WPP: won Creative Company of the Year at the Cannes Lions 2025.Cannes Lions will no longer award a Creative Company of the Year as part of an update to its awards process for 2026.
WPP was named Creative Company of the Year in 2025, with Omnicom second and Interpublic third. Omnicom acquired Interpublic in November 2025.
A spokesperson for Cannes Lions said: “Following significant structural industry shifts, including large-scale mergers, we concluded that the Creative Company of the Year award no longer provides a consistent or comparable benchmark.”
WPP also won Creative Company of the Year in 2024, while Omnicom claimed the prize in 2023.
Cannes Lions introduced the award as Holding Company of the Year in 2011 and renamed it as the Crea
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