We comb through the data from a year’s worth of awards shows to name the winningest comms & media people.
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As The Drum Honors 2025 enters its final stretch, we turn today to the people behind the most-awarded work in Media and PR categories.
In PR, creatives and others from specialist health shop Area 23 take the top spot, having already brought the agency to the top of our list of the top Network agencies in the world. Specialist PR/comms agencies like PrettyGreen and Edelman also feature highly.
And in media, we can see a tight concentration of top strategists and planners from shops Zape Pelele, Multi, Bind Media and Media Futures.
Check out the top lists below, and check back soon for the last few talent celebrations of The Drum Honors 2025.
| Rank | People | Agency |
|---|---|---|
| 1= | Juan Luis Isaza, Arturo Bedoya, Juan Ricardo Rodriguez, Adriana Pineda & Juan David Franco | Zape Pelele - DDB Colombia |
| 1= | Jhonny Vasco | Multi |
| 3= | Bexley Terrell | Bind Media |
| 3= | Liv Gammie | Media Futures Group |
| Rank | People | Agency |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tim Hawkey & Diego Torgo | Area 23 |
| 2= | Samantha Hooper-Gill, Scarlett Santi-Brooks, Emma Simpson & Sophia Lakeman | PrettyGreen |
| 2= | Shelley Cukier | Broadcast Revolution |
| 4 | Viton Araujo, Victor Toyofuku & Larry Kirschner | Area 23 |
| 5 | Judy John, Andrew Simon, Marie Claire Maalouf & Jamie George Cordwell | Edelman |
Want more? Check out all of the top winners from this year’s The Drum Honors, browse case studies of all the winning work from this year’s The Drum Awards festival and mark your calendar for February, when we’ll unveil 2026’s World Creative Rankings.
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