Doner is one of the most prominent independent advertising agencies in the world. With offices across North America, London, and more than 30 countries, Doner has established itself as a leader in the industry. Universal McCann (UM) is a creative media agency that works with some of the biggest names in the business, such as Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, The Hershey Company, CVS Health, ExxonMobil, BMW, and Sony. As part of the Interpublic network and IPG Mediabrands group, UM operates in over 100 countries and employs more than 4,800 people. Cheil Worldwide is South Korea's largest advertising agency, boasting a turnover that is more than three times larger than its closest domestic rival.
With 53 offices in 43 countries and 6,200 employees worldwide, Cheil's impressive list of clients includes Adidas, GE, Coca-Cola, Lego, Microsoft, Shell and many more. Leo Burnett is one of the most renowned and well-known advertising agencies in the world. It has a long history of excellence in advertising and is known for creating iconic characters for brands such as Uncle Ben, Jolly Green Giant, Tony the Tiger, Pillsbury Dough-Boy and Marlboro Man. Today, Leo Burnett continues to be a leader in advertising with 85 offices, more than 8,000 employees and a member of Publicis. Walter Thompson (JWT) is one of the oldest and most renowned marketing agencies in the world. With over 150 years of experience creating creative solutions that make brands last, JWT has more than 200 offices in over 90 countries and nearly 10,000 employees.
The WPP agency is responsible for Church's Chicken US, US Marine Corps, Subway and KPMG among others. Mindshare was founded in 1997 and is one of the best media buying and planning agencies in the world. As part of WPP's GroupM network with 116 offices in 86 countries across North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Asia; Mindshare acts as a registered media agency for Pandora Jewelry, TJX and Tyson Foods. DDB was founded by Bill Bernbach, Ned Doyle and Maxwell Dane in 1949. It is one of the most recognized advertising agencies and regularly receives awards for its work. Despite having a lower profile than other major agencies, DDB continues to work with major brands such as Heineken to Ubisoft and Volkswagen while serving as the registration agency for McDonald's, Jeep and more. Dentsu is Japan's largest advertising agency. It offers a wide range of services across eight business domains including marketing, digital, creative, promotions, media content public relations and global business.
Founded in 1901 Dentsu works with global brands such as Facebook. Deloitte Digital is an up-and-coming agency that provides everything from strategy to logistics as well as branding and cybersecurity. More companies are choosing to work with this multifaceted agency due to its capabilities. Recently it acquired San Francisco-based creative store Heat and Swedish agency Acne. Saatchi & Saatchi began as an emerging advertising agency in London during the 1970s but has since grown into a global communication agency with 114 offices in 67 countries. Asatsu-DK is a Japanese advertising agency that is the third largest agency in Japan after Dentsu and Hakuhodo. Omnicom consists of five major agency networks including Media One Marketing Group which oversees more than 1500 agencies as parent companies.
An advertising agency, often known as a creative agency or advertising agency is a company dedicated to creating planning and managing advertising as well as other forms of promotion and marketing for its clients. At the beginning of the 21st century management consulting firms such as PwC Digital and Deloitte Digital began competing with advertising agencies with an emphasis on data analysis. Wongdoody is an award-winning creative agency that has been driven by its Creative Democracy process for over twenty years making it one of the best places to work according to Ad Age Puget Sound Business Journal and Los Angeles Business Journal. Most recently it acquired Japanese agency Tambourine an e-commerce customer experience agency with around 70 employees specializing in leveraging Salesforce's cloud-based technology to improve digital services. Although it remains the smallest of the top three advertising agencies within the Publicis Groupe network it continues to work with six of the top 10 global advertisers. WPP plc is the world's largest advertising agency by revenue generating $17.34 billion last year making it one of the top five advertising agencies in the world along with Dentsu Publicis Interpublic Group of Companies and Omnicom Group. Several of these agencies offer multiple disciplines; the primary discipline of each of these agencies listed is indicated by color code after its name which is explained in key at bottom of table. This list represents 50 largest agencies not networks or groups of agencies such as WPP Publicis Group Dentsu Inc Interpublic Omnicom Group. This China-based advertising agency focused on brand management became first Chinese publicly traded company in field.
