From international network powerhouses to inspiring indies, we introduce you to this year’s crop of freshly Recommended agencies.
Congratulations to the Drum Honors class of 2025, all our newly Recommended agencies (The Drum)
Last month, The Drum Awards Festival wrapped in London, handing out hundreds of gongs to agencies all over the world.
It’s those awards – across every corner of the marketing ecosystem including advertising, design, PR and communications, media, experiential, B2B, social, content, and digital experience – that provide the final data we needed to bring you The Drum Honors, our year-end wrap-up of the most-awarded companies, campaigns and people in 2025.
Winning a Drum award nets you a (heavy) trophy, but it also puts you in the rarefied company of The Drum Recommends, our database of the best agencies across the world and across every marketing discipline. The Recommends database is built from real client ratings, data from our landmark World Creative Rankings and performance across the global portfolio of The Drum Awards.
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Recommends recognizes individual offices as well as networks themselves, allowing clients to do fine-grained research about which agencies may be right for them.
That means that, as of this year’s inaugural The Drum Honors celebration, we’ll now be bringing you a yearly list of the global agencies that officially grabbed their Recommends quality mark in the year just gone.
This year, it’s a rich and varied list, with ad shops from Romania to India; disciplines from PR to programmatic; titanic industry stalwarts to new-kids-on-the-block.
The Drum’s co-founder and editor-in-chief Gordon Young today welcomed the 118 newly Recommended agencies to the family. “Getting into The Drum Recommends isn’t just a badge,” he said, “it’s a quality mark that proves an agency really does what it says it does.
“When an agency earns that mark, we know they’re the real deal. Recommends gives us an unbeatable database of the shops we can turn to for insight, analysis and, frankly, the sort of agencies we’d feel confident recommending to our readers. They are the best of the best - and we’re delighted to welcome this year’s class into the club.”
If your agency missed out on the awards route into the Class of 2025, you can still apply to be Recommended through the client rating route.
So, join us in welcoming The Drum Honors’ Recommended Class of 2025:
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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BRC Imagination Arts
BRC Imagination Arts is a full-service strategy, design and production company that translates brand and cultural stories into transformative human experiences....
Davis Experience & Events
avis Experience & Events is a global award-winning leader in creative corporate events. We cover it all: from stand-out brand activations and smooth conference...
GDX Studios
SCROll STOP
Most brands struggle to keep attention. We help you turn it into conversion. SCROll STOP is a social-first creative growth agency built for brands that don’t...
The Hanging House
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Someplace
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AKG Media
AKG Media is the leading influencer marketing agency for AI and tech brands. By only working in these sectors, our team is made up of genuine experts in the AI...
ADMERASIA
We're an & agency. & /and,(ə)n/ conjunction 1. used to connect... Admerasia is a full-service agency & a lot more. We discover the unexpected relationships...
MAD | Mad About Digital
We help companies reach their audience — in an increasingly fragmented digital world. At MAD | Mad About Digital, we leverage deep domain knowledge across multiple...
WPP Media OpenMind
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Block Report
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Lifelong Crush
Lifelong Crush is a multi-disciplinary creative agency focused on heightening brand relevancy, impact and effectiveness through diverse work that harnesses a cultural...
Publicis LeOne
Le ONE is an expression of the integrated, international, Publicis team and capability, supporting the Haleon business. The name “Le ONE” is born out of the...
Black Bear Creative
Black Bear Creative is a boutique marketing agency providing a perfect balance of strategy, creative and delivery. We believe in true partnership and in delivering...
WE CREATE POPULAR
Where creators, brands and culture collide, the future of entertainment is built. At the heart is POPULAR STUDIOS®, our engine turning media, food and music into...
Hunt & Gather
Hunt & Gather is a strategic and creative communications consultancy built for a world in which the lines between disciplines, audiences and industries are more...
Metalab
We make interfaces. We're the team behind interfaces that billions of people click, tap, pinch, and zoom every day. You may not have known it at the time, but you’ve...
FREE
FREE helps insurance businesses build brands that people want to work with. As a specialist strategy and creative agency, we combine deep sector expertise with bold...
Nectar First
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WPP Media
Juice (A Division of TBWA India)
Boulder Creative Studios
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Ziggy
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Thinksmart Marketing
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Twigeo
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The Infinite Agency
Sawhorse Productions
Sawhorse is an award-winning creative agency and production company that makes unforgettable content and interactive experiences. Check out our gaming adventures...
Digitas Romania
Total Brand Experience We believe the future lies in Total Brand Experience. Differentiated experiences that bring brands to life, and make it easy for people to...
Flourish
We are Flourish. A specialist CRM agency.
R\West
We are an independently owned, integrated marketing agency that specializes in content-driven campaigns that elevate PR, social media presence, consumer engagement...
