The highlights of this year’s LIA Of The Year winners are:
- Ogilvy Named Global Network of The Year
- alma DDB Miami named Global Agency of The Year
- SERVICEPLAN named Global Independent Network of The Year
- L&C New York named Global Independent Agency of The Year and
Global Design Company of The Year
- IPG Health named Global Health & Pharma Network of The Year
- AREA 23, an IPG Company, New York named Global Health Agency of The Year
and Global Pharma Agency of The Year
- Real Chemistry named Global Independent Health & Pharma Network of The Year
- Hip Hop Public Health named Global Health & Pharma Client of The Year
- draftLine named Global In-House Agency of The Year
- The Pack Mumbai named Global Production Company of The Year
- The Mill named Global Post-Production of The Year
- Canja Audio Culture named Global Music and Sound Company of The Year
- JSM named Global Radio & Audio Company of The Year
- Dole named Global Client of The Year
All rounds of judging were done on-site in Las Vegas. LIA judging process has no pre-judging. Each juror sees every piece of work in their respective categories. Each jury, along with their president, met in their judging room to discuss and debate thoroughly before deciding on the winners to makes sure that all work was judged equally.
754 LIA statues and 230 finalists were awarded to 45 countries. The United States led with 254 wins.
Barbara Levy, president of LIA, commented, “We have Grand LIA winners from companies in countries that have never been awarded with them before. In terms of Global Network of The Year, Ogilvy, as a network, has outdone itself this year. They have Grand LIAs from Ogilvy Honduras, Ogilvy India and Ogilvy Thailand. In our Health and Pharma categories, AREA 23, an IPG Company, truly dominated. They led the statue count in not only Health, but also in Pharma, a highly regulated industry. To all our Global and Regional winners, the LIA staff sends our heartiest congratulations on such outstanding work.”
Ogilvy, Global Network of The Year, was also Regional Network of The Year for Asia, Europe and South America. It won 115 Statues; 3 Grand LIAs, 21 Golds, 35 Silvers, 56 Bronzes and 44 Finalists. In addition, Ogilvy Group Thailand, Bangkok was Regional Agency of The Year for Asia; Ogilvy, Melbourne was Regional Agency of The Year for Australia and New Zealand; and Ogilvy Honduras, Tegucigalpa was Regional Agency of The Year for South America
Serviceplan Global Independent Network of The Year, with Serviceplan Germany collecting 19 Statues and 6 Finalists – five Golds, eight Silvers and six Bronzes. Serviceplan Germany was also Regional Independent Agency of The Year and Regional Design Company of The Year for Europe.
alma DDB, Miami was named Global Agency of The Year and Regional Agency of The Year for North America with 2 Grand LIAs, one for Billboard and the other in Print for Pepsi titled Burger King, McDonald’s and Wendy’s.
L&C New York has been awarded Global Independent Agency of The Year and Global Design Company of The Year for the first time. Its work for Dole collected 15 Statues, including 3 Grand LIAs in each of Design, Evolution and Transformative Business Impact for Ananas Anam Piñatex. These wins contributed to Dole being named Global Client of The Year. L&C New York was also named Regional Independent Agency of The Year and Regional Design Company of The Year for North America.
In Health and Pharma, AREA 23, an IPG Health Company led the pack to win both Global Health Agency and Global Pharma Agency of The Year. It won 35 Statues, including 3 Grand LIAs and was also named Regional Health Agency of The Year and Regional Pharma Agency of The Year for North America.
Points attained from winning work from Area 23, McCann Health and FCB Health catapulted IPG Health to being named Global Health and Pharma Network of The Year. It was also named Regional Health & Pharma Network of The Year for North America and Regional Health & Pharma Network of The Year for South America.
Real Chemistry was named the Global Independent Health & Pharma Network of The Year with its work for AstraZeneca and Phexxi.
The inaugural winner of the Health & Pharma Client of The Year goes to Hip Hop Public Health. Its Lil Sugar Master of Disguise Campaign was a favourite in Health & Wellness – Craft, winning the Grand LIA. This same piece of work won 4 Gold Statues.
draftLine was named Global In-House Agency of The Year and Regional In-House Agency of The Year for North America. Four different juries awarded its work which attributed to these wins.
For the first time, The Pack, a production company in Mumbai India, was named Global Production Company of The Year. Six different juries awarded its work, Shah Rukh Khan-My-Ad, for Cadbury Celebrations Shah Rukh Khan-My-Ad awarding the agency 11 Statues including the Integration Grand LIA. It was also named Regional Production Company of The Year for Asia. Rephrase.AI, Bengaluru was named Regional Post-Production Company of The Year for Asia for the same work.
