We can now reveal the agencies made it on to The Drum’s 2025 rankings of APAC’s most awarded agencies.
A still from My Japan Railway, Dentsu's highest scoring campaign
The Drum has analyzed 2,460 campaigns from 1,653 clients working with 1,215 agencies composed of 661 chief creative officers, 839 executive creative directors, 2,692 creative directors, 1,615 copywriters and 2,027 art directors from 77 countries.
Dentsu Tokyo has topped the 2025 rankings of the most awarded agencies in APAC, with its ‘My Japan Railway’ work ranking eighth most awarded campaign in the world.
The Monkeys Sydney is the second most-awarded agency in APAC, while TBWA\Hakuhodo secured third place, followed by Six Tokyo and VML Sydney rounding out the top five. Colenso BBDO in New Zealand claimed the sixth spot, with Cheil Worldwide Seoul, Ogilvy Mumbai, VML Singapore, and Leo Burnett India completing the top 10.
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The World Creative Rankings are compiled over the course of a calendar year by carefully analyzing the performance of thousands of pieces of creative work across 24 major industry awards programs, including The Drum Marketing Awards and The Drum Awards Festival.
That data is then used to determine the people rankings – the CCOs, ECDs, creative directors, art directors and copywriters responsible for the most creatively awarded work in 2024. Their companies are then ranked, with these rankings including the best agencies, networks and holding companies, which are also split by country and region.
The advertisers who fund the world’s most awarded work are also ranked, while the sectors that offer the richest return in creative gongs, whether that be Food & Drink, Automotive, Retail or Charity, are also evaluated.
Head over to our dedicated World Creative Rankings hub to see the complete list.