Vyra
Working with leading brands to create defining moments that connect with audiences in new ways. Explore our latest projects, behind-the-scenes builds, and the creative...
DotCentric
DotCentric is an award-winning digital experience and technology partner, trusted by organisations where customer experience is business critical. Through our partnerships...
Whalar Group
Whalar Group is the leading independent global Creator company, featuring a unique, end-to-end Creator ecosystem. We embrace Creators and activate their communities...
Hannah Burgess PR (HBPR)
As an automotive communications agency our focus is to understand your automotive business' objectives and advise on how you can use public relations to make them...
dentsu b2b
The values and behaviours of the modern B2B buyer are changing. To succeed, brands need to navigate the traditionally siloed worlds of marketing and sales to deliver...
Differentiated
We believe that more ‘sales and marketing minds’ within your business will create more pipeline, close more deals, and make your customer base grow. That’s...
Fifty Five and Five
Our unique approach to marketing blends human creativity and true AI to deliver results for B2B enterprises that traditional agencies cannot. Revolutionise the relationship...
Luxid
Luxid is an award-winning marketing agency laser-focused on driving growth and results for businesses at the intersection of creativity, data, and technology. Our...
LogicLogicMagic
LogicLogicMagic® is the home of Competitive Creativity®. A proven business growth engine for technology brands that combines expertise in technology, psychology...
LuckyTurn
Award‑winning web design & development agency specialising in Craft CMS. We deliver transformative digital experiences for our clients. From full website builds...
FG|PG
FGPG was founded over two decades ago. Today, FGPG is one of the largest WBENC-certified woman-owned marketing experience creative and production agencies in the...
Joystick Fifco
SAMY
SAMY. The Agency that Makes Brands Matter. We are here to lead the evolution of brand communication. We build relevance in a social first universe by integrating...
The Croc
Brand-to-Demand. With extra bite! At The Croc we always think big and aim high. We’re expert in leading-edge brand-to-demand marketing, techniques and technologies...
VML Canada
R/GA
R/GA is an independent creative innovation company for the intelligence age. We harness design and technology to create more valuable experiences for people and...
Metavision
Intercept
We are a full-time B2B firm that specializes in the global technology sector. This means that 100% of our resources are dedicated to understanding, optimizing,...
Seven Communications
SEVEN is the cultural intelligence agency, building magnificent brands from the earned-up with ideas that ripple through culture. We can transform your brand into...
INNOCEAN Indonesia
OmniGOV
We are immensely proud to service the HM Government Media Buying Framework and recognise the importance of our role as the single cross HM Government agency partner,...
Drum OMG
VML New York
Carat Media Services Hong Kong
VML Kansas City
Arena Media UK
We’re a dedicated full-service creative media agency who aim to catapult brands with a challenger mindset into the stratosphere. We collaborate with brands who...
Sips & Bites
Pepsico In-House Agency
Howatson+Company
At Howatson+Company our vision is to create a creative business that endures over the decades to come, being a lighthouse for Australian creativity, positively influencing...
We. Communications
We. UK is a strategic communications agency that turns complexity into clarity, uniting deep expertise, diverse thinking and creative problem-solving, side by side...
Saffron Consultants
Saffron is an independent global consultancy dedicated to creating brands, and building memorable experiences. With teams in London, Madrid, Tokyo and Vienna, we...
YKONE
YKONE is the global leading influencer group, with a consolidated international footprint spanning 18 territories across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the United...
Klick Health
Klick Health is the world’s largest independent commercialization partner for life sciences, focused on hacking the boundaries of health by developing, launching,...
Stagwell
Stagwell is a global marketing and communications group founded in 2015 by Mark Penn.
Spin
We are Spin, a social media agency, operating globally based in London. We're a team of social natives you can trust to unleash your brand on social. Offering 360...
TEAM LEWIS
TEAM LEWIS is a global marketing agency, delivering Creative Campaigns for Commercial and Community Causes. The company has 27 offices throughout Asia, Europe and...
Eleven Agency
We’re an award-winning creative agency that changes lives for the better. We develop campaigns and content that help organisations create awareness, shift behaviours...
Collaborate Global
Inspired and original experiences for ambitious brands.
Good Relations
The challenger agency for challenger brands. We’re an award-winning PR & social agency based in London and New York, part of the VCCP Group.
John Ayling & Associates
The media agency that backs the underdog. We back advertisers who face adversity - from competitors with larger budgets and resources to macro socio-economic challenges.
Advertisers...
Billion Dollar Boy
Billion Dollar Boy is an influencer marketing agency based in London, NYC & NOLA. We harness the power of influencers to win hearts, catch eyes and reinvent...
Purpose Media
We're an objective-driven Digital, Creative and Website Marketing Agency in Nottingham, Derby & London delivering strategic campaigns across multiple channels....
