BBDO named YoungGuns Network of the Decade
CB Exclusive – BBDO has topped the YoungGuns Top 10 rankings of the most Awarded Networks of the past decade, making it the number one network in the world for emerging and young creatives.
The Top 10 Networks ranking identifies the global marketing groups that have produced the most awarded creative talent in the 10 years since the YoungGuns were founded.
BBDO has been consistently awarded over the nine years of YoungGuns, with 148 Bullets or finalist positions won. BBDO has been awarded Network of the Year and Agency of the Year multiple times since the YoungGuns were founded, with BBDO agencies from 14 countries awarded to date.
Saatchi & Saatchi takes second place in the ranking, followed by Leo Burnett, DDB and TBWA to round out the top five.
The Top 10 Awarded Networks
1 BBDO
2 Saatchi & Saatchi
3 Leo Burnett
4 DDB
5 TBWA
6 Ogilvy & Mather
7 Young & Rubicam
8 JWT
9 Publicis
10 Lowe
Entries are now openfor the world’s best young professionals and students to enter thisyear’s awards, which recognize emerging creative talent in a number offields and are the premier global platform for defining creative talent.
Over the next month, YoungGuns will release more Top 10 rankings on a specially designed, and extremely hot, website– http://www.ygaward.com/10years – that celebrates the young talent andincubator organizations that have nurtured those creative aspirationsacross YoungGuns last 10 years.
Some of the rankings are just straightforward, one to ten and others will be decided by public vote.
The rankings to be released, in order are: Top 10 AwardedCountries, Top Awarded Networks, Top 10 Awarded Schools, Top 10Innovative Ideas (Public Vote), 10 Years of Call for Entries (PublicVote), Top 10 Awarded Agencies and Top 10 Awarded Young Creatives.
YoungGuns will re-release select virals from its last 10 years ofCall For Entry Campaigns to coincide with each new ranking beingrevealed. These were created across the years by the followingagencies: 2001 – DÁrcy Sydney; 2002 – Mother, London; 2003 – Fallon,London; 2004 – Leo Burnett, Chicago; 2005 – CP+B, USA; 2006 – Saatchi& Saatchi, New Zealand; 2007 – TAXI, Canada; 2008 – Droga5, Global;2009 – YoungGuns.
YoungGuns has opened 2 NEW DIVISIONS in 2010 – YoungGuns PR and YoungGuns Design.
The 2010 YoungGuns Jury will consist of all the previous jurymembers since 2001. The talent and experience in this jury isoutstanding and truly global in its representation and we are delightedfor our entrants in this 10th year.
New Zealand has been the biggest contributor to BBDO’s success at YoungGuns. View BBDO’s YoungGuns record by Country: