What agencies made an impact at the 2025 Houston ADDYs?

I see the local ADDY awards as the heartbeat of the Houston advertising industry. It’s a small world, and everyone knows each other. So it’s always fun to see what agencies show up and what work they did. Check out the webpage for the 2025 American Advertising Awards.

This year feels a little scant compared to the past. Maybe agencies just didn’t want to spend a lot of money on award submissions this year. I hear 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 COE (Certificate of Excellence) 📃📃📃

• 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: Alex Graber / Love Advertising 🏆

• Brett Elliott Award for Excellence in Copywriting: David Law / Carlberg 🏆

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

• Best of Show (Print): Ell Creative 🏆

• Best of Show (Interactive): Phillips 66 🏆

Congratulations to the winners. I will keep a lookout to see if I can find any of this work online.