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The 2017 PRWeek U.S. Awards
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In Pictures: PRWeek UK Awards 2018 - part two
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In Pictures: PRWeek Awards 2018 - part one
See the first batch of photos from the industry's Oscars, the PRWeek Awards, which took place at London's Grosvenor House hotel last night (16 October).
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: City & Corporate Communications
Thomas Cook Group is the winner of this year's City & Corporate Communications award, recognising the spectacular success of the travel operator's campaign against fraudulent holiday sickness claims.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: B2B Campaign
The winner of this year's best B2B campaign award is Frank. The agency's 'Populating Plexal - The AI legacy of London 2012', helped client Plexal achieve a target-smashing launch.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Best Agency Outside London
Citypress wowed the panel of judges with its focus on people as much as its innovations and impressive business success. It wins this year's award for Best Agency Outside London.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: In-House Team of the Year (Gold Award)
Shelter made a big impact across the year, with its campaigns reaching a wider audience and building an important legacy of influence and change. The charity wins the In-House Team of the Year award, sponsored by Cision.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Public Affairs
Interel's 'Cut the stakes now' campaign, for Bacta, the Hippodrome Casino, Novomatic and Praesepe, helped lead to a change in the law, and wins this year's Public Affairs award.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: New Consultancy of the Year
Taking home the New Consultancy of the Year award is Munch, which impressed the judges with its entrepreneurial spirit and emphasis on working with start-ups as well as established brands. The award is sponsored by YouGov.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Financial Services
The judges awarded the Financial Services gong to W. Its 'Fredd-inflation' activity for Moneysupermarket.com put the price-comparison site at the heart of a national conversation about personal finance, as a brand on the side of consumers.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Small Consultancy of the Year (Gold Award)
Manifest had a storming year, impressing the judges with its creativity, bold innovation, forward-thinking and surge in productivity, fee income and profit. It wins the Small Consultancy of the Year (UK fees less than £5m) award.
PRWeek UK Awards 2018: The Judges
Judges for the PRWeek Awards 2018 included some of the most influential agency and in-house comms figures in the industry. See below for the full list.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Large Consultancy of the Year (Gold Award)
After a year in which it excelled in measures from staff policies and innovation to client wins and overall business results, FleishmanHillard Fishburn was the judges' pick for the Large Consultancy of the Year (UK fees £15m-plus) award, sponsored by Premier Resourcing.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Not-for-Profit
W Communications' 'L'Eau de Chris', for client CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), wins this year's Not-for-Profit award, sponsored by Astellas.
The 2017 PRWeek U.S. Awards
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Young PR Professional of the Year
The judges were hugely impressed by 90TEN's Amy O'Connor, whose energy and inspiring performance have both expanded the agency's business and enhanced the working lives of her colleagues. She is definitely one to watch.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Mid-Sized Consultancy of the Year (Gold Award)
90TEN scoops the Mid-Sized Consultancy of the Year (UK fees £5m-£15m) award, after a year of diversification and growth that led to hugely impressive results.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Specialist Consultancy of the Year
90TEN crowns its most successful year to date by impressing the judges with further growth, client wins and effective, creative campaigns to win the Specialist Consultancy of the Year award.