The Mill was named Global Post-Production Company of The Year. Points were allocated for work it entered directly that collected two Gold Statues and work it produced for Cartwright Los Angeles (1 statue); Commonwealth // McCann Detroit (1 statue); CYW Madrid (4 statues); Leo Burnett Frankfurt (4 statues); Love Song Los Angeles (3 statues); Publicis Italy (1 statue); VMLY&R New York (4 statues) and Wave Studios NY (1 statue). It was also awarded the Regional Post-Production Company of The Year for Europe.
Canja Audio Culture was named Global Music & Sound Company of The Year. Points were awarded for music it produced for AREA 23, an IPG Health Company (13 statues); FCB Health São Paulo (1 statue); Grey New York (2 statues) and Havas Health & You Brazil (2 statues). Canja Audio Culture was also named Regional Music & Sound Company of The Year for South America.
JSM New York was named Global Radio & Audio Company of The Year. Points were awarded work it produced that was entered by FCB Chicago, including the Radio & Audio Grand LIA. It was also named Regional Music & Sound Company of The Year and Regional Radio & Audio Company of The Year for North America.
FCB was named Regional Network of The Year for North America. FCB Chicago contributed by winning a Grand LIA in Radio & Audio for Walmart’s Bedtime Stories. It was also awarded three Gold Statues, two Silver and a Bronze.
Regional Production Company of The Year for North America was awarded to Dalmatian Cow, Los Angeles for work it produced for AREA 23, an IPG Health Company, which earned 10 statues including two Grand LIAs. Company 3 was awarded the Regional Post-Production Company of the Year for North America, with points awarded for winning work from ten companies globally – 215 McCann San Francisco, 750mph London, Cramer-Krasselt Chicago, Deloitte Digital NY, Iconoclast Germany, Jamm Visual Culver City, Love Song Los Angeles, PSOne NY, Serviceplan Germany and Wave Studios NY.
Regional Independent Company of The Year for Asia was awarded to audacity Bangkok a Gold and three Silver statues contributed to the win.
Regional Independent Network of The Year for Australia and New Zealand was awarded to Special. Points attained came from David’s Unusables for Motor Neurone Disease New Zealand and work entered by Flux Animation, Auckland and AIRBAG Melbourne/Sydney.
Howatson+Company was named Regional Independent Agency of The Year for Australia and New Zealand, winning the Ambient & Activation Grand LIA for Rejected Ales for Matilda Bay. 3 Gold LIAs, 1 Silver, 3 Bronze and two finalists all contributed its win.
FINCH was named Regional Production Company of The Year for Australia and New Zealand, with points accrued from its winning work entered for UNHCR and NRMA Insurance and winning work entered by Flux Animation, Auckland and The Tuesday Club, Auckland. Eardrum, Sydney was named Regional Radio & Audio Company of The Year and Regional Music & Sound Company of The Year for Australia and New Zealand.
DAVID Madrid was named Regional Agency of The Year for Europe with four Gold Statues. Jung von Matt was named Regional Independent Network of The Year with points accrued for work entered by Jung von Matt Hamburg and Jung von Matt DONAU Vienna.
Iconoclast Germany, Berlin was named Regional Production Company of The Year for Europe. Points came from One for WhatsApp titled (4 statues) and work it produced for The Wish for Serviceplan for Penny (7 statues).
Regional Music & Sound Company of The Year for Europe was awarded to 750mph, London. Points were awarded for the six statues it won (3 Gold, 2 Silver and a Bronze) and winning music entered by duotone audio group (1 statue); Riff Raff Films (2 statues) and Time Based Arts (1 statue). Regional Radio & Audio Company of The Year was awarded to Accenture Song, Brussels.
Impact BBDO, Dubai was named Regional Agency of The Year for the Middle East and Africa. This came from winning the Non-Traditional Grand LIA won for The Elections Edition for AnNahar Newspaper. A Grand LIA was also awarded by the Health & Wellness jury for Despair No More for Tena. This is the first time in the show, that the United Arab Emirates brought home two Grand LIAs. In addition, they took home a staggering 5 Gold, 6 Silver and 1 Bronze for those two pieces of work. The Elections Edition was produced by DejaVu, Dubai, leading to its becoming Regional Production Company of The Year for the Middle East and Africa. Motif Studios Cape Town was named Regional Post-Production Company of The Year for the Middle East and Africa, its points coming from winning work for Jif entered by the agency.
