UK Studio Rankings 2019

The Best 30 Agencies In The UK This Year

- Nick Carson And Tom May

Following our annual peer reputation survey of creative directors, studio founders and design course leaders from all across the UK, we’re delighted to reveal the results of the sixth-annual UK Studio Rankings.

Dominated for two years by the small but perfectly formed Studio Sutherl&, it’s all change at the top in 2019. In fact, the smallest studio on the list has been supplanted by the largest as the mighty Superunion – having cleaned up at this year’s Brand Impact Awards – wins the respect of the industry.

There have been some dramatic rises and falls this year too, none more so than NB Studio – another multiple winner at the Brand Impact Awards – rocketing up 25 places into third. After retaining D&AD’s Most Awarded Design Agency accolade for a second year running, JKR has also cemented its hold on second-place here.

While there are many familiar names in the list – including previous winners Graphic Thought Facility, MadeThought and North – we also welcome six all-new entrants, six re-entries from earlier years, and for the first time two agencies from outside London have placed in the overall top 10.

Ongoing economic and political uncertainty may have squeezed clients’ budgets, as well as their willingness to take creative risks in some sectors, but these world-class agencies are thriving. So read on to discover the UK’s top 30 studios of 2019, as judged by their peers…

01 Superunion www.superunion.com

Winning Best of Show at the Brand Impact Awards for the second year running with its BBC Two rebrand – which also scooped a D&AD Yellow Pencil earlier this year – Superunion has gone from strength to strength since five WPP Group agencies joined forces in early 2018.