ADC 2020 Awards has released its Global Creative rankings, determined by the cumulative point totals of ADC Cubes and Merits won.

APAC countries have a strong showing. Dentsu Tokyo is the top-ranked agency in the region, and ranked eighth worldwide. Dentsu Inc. placed seventh in the global Network ranking. The US dominated the agency rankings with 6 agencies in the top 10.

Mainland China is the fourth-highest ranked country in the world, followed by Japan at fifth. Australia is #7 in the country rankings.

The ADC 2020 Top 10 APAC Creative Agency Ranking is as follows:

1. Dentsu Tokyo
2. Serviceplan Korea Seoul
3. SHA Inc. Tokyo
4. TBWA\India Mumbai
5. SenseTeam Shenzhen
6. T-Change Design Studio Nanjing
7. 33 and Branding Beijing, Minmin Qu & Qian Jiang Nanjing and Superunion Hong Kong (tied)
8. Adbrain Tokyo

The complete ADC 2020 Creative Country Ranking for APAC is as follows:

1. Mainland China
2. Japan
3. Taiwan
4. India
5. Hong Kong
6. New Zealand
7. Australia
8. Sri Lanka
9. Republic of Korea
10. Thailand
11. Singapore

Australia is #7 in the country rankings with 12 points, 10 earned by Sydney animation studio, Mister, and 2 by Sydney Design agency, Denomination.

ADC 2020 Global Top 10 Agency Creative Ranking:

1. TBWA\Media Arts Lab Los Angeles
2. Scholz & Friends Berlin
3. BBDO New York
4. Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Francisco
5. McCann New York
6. FCB Chicago
7. Serviceplan Germany Munich
8. Dentsu Tokyo and Spotify In-House New York (tied)
9. FCB/SIX Toronto

ADC 2020 Global Creative Ranking:

1. Matthias Spaetgens, Scholz & Friends Berlin
2. Greg Hahn, formerly BBDO New York
3. David Lubars, BBDO Worldwide
4. Oliver Handlos, Scholz & Friends Berlin, Robert Krause, Scholz & Friends Berlin (tied)
5. Gail Bichler, The New York TimesNew York

Six creatives tied at 7th

ADC 2020 Global Top 10 In-House Agency/Studio Creative Ranking:

1. Spotify In-HouseNew York
2. Google Brand Studio San Francisco
3. RT Moscow
4. Squarespace New York
5. National Theater London
6. Creative X San Francisco
7. IBM Originals New York, O, The Oprah Magazine New York, Pepsico Design & Innovation New York, Verizon New York (tied)

 ADC 2020 Global Top 10 Network Creative Ranking:

1. TBWA Worldwide
2. BBDO Worldwide
3. Commarco
4. FCB Global
5. DAS
6. McCann Worldgroup
7. Dentsu
8. MDC Partners
9. DDB Worldwide
10. Hakuhodo

ADC 2020 Top 10 Country Creative Ranking:

3. United States
4.  Germany
5. Canada
6. Mainland China
7. Japan
8. United Kingdom
9. France
10. Brazil
11. United Arab Emirates
12. Sweden

Kevin Swanepoel, chief executive officer, The One Club for Creativity, commented, “These results are particularly significant because the ADC Annual Awards is one of the only shows to have a recognised global awards ranking this year. The creative community around the world will look to this ranking to see how they stack up in terms of excellence in craft and innovation, as decided by a leading global jury of their peers.”

View the complete ADC Award 2020 Global Ranking, sortable by Agency, In-House Agency, Network, Awards, Country and Creative, here.

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