Studios Machina was Regional Post-Production Company of The Year South America, through being credited for winning work entered by DDB México, including 2 Grand LIAs. The Youth, Curitiba was named Regional Production Company of The Year, with points for work it produced for Horizon FCB Dubai (2 statues) and IPG Health (6 statues).
Listed below are all Global and Regional winners:
The 2022 Global of The Year Awards:
- Global Network of The Year: Ogilvy
Global Independent Network of The Year: SERVICEPLAN - Global Client of The Year: Dole
Global Agency of The Year: alma DDB, Miami - Global Independent Agency of The Year: L&C, New York, New York
Global In-House Agency of The Year: draftLine - Global Health & Pharma Network of The Year: IPG Health
Global Health Agency of The Year: AREA 23, an IPG Health Company, New York
Global Pharma Agency of The Year: AREA 23, an IPG Health Company, New York
Global Independent Health & Pharma Network of The Year: Real Chemistry - Global Health & Pharma Client of The Year: Hip Hop Public Health
- Global Production Company of The Year: The Pack, Mumbai
Global Post-Production Company of The Year: The Mill
Global Music & Sound Company of The Year: Canja Audio Culture
Global Design Company of The Year: L&C New York, New York
Global Radio & Audio Company of The Year: JSM
The 2022 Regional of The Year Awards for Asia:
- Regional Network of The Year: Ogilvy
- Regional Agency of The Year: Ogilvy Group Thailand, Bangkok
- Regional Independent Agency of The Year: audacity bangkok
- Regional Production Company of The Year: The Pack, Mumbai
- Regional Post-Production Company of The Year: Rephrase.AI, Bengaluru
- The 2022 Regional of The Year Awards for Australia and New Zealand:
- Regional Agency of The Year: Ogilvy, Melbourne
- Regional Independent Network of The Year: Special
- Regional Independent Agency of The Year: Howatson+Company
- Regional Production Company of The Year: FINCH
- Regional Music & Sound Company of The Year: Eardrum, Sydney
- Regional Radio & Audio Company of The Year: Eardrum, Sydney
The 2022 Regional of The Year Awards for Europe:
- Regional Network of The Year: Ogilvy
- Regional Independent Network of The Year: Jung von Matt
- Regional Agency of The Year: DAVID Madrid, Madrid
- Regional Independent Agency of The Year: SERVICEPLAN Germany, Munich
- Regional Production Company of The Year: Iconoclast Germany, Berlin
- Regional Post-Production Company of The Year: The Mill
- Regional Music & Sound Company of The Year: 750mph, London
- Regional Radio & Audio Company of The Year: Accenture Song, Brussels
- Regional Design Company of The Year: SERVICEPLAN Germany, Munich
- The 2022 Regional of The Year Awards for Middle East and Africa:
- Regional Agency of The Year: IMPACT BBDO, Dubai
- Regional Production Company of The Year: DejaVu, Dubai
- Regional Post-Production Company of The Year: Motif Studios, Cape Town
The 2022 Regional of The Year Awards for North America:
- Regional Network of The Year: FCB
- Regional Agency of The Year: alma DDB, Miami
- Regional Independent Agency of The Year: L&C New York, New York
- Regional In-House Agency of The Year: draftLine, New York
- Regional Health & Pharma Network of The Year: IPG Health
- Regional Health Agency of The Year: AREA 23, an IPG Health Company
- Regional Pharma Agency of The Year: AREA 23, an IPG Health Company
- Regional Production Company of The Year: Dalmatian Cow, Los Angeles
- Regional Post-Production Company of The Year: Company 3
- Regional Music & Sound Company of The Year: JSM Music, New York
- Regional Radio & Audio Company of The Year: JSM Music, New York
- Regional Design Company of The Year: L&C New York, New York
The 2022 Regional of The Year Awards for South America:
- Regional Network of The Year: Ogilvy
- Regional Agency of The Year: Ogilvy Honduras, Tegucigalpa
- Regional Health & Pharma Network of The Year: IPG Health
- Regional Production Company of The Year: The Youth, Curitiba
- Regional Post-Production Company of The Year: Studios Machina
- Regional Music & Sound Company of The Year: Canja Audio Culture
View all the winners and finalists with media and full creative credits, here.






