Creative agency
Colenso BBDO
Auckland creative agency in the BBDO network, Spikes Asia 2025 Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year.
Colenso BBDO is a New Zealand creative agency that trades under its own name within the BBDO network, one of the three creative networks Omnicom kept in its 2025–26 consolidation. It topped the Spikes Asia 2025 Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year table.
Standing in the Report's landscape
No. 8 in Asia-Pacific agencies 2026
3 points: first in the Spikes Asia 2025 Asia-Pacific Agency of the Year table; tied with Supermassive and TBWA\HAKUHODO, whose placings are more recent.
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The rankings behind it
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Where it shines
- Ranked first among all agencies, network and independent, at Spikes Asia 2025.
- Belongs to BBDO, a network Omnicom kept when it retired DDB and FCB.
Check before signing
- Owned by Omnicom, which also owns competing agencies: ask about client conflicts and which network it reports into after the 2025–26 consolidation.
- Its place comes from creative-award tables: ask for business results on briefs like yours.
What it offers
- Markets
- Asia-PacificNew Zealand
How it is classified
- Category
- Creative
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Our six checks
- Ownership is public: not known yet
- Services are published: not known yet
- Offices are listed: not known yet
- Privacy is published: not known yet
- Effectiveness is evidenced: not known yet
- Work is shown: not known yet
- Ownership is publicNot assessed
It names its owner (the holding group) or states that it is independent, and names its leadership.
Reported by the press as an Omnicom agency after the 2025–26 consolidation; the agency's own ownership statement was not checked.
- Services are publishedNot assessed
A services or capabilities page says what it does.
The agency's services page was not checked for this listing.
- Offices are listedNot assessed
It publishes where it operates: its offices or markets.
The cited award tables name its office city; a published list of offices was not checked.
- Privacy is publishedNot assessed
Its site has a privacy notice, and a code of conduct where one was seen.
A privacy notice on the agency's site was not checked.
- Effectiveness is evidencedNot assessed
An independent effectiveness ranking or award from 2023 to 2026 names it (the Effie Index, the IPA Effectiveness Awards, the WARC Effective 100).
No 2023–2026 Effie, IPA or WARC Effective 100 placing was found in the sources read for this edition.
- Work is shownNot assessed
It publishes case studies or named client work.
Named client work appears in the cited award coverage; the agency's own case-study pages were not checked.
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Identity
| Type | Agency | |
|---|---|---|
| Categories | Creative | |
| Founded | Not recorded | |
| Headquarters | New Zealand | |
| Ownership | Part of a larger group | |
| Parent company | Omnicom (BBDO) | |
| Added by | IMC Report team |
Fit
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The community
| "Looks right" confirmations | 0 | |
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| Community experiences | 0 |
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