ASDA’A Burson Marsteller wins PRWeek Global Award

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Dubai-based PR agency, ASDA’A Burson Marsteller (BM) has received the PRWeek Global Award for Best Campaign – Middle East/Africa. The awards took place on May 15, 2018 at Northumberland Avenue in London. The agency secured the award for its 9th annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey.

“The PRWeek Global Awards recognise the best of the best, and we are thrilled to have earned this award for our work on the 9th Arab Youth Survey,” says Sunil John, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller. “This international level of recognition from our peers fuels our commitment to deliver excellence for the benefit of our clients and our industry in the Middle East. The Arab Youth Survey is a real passion project that ignites our spirit as an agency. It has long served as the biggest platform to echo the voices of this region’s largest and most influential demographic – Arab youth. Winning the Best Campaign award for the Middle East and Africa only adds to our commitment to delivering more ground-breaking campaigns.”

 

JPd secures MENA Transform Awards

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Dubai-based public relations and social media agency, JPd has received four awards at the MENA Transform Awards that took place on May 8, 2018 at St. Regis Dubai, Al Habtoor City. The agency secured a gold award for Best Visual Identity from the Professional Services Sector and three silver awards for Best Visual Identity from the Engineering and Manufacturing Sector, Best Visual Identity from the Food and Beverage Sector and Best Use of Packaging.

“Our victory at the MENA Transform Awards highlights a great start to the year,” says James Pass, Managing Director, JPd. “We consider ourselves as being a branding and design agency, with a difference. Being recognised for our work, at such phenomenal stage, pushes us further to continue excelling in everything we deliver. This recognition is a road that leads us towards making bigger achievements.”

 

Instinctif Partners Middle East secures MENA Transform Award

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International business communications consultancy, Instinctif Partners Middle East was recognised at the MENA Transform Awards that took place on May 8, 2018 at St. Regis Dubai, Al Habtoor City. The agency secured the award for Best External Stakeholder Relations during a Brand Development Project in recognition of a comprehensive IPO communications programme executed by the team and for support of ENBD REIT’s Dubai IPO.

“We are very proud to have received this award,” says Samantha Bartel, Managing Partner, Instinctif Partners Middle East. “We worked closely with the ENBD REIT team during the months and weeks that led up to the IPO, to ensure that all communications were aligned and that each workstream directly addressed the client’s key objectives. The result of this close and constructive relationship was the delivery of a widely-covered and well-received transaction. We have since been retained by ENBD REIT and look forward to passing future milestones together.”

TMH secures MENA Transform Award 

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Part of ONE Communications and Marketing Group, The Message House (TMH) won a gold award at the MENA Transform Awards that took place on May 8, 2018 at St. Regis Dubai, Al Habtoor City. The agency secured the award for Best Strategic and Creative Development of a new brand after the launch of the team game room company known as Jumble.

“We’re extremely proud to have received recognition at these prestigious awards for excellence in rebranding and brand development,” says David Wright, Managing Director, TMH. “Our gold award for Jumble is testament to our passionate team here at TMH with a brand that presented numerous challenges including engaging an audience more accustom to online gaming than offline and to ensuring cut through in Dubai’s saturated entertainment market.”

ASDA’A Burson Marsteller secures SABRE Award

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Dubai-based PR agency, ASDA’A Burson Marsteller (BM) has received the In2 (Innovation & Insight) SABRE Award for Thought Leadership in PR for its annual Arab Youth Survey. The agency will receive the award for its Arab Youth Survey 2017 at the international award ceremony that takes place on May 23, 2018 at the National Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. The agency will also be conducting their annual Arab Youth Survey for this year on May 8, 2018.

“Our annual Arab Youth Survey has time and again presented defining social, cultural and political trends that shape the region,” says Sunil John, Founder and CEO, ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller. “As a pioneering and independent study, the Survey’s findings bring invaluable insight for governments, businesses, policy makers and civil society. The third consecutive win for our annual Arab Youth Survey at the 2018 In2 SABRE Awards underlines the strength of this powerful initiative, which is recognised by our peers across EMEA markets as best-in-class.”

RBBi wins Seamless Award

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Digital marketing agency, Red Blue Blur Ideas was recognised at the Seamless Awards that took place on April 15, 2018 at JW Marriott Marquis, Dubai. The agency secured the award for Best Use of Big Data after completion of their work for Al-Futtaim Automotive, which showed off their talents as a data-driven consultancy.

