RESULTS 2024
CAMPAIGN CATEGORIES
BEST INTEGRATED CAMPAIGN
EE Game Store: A Masterclass in How to Win in Gaming
EssenceMediacom X, Havas Play, Saatchi & Saatchi, Digitas and Posterscope
Client: EE
EE has identified gaming as a key area for growth. The problem is that gamers are resistant to letting new brands into their territory. To break through that resistance, we gave gamers everything they love: a challenge, a great gaming experience and the promise of free stuff! We created two bespoke activations to engage gamers wi...
Opening up About Gambling Harms
OmniGOV at MG OMD
Client: GambleAware
This campaign tackled societal norms and victim blaming to widen empathy for those experiencing harm, and to empower those experiencing it to open up and seek help. This was a ‘David versus Goliath’ situation and required a smart and integrated strategy to cut through.
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar #TakeATaste
EssenceMediacom UK, DOOH.com, JCDecaux
Client: Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is iconic but faced a challenge with Coca-Cola Zero Sugar (CCZS). Despite its excellent taste, CCZS needed to grow their existing Gen Z audience, who were increasingly trialing emerging brands. The goal was to make CCZS as loved amongst Gen Z as Original Taste is to its established audience. We needed to make the jump ...
It's OK. I'm with the AA
Goodstuff x LADbible
Client: The AA
When The AA tasked Goodstuff with driving growth, we knew that we needed to engage with a younger audience, increasing prompted awareness, creating brand preference, and shifting perception by highlighting all The AA has to offer. Partnering with LADbible, we aligned The AA with British youth culture and the real cars, and experiences ...
McDonald's App Strategy
OMD UK
Client: McDonald's
Transforming McDonald's from a bricks-and-mortar retailer to an established player in the digital app market. McDonald’s business is built on bringing feel-good moments and value to its customers. But with an ever-changing landscape and newly established, digital first players such as Uber Eats, JustEat and Deliveroo flooding th...
BEST LOCATION-BASED OR PROXIMITY MARKETING CAMPAIGN
British Gas Availability Engine
OMD UK
Client: British Gas
Each year 9M homeowners experience issues that need a quick fix – whether it’s a boiler that’s on the blink, a blocked drain, or a tripping fuse box. However, despite being a household name across the UK, British Gas’ share of the home repair market was under-delivering compared to local tradesmen who were seen as more trustworthy, rel...
Allevia x BMG Partnership
Hearts & Science UK
Client: Sanofi, Allevia
In 2022, Hearts & Science helped Sanofi launched Allevia to help the 16 million UK hay fever sufferers with great success. We did this by creating the worlds most sophisticated allergy model which helped deliver one of the most successful pharmaceutical launches of all time (according to IRI data) in an overwhelming sh...
The World’s Smallest Global Campaign
Wavemaker, GroupM OOH, DOOH.com, VCCP
Client: Transport for London (TfL)
‘Data’ – amazing thing, but also pretty complicated. So, it’s not every day that we get to talk about data making things simpler, but that’s exactly what this entry is about. This is the story of how we used data to engage a global audience in the space of a few hundred square feet and tell them about the ease and convenie...
Using data and insights to (re)build the case for brand in a 50-year-old business.
Medialab
Client: Laithwaites
Laithwaites, a 50 year old family business was facing a consideration challenge from increased competition – both from new entrants as well as the established supermarkets. To build internal support for the potential of brand, we executed a transformative regional brand campaign to revive brand awareness and drive sales. Anchore...
BEST USE OF PROGRAMMATIC MEDIA
Reduce, Reinvest, Repeat: Helping Sainsbury’s Slash its Media Carbon Footprint
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Sainsbury's
Sainsbury’s is committed to decarbonising its business and has committed to becoming Net Zero across its own operations by 2035. Media investment can have a heavy carbon footprint. One million ad impressions is equivalent to one metric tonne of carbon – or one round trip flight from Boston to London. We knew we needed to act, so...
Opening up About Gambling Harms
OmniGOV at MG OMD
Client: GambleAware
This campaign tackled societal norms and victim blaming to widen empathy for those experiencing harm, and to empower those experiencing it to open up and seek help. It was a ‘David versus Goliath’ scenario and required a smart and integrated strategy to cut through.
A programmatic platform that drives better results for brands, and the planet.
Teads
Teads operates a leading, cloud-based, omnichannel platform that enables programmatic digital advertising across quality digital media. The platform incorporates demand, supply, data and creative capabilities. Thousands of media buyers in the UK use Teads Ad Manager (TAM) platform every day as their primary way of reaching 89% of the U...
