We rank the best-performing media agencies (and agencies doing media work) across our global Awards program this year.
Hearts & Science, the agency behind the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice campaign, was our second-most awarded media agency. But who came top? (Warner Bros)
For The Drum Honors 2025, we’re digging through the data from a whole year of our worldwide Awards program to crown the year’s top performers.
Today, we turn to media agencies – and other marketing shops taking part in media categories at our global Awards festival, held last month at The Drum’s London HQ.
Wavemaker UK bagged the top spot off the back of work with Actimel, Wayfair and P&O Cruises.
In second place: Hearts & Science, which bagged the President’s Award for the media campaign for the Warner Bros movie Beetlejuice Beetlejuice among a raft of other gongs, including For Jaguar, Opella, and the National Lottery.
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And coming in third, out-of-home specialist agency Talon beat out its colleagues on a big-hitting Uber campaign, Grand Visual and PHD, thanks to being credited solo for ‘Invest in Social Housing’ for Shelter.
Check out the full list below – and keep an eye out for more close looks at our media categories, including analysis of the top-performing individuals in the space next week.
| Rank | Agency |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wavemaker UK |
| 2 | Hearts & Science |
| 3 | Talon |
| 4 | DDB Colombia |
| 5= | EssenceMediacom |
| 5= | Bind Media |
| 5= | PHD UK |
| 5= | Grand Visual |
| 9 | Area 23 |
| 10 | WPP Media OpenMind & Nestle |
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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