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D&AD

Brand · Design Services

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Company overview

D&AD is a membership organisation, awards programme and educational charity serving the global design and advertising community. It promotes, stimulates and awards creative excellence in business communication. Not for profit, it aims to generate funding to provide material support to creative people around the world. The ultimate standard of creative excellence ✏️ Coming soon: D&AD Awards 2026
Founded in 1962
London Colney, England, GBR
546 employees (112 in marketing)
www.dandad.org
70% recommend to a friend
61% positive business outlook

Salaries

Typical salary range

£34,000 – £44,000

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People

Founders

David Patton
David Patton
Chief Executive Officer
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Jonathan Triano
Managing Director
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Riyas Sherif
Managing Director
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Marketing leadership

Claudia Collins
Claudia Collins
Head of Brand Communications and Creative
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Lisa Cheung
Lisa Cheung
Marketing Director
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Pippa Irvine
Pippa Irvine
Digital Director
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Hiring contacts

حيدره haedra
HR Director
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Headcount trend

Company growth over the last 12 months

Headcount 0% year over year

Funding

Audience

Monthly website visitors
399.7K
Month over month+21.5%
Quarter over quarter+51.9%
Top sourceSearch (44.9%)
Ad budget per month$26.4K
Average search rank39.3
Traffic source mix
Search
44.9%
Direct
44.6%
Referral
6.7%
Social
2.8%
Paid referral
0.9%

LinkedIn followers

Follower count and growth

Total followers

187.4K

12-mo growth

+12.5%

Monthly growth

+2.5%

News

Links

www.dandad.orgLinkedInCrunchbaseX (Twitter)
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