How 1PD and hyper targeting drove incredible ecommerce performance for Kenvue
KINESSO UK&I
Client: Kenvue
The consumer healthcare giant, Kenvue, tasked KINESSO UK&I with exploring the possibility of utilising Nectar360 data through programmatic activation to reach niche audiences and directly track sales attributed to KINESSO's activity. KINESSO planned and activated a pioneering, agency-first data test via a newly available self-ser...
How MiQ geo-contextually boosted UKTV's Linear TV viewership
MiQ
Client: UKTV x Havas
UKTV is a major British television network known for its diverse portfolio programming from comedy to drama and documentaries, including Dave, Gold, W, and Drama. The network is a significant player in the UK's broadcast and streaming landscape. UKTV wanted to increase awareness and linear viewership of new titles, specifically ...
The Greener Grid
Goodstuff
Client: OVO Energy
Changing the way people think about their energy usage through a world-first dynamic campaign that only activates at times when the National Grid is running on a higher proportion of renewable energy. Our Greener Grid innovation promoted OVO’s Power Move initiative by shifting the conversation from the cost of energy to when the most s...
The Power of Programmatic with TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies, GroupM, Wavemaker
Client: TotalEnergies
TotalEnergies wanted to run corporate messaging that gave a lift in brand awareness, increased attention metrics and highlighted sustainability. Having never previously run extensive multi market programmatic activations, our solution guided them on a journey that took 7 months of negotiating to get sign-off on (and many ...
BEST USE OF GAMING
MLB Home Run Derby X, The Cage’ aka ‘HRDX The Cage
Imagination
Client: Major League Baseball
To engage a younger and more diverse audience MLB wanted to bring baseball into the city. But the dimensions of a ballpark field make that almost impossible. Enter Home Run Derby X, The Cage - a dimension-defying baseball game that seamlessly blended reality and virtual gameplay. Using the latest ball-tracking technology, players smash...
Gamefam, Havas Play, Havas Entertainment & Livewire Launch First Brand Integration in Fortnite Creative Game
Gamefam, Havas Play, Havas Entertainment & Livewire
Client: Altitude
The cinema industry continues to battle the longstanding effects of the pandemic. Altitude, a UK independent distributor, was facing dwarfed budgets for the release of horror movie Talk to Me in July 2023… Altitude’s make-or-break moment. Despite its gripping storyline, Altitude faced a tough market for Talk to Me – competition f...
Cher Turns Back Time: Reaching the Next Gen on Roblox
Warner Music Group, Warner Records & Gamefam
Client: N/A
There’s no debate that Cher is a timeless music icon, and while her fanbase is as crazed as ever for her music, they continue to age up. With the release of Cher’s first-ever Holiday album and first new studio album in five years, Warner Records had to figure out how to engage the next generation of Cher fans. Searching for an a...
Chupa Chups Roblox Campaign: Skate & Create
Wavemaker UK
Client: Perfetti Van Melle
Chupa Chups' Roblox Campaign ‘Skate & Create’ revolutionised brand engagement through an immersive gaming experience. Collaborating with gaming experts, Misfits, we unleashed a branded world on Roblox, captivating audiences with interactive gameplay and authentic brand integration. The campaign's exceptional results, including record-b...
EE Game Store: A Masterclass in How to Win in Gaming
EssenceMediacom X, Havas Play, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Posterscope
Client: EE
EE has identified gaming as a key area for growth. The problem is that gamers are resistant to letting new brands into their territory. To break through that resistance, we gave gamers everything they love: a challenge, a great gaming experience and the promise of free stuff! We created two bespoke activations to engage gamers wi...
BEST USE OF CREATIVE PERSONALISATION
Joyride
1stAveMachine
Client: Carvana
To mark its milestone of 1 million cars sold, Carvana teamed up with us to do the impossible: make a personalized video for over 1 million customers. We harnessed cutting edge AI technology to deliver 1.3 million unique videos, showing that new AI tools can be used to create personal videos at an unprecedented scale. To celebrat...
Big Little Welcomes
Talon
Client: British Airways
Connecting loved ones for over 100 years, British Airways (BA) wanted to celebrate the warm, fuzzy feeling with the hundreds and thousands of people landing back in the UK to spend Christmas with their loved ones. ‘Big Little Welcomes’ made sure that BA was a part of these reunions, giving friends & family the chance to surpris...
BEST USE OF AI
Enlist with the Royal Navy's AI Virtual Recruitment Guide
Wavemaker UK
Client: The Royal Navy
The Royal Navy and Wavemaker UK launched a UK government first: a Royal Navy AI Virtual Guide - a sophisticated web-based conversational AI assistant, created to support candidates through their joining journey, from the outset. We knew it needed to be optimised for Gen Z, by being supportive and inclusive, so we worked in collaboratio...
