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World Creative Rankings: the top 100 most awarded agencies in the US

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By Sam Bradley, Senior Reporter

March 31, 2021 | 9 min read

The World Creative Rankings is our annual study of the brands, agencies and people behind the world’s best creative work. In this installment, we reveal which US creative agencies were the most awarded in 2020.

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McCann New York performed well in the Rankings this year, buoyed by its accessibility work for Microsoft

Each year, The Drum’s research team analyzes the data from all of the advertising industry's major awards schemes to find out which companies created the most award-winning work in the previous calendar year. This time round, that meant examining almost 2,000 campaigns from almost 1,000 agencies.

This years’s league table leader is McCann New York, which retain its top dog status from last year. The strong performance of work by 72andSunny LA for its client Tinder, and David Miami for Burger King, ensured those agencies’ ascendance into the top 10. You can see the top 100 US agencies for award wins below, and how they fared in the top 100 worldwide table here.

Rank Agency
1 McCann New York
2 David Miami
3 BBDO New York
4 TBWA\Media Arts Lab LA
5 FCB Chicago
6 72andSunny Los Angeles
7 Goodby Silverstein & Partners
8 Droga5 New York
9 Digitas Boston
10 Casanova/McCann
11 Area 23
12 BBDO Atlanta
13 72andSunny New York
14 Ogilvy Chicago
15 Arnold Worldwide Boston
15 Spotify in house NY
17 360i
18 We Believers New York
19 Innocean Worldwide Huntington Beach
20 Razorfish New York
21 Mother New York
22 Day One Agency
22 Turner Duckworth (London, San Francisco & New York)
24 GSD&M Austin
24 Jones Knowles Ritchie New York
26 Carmichael Lynch
26 SquareSpace NY
26 Google Creative Lab NYC
29 Third and Grove
29 Cramer-Krasselt
29 Pereira & O'Dell
29 Saatchi & Saatchi NY
29 Huge Brooklyn
34 Elastic Santa Monica
34 Design Army
34 Venables Bell & Partners
34 Alma DDB
38 Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness
38 R/GA New York
38 Wieden+Kennedy Portland
41 TBWA\Chiat\Day NY
42 Firstborn
42 Kworq
42 Wieden+Kennedy New York
45 Blue Bear Creative
45 DDB Worldwide NY
45 VaynerMedia New York
45 Martin Agency
45 Highdive
45 JohnXHannes New York
45 Publicis.Sapient
52 Mojo Supermarket
52 Hudson Rouge New York
52 VMLY&R Memphis
52 Ruffian
52 Fitzco
52 Moon Jelly Studios
52 RPA
59 Harrison and Star
59 RocketFuel
59 Art Camp
59 Zambezi
59 Refik Anadol Studio
59 M/H VCCP
59 UM New York
66 DDB Chicago
66 Leo Burnett Chicago
66 Optimist Inc
66 VMLY&R Kansas City
66 Stink Studios LA
66 Energy BBDO
72 Johannes Leonardo
72 Brunet-Garcia
72 Morcos Key
72 FIG
72 The&Partnership New York
72 Mother Los Angeles
72 MacGuffin Films
72 PepsiCo Design & Innovation
72 Gretel NY
72 McKinney
72 GSW New York
72 Virtue Worldwide New York
72 Headcase Design
72 Collins San Francisco
72 Big Family Table
72 The Bloc
88 Weber Shandwick Chicago
88 M SS NG P ECES
88 DeVito/Verdi
88 JOAN Creative
88 Grey New York
88 Decoded Advertising
88 Anomaly New York
88 Gallegos United
88 Havas Chicago
88 Joe Doucet
88 Grey Midwest
99 VMLY&R Miami
99 DWA, a Merkle Company
99 Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners

If you’d like to get your hands on the full World Creative Rankings, why not order our PDF report here?

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