World Creative Rankings: this year’s most-awarded copywriters

The World Creative Rankings is our annual study of the brands, agencies and people behind the world’s very best creative work. In this instalment, we reveal the world’s top copywriters for award wins.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 year, that meant examining 1,768 campaigns from 1,295 clients working with 964 agencies, including 1,061 copywriters and wordsmiths.Below, you can see the ranked list of the world’s best-performing copywriters. We’re also celebrating this year’s standout performers, and their work, in a special series of editorial features collected on our World Creative Rankings hub.The most-awarded copywriters of 2020Rank Name Company 1 Paul Chan Cheil Hong Kong 2 Ilona Hartmann Aufbau Verlag (formerly Scholz & Friends) 2 Sebastian Stelzer Scholz & Friends 4 Magnus Ivansson INGO Stockholm 5 Agnes Ho Madwell (formerly Cheil Hong Kong) 6 Pablo Murube Publicis 7 Lili Jiang Cheil Hong Kong 8 Tatiana Le Cheil Hong Kong 9 Simon Lublin Akestam Holst (formerly Forsman & Bodenfors) 10 Carolina Soto Johannes Leonardo (formerly Serviceplan) 11 Olivier Aumard BETC Paris 12 Jacob Nelson Forsman & Bodenfors 13 Hampus Elfstrom Forsman & Bodenfors 14 Mati Kochavi AGT International 14 Maya Kochavi StelloGirls 16 Emilie Abel 72andSunny 16 Reilly Baker 72andSunny 18 Shohei Ooishi TBWA\Hakuhodo 19 Jim Connolly BBDO New York 20 Gary du Toit BBDO New York 20 Imen Soltani TBWA\Media Arts Lab 20 Haruko Tsutsui Dentsu Tokyo 23 Curtis Chapman Theo (formerly FCB/Six) 24 Ricardo Salgado Energy BBDO (formerly FCB Chicago) 24 Muneyuki Fujimoto Dentsu Tokyo 26 Shannon McCarroll FCB Toronto 27 Thom Crowley Digitas Boston 27 Matt Shoewalter Laundry Service (formerly Digitas Boston) 27 Christian Korntheuer BBDO Dusseldorf 27 Jason Ziehm Digitas Boston 31 Quentin Lichtblau Freelance (freelancer for Serviceplan) 31 Jason Soy FCB Toronto 31 Alexander Allen Gut (formerly David the Agency) 34 Christian Mondragon Dieste (formerly Casanova//McCann) 34 Kristen Scharf Innocean Worldwide (formerly Casanova//McCann) 36 Trevor Joplin Goodby Silverstein & Partners 37 Ivor Crotty RT Creative Lab 37 Wilson Ang Cheil Hong Kong 39 Eldar Yusupov McCann Tel-Aviv 39 Idan Kravitz Google (formerly McCann Tel-Aviv) 39 Yiftach Sarig McCann Tel-Aviv 42 Isabell Niederwestberg Heimat Berlin 42 Matthias Storath Heimat Berlin 42 Chris Garbutt Pltfrmr (formerly TBWA\Worldwide) 42 Jake Roland FCB Chicago 42 Doyu Yang Innocean Worldwide 42 Levon Karapetyan Ogilvy Berlin (formerly Heimat Berlin) 48 Rohan Kodialbail Saatchi & Saatchi (formerly Impact BBDO) 48 David Cappolino McCann New York 50 Frederik Clarysse BBDO Belgium 50 Luisito Giraldo David the Agency 52 Emily Miller BBDO Atlanta 53 Jared Schermer David the Agency 54 Jan-Philipp Michalik McCann Worldgroup (formerly BBDO Dusseldorf) 54 Marie-Theres Schwingeler BBDO Worldwide 56 Carol Ong PhilCham SH 56 Lyn Fan Freelance (freelancer for Accenture Interactive)) 56 Amore Shi Ho Communications 56 Ravi Ananthan Freelance (formerly FCB Interface) 56 Jp Twaalfhoven Clemenger BBDO Wellington 61 Sarah Berro Impact BBDO 62 Alpan Esen Jung Von Matt 62 Jakob Cantz The Goodwins (formerly Scholz & Friends) 62 Felix John Scholz & Friends 62 Masanori Tagaya Grey Japan 62 Sebastien Rouviere DAVID the Agency (formerly Publicis Italy) 67 Westley Taylor Freelance (formerly Giant Spoon) 67 Felix Karlsson BBH LA (formerly Droga5) 69 Pedro Corbett AlmapBBDO 69 Antonia Green Freelance (freelancer for Williams Murray Hamm) 71 Sayaka Arimoto Dentsu Tokyo 72 Pedro Araujo Formerly AKQA Sao Paulo 72 Guilherme Pinheiro DAVID the Agency (formerly AKQA Sao Paulo) 74 Hetu Negri McCann London 74 Rana Chatterjee BBDO Toronto 76 Wilmar Versprille Roorda Reclamebureau (formerly Denstu Achtung!) 76 Michela Talamona Publicis Italy 76 Vinicius Fernandes Havas (formerly Arnold Worldwide) 79 Rickard Beskow Akestam Holst 79 Felipe Duarte AKQA Amsterdam 79 Reinier Gorissen Innocean Worldwide 79 Juliana Leite Africa Sao Paulo 79 Raphael Vandystadt Africa Sao Paulo 79 Daniel Ogawa TBWA\Media Arts Lab (formerly Africa Sao Paulo) 85 Ben Polkinghorne AMV BBDO 85 Lisa Reissner Freelance (formerly Heimat Berlin) 87 Tshepo Tumahole Joe Public United 87 Risako Kawashima Dentsu Tokyo 87 Sophia Basckin Freelance (freelancer for TBWA\Hunt Lascaris) 87 Christoffer Boas Robert/Boisen & Like-Minded 87 Klara Vilshammer Robert/Boisen & Like-Minded 87 Waleed Bachnak Wunderman Thompson Dubai 93 Clement Le Bars McCann Paris 94 Luca Trincanato DAVID the Agency 94 Tom Sharp Tom Sharp Design 94 Martin Rocaboy BETC Paris 97 Caroline Bergh Joe Public United If you’d like to get your hands on the full World Creative Rankings, pre-order our PDF report now.

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