Movable Ink Da Vinci: an Ensemble Approach to AI
Movable Ink
Recognising the need to reverse down-trending engagement and shift towards a customer-centric approach, one of the largest retailers embarked on a transformative journey with Movable Ink's AI offering, Da Vinci, to overhaul its email strategy. Da Vinci empowered the brand to decouple campaigns from creative, allowing marketers t...
Doritos Silent
Sips and Bites
Client: Doritos
86% of Gamers Snack whilst playing, and although they love Doritos (especially its crunch)…. Doritos and Gaming is not a match made in heaven. Doritos created a hoax launch with a new product, Doritos Silent Snack, an innovation that removes Doritos’ Iconic Crunch noise for Gamers. We teased this with gamers via a seemingl...
Imagining a world without nature with WWF
Brave Bison
Client: WWF
With zero media budget, Brave Bison helped WWF drive awareness of the loss of biodiversity on World Wildlife Day 2023, by tapping into the cultural zeitgeist and mobilising a powerful and engaged community of 5,000 budding generative AI creatives—asking them to visualise a world without nature and prompt action towards animal conservat...
PAM (Pitch AI Mentor)
R/GA EMEA
Client: Founderland
Startup founders face a myriad of challenges when it comes to raising capital, and intense pressure to make a strong first impression. Meanwhile, shockingly only 0.5% of VC funding goes to women of color founders. That’s why Founderland, the fastest growing community of women of colour founders dedicated to creating an inclusive, inter...
The Bubl Generator - A Branded Image model for VMO2
fAIth - The AI Creative Agency
Client: Virgin Media O2
The "Best Use of AI" entry from fAIth, VCCP’s AI creative agency, showcases a revolutionary asset creation process through a bespoke AI image generation model for O2's brand mascot, Bubl. Previously, high production costs (~£4,000 per asset) and long timelines limited Bubl's story-telling potential and visibility, with 50% of O2 custom...
Velvetise to Happiness
Gravity Road
Client: Hotel Chocolat
In the Top Ten rankings of the UK’s most effective TV ads of 2023, there is only one that was created using Gen AI. It was for Hotel Chocolat. This was the first campaign to harness Gen AI throughout the entire workflow of a new brand world creation in the UK. LLMs (Large Language Models) were trained on a whole mix of di...
BEST AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT
New All-Electric Ford Explorer Product Reveal
Imagination
Client: Ford of Europe
How can you let everyone in Europe test drive a new car at the same moment you reveal it? Imagination was tasked with revealing Ford’s latest EV to a consumer audience across Europe and driving reservations ahead of its launch. The most effective method of driving reservations or sales of a vehicle is physically getting b...
LOEWE x Howl's Moving Castle
Stink Studios
Client: LOEWE
A digital experience to launch the collaboration between luxury fashion house, LOEWE, and Studio Ghibli’s Oscar-nominated anime film, Howl's Moving Castle. To connect LOEWE fans to the magic of the movie, Stink Studios created an interactive version of the film that brings the two brands together through their shared passion for ...
Chupa Chups Roblox Campaign: Skate & Create
Wavemaker UK
Client: Perfetti Van Melle
Chupa Chups' Roblox Campaign ‘Skate & Create’ epitomised the pinnacle of audience engagement through an immersive gaming experience. Collaborating with gaming experts, Misfits, we introduced a branded world on Roblox, captivating audiences with interactive gameplay and seamless brand integration. The campaign's outstanding results, inc...
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar #TakeATaste
EssenceMediacom UK, DOOH.com, JCDecaux
Client: Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is iconic but faced a challenge with Coca-Cola Zero Sugar (CCZS). Despite its excellent taste, CCZS needed to grow their existing Gen Z audience, who were increasingly trialing emerging brands. The goal was to make CCZS as loved amongst Gen Z as Original Taste is to its established audience. We needed to make the jump ...
The Google App x Eurovision Hum to Search Challenge
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Google UK
he Google App has some of Google's most innovative search features, as such Google markets this as the best place to search from and use in their everyday lives. One of the most innovative features is Hum to Search, which identifies songs from users’ hums, whistles or singing - perfect pitch not required! To bring Hum to S...
BEST USE OF EXPERIMENTAL TECH
BEST USE OF INSIGHT
The Unthinkable Comparison
Designory
Client: Subaru
Car brands didn’t see it: A comparison can be a win-win. We discovered an untapped demand for comparing cars to others from the same brand. So we created the first owned video content of its kind, and exceeded benchmarks by nearly 400%.
