Network/Agency of the Year/People of the Year DDB China Group is one of the most awarded creative agencies in China and consistently ranks in the top 10 rankings, as determined by Longyin Review and China Advertising Magazine.
- In 2010, DDB China Group was named Ad Age China's Agency of the Year.
- In 2010, DDB China Group was named Greater China Creative Agency of the Year at the Campaign Agency of the Year awards.
- In 2010, Tribal DDB Shanghai was named Campaign's Greater China Digital Agency of the Year.
- In 2010, Chief Creative Officer Michael Dee was named Campaign's Greater China Creative of the Year.
- President and CEO Dick van Motman was the first expatriate to be awarded "Most Outstanding Person of the Year" by CCTV and China Advertising in 2010.
- President and CEO Dick van Motman was named one of 30 "Agency Innovators" of the Year by the Internationalist Magazine in 2010.
Cannes
Based on total awards won at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes over the last 19 years, DDB has emerged as the most creative of the world's multinational networks, winning 621 Cannes Lions between 1990 and 2010.
DDB China's commitment to creativity and effectiveness has been reflected in the Agency winning its first Gold Lion at the Cannes Advertising Festival for its Green Pedestrian Crossing campaign for the China Environmental Protection Foundation - the second only Gold Lion ever awarded to an agency in Greater China. The Green Pedestrian Crossing campaign went on to win two Grand Prix awards, at both the 2010 UK Green Awards and the 2010 China 4A Golden Seal Creative Awards.
At the 2011 Cannes Festival of Creativity, DDB's "Chopsticks, Not Chop
Trees" campaign for the China Environmental Protection Foundation won
a Bronze Lion in the Promo & Activation category.
Industry awards:
- 2012 AdFest: one "Best of Show" in the outdoor category; 3 Silvers, 3 Bronzes and 3 Finalists
- 2012 International AME: one silver
- 2011 International AME Awards: one gold, two silvers, and one bronze.
- 2011 International ANDY Awards: one gold
- 2011 Asian Marketing Effectiveness Awards: one silver and one bronze
- 2011 New York Festivals: one silver and one bronze
- 2011 One Show Design: one gold
- 2011 D&AD: In Book
- 2011 AWARD: one silver and one bronze
- 2011 CLIO Awards: one silver
- 2011 PMAA Award: one Best in China , one gold, one silver and one Merit
- 2011 China Effie: one gold, six silvers and four bronzes
- 2011 China Great-Wall Awards: two golds, six silvers and five bronzes
- 2011 Chinese Element International Creative Award: one Grand prix and one gold
- 2011 Public Service Advertisement: one gold
- 2011 China Internet Ad Competition: one gold, one silver, two bronzes and one merit
- 2011 China Media Planning Award: one silver Spikes Asia 2010: two gold and two silver awards
- 2010 ROI Digital Awards: three gold awards and one Grand prix
- 2010 Longxi Awards: one gold and two bronze
- 2010 China Effies: one gold, one silver, two bronze
- 2010 One Show Award: one silver
- 2010 CLIO Awards: one silver
- 2010 Pinnacle Awards: two bronze
- 2010 China 4A Creative Awards: 11 awards total
- 2010 UK Green Awards: one Grand Prix