We went along to the traditional season closing awards show – the CorpComms Awards – with high hopes and low expectations. It’s not generally our manor, being as we are a consumer brand agency. But we like it as a night out so we tend to toddle along.
Our work with CALM that saw over 6,000 balloons put into Westfield to mark the birthdays that would never be celebrated by young people who lost their lives due to suicide is in contention. A really, really important piece of pro-bono work for us this year and a client that means a lot. The campaign was a truly memorable one and was rewarded with two awards – for Best Social Purpose Campaign and Best Event.
Elsewhere, two different Virgin Media O2 campaigns also picked up gongs.
Our work on the National Databank – this time for our Christmas awareness-raising activity – saw us raising awareness of the 1.9 million UK household that experience “data poverty” to demonstrate that Virgin Media O2 offers those on low incomes access to vital internet connectivity via its corporate initiative. We picked up the award for Best Corporate Purpose Campaign.
We also won for our work helping the Virgin Media O2 brand to campaign on behalf of music fans to “Stamp it Tout” (see what we did there) and take a stance on the secondary ticket market. We’ve been working on the campaign all year and it culminated in us bringing home the win in the House of Commons as the Government agreed to introduce new regulations. That won in are up in Best Corporate Campaign.
So that’s it. Another cracking year of award wins across a whole host of different clients. Now to start scribbling up the entries for 2026 when it all starts again …
