'Of the Year' awards.
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 towards 'Of the Year' awards.
Rank
Agency Rankings
Points
1
Leo Burnett / Chicago
224
2
The New York Times Magazine / New York
201
3
alma DDB / Miami
97
4
Area 23, An IPG Health Company / New York
78
5
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
73
6
WUNDERMAN THOMPSON ARGENTINA
60
7
COLLINS / New York
52
8
MULLENLOWE SSP3 / Bogota
48
9
Wetransfer / Amsterdam
46
10
Shanghai Version Design Group / Shanghai
45
11
SCHOLZ & FRIENDS / Berlin
40
12
DENTSU INC. / Tokyo
37.83
13
AIDLIN DARLING DESIGN / San Francisco
33
14
The Martin Agency / Richmond
30
15
ZULU ALPHA KILO / Toronto
29
16
BACKBONE BRANDING
26
17
Sparks Innovation / Toronto
26
18
R/GA / London
23
19
HAKUTEN Corporation / Tokyo
22.50
20
Panoramatiks / Tokyo
22.50
21
L&C / New York
22
22
Leo Burnett GmbH / Frankfurt am Main
22
23
FCB / Chicago
21
24
BUCK
19.50
25
R/GA / New York
19.50
26
JUNG VON MATT AG / Hamburg
19
27
Indego Design / Macau
18
28
SUNDAY AFTERNOON / New York
17
29
the community / Miami
17
30
R/GA / California
16.50
31
Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco
16
32
OBSERVATORY / Los Angeles
16
33
SUPERUNION / London
15.33
34
There Is Studio / London
15.33
35
Who Wot Why / London
15.33
36
+1 Design / Guangzhou
15
37
Bito
15
38
BUNTIN / Nashville
15
39
CAPARO DESIGN CREW / Athens
15
40
DDB / Paris
15
41
DeVries Global / New York
15
42
KLIM TYPE FOUNDRY / Wellington
15
43
Leo Burnett / Riyadh
15
44
Matchstick / Cape Town
15
45
Mucho / San Francisco
15
46
TBWA\Media Arts Lab / Shanghai
15
47
XI'AN GAOPENG / Xi'an
15
48
W / Shanghai
14
49
dentsuMB / New York
13
50
FCB/SIX / Toronto
11