From Awareness to Purchase: Hotpoint Whirlpool's Journey Through the Consumer Funnel
Hotpoint Whirlpool, GroupM, mSix&Partners
Client: Hotpoint Whirlpool
The continual tech development of our offering is always insight led, and we are constantly nudging the needle of innovation within our space. So, we set ourselves the challenge of unravelling the effect of targeting lower down the funnel to reduce wastage and lower budgets whilst capturing cookieless data. We know tha...
PAM (Pitch AI Mentor)
R/GA EMEA
Client: Founderland
Startup founders face a myriad of challenges when it comes to raising capital, and intense pressure to make a strong first impression. Meanwhile, shockingly only 0.5% of VC funding goes to women of color founders. That’s why Founderland, the fastest growing community of women of colour founders dedicated to creating an inclusive, inter...
Using data and insights to (re)build the case for brand in a 50-year-old business.
Medialab
Client: Laithwaites
Laithwaites, a 50 year old family business was facing a consideration challenge from increased competition – both from new entrants as well as the established supermarkets. To build internal support for the potential of brand, we executed a transformative regional brand campaign to revive brand awareness and drive sales. Anchore...
BEST USE OF EXPERIENTIAL TECH
MLB Home Run Derby X, The Cage’ aka ‘HRDX The Cage
Imagination
Client: Major League Baseball
To engage a younger and more diverse audience MLB wanted to bring baseball into the city. But the dimensions of a ballpark field make that almost impossible. Enter Home Run Derby X, The Cage - a dimension-defying baseball game that seamlessly blended reality and virtual gameplay. Using the latest ball-tracking technology, players smash...
Doritos Silent
Sips and Bites
Client: Doritos
86% of Gamers Snack whilst playing, and although they love Doritos (especially its crunch)…. Doritos and Gaming is not a match made in heaven. Doritos created a hoax launch with a new product, Doritos Silent Snack, an innovation that removes Doritos’ Iconic Crunch noise for Gamers. We teased this with gamers via a seemingl...
Armani Si Infinity Room
EssenceMediacomX, GroupM OOH
Client: L'Oréal
The launch of Sì EDP Intense in the UK was brought to life with the creation of a 6-metre-high Armani Sì monolith and interior infinity room. The public was invited to step inside and be transported somewhere completely unexpected, in a true sensory overload which pushed the boundaries of light, sound and scent to create an immersive f...
Build My Printer Experience
Designory
Client: HP Inc.
The Enterprise Printer has traditionally been seen as the office workhorse — beige, bulky, and often tucked out of view. But HP didn’t think it had to be that way. They introduced a series of customizable enterprise printers available in several bright color panels. This colorful refresh brought the printer out of the back room ...
Destination 2030
2LK
Client: IBM
What if improving sustainability could elevate profitability? Today, most corporate ESG targets are based on estimates and tracking emissions through the value chain is notoriously difficult, leaving 2030 sustainability goals hard to reach, and even harder to prove. IBM’s AI sustainability software suite helps solve the E...
EE Game Store: A Masterclass in How to Win in Gaming
EssenceMediacom X, Havas Play, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Posterscope
Client: EE
EE has identified gaming as a key area for growth. The problem is that gamers are resistant to letting new brands into their territory. To break through that resistance, we gave gamers everything they love: a challenge, a great gaming experience and the promise of free stuff! We created two bespoke activations to engage gamers wi...
BEST USE OF DATA - ENTERTAINMENT
Rigour and Flair – Matching and Moulding The Mood of the Nation
Havas Entertainment
Client: UKTV
UKTV viewing needed a new radical method rooted in viewing behaviour to ensure their streaming service, UKTV Play, became their leading source of views. Our campaign took a ground-breaking approach, leveraging a combination of data insights and creative strategies to deliver a truly audience-first experience. Recognising the impact ...
Revolutionising brand campaigns through data, with Bauer Media & Permutive
Bauer Media & Permutive
Client: Bauer Media
Bauer Media's entry reflects a transformative journey for the media entertainment powerhouse. At its core, it has a data-driven strategy powered by Permutive’s patented technology. Bauer Media is solving a huge issue for its clients in partnership with Permutive, using data to increase their clients’ addressability and audience engagem...
BEST USE OF DATA - FINANCIAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
British Gas Availability Engine
OMD UK
Client: British Gas
Each year 9M homeowners experience issues that need a quick fix – whether it’s a boiler that’s on the blink, a blocked drain, or a tripping fuse box. However, despite being a household name across the UK, British Gas’ share of the home repair market was under-delivering compared to local tradesmen who were seen as more trustworthy, rel...
