IndieHQ Members Show Up Big Across the 2026 Small Agency Awards
31 IAN members are among Ad Age's 2026 winners — a category-by-category roll call.
Category: Indie Work Showcase
Behind Highdive and KFC’s Jackass 4th of July Fireworks
The campaign is a collaboration between KFC and 'Jackass: Best and Last'
Forget the Green Jacket. This Golf Trophy Is a Lab Coat.
How TiNY turned American Century's purpose into a wearable trophy for the sport's biggest celebrity tournament
Standard Practice Rewrites the Hunger PSA
A Boulder indie, a donated Bob Dylan track and a hunger-free American summer
Fireworks Send Dogs Running. Wienerschnitzel Has the Vest for it
INNOCEAN USA reworks Wienerschnitzel's Wiener Nationals racing vests into calming vests for rescue dogs facing Fourth of July fireworks.
Where Eagles Dare Bought All of Karate Kid for a Midas Spot
The Pittsburgh indie shop turned Midas' 70th anniversary into an 80s montage starring William Zabka — and yes, they had to license the entire Karate…
How This Rebrand Survived the Cracker Barrel Effect
FUSE Create renamed 70-year-old American Student Assistance to Brightbound — then stuck the landing while the rest of rebrand-Twitter was on fire
No AI. No Shortcuts. Good Conduct Hand-Built Go Raw’s Breakout Spots
Denver's Good Conduct swaps software for hand-crafted latex in Go Raw's first national campaign after 22 years
SuperBloom House’s 5th-Birthday Move? Open a Shop and Give the Artists All the Money
Inside Flower Shop — the agency's new quarterly capsule store, kicked off with Chuck Anderson of NoPattern Studio.
Gus Turned Its Office Into a Tattoo Parlor. People Left With Permanent Ink
The Lower East Side creative strategy shop honored its space—a former tattoo parlor—with a Friday the 13th flash night.
A 100-Year-Old Brand’s First Campaign Runs on Sourdough and Gut Instinct
Birmingham indie Big Communications built a humor-driven national campaign for a 100-year-old financial institution.
Why Your AI Strategy Might be a Subscription, and Not a Strategy
Laughlin Constable and Universal Agents Built an AI Operating System That Turns Agency Talent Into Proprietary IP
Rula and Mischief Roll Out Mental Healthcare Campaign
The spots center on getting therapy rather than talking yourself out of it
Gold Paint, Fake UFOs and Back-to-Back Best of Show
Fire Kite launched in late 2024 — by 2026, they'd won Nashville's top creative honor twice in a row
95% Human Error: Ardmore Group Turns Northern Ireland’s Road Death Crisis Into Ads You Can’t Look Away From
Belfast indie launches a government-funded campaign that uses BAFTA-level filmmaking to confront Northern Ireland's rising road death toll
Why Celebrity Is Insurance and Not a Strategy
Mike Bucchino of CYLNDR Studios on why the safest bet in advertising has nothing to do with famous faces — and the test that proves it.