DDB and Omnicom take top honours at the 2023 Gerety Awards

DDB Worldwide has been awarded Global Network of the Year, while DDB Chicago won Global Agency of the Year, and Omnicom has won Holding Company of the Year.

Agency of the year: DDB CHICAGO

2nd place: BBDO Germany

3rd place: Cossette

Network of the year: DDB

2nd place: VMLY&R

3rd place: McCann Worldgroup

Holding Company of the year: OMNICOM

2nd place: WPP

3rd place: IPG

Agency, Network and Holding Company of the year are the Gerety top awards and earned for the highest combined score from points given to Shortlist, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Grand Prix, and Agency of the year by country awards.

DDB Chicago is the Gerety 2023 Global Agency of the year with 1 Grand Prix, 3 Gold, 5 Silver, 1 Bronze, for their work with Bears for Twix, Chillboards for Coors Light and Apologize the Rainbow for Skittles.

The DDB Network is the Global Network of the Year being awarded with 1 Grand Prix, 6 Gold, 9 Silver, 3 Bronze, and 10 Shortlist. The winning agencies included: Alma DDB, DDB Chicago, DDB Group Germany, DDB Italy, DDB Romania, DDB Warszawa, DDB Wien, NORD DDB Copenhagen and NORD DDB Helsinki.

Omnicom received the Holding Company of the Year award, with winning agencies coming from 15 countries across the DDB, BBDO and TBWA Network agencies.

Named for Frances Gerety, the copywriter who in 1948 coined the slogan “A diamond is forever”, the Gerety Awards brings together a jury to select the best in advertising from a powerful perspective, creating a benchmark that is relevant to the market reality, all while redefining the standard to which advertising has traditionally been held.