TSB's Segmentation Success Story
the7stars
Client: TSB
A recent switcher campaign had successfully acquired customers, but higher-than-expected attrition among switchers became evident at the end of 2022. This raised questions about the efficiency of the switch incentive in driving longer-term profitability. The problem with these customers is that as soon as their term is over, and they i...
British Gas Search Protect
OMD UK
Client: British Gas
Over the last few years, the energy market in the UK has experienced a total upheaval. The effects on consumers, the economy and businesses like British Gas have been far-reaching. These market shifts jolted British Gas into forming new agency relationships, new media strategies, and a renewed focus on efficiency. And so, we wer...
Real-time data activation campaign
Alphix Solutions
Client: Baillie Gifford
In 2022, the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, managed by Baillie Gifford, underwent a re-brand. The core aim of this campaign was to drive awareness of the new Scottish Mortgage identity and reassure their investors during times of stock market volatility. To ensure that we maximised our effectiveness in reaching our key buyers, the...
The Greener Grid
Goodstuff
Client: OVO Energy
Changing the way people think about their energy usage through a world-first dynamic campaign that only activates at times when the National Grid is running on a higher proportion of renewable energy. Our Greener Grid innovation promoted OVO’s Power Move initiative by shifting the conversation from the cost of energy to when the most s...
Tug Tool 'TUGCID' helps attribute digital investment along the customer journey while providing visibility on lead origins
Tug Agency
Client: LEAP
LEAP, a provider of legal practice management and accounting software, approached Tug to get more insight into how their leads and MQLs were generated (partly due to being unable to track multiple prospect touchpoints and lead origins), while also keeping within their marketing budget. Through the development and implementation of our ...
BEST USE OF DATA - FOOD & DRINK
From Fast Food to Fast Data: KFC's Innovative Approach
KFC, GroupM, Mindshare UK
Client: KFC
In Q4 of 2022 KFC came to us to help launch their own delivery service. Our innovative solution generated £888k profit and a 16% uplift in delivery sales, so for 2023 we needed to maintain the growth trajectory and increase share of their overall delivery sales vs the aggregators. Our initial groundwork and data driven cu...
Using data and insights to (re)build the case for brand in a 50-year-old business.
Medialab
Client: Laithwaites
Laithwaites, a 50 year old family business was facing a consideration challenge from increased competition – both from new entrants as well as the established supermarkets. To build internal support for the potential of brand, we executed a transformative regional brand campaign to revive brand awareness and drive sales. Anchore...
DATA-ON-TAP – Using 1st Party Data to Revolutionise OOH Planning for PepsiCo
Talon
Client: PepsiCo
PepsiCo (D)OOH it better. In 2023 it was time to supercharge PepsiCo’s OOH across the full brand portfolio. We introduced an integrated data-led, audience-first strategy and tailored all food & drink OOH campaigns to consumer habits and daily movements. This new approach, championed by Talon and driven by PepsiCo’s first-par...
Nano’s delivers game changing ID-free audience targeting and industry measurement solution for Heineken
Nano Interactive
Client: Heineken
Heineken turned to Nano, leader in ID-free targeting solutions, in collaboration with consumer behaviour experts Circana for its newest launch. Nano’s cookie- and profiling-free targeting technology plus Circana’s measurement solutions combined to build the Cruzcampo brand in the UK, with the campaign running for 7 weeks from Oc...
Securing The Future Of Greene King Brewery
Total Media
Client: Greene King
Facing a decline in their traditional ale market, Greene King launched two new craft beers to captivate younger beer consumers and secure the long-term future of the business. With a modest budget in a fiercely competitive market, we looked to data to redefine their approach to create a targeted campaign that would deliver on their bus...
BEST USE OF DATA - PUBLIC SECTOR/CHARITY
NHSBT: From Data to Donation
OmniGOV at MG OMD
Client: NHS Blood and Transplant
The NHS urgently needs 4,300 blood donations every single day to meet the escalating needs of its hospitals. However, over the last couple of years, NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), the organisation responsible for blood donation services, encountered significant challenges in meeting these levels amidst various crises. The compoundin...
USING DATA-DRIVEN OOH TO TRANSFORM CANCER PERCEPTIONS IN SCOTLAND
Talon
Client: Scottish Government
Cancer is the biggest killer in Scotland, with 1 in 2 people getting it in their lifetime, a statistic that skews disproportionately towards the nation’s 40+ C2DE’s men. Whilst the Scottish Government’s Detect Cancer Early previous campaigns had shifted behaviour and made progress in increasing early stage diagnoses - the male ...
BEST USE OF DATA - RETAIL
Allevia x BMG Partnership
Hearts & Science
Client: Sanofi, Allevia
In 2022, Hearts & Science helped Sanofi launched Allevia to help the 16 million UK hay fever sufferers with great success. We did this by creating the worlds most sophisticated allergy model which helped deliver one of the most successful pharmaceutical launches of all time (according to IRI data) in an overwhelming sh...
