WARC 100 declares Mullen Lowe Lintas as top creative agency

Mumbai:  Annual ranking of the world's 100 best campaigns and companies based on their performance in effectiveness and strategy competitions, The WARC 100, has named MullenLowe Lintas Group, India the Top Creative Agency in the World.

The agency is the first to claim the number one position as Top Creative Agency in the World for two consecutive years. Following at number two is Droga5, NYC with Ogilvy, NYC being ranked number three. Additionally, the MullenLowe Group global network has retained its 4th place position as Top Creative Network for the second year in a row.

The WARC 100 study focuses on marketing that makes a difference, driving business performance or changing consumer behaviour, and the rankings are compiled from over 2,200 winning campaigns from 87 different global competitions.

Commenting on the achievement, MullenLowe Lintas Group  Group CEO Joseph George said, “2015 was a milestone year for the agency with over 60 awards for creative effectiveness alone. This year too began well for us, being declared the Agency of the Year at Effies India in January. And now this WARC 100 recognition 2 years in a row further demonstrates the primacy of delivering ROI for our clients as our singular pursuit, as indeed in our belief in the type of work we want to deliver for our clients."

Adding to its list of achievements, of the three campaigns that have been selected from India in the top 20, two of them were from MullenLowe Lintas Group. ‘Kan Khajura Tesan’, which was ranked number one last year remained in the rankings at number nine this year while Idea Cellular’s campaign ‘No Ullu Banaoing’ was ranked number 17. Havells Appliances ‘Respect Women’ also managed to find a place in the table as it was ranked number 25 in the list.

The above recognition builds on the recent success that has been witnessed by MullenLowe Lintas Group which has a host of accolades against its name including Agency of the Year 2015 by Effie India, the Most Effective Agency in APAC by Effie Effectiveness Index, The Agency of the Year – AMES 2015, The Agency of the Year – U&AP Awards 2015, Runner-up International Agency of the Year by Ad Age and also put up India’s best ever performance at the Jay Chiat Awards twice in two years.