(New York, 8th November, 2022) Today, London International Awards (LIA), continuing its tradition of a total focus on creativity reveals its 2022 Global and Regional of The Year Winners.  

 

LIA has the highest calibre of jurors from across the globe. All rounds of judging were done onsite in Las Vegas. Our judging process has no pre-judging. Each juror sees every piece of work in their respective Categories. Each jury, along with their President, convened in their judging room to discuss and debate thoroughly before deciding on the Winners. This ensures that all work was judged equally through careful deliberations and robust discussions.
 
Of The Year Awards are calculated based on a point system allocated to the winning work chosen by the Juries across all competitions. LIA uses the creative credits that are input at the time of entry to award those points, regardless of the entrant.

 

FCB was named Regional Network of The Year for North America. Their agencies across North America garnered a total of 66 Statues and 23 Finalists.

 

alma DDB, Miami is named the Global Agency of The Year and Regional Agency of The Year for North America. They dominated with their campaign for Pepsi – Better with Pepsi titled “Burger King”, “McDonald’s”, “Wendy’s” garnering two Grand LIAs, one for Billboard and the other in Print. This piece of work also attained four Gold and four Silver Statues. In addition, points for winning work for Miller Lite and Change the Ref contributed to alma DDB winning these prestigious awards.

 

L&C New York, New York was awarded not one but four of the prestigious Of The Year Awards being named Global Independent Agency of The Year and Global Design Company of The Year for North America they were awarded Regional Independent Agency of The Year and Regional Design Company of The Year. Their work for Dole Sunshine Company + Ananas Anam titled “Piñatex” was awarded Grand LIAs by three different juries; Design, Evolution and Transformative Business Impact. These wins contributed to Dole being named Global Client of The Year.  

 

DraftLine was named Global In-House Agency of The Year and Regional In-House Agency of The Year for North America. Four different juries awarded their work which attributed to them winning this prestigious award.

 

IPG Health swept the LIA Health and Pharma awards, clinching the Global Health & Pharma Network of the Year and Regional Health & Pharma Network of The Year for North America.

 

AREA 23, an IPG Health Company, New York contributed to the success, bringing home 35 Statues, including 3 Grand LIAs. They were named Global Health Agency and Global Pharma Agency of The Year. They were also named Regional Health Agency of The Year and Regional Pharma Agency of The Year for North America.

 

The inaugural winner of the Health & Pharma Client of The Year goes to Hip Hop Public Health. Their “Lil Sugar “Master of Disguise Campaign” was a favourite in Health & Wellness – Craft, winning the Grand LIA. This same piece of work garnered four Gold Statues.

 

For the first time, LIA recognized Independent Health & Pharma Network. Taking home this prestigious award is Real Chemistry being named Global Independent Health & Pharma Network of The Year.

 

JSM, New York was namedRegional Music & Sound Company of The Year being credited for work that won 10 statues and seven Finalists. JSM was also awarded Regional Radio & Audio Company of The Year.

 

Regional Production Company of The Year was awarded to Dalmatian Cow, Los Angeles for work they produced for AREA 23, an IPG Health Company garnering them 10 statues including two Grand LIAs.  

 

Company 3 took home the Regional Post-Production Company of the Year, points were awarded for winning work from ten companies globally - 750mph London, Deloitte Digital NY, Iconoclast Germany, Jamm Visual Culver City, PSOne NY, Serviceplan Germany and Wave Studios NY.

 

Barbara Levy, President of LIA, said, “In total, the USA itself won 254 Statues and 10 Grand LIAs. They won 10 out of the total of 21 Grand LIAs. You imagine the breadth and depth of work and the standard.  North America outpaced the other regions in terms of the number of Grand LIAs and Statues by a broad margin.  My congratulations to all our North America winners!”