BEST USE OF PAID SEARCH
British Gas Search Protect
OMD UK
Client: British Gas
Over the last few years, the energy market in the UK has experienced a total upheaval. The effects on consumers, the economy and businesses like British Gas have been far-reaching. These market shifts jolted British Gas into forming new agency relationships, new media strategies, and a renewed focus on efficiency. And so, we wer...
BEST USE OF TECH IN OUT-OF-HOME
Stay Connected at Night - From creative concept to augmented reality
Posterscope/EssenceMediacomX/Saatchi&Saatci
Client: EE
This campaign brought to life in stunning fashion the incredible creative concepts which won 1st Prize at Ocean’s Creative Competition in 2022. Not satisfied with having a great idea, EE were determined to ensure the public were able to benefit from this groundbreaking idea & their market leading network. Using the latest innova...
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar #TakeATaste
EssenceMediacom UK, DOOH.com, JCDecaux
Client: Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is iconic but faced a challenge with Coca-Cola Zero Sugar (CCZS). Despite its excellent taste, CCZS needed to grow their existing Gen Z audience, who were increasingly trialing emerging brands. The goal was to make CCZS as loved amongst Gen Z as Original Taste is to its established audience. We needed to make the jump ...
Maybelline: Surreal Twist with OOH
EssenceMediacomX & GroupM OOH
Client: L'Oreal
Everyone talks about how hard it is to cut through the clutter, not every product has to deal with the kind of clutter that we do. In Boots alone there are 351 – yes, 351 - mascara products on sale. That’s clutter! For Maybelline’s Falsies Surreal Extension Mascara we cut through by creating a suitably surreal launch - and a new ...
Positioning Columbia as the go-to choice for outdoor activities using triggered programmatic Digital-Out-Of-Home
Displayce, VIOOH, Spinnn
Client: Columbia
Columbia embarked on a strategic mission to solidify its position as the top choice for outdoor activities and gear ahead of the winter holidays in Europe. Collaborating with Displayce DSP and Spinnn agency, Columbia executed a crafted pDOOH campaign targeting audiences preparing for winter adventures as part of its Speak Mountain glob...
The Greener Grid
Goodstuff
Client: OVO Energy
Changing the way people think about their energy usage through a world-first dynamic campaign that only activates at times when the National Grid is running on a higher proportion of renewable energy. Our Greener Grid innovation promoted OVO’s Power Move initiative by shifting the conversation from the cost of energy to when the most s...
BEST USE OF PAID SOCIAL
Ode to Lidl Bakery
OMD UK
Client: Lidl
With a cult-like level of interest, Lidl Bakery was quickly becoming a dough-licious phenomenon. #LidlBakery had amassed a staggering 19.1 million organic views on TikTok, so when the time came to launch Lidl GB’s own TikTok page, what better canvas for our campaign than the delectable world of bakery? But since TikTok a...
JLR Electric SUVs on Pinterest: Redefining Luxury
Hearts & Science
Client: Jaguar Land Rover
Hearts & Science delivered a Paid Social campaign for Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) which aimed to shift perceptions of their electric SUVs towards stylishness, modernity, and luxury. By leveraging premium placements, engaging video creatives, and strategic retargeting, the campaign exceeded objectives, driving impressive us...
Range Rover Evoque: The City that Shaped Me
Hearts & Science
Client: Jaguar Land Rover
In a competitive luxury automotive landscape, the Range Rover Evoque was struggling to cut through and needed a strategic refresh. As part of that reset, this paid social campaign helped to successfully repositioned the Evoque as the ideal city car for a young, urban audience, exceeding key objectives and demonstrating...
The Google App x Eurovision Hum to Search Challenge
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Google UK
The Google App has some of Google's most innovative search features, as such Google markets this as the best place to search from and use in their everyday lives. One of the most innovative features is Hum to Search, which identifies songs from users’ hums, whistles or singing - perfect pitch not required! To bring Hum to ...
TECH AS PART OF CAMPAIGN - CONSUMER GOODS AND RETAIL
New All-Electric Ford Explorer Product Reveal
Imagination
Client: Ford of Europe
How can you let everyone in Europe test drive a new car at the same moment you reveal it? Imagination was tasked with revealing Ford’s latest EV to a consumer audience across Europe and driving reservations ahead of its launch. The most effective method of driving reservations or sales of a vehicle is physically getting b...