Publicis Media
The media hub for @PublicisGroupe, comprised of powerful Brands: @StarcomWW, @Zenith, @SparkFoundryWW and @Digitas.
Lewis Communications
A full-service marketing, creative branding and digital communications agency specializing in strategic content creation.
True Agency
True is a B2B specialist creative and media agency. We are proud to be the only IPA Effectiveness Accredited B2B agency and to be the first B2B specialist agency...
Finn Partners
800 People. 3 Continents. 18 Offices. We're a global #integrated #marketing agency transforming and inspiring the world of #communications every day!
Kemosabe
From deep diving into data and the audience who creates it,We create an idea that's so tight, it's an 'inch wide'.An idea so inch wide, it can penetrate a 'mile...
Sparks
Creating powerful experiences for the world’s most iconic brands. #PoweredBySparks
Hey Honey
Hey Honey, we're a global social-first creative agency built for the future, putting culture, community, and the planet first. From our headquarters in Amsterdam,...
Mother London
Mother was founded in London in 1996 by a group of creative, free-thinking individuals sitting around a kitchen table eating lunch. It’s here that the group decided...
Fold7
A 21st Century London based independent advertising agency that creates brand and creative communication ideas to cut through the noise.
Wilderness
The World's First Social Media Transformation Agency. We transform the strategy, management, and operations of the world’s most beloved brands. Part of...
Hunter PR
Raw London
Multi-award winning strategy and creative agency, driving social impact through insight-led campaigns. Since 2006, we’ve been working with brands, charities and...
Ogilvy Africa
Change is our lifeblood
Wonderhood Studios
Wonderhood Studios is a unique British creative company founded by people with the skills to deliver impact across advertising, premium TV, social and design.
Zeno Group
Zeno Group is the fiercely independent and global, integrated communications agency, born from PR. We bring together the boldest and brightest talent to help clients...
DCX Growth Accelerator
DCX is a growth accelerator that offers a full range of marketing and innovations services. We pride ourselves in "culture hacking" campaigns, such as our recent...
Rooster Punk
We're the original B2B storytellers. Authors of Humanizing B2B and fame changers for hire. We work with brands at that critical moment of transformation, when the...
Humanaut
Humanaut is an independent creative agency and production studio in Chattanooga, TN, on a mission to get good things inside people’s brains. For 10+ years, we’ve...
Cubaka
We hunt down time. Your followers’ time. Time is a commodity, and your audience will happily give it to you, but only if you earn it. How? Top notch content and...
brand brewery
Carat
Carat is the world’s first media agency and is privileged to work with some of today’s most storied and innovative brands. Designing for people, Carat pioneers...
MSQ DX
We measure our success by what we help you achieve. MSQ DX partners with complex organisations to translate digital experiences into commercial impact—designing...
Southpaw
We are a creative agency that uses the science of emotion to help build brands. We use neuroscience and effectiveness research methods in order to deliver creativity...
Little Dot Studios
Little Dot Studios is a global digital content studio and media network, specialising in creating meaningful connections between premium content and digital audiences...
Digitas North America
Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today,...
.Monks London
Lippincott
Lippincott is a global brand, marketing and experience consultancy committed to helping companies address their most complex brand challenges. Identifying fresh...
TBWA\Singapore
TBWA\GROUP SINGAPORE is a communications services and creative company with a truly integrated agency offering in Asia Pacific. At the core of TBWA\ is a zeal to...
McCann London
We're a creative agency dedicated to telling the truth and telling it well. A Truth Well Told - our guiding principle since 1912 - underpins everything we do. It...
Propeller Group
Propeller Group is a global B2B agency with an integrated approach to PR, content, and growth marketing. We partner with businesses in marketing, media, and technology...
Alphabetical
Alphabetical is a global creative agency working at the design intersection of branding and experience.
Cheil Worldwide
At Cheil, we aren’t defined by channel, capability or output. We are defined by doing what works.
TMW
TMW, part of Accenture Song, is an integrated creative agency. We create ideas that move people. Ideas that capture hearts and minds – combining emotion and...
the7stars
the7stars is the UK’s largest independent media agency, offering the best people, the best service and the best creative media campaigns. Since our inception...
Button Collective
The Button Collective is a boutique outfit specialising in consumer lifestyle branding and communications. Experienced consultants offer made to measure and bespoke...
iCrossing
We offer comprehensive end-to-end services, bridging marketing and technology to accelerate our clients' transformation journey. For over 25 years, iCrossing has...
VCCP
VCCP is the global challenger network for challenger brands. We create enduring brand platforms that deliver value for our client's businesses and enable diverse...
Clarion Communications
Original thinking creates a lasting impression. We believe in the power of clever and creative ideas, smartly researched and sharply executed, to achieve memorable...
RAPP
RAPP is a global, data-driven creative community that builds direct, meaningful and high-value relationships between brands and people. At RAPP, with our unrivalled...