PRWeek UK Awards 2018: Winners revealed
Taylor Herring was one of the big winners at the prestigious PRWeek UK Awards, which took place on Tuesday evening (16 October) during a gala event at London's Grosvenor House.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Best Use of Celebrity or Celebrities
The Romans wins the award for Best use of Celebrities for 'When Life Gives You Melons' for Freya. The branded podcast, featuring celebrity guests, is the most successful yet created in Europe, with a reach of 1.1 billion.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: FMCG, Health, Beauty, Retail and Fashion
FleishmanHillard Fishburn wins this Marcoms award for 'CROCing the front row at London Fashion Week', its campaign to give the footwear brand a whole new level of high-fashion credibility.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Best Use of Content
90TEN entered uncharted territory with 'Flight HIV101' for pharma client Gilead, but this bold and innovative campaign more than met the challenge, winning this year's Best Use of Content award as a result.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Best Use of Creativity
Taylor Herring wins this year's award for the Best Use of Creativity for its ground-breaking 'Spin Cycle' campaign - the launch of the Samsung QuickDrive washing machine, which had a global impact.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Best Influencer Marketing Campaign
The Romans displayed a touch of 'genius' with its 'Yay delay' work for Gordon's Gin, impressing the judges enough to award the agency this year's Best Influencer Marketing Campaign prize.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Best PR Event
Tin Man's eye-catching and impressively effective 'Buckets of hope', devised to promote charity WaterAid's fundraising Untapped Appeal, wins this year's award for the Best PR Event.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Best Use of a Small Budget
Taylor Herring's inspired, high-profile and headline-grabbing 'Beano vs Jacob Rees-Mogg' campaign for client Beano Studios wins this year's award for the Best Use of a Small Budget.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Best Use of Planning, Strategy and Evaluation
The in-depth planning and clever strategy behind the 'Small talk saves lives' campaign by Pegasus, for Network Rail, Samaritans, British Transport Police and Rail Delivery Group, win the agency this year's award for Best Use of Planning, Strategy and Evaluation - sponsored by Ginger Research.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Best Use of New Technology
Taylor Herring wins the Best Use of New Technology award for its 'Westworld' Season Two launch campaign - featuring 'The world's first robot influencer', Fred the Humanoid - for video-streaming platform NOW TV.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Public Sector
Unity wins this year's Public Sector award for its creative 'Scammer Nanas' campaign for client Get Safe Online, which proved highly effective in warning young people of the dangers of phishing.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Automotive and Transport
Virgin Trains' in-house team spotted an opportunity to boost the rail company's social engagement, and so impressed the judges with its resulting #Avocard campaign that it wins this year's Automotive and Transport award.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Technology
The Romans' 'GT Sport: Police Academy' campaign for Sony PlayStation wins this year's Technology award, sponsored by Hanover.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Most Innovative Use of Digital and Social Media
The judges found W's 'L'Eau de Chris', for charity CALM, "provocative and powerful" - which is why it wins this year's award for the Most Innovative Use of Digital and Social Media.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Issues and Reputation Management
Freuds and KFC's in-house team win this year's Issues and Reputation Management award for their exemplary handling of KFC's distribution crisis - which, at its height, led to the temporary closure of most of the fast-food chain's UK branches.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Internal Comms and Employee Engagement
Good Relations and Nationwide won this year's Internal Communications and Employee Engagement award for its creation of the clever and highly effective Arthur Webb Challenge Cup for the building society.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Culture, Media, Sport and Travel
Taylor Herring's creation of 'The Flybrary', for easyJet, wins this year's award in the Marcoms: Culture, Media, Sport and Travel category, sponsored by M4DC.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Best Cause-Led Campaign
Taylor Herring helped client mytaxi create 'London's 4th Emergency Service' and position itself as a force for good with 'The Knowledge+', which wins this year's Cause-Led category award.
PRWeek UK Awards Winners 2018: Healthcare, Ethical and OTC Consumer
The Romans wins this year's Healthcare, Ethical and OTC Consumer award with its innovative and highly successful 'Nothing wrong with a little prick' campaign for preventative health service Thriva.
Book of the Night
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The finalists
PRWeek US Awards 2015 shortlist revealed
Judges have determined the finalists for the PRWeek US Awards 2015. PRWeek will reveal the winners at a dinner in New York on March 19, 2015.
Winner case studies
PRWeek Campaign of the Year 2015
Always' #LikeAGirl took home the award for Campaign of the Year.
Cause-Related Campaign of the Year 2015
Always, P&G's feminine care brand, has long been committed to empowering girls through puberty education.
Nonprofit Campaign of the Year 2015
Share Our Strength set out to bring more nourishing dishes to children, while simultaneously stacking support and funds for summers to come.
Global Campaign of the Year 2015
Procter & Gamble reinvigorated its Thank You, Mom campaign, which took home this year's prize.
Technology Campaign of the Year 2015
The launch of Advanced Micro Devices' new generation of Radeon graphics cards helped re-ignite customer passion.
Healthcare Campaign of the Year 2015
CVS made national headlines when it announced that it was pulling all tobacco products from its shelves for good.
Business-to-Business Campaign of the Year 2015
Juniper Networks' Introducing Hackonomics campaign helped the company regain a foothold in the IT security industry.
PR Agency of the Year 2015
Weber Shandwick had "an exceptional year in which it redefined and expanded client reach."