Coca-Cola Zero Sugar #TakeATaste
EssenceMediacom UK, DOOH.com, JCDecaux
Client: Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola is iconic but faced a challenge with Coca-Cola Zero Sugar (CCZS). Despite its excellent taste, CCZS needed to grow their existing Gen Z audience, who were increasingly trialing emerging brands. The goal was to make CCZS as loved amongst Gen Z as Original Taste is to its established audience. We needed to make the jump ...
Cracking The Cookie Conundrum & Diversifying Performance With An Addressable First For Listerine
KINESSO UK&I
Client: Kenvue
Kenvue, the consumer healthcare giant, tasked KINESSO UK&I with exploring and implementing a cookieless test through Adform’s ‘ID Fusion' to explore its feasibility and effectiveness at delivering incremental reach for its product, Listerine. KINESSO planned and activated a cutting edge, agency first, cookieless addressability te...
Jameson "Arrive Like A Local" Travel Wallet
Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail, SmartMedia Technologies & 92Proof
Client: Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail, SmartMedia Technologies & 92Proof
Modern travellers seek authentic experiences. Jameson and Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail embrace this challenge head-on. In partnership with SmartMedia Technologies and 92 Proof, Jameson and Pernod Ricard Global Travel Retail leveraged cutting-edge Web3 technology to revolutionise the travel experience, transforming it into an imme...
TECH AS PART OF A CAMPAIGN - ENTERTAINMENT
Gamefam, Havas Play, Havas Entertainment & Livewire Launch First Brand Integration in Fortnite Creative Game
Gamefam, Havas Play, Havas Entertainment & Livewire
Client: Altitude
The cinema industry continues to battle the longstanding effects of the pandemic. Altitude, a UK independent distributor, was facing dwarfed budgets for the release of horror movie Talk to Me in July 2023… Altitude’s make-or-break moment. Despite its gripping storyline, Altitude faced a tough market for Talk to Me – competition f...
Cher Turns Back Time: Reaching the Next Gen on Roblox
Warner Music Group, Warner Records & Gamefam
Client: N/A
There’s no debate that Cher is a timeless music icon, and while her fanbase is as crazed as ever for her music, they continue to age up. With the release of Cher’s first-ever Holiday album and first new studio album in five years, Warner Records had to figure out how to engage the next generation of Cher fans. Searching for an a...
Greggs: Launching the Festive Bake
SKYMAGIC
Client: Greggs
Kicking off Christmas at Greggs and announcing the 2023 launch of the Festive Bake in the most innovative and impactful way in its’ 15-year history, Greggs partnered with SKYMAGIC to create a 500-drone display that would transform the night sky into an epic universe of pastries and doughnuts. The stars aligned above Greggs’ Newca...
The Google App x Eurovision Hum to Search Challenge
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Google UK
The Google App has some of Google's most innovative search features, as such Google markets this as the best place to search from and use in their everyday lives. One of the most innovative features is Hum to Search, which identifies songs from users’ hums, whistles or singing - perfect pitch not required! To bring Hum to ...
TECH FOR GOOD
#BeforeYouAsk
Wavemaker UK
Client: Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
The #BeforeYouAsk campaign, developed by RNIB in collaboration with Wavemaker UK, The & Partnership and Voxly Digital, challenges misconceptions about blindness and fosters inclusivity. Through an interactive video chat tool developed by Wavemaker UK and Voxly Digital, the campaign addresses common questions that people may have, but n...
Zapvision – Accessible QR codes
Zappar
Zappar in partnership with Unilever and the RNIB developed a new enhanced QR code, called 'Accessible QR'. Accessible QR codes represent a once-in-a-generation opportunity to change the lives of hundreds of millions of people living in the world with some form of sight loss to access product information on packaging, with a single, Acc...
EE: Stay Connected at Night
EssenceMediacomX, Posterscope, Saatchi & Saatchi
Client: EE
Cities after dark can be dangerous places, particularly for women & vulnerable minority groups. EE devised Stay Connected at Night, to help both customers & non-customers stay safe with the UK’s first technology-enabled route home. From added charging points, through projections that gave directions, to OOH formats that lit up darkened...
Every Mind Matters
OmniGOV at MG OMD
Client: Office for Health Improvements and Disparities
There are a number of barriers stopping people from seeking mental health treatment ranging from low awareness of mental health issues to the social stigma and fear of judgement from peers. This campaign was developed to overcome these barriers by empowering vulnerable and distressed audiences to take action to protect and impro...
PAM (Pitch AI Mentor)
R/GA EMEA
Client: Founderland
Startup founders face a myriad of challenges when it comes to raising capital, and intense pressure to make a strong first impression. Meanwhile, shockingly only 0.5% of VC funding goes to women of color founders. That’s why Founderland, the fastest growing community of women of colour founders dedicated to creating an inclusive, inter...
