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AKQA is a creative company at the intersection of imagination and technology, with over 2,400 professionals across 30 countries. For more than three decades, AKQA has pioneered what’s next. From the dawn of digital to the rise of AI, AKQA is globally recognised for its creative excellence and innovation. The company has earned top honours including the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Grand Prix for Digital Craft (2023), Design and Glass (2024), and Innovation (2025), alongside seven Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards and a World Changing Ideas Award.
Recognition for AKQA:
- Won 83 Agency of the Year awards.
- Won 616 Cannes Lions in the last decade, including the Innovation Grand Prix in 2025, Glass: Lion for Change in 2024, the Digital Craft Grand Prix in 2023, the Design Grand Prix in 2021 and two Grand Prix’s at Cannes Lions in 2019.
- Named as Campaign’s 2023 Digital Agency Global Network of the Year.
- Winner of Fast Company world changing Ideas awards in 2024, 2022 and 2021
- Ranked as the 9th Most Loved Workplace in the World by Newsweek.
- Recognised in Fast Company’s 2024 Innovation by Design awards.
- Winner of 160 Webby Awards.
- Winner of eight Clio Sports Awards.
- Winner of 19 D&AD Awards in 2021 and eight in 2022.
- The only agency to lead Gartner’s independent evaluation of Global Marketing Agencies for four years in succession.
- Led IDC’s quantitative and qualitative assessment of success in Customer Experience Design.
- Most awarded digital agency as reported in the 2021 UK Digital Agency Census.
- Winner of Most Creative Agency in Latin America by One Show Awards and Cannes Lions Awards.
- Won Queen’s Award for Enterprise Innovation.
- Won the Grand Clio Music Award and the Grand Clio Entertainment Award in 2022.
- Grey is named the no. 1 advertising agency for Creative Effectiveness by WARC.
- Named by Financial Review as one of the Most Innovative Companies and by Fast Company as a Best Workplace for Innovators.
- Named Best in Class for Digital Design at Victorian Premier Design Awards.
- Won BD Architect’s award for Retail and Leisure Architect of the Year.
- Received three Red Dot Awards including Best of the Best.
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