Ad Age's 2018 A-List

A-List 2018 Women of the A-List (from l.): Wieden & Kennedy's Susan Hoffman, Johannes Leonardo's Emily Wilcox, MullenLowe's Elizabeth Paul, W&K's Colleen DeCourcy, VML's Debbi Vandeven, Anomaly's Karina Wilsher, Laundry Service's Alyson Warshaw, 360i's Sarah Hofstetter, 72andSunny's Evin Shutt and R/GA's Chloe Gottlieb + A-List 2018 Agency of the Year Standouts & To Watch Innovator Comeback In-House Multicultural B2B Media International Executive Production Company Ad Age's annual A-List celebrates the very best that the industry has to offer. Whether for their bold creativity, lucrative business strategy or continual transformation—and often it's a combination—the agencies on this year's list rank among the top, perhaps, of all time. But the work and the deals don't happen in a vacuum. It took people. So in a landscape that has been lit up by the #MeToo movement, we're kicking things off with the portrait above of some of our A-Listers' most badass women. For more on how we got here, read our editors' letter. Agency of the Year 1 Wieden & Kennedy 2 McCann 3 VML 4 Johannes Leonardo 5 Anomaly 6 R/GA 7 Laundry Service 8 360i 9 72andSunny 10 Droga5 10 MullenLowe Agency Standouts Bullish CP&B Figliulo & Partners Momentum Preacher Starcom TBWA Translation Weber Shandwick Work & Co Agencies To Watch BBDO DDB Edelman Essence FCB GiantSpoon Joan McGarryBowen O'Keefe Reinhard & Paul Rokkan Agency Innovator of the Year David Miami Comeback Agency of the Year Goodby, Silverstein & Partners In-House Agency of the Year Spotify Multicultural Agency of the Year The Community Multicultural Agency Runner up Burrell Communications BtoB Agency of the Year MRM/McCann Media Agency of the Year Assembly International Agency of the Year BBH Singapore Executive of the Year Margaret Johnson Production Company of the Year Somesuch Production Company A-List Anonymous Content Production Company A-List Biscuit Production Company A-List Hungry Man Production Company A-List Imperial Woodpecker Production Company A-List MJZ Production Company A-List M ss ng P eces Production Company A-List O Positive Production Company A-List Park Pictures Production Company A-List Partizan Production Company A-List Prettybird Production Company A-List RSA Production Company A-List Radical Media Production Company A-List Rattling Stick Production Company A-List Smuggler Production Company Standouts Arts & Sciences Bob Industries Caviar The Directors Bureau Epoch Iconoclast Landia MediaMonks Stink Tool Production Companies To Watch Hey Wonderful Knucklehead Lord Danger Photo credits: Cover photo and A-List 1-10: Photography by Robyn Twomey. Set design by Theresa Rivera. Makeup & Hair by Diane Noorlander using MAC Cosmetics, Paul Mitchell and Dermalogica. A-list: Agency Standouts: (Clockwise from top) PepsiCo, Airbnb, Apple and Bumble; Agencies To Watch: (Clockwise from top l.) Jet.com, FCB, Procter & Gamble and Oscar Mayer; Innovator: David Miami; Comeback: Quinn Gravier, courtesy Goodby, Silverstein & Partners; In-house: courtesy Spotify; Multicultural: Andres Hernao, courtesy The Community and Johnny Villalobos/Burrell Communications; BtoB: Josh Wood Courtesy MRM/McCann; Media: Stephanie Diani, Courtesy Assembly; International: courtesy BBH Singapore; Executive: Chloe Aftel, courtesy Goodby, Silverstein & Partners; Production Company AOY: Somesuch; Production Company A-List: Anonymous Content: Spotify; Biscuit: Lyft; Hungry Man: Apple; Imperial Woodpecker: Apple; MJZ: Samsung; M ss ng P eces: Spotify; O Positive: The Atlantic; Park Pictures: Absolut; Partizan: John Lewis; Prettybird: Nike; RSA: Adidas; Radical Media: Audible; Rattling Stick: Audi; Smuggler: Guinness; Standouts: KFC; To Watch: National Geographic. Web production by Chen Wu.

Ad Age's 2018 A-List

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