Communicator of the Year 2015
Frates' rousing success in the face of tremendous obstacles makes him a clear choice as PRWeek's 2015 Communicator of the Year.
Promotional Event of the Year 2015
Gatorade entered the fiercely competitive protein-based recovery product category with the launch of its Recover Whey Protein Bar.
Best Use of Analytics 2015
Leveraging new analytics and socialization tools helped Allstate Insurance create the most robust edition of its annual America's Best Drivers Report
Best Use of Broadcast/Video 2015
Dubbed "clever, moving, and relevant" by one judge, this campaign set out to honor the important role moms play in their children's lives.
PR Product/Service of the Year 2015
WE Infinity is a data-mining and analytics platform built in the cloud that delivers insights to inform campaign strategies and help improve business outcomes.
PR Student of the Year 2015
"Daltyn's combination of old-school skills and digital savvy makes me proud," added one judge.
PR Education Program of the Year 2015
"A great course with a hugely innovative, world-class curriculum," said one judge.
PR Pro of the Year - Agency 2015
Judges applauded Kempner for "making bold moves within the industry" and for "truly transforming the business in radical ways."
PR Pro of the Year - In-House 2015
Judges praised Mónica Talán, EVP of corporate communications and PR at Univision, for her leadership and business accomplishments.
Young PR Pro of the Year 2015
Last year, Fastenberg showed knowledge and experience beyond her youth as she managed more than $1.2 million in accounts.
Public Sector Campaign of the Year 2015
The deck was stacked against the Illinois Department of Insurance and FleishmanHillard as they set out to enroll state residents for healthcare plans through the Affordable Care Act.
Investor/Financial Communications Campaign of the Year 2015
Wintergreen Advisers teamed with Bryant Park Financial Communications to bring the facts about Coca-Cola's plan to light.
Public Affairs Campaign of the Year 2015
Dominion and agency Davies wanted to counter the work of environmental groups, which had rallied against the Cove Point terminal project in Maryland.
Corporate Branding Campaign of the Year 2015
CVS Health worked with its integrated agency team on a rebranding campaign to highlight its dedication to healthcare.
Multicultural Marketing Campaign of the Year 2015
US Mint won for an effort that helped Americans remember a key moment in the country's history.
Community Relations Campaign of the Year 2015
BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and Eric Mower + Associates won for a campaign addressing the epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse.
Internal Communications Campaign of the Year 2015
Toyota initiated a campaign to bring its four existing North American headquarter operations under one roof in a new location.
Small PR Agency of the Year 2015
In 2014, revenue at Singer Associates doubled to $9 million from $4.5 million in 2013.
Boutique PR Agency of the Year 2015
Praytell Strategy's revenue grew 217% to $2.94 million in 2014 as the agency added a number of US and international clients.
Large PR Agency of the Year 2015
All judges recognized Weber Shandwick as a true industry leader that continually breaks barriers and embraces change.
Consumer Launch Campaign of the Year 2015
World's Toughest Job rose above the competition and made Mother's Day more special for consumers around the country.
Midsize PR Agency of the Year 2015
Allison+Partners' acquisition of PR Century last year in Beijing and Shanghai enhanced the China practice, and Asia-Pacific revenue soared 300%.
Best Use of Social Media/Digital 2015
Far surpassing the brand's expectations, the effort garnered 76 million views on YouTube, making it one of the top viral videos of the year
In-House PR Team of the Year 2015
Last year's Honorable Mention is this year's winner as NASCAR's Integrated Marketing Communications team raced off with top 2015 honors.
Crisis or Issues Management Campaign of the Year 2015
As a sponsor of the US Speedskating team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Under Armour developed the US Mach39, but the suit did not live up to its hype.
Product Brand Development Campaign of the Year 2015
MSLGroup knocked it out of the park with this campaign that transformed the insulting phrase "like a girl" into a positive and empowering statement.
Arts, Entertainment and Media Campaign of the Year 2015
Ketchum and the US Farmers & Ranchers Alliance won for a campaign around the documentary film Farmland!
Best Promotional Event 2017
Negroni Week spurred a 50% increase in Campari sales over the same period a year earlier. In 2016, the number of participating venues rose 63% from 2015, with 6,078 total participants.