What agencies made an impact at the 2025 Houston ADDYs?

The local ADDY awards serve almost as the heartbeat of the Houston advertising industry. It’s a small world, and everyone kinda knows each other somehow, some way. So it’s always fun to see what agencies showed up. Check out the webpage for the 2025 American Advertising Awards.

This year feels a little scant. Maybe agencies just didn’t want to spend a lot of money on award submissions this year. I heard that the market isn’t great right now. But here are the results:

• Adcetera: 2 Silver 🥈🥈

• Beef and Pie: 2 Silver 🥈🥈

• BrandExtract: 1 Gold 🥇

• Carlberg: 3 Gold 🥇🥇🥇 8 Silver 🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈🥈 3 Certificate of Excellence (COE) 📃📃📃

• Deutser: 2 Gold 🥇🥇 1 COE 📃

• Ell Creative: 3 Gold 🥇🥇🥇

• Houston Rockets: 3 Silver 🥈🥈🥈 2 COE 📃📃

• Langrand: 1 Gold, 4 Silver, 2 COE

• Lopez Negrete: 3 Gold, 3 Silver, 1 COE

• Love Advertising: 6 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 COE

• Norton: 1 Gold, 1 COE

• Phillips 66: 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 COE

• Stewart Studio: 1 Silver

• The College of Health Care Professions: 1 Silver

• The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: 1 Gold

• Whitestone/Rice University: 1 COE

• Zapboomerang Studios: 1 Gold, 4 Silver

And then you have the special awards:

• Mosaic Award for Diversity: Lopez Negrete 🏆

• Dwight Douthit Award for Excellence in Design: Love Advertising 🏆

• Brett Elliott Award for Excellence in Copywriting: Carlberg 🏆

• Best of Show (Broadcast): Beef and Pie 🏆

• Best of Show (Print): Ell Creative 🏆

• Best of Show (Interactive): Phillips 66 🏆

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