The Radio Mercury Awards has chosen its 2026 chief decide for the thirty fifth annual Radio Mercury Awards competitors. It’s the co-Chief Artistic Officer and co-founder of Bandits & Mates, described as “an independently owned, award-winning, business-driven, minority and female-founded full-service inventive advert company that loves a hyphenated descriptor.”
Incomes the dignity is Danny Gonzalez, who launched Bandits & Bandits in 2022 with companions David Suarez and Courtney Berry.
Since then, the store has welcomed such model companions as Schick, The Athletic, Angi, Care, The Climate Firm, Present Me Organics and Liberty Mutual.
“From being a Radio Mercury Awards winner to now being named the 2026 chief decide is an actual honor to me,” famous Gonzalez. “I’m wanting ahead to working with an unimaginable last spherical jury to listen to one of the best of one of the best that will get entered.”
RAB President/CEO and Radio Artistic Fund Chair Mike Hulvey commented, “As we stroll into the thirty fifth annual awards we wish them to be as celebratory and related as all the time and indicative of radio in all its kinds. Danny’s been an awesome buddy to the awards and can do an awesome job of main the cost for this yr’s occasion.”
Awards classes for the thirty fifth annual Radio Mercury Awards shall be introduced in December together with Name for Entry pointers and deadlines.
— With reporting by Adam Jacobson
