Awards
Here are the 2020 Media Agency of the Year winners
This year, it’s Touche!, PHD and UM that have earned top honours in the media discipline.
2020 Media AOY Gold: Touche! is still all about creativity
The agency’s focus has given clients innovative solutions to specific problems.
2020 Media AOY Silver: PHD taps into the art of science
Under a new global vision, the agency encourages clients to go beyond incremental jumps and aim for “disproportionate returns.”
2020 Media AOY Bronze: UM proves its worth
To help clients address COVID challenges, the shop expanded its consulting service and developed new forecasting tools.
Announcing the 2020 Digital AOY winners
FCB joins the list of this year’s AOY winners, as Rethink and Sid Lee return to the podium for a second time.
2020 Digital AOY Gold: FCB puts creativity above capabilities
The five-time Gold winner believes without effective ideas, everything else is irrelevant.
Here are the 2020 PR AOY winners
Now it’s The Colony Project, Craft and Pomp & Circumstance’s turn to join the Agency of the Year winner podium.
2020 PR AOY Gold: As the world changes, so too does The Colony Project
By being nimble and scrappy, the Vision7 agency adapted to the shifting tides of 2020.
2020 PR AOY Silver: Craft digs its toes in CPG stories
The PR shop works against the grain with a focus on less PR-friendly categories that still have interesting stories to tell.
2020 PR AOY Bronze: Pomp & Circumstance marches to its own drum
The PR shop has picked up a bevy of clients (and some hardware) thanks to a renewed focus on creativity.
And the Design AOY winners are…
Rethink, Sid Lee and OneMethod stole the show with iconic designs that touched brands from Heinz Ketchup to the Toronto Raptors to KitKat.
2020 AOY Gold, Design Gold, Digital Silver: Rethink’s secret sauce
The agency’s tendency to treat everything as experiential paid off when the world became void of physical interactions.
2020 Design AOY Silver, Digital AOY Bronze: Sid Lee was born this way
A pioneer in digital that later moved into brand-building, the agency has built partnerships to take its offering to the next level.
2020 Design AOY Bronze: OneMethod leaves no stone unturned
CCO Amin Todai’s entrepreneurial spirit helped lay the groundwork for the Bensimon Byrne agency’s “experimental” mindset.
Here are the AOY and Small AOY finalists
Strategy reveals the creative agencies vying for a top spot in the remaining two categories of the 2020 program.