Reduce, Reinvest, Repeat: Helping Sainsbury’s Slash its Media Carbon Footprint
EssenceMediacomX
Client: Sainsbury's
Sainsbury’s is committed to decarbonising its business and has committed to becoming Net Zero across its own operations by 2035. Media investment can have a heavy carbon footprint. One million ad impressions is equivalent to one metric tonne of carbon – or one round trip flight from Boston to London. We knew we needed to act, so...
‘It All Adds Up’: educating consumers during the energy crisis with Vyde, Captify, MGOMD & UK Government
Vyde
Client: UK Government
"The "It All Adds Up" campaign, part of the wider ‘Help for Households’ initiative, looked to address the energy crisis and cost of living challenges through innovative digital means. OmniGov leveraged Vyde's conversational creative units to effectively educate and empower consumers to learn about how to reduce their energy usage, brea...
PEOPLE, AGENCIES & TEAMS CATEGORIES
RISING STAR
Gautam Gopal
Senior Data Visualisation Exec
Client: Hearts & Science
Gautam Gopal embodies the spirit of a Rising Star. His dedication, innovation, and collaborative spirit have transformed the Biddable team at Hearts & Science, demonstrably freeing up valuable time for creativity and innovation and fostering a more efficient work environment.
Georgia Giddings
Junior 3D Artist & Creative
Client: Powster
Georgia joined Powster in 2022 fresh out of university and dove right into the deep end, taking on the wonderful, wacky world of innovative web. Coming from a traditional 3D background, Georgia’s incredible work ethic enabled her to swiftly climb the learning curve of AR/webGL pipelines. Diligent and insightful, Georgia does it all - d...
Philip Pang
Biddable Executive
Client: Hearts & Science
Philip Pang, Biddable Executive at Hearts & Science, embodies the spirit of a ‘rising star’. This nomination highlights his achievements in campaign success, process improvement, leadership, and fostering a knowledge-sharing culture, making him a perfect fit for this award.
START-UP OF THE YEAR
Hookflash
Delivering an exceptional customer experience online has never been more important…but also rarely been as difficult. Expectations are high whilst organisations offer suffer from a lack of trust in their data, or to understand the impact of changes they’ve made. Layer in the fact that the world’s most popular web analytics tool, Google...
The GoodNet
Digital advertising can be a force for good in the world. That’s why we launched The GoodNet – the ethical intelligence company. The GoodNet was born from a conversation between founders Oliver Deane and Guy Jones. They saw an opportunity to create a media intelligence business that would make it easier for brands to plan,...
fAIth - The AI Creative Agency
When Gen-AI exploded into the public consciousness it triggered a global freak-out. The prophets of doom told us that AI was going to take our jobs, take away our creativity and simply take over. We thought differently and launched Faith amidst this barrage of negativity. We rejected the notion that AI will be bad for our...
TECH LEADER OF THE YEAR
Kasia Kowalska
Applied Innovation Lead
Client: Wavemaker UK
Kasia, with her over 8 years of experience in digital transformation and marketing communications, has consistently proven herself as a leader who is not afraid to innovate. Her track record includes spearheading world and industry-first solutions for major global brands such as BMW, MINI, and Compare the Market. In her role at ...
Isabel Perry
Global VP of Emerging Tech
Client: DEPT®
At DEPT®, emerging technology is at the heart of everything we do, enabling a global team of 4,000+ to innovate and pioneer new ways of helping our clients solve complex problems. Leading the charge is Isabel Perry, Global VP of Emerging Technology. In the last 12 months, she's been pivotal in setting the strategic vision for AI at DEP...
John Campbell
Head of Innovation, ROAST
Client: ROAST
John Campbell, a prominent figure in global voice innovation, boasts an impressive career in digital marketing spanning over 12 years. After notable roles at STEAK and ZenithOptimedia, he founded Rabbit & Pork in 2018, the voice experience arm of TIPi Group. A respected thought leader, John has pioneered and launched multiple voice app...
Laura Kell
Chief Data and Product Officer
Client: Havas Media Network UK
In her role as Chief data and product officer at Havas Media Network (HMN) UK, Laura Kell leads transformative initiatives in data and analytics (DNA) becoming one of the UK’s most senior women in a data and tech field in the industry. Focused on democratising technology, she has shifted HMN UK from a supplier-centric model to ...
Matt Lamprell
Head of Data and Tech
Client: MG OMD
Matt leads Data and Technology at MG OMD. An experienced digital leader with extensive experience on both brand and agency sides, he drives the data and tech proposition across MG OMD’s client portfolio.