“To receive industry recognition in a category representing the future of our industry is an achievement we are immensely proud of,” says Byron Gavin, Head of Data & Analytics, RBBi. “With vetted panellists, tough criteria, and a shortlist of five strong nominees, we are honoured to be recognised for the work completed with Al-Futtaim Automotive, and for the opportunity to flex our digital analytics solution to deliver an award-winning campaign.”

Hill+Knowlton Strategies wins at MENA Young Lions PR

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PRCA MENA has announced Hill+Knowlton Strategies’ team of Mohamad Saber and Peter Hermina as the winners of the MENA Young Lions PR Competition for their ‘Half a Million Dollars’ campaign. The third year of the competition saw over 28 entries from teams of two, all creating effective and creative campaigns as per a brief from Education for Employment. Sponsored by the International Communications Consultancy (ICCO), the team will go on to represent the region at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity that will take place from June 17 – 21, 2018.

“It was inspiring to see the amount of passion, creativity and energy being put into the PRCA MENA Young Lions entries,” says Alex Malouf, Corporate Communications and Reputation Manager – Arabian Peninsula, Procter & Gamble, and part of the judging panel for the awards. “The short-listed entries combined sharp insights, innovative strategies and extensive use of measurement. The finalists made our decision very tough at the end of the day and I’m confident that the PRCA MENA Young Lions winners will do the region justice in Cannes.”

Leanne Foy, General Manager, PRCA MENA, adds “I would like to congratulate Mohamed and Peter on their win. We wish the pair the best of luck in Cannes where I am sure they will do the industry and the UAE proud.”

PRCA MENA announces award winners

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Winners of the PRCA MENA Awards have been announced following the conclusion of this year’s awards ceremony on February 21, 2018. Held at the Renaissance Hotel Downtown, the awards focused on recognising and celebrating the best of the best PR and communication campaigns, teams and individuals across the Middle East and North Africa.

Winners included Brazen for Best PR Campaign Media Relations and Small Agency of the Year, Seven Media for Large Agency of the Year and Best PR Campaign Digital, Hill+Knowlton Strategies for Best PR Campaign Business to Consumer, Markettiers for Best PR Campaign Results on a Budget and BPG Cohn & Wolfe for Best PR Campaign Influencer Relations. The awards also honoured Lauren Brush, Senior Communications Consultant at Active DMC for Rising Star of the Year and Lucy O’ Brien, General Manager at FleishmanHillard for PR Leader of the Year.

“It is a great pleasure to announce the winners of the PRCA MENA Awards 2018,” says Leanne Foy, General Manager, PRCA MENA. The breadth and depth of the campaigns, teams and individuals that we’ve seen this year demonstrates the strength of communications across the region.”

ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller wins at the Gold Standard Awards

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ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller has been named ‘Middle East Consultancy of the Year’ at this year’s Gold Standard Awards. The award aims to celebrate corporate affairs and corporate communications professionals across public affairs, strategic communications and stakeholder agreement sectors in the Asia Pacific and Middle East region. The event also recognised ASDA’A in the category of ‘Social Media Communications’ for its use of digital channels to engage with stakeholders.

“The Gold Standards, which is the most prestigious awards of its type in Asia Pacific and the Middle East, recognises the best of the best and we are thrilled with our wins, which recognise the world-class standard of the work we do,” says Sunil John, Founder and CEO, ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller. “Our team works tirelessly to produce work of the highest quality and such recognition only fuels our passion to deliver excellence.”

 

MENA Effie Award winners announced

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Winners of the MENA Effie Awards has been announced following the conclusion of its ninth edition of the awards on November 15, 2017. Held at the Armani/Pavilion, Armani Hotel Dubai, the awards focused on establishing a gold standard of creative marketing brilliance across the region. The event saw major wins for FP7/CAI winning the Grand Prix, while other winners include PHD Dubai for Most Effective Media Office of the Year and FP7/DXB for Most Effective Agency Network of the Year.

“2017 saw tighter budgets, increasing pressure to deliver revenue and growing competition in the industry, but despite this high-pressure environment, marketing professionals have upped the ante with new levels of innovation, creativity and resourcefulness,” says Alexandre Hawari, Co-CEO, Mediaquest. “This is what we look for in our award-winners, who have all successfully faced the challenges by finding ever more strategic and targeted ways to reach audiences and deliver a solid return on investment.”