ASIA-PACIFIC - PRWeek sister publication Campaign Asia-Pacific named the winners of its Agency of the Year Awards this week in a series of events in Shanghai, Mumbai and Singapore.
The Agency of the Year programme, now in its 21st year, honours excellence across five sub-regions in Asia: Australia/New Zealand, Japan/Korea, Greater China, South Asia and Southeast Asia. Categories include creative, media, digital, PR and specialist agencies, as well as a number of individual/team categories.
In the PR category this year, Edelman won the greatest number of awards, taking Gold in Australia/New Zealand and five Silver or Bronze awards across other markets. Beyond that, the judges spread the awards around a variety of agencies. The other Gold winners are Weber Shandwick China, Synergy Hill+Knowlton Strategies Korea, Adfactors PR India and Leo Burnett Malaysia.
Here is the complete list of PR winners for the five regions:
Australia/New Zealand PR Agency of the Year
- Gold: Edelman Public Relations Australia
- Silver: Pulse Communications Australia
- Bronze: Haystac Australia
Greater China PR Agency of the Year
- Gold: Weber Shandwick China
- Silver: Ogilvy Public Relations China
- Bronze: BBDO Live China
Japan/Korea PR Agency of the Year
- Gold: Synergy Hill+Knowlton Strategies Korea
- Silver: Edelman Japan
- Bronze: Edelman Korea
South Asia PR Agency of the Year
- Gold: Adfactors PR India
- Silver: Edelman India
- Bronze: Leo Burnett / Arc Worldwide Sri Lanka
Southeast Asia PR Agency of the Year
- Gold: Leo Burnett Malaysia
- Silver: Edelman Malaysia
- Bronze: Cohn & Wolfe Singapore
- Bronze: Edelman Indonesia
