The Festival of Media has released the shortlist for its Global Awards 2013. In total there are 186 nominations for 16 awards.
The shortlist is dominated by agencies from Anglophone countries: between them, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US account for 57% of nominations; the UK alone accounts for 29%.
Among the big global agencies, MediaCom is the most nominated – it has 32 nominations in total, with 26 of them from Western Europe.
Starcom MediaVest is next with 31 nominations. It has the most geographically diverse set of nominations, with more than any other agency from North America (12), Latin America (3) and MENA (2). It also comes joint first for the number of nominations from Asia Pacific (10), alongside OMD.
Carat is the least geographically diverse, with all 6 nominations from Western Europe.
ZenithOptimedia has the most nominations from Central & Eastern Europe, thanks to our colleagues in FYROM Macedonia.
Congratulations to all the nominees, and good luck for 30 April!
| Agency | Nominations | Western Europe | Asia Pacific | MENA | Latin America | North America | C&E Europe |
| MediaCom | 32 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 |
| Starcom MediaVest | 31 | 2 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 0 |
| OMD | 25 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| Mindshare | 11 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| UM | 9 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| PHD | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Initiative | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Carat | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ZenithOptimedia | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
