Australia lands seven finalists at shortlist stage of ADC 104th Awards led by BMEOF with +61

April 22 2025, 9:33 am | BY Ricki Green | No Comments

The One Club for Creativity has announced the global finalists in the ADC 104th Annual Awards, including seven from Australia and four from New Zealand. Founded in 1920, the ADC Annual Awards is the world’s longest continuously running awards program recognizing global excellence in craft and innovation in all forms of advertising and design.  

 

In Australia, Bear Meets Eagle On Fire with +61 has three finalists, all for Telstra “Better on a Better Network”.  

Scoring one finalist apiece from Australia is Chris Rowson in Perth for Magners Irish Cider “Real To Our Core”, Never Sit Still Sydney for Node Fest “Node 2024 Opening Titles”, Thinkerbell for BINGE / BINGE Originals “Scene Scents A Binge Innovation”, and Universal Favourite Sydney for “The Dinner Ladies” illustration.

Motion Sickness Auckland has all four of the finalists from New Zealand, all for “The Best Place In The Word To Have Herpes” on behalf of The New Zealand Herpes Foundation.

Globally, Klick Health Toronto has the most finalists with 39, including 18 for Café Joyeux “47”, and 11 for KVI Brave Fund “Voice 2 Diabetes”.

Other top finalists are FCB New York 36, Serviceplan Germany Munich with 29, Apple Cupertino with 22, Rethink Canada with 17, and The New York Times Magazine with 15.

A total of 772 finalists from 40 countries were selected by this year’s esteemed ADC 104th Annual Awards jury.  The complete searchable list of this year’s finalists is available here.

All finalists will win a Gold, Silver or Bronze Cube or Merit, to be announced on May 14, 2025.  ADC Gold and special award winners will be celebrated that evening at the gala awards ceremony at Gotham Hall during Creative Week in New York.

Now in its 15th year, Creative Week (May 12-16, 2025) is a premier annual gathering for the advertising and design industries to come together and celebrate the creative excellence showcased in four of the club’s leading global awards shows, and discuss the latest creative trends and issues. 

In addition to the ADC 104th Annual Awards, Creative Week 2025 includes awards ceremonies for the Young Ones Student Awards on May 12, Type Directors Club TDC71 Best of Discipline winners and exhibition on May 13, The One Show 2025 winners on May 16, exclusive Executive Creative Summit-New York on May 15-16, and the first-ever Creative Week AI Creative Challenge on May 15.

Please visit Creative Week 2025 for more information and tickets.

 

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