2025 AGENCY SCORECARDS

creative scoreboard

What a season!

B&T has blown full time on the digital phase of this year’s B&T Agency Scorecards project, with several agencies lifting their game in 2024.

Three creative agencies scored 9s: debutant Akcelo, and industry leaders Droga5 and Howatson+Co, who notched up similar scores last year. Check out our special prizes below to see who won the Most Improved Agency, Trophy Titan and Best Team Shot awards.

Scroll over an agency’s name and click to check out their scorecard.

B&T marks an agency’s score based on their previous year’s performance. This means that a score for 2024 is relative to how they performed in 2023. This is why the Final Standings are in alphabetical order.

An agency is assessed considering various criteria, including business performance, the quality of creative work, silverware, client relation scores, HR and L&D policies, and innovations that push the industry forward.

Consideration was also given to the challenging market conditions of 2024 and how this impacted business.

B&T did not score Clemenger BBDO because in 2024 it operated as three separate agencies (Clemenger BBDO, CHEP Network and Traffik) as part of Clemenger Group. A few agencies chose not to select an MVP.

Media agencies who took part in this year’s B&T Agency Scorecard project should look out for a Media Scoreboard within the next week. 

In the coming weeks, B&T will run a deep industry analysis piece based on the Agency Scorecards research and produce a special B&T Agency Scorecard giant collector card for each agency. These will look and feel like the sports collector cards from childhood, but specifically tailored to each agency!

To receive a collector card, each agency must provide a high res photo, full length or waist up, of their MVP or captain. If your agency has not done this, please call the B&T team or email [email protected] to find out more.

final standings

Team nameCaptainMVPScore  Previous
AkceloAden HepburnLouise McQuat9
BastionCheuk ChiangAna Lynch8
BMFStephen McArdleN/A8.58
BornJenny LennonScott Wrightson8.5
Clemenger BBDOLee LeggettN/ADNS –
CocogunChiquita KingEmily Hahn8
DDBMike Napolitano, Sheryl MarjoramElla Ward87
Dentsu CreativeKirsty MuddleGraham Alvarez-Jarratt7.57
Droga5Matt MichaelShannon Duhig99
EmotiveSimon JoyceRupert Taylor7.5
Howatson+CoChris HowatsonHoang Nguyen99
It’s FridayPete BosilkovskiGrant McAloon7.5
LeoClare PickensCatherine King8.57
M+C SaatchiJustin GrahamClement Simon77
OgilvySally KissaneFran Clayton8
Paper MooseNick HunterJeremy Willmott7.5
Publicis WorldwideSimone WaughRyan Petie7.5
Saatchi & SaatchiPatrick RoweClaire Thompson87
Special GroupLindsey Evans, Cade HeydeSimon Gibson, Nils Eberhardt8.59
SupermassiveLaura Aldington, Simone Gupta, Jon AustinAdam Smith8
ThinkerbellMargie Reid, Adam Ferrier, Jim IngramN/A8.59
Today The BraveJaimes LeggettKate Gregson88
VMLThomas TearleJack Delmonte8

special prizes

Most Improved team - leo

Leo welcomed a new tagline, ‘The Business of Reinvention’ and lived up to this mantra with huge account wins (all of Suncorp and ANZ), excellent work for Amazon Prime and Johnny Walker, and silverware to match. Strategy chief Catherine King (pictured) was at the heart of much of Leo’s success.

Trophy titan - droga5

Only the very elite awards programs make it into our Trophy Cabinet, and Droga5 might need a bigger one after their 2024 haul. They won a staggering 68 trophies in seven awards schemes, including 3 Cannes Lions, 40 Award Awards, 13 Effies, 4 D&AD, 7 Cairns Crocodiles and 1 B&T Awards! ‘Play it Safe’ for the Opera House (right) was a masterpiece.

best team shot - born

There were only two agencies seriously in the running – Born and Dentsu Creative. B&T was torn between Dentsu’s fun anime montage and Born’s renaissance masterpiece, but B&T admired the simplicity of photoshopping heads onto artwork. It was proper old school meme, unashamed and kinda creepy,  and won out in the end. Sorry Gen Z!