Bear Meets Eagle on Fire was named Agency of the Year, McCann took Agency Network of the Year, and The Sweetshop was named Production Company of the Year, while Special Australia received the night’s top honour, the Grand Award, for Build Your Own Super Bowl for Uber Eats.
Across the show, 34 Gold pencils were awarded across 23 different campaigns, with a further 84 Silver and 156 Bronze pencils handed out.
Bear Meets Eagle on Fire and McCann New Zealand collected the most metal, both winning a total of 21 trophies each across bronze, silver and gold.
Bear Meets Eagle On Fire scored two golds – one for Telstra ‘Villains’ and one for Telstra ‘The Girl & Ghost’ in addition to five silver and 14 bronze.
McCann New Zealand won two golds for Huggies ‘Expensive Sh*t’ plus four silvers and 15 bronze.
Motion Sickness had a huge evening scoring the highest number of golds with seven in addition to one silver and eight bronze. The creative company won six golds for Whānau Ora ‘The Māori Roll Call’ and one for The New Zealand Herpes Foundation ‘Make New Zealand The Best Place In The World To Have Herpes’.
Leo Australia took home three golds including two for Suncorp ‘Haven’ and one for Suncorp ‘Building A More Resilient Australia’.
The Sweetshop, Production Company of the Year, picked up a total of 10 medals — two silver and eight bronze — across ‘Get Your Pickle On’ (Picklebet), ‘It’s Better With Spark’ (Spark), ‘We Go There’ (SBS) and ‘Booze Maths’ (Waka Kotahi | NZTA).
Jury President Samira Ansari said: “It was such a privilege to serve as the AWARD Awards Jury President this year, and I was, as ever, impressed by the work from the networks and especially from the thriving independent agencies across the region.
“The Grand Award was a hugely ambitious undertaking, executed brilliantly. Uber Eats turned its mobile app into its own media channel, connecting content and entertainment directly to commerce. What makes me especially proud is that this is industry-defining work, executed on advertising’s biggest stage, the Super Bowl, and it’s coming from our region. Bravo.”
AWARD Chair Mandie van der Merwe said: “This year, creativity called and our winners answered. Congratulations to every Gold, Silver and Bronze winner. Your work stood up to the scrutiny of some of the best creative minds in our region and earned its place among the ideas, craft and creativity shaping Asia Pacific. Winning at AWARD is hard. It should be, as that’s what makes it mean something.
“To our Special Award winners, congratulations. You represent the people, companies and creative partnerships pushing our industry forward and raising the standard for all of us.
“Finally, a huge thank you to our Jury President Samira Ansari, our Jury Chairs and every judge who gave their time, experience and very strong opinions to the process. The debate is rigorous because the standard matters. Thank you for protecting it and for helping us recognise the work that stood out in 2026.”