The One Club for Creativity announced the global finalists in the ADC 104th Annual Awards, including 13 from Middle East and Africa. 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.
Finalists:
South Africa
BCKRDS Johannesburg has one finalist, for 54 Collective ’54 Collective Rebrand’. Pola Maneli from Port Elizabeth is a finalist for ‘Narrating Slavery’s Wake’ on behalf of The Smithsonian Institute.
Egypt
One finalist each went to Bahia Shehab Cairo for NUART Aberdeen ‘Bear Witness’, and Islam Hassan Cairo for Odoriko ‘Odoriko Logo’.
Saudi Arabia
BigTime Creative Shop Riyadh picked up the country’s three finalists, all for the ring magazine ‘4th Judge’.
Turkey
Both ADC 104th Annual Awards finalists from Turkey went to Sadi Akbudak İstanbul for ‘TUGFO 24’ on behalf of The Turkish National Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.
United Arab Emirates
Publicis Middle East Dubai has all of the finalists from UAE with four, all for Babyshop ‘ColourCheck’.
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. 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.
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