Categories and Criteria 2017

  1. Best digital agency campaign
  2. Best creative agency campaign
  3. Best media agency campaign
  4. Best sales team campaign
  5. Best PR agency campaign

The above categories give a real opportunity for you to demonstrate a great campaign against a client brief.

Whatever discipline you are representing the judges are looking for:

  • Innovative thinking
  • Demonstration of how a good campaign can deliver results
  • Good teamwork and great client service should be evident
  • ROI/increase of sales should be of paramount importance in your entry.
  1. Big Bang

We are talking BIG impact for a small budget. Enter this category if you’ve achieved exceptional, quantified results against clear objectives with a spend under £50,000. This award could be for a campaign, commercial, video production, animated series, digital campaign, media usage…. It’s open to all sectors within the creative and media community.

  1. Best content creation

Inspiration and innovation are at that heart of these awards and this new category reflects this. Purely based on content and creative use of any channel - there are no boundaries for this entry: it can be from any channel and demonstrated in any format including Film, TV, radio programming, video, animation, gaming or press and print. It may well be the one that ‘got away’ … the one the client didn’t run with. Right here is a real opportunity to flaunt your creative mettle.

  1. Collaboration

Show how you’ve worked alongside another agency, with their team actively involved to help you deliver a more inspiring result for your client. You’ll need to demonstrate collaboration between both or all of the companies involved - with effective results.

The collaboration can be between agencies from any medium and on any platform(s) but all partners must be based in Manchester.

  1. Inspiring Manchester

We’ve been asked to include this award as there are many of you that have either worked on or would like to demonstrate something that is unique about our city. Whether it’s an individual project, a team effort, a response to a brief, a film, video, photography or just a clever idea you would like to put forward… Show us what you’ve done that reflects Inspiring Manchester.

  1. Small Digital agency of the year (up to 20 employees)
  2. Large Digital agency of the year (20+ employees)
  3. Small Creative agency of the year (up to 20 employees)
  4. Large Creative agency of the year (20+ employees)
  5. Small Media agency of the year (up to 25 employees)
  6. Large Media agency of the year (25+ employees)
  7. Small Media sales team of the year (up to 10 employees)
  8. Large Media sales team of the year (10+ employees)
  9. Small PR Agency of the year (up to 25 employees)
  10. Large PR Agency of the year (25+ employees)

This award will acknowledge an agency / team which can demonstrate that their overall business over the past year has exceeded the norm. Our judges will assess achievements in the following areas: (please note the number of employees are based on FTE)

  • Innovation & Creativity
  • Problem Solving
  • Adherence to budget and deadlines
  • Meeting clients’ strategic objectives
  • New market penetration
  • Growth & Expansion
  • Team Wellbeing
  • Corporate Social Responsibility
  1. Apprentice Award

This award will be awarded to an Apprentice that has shown that they have excelled during their first year within your business and have made a positive contribution to the business overall

  1. Rising Star

Have you employed an inspiring new talent in the industry? This award will he handed over to an exciting individual who has been judged by their peers to have excelled in their grasp of the industry and contribution to the business overall.

More than likely this person will be (1) Under 30 years of age (2) A new employee to your business within the last 12 months or someone who has recently taken on a new role in your business and has excelled within that role. Judges will be looking for initiative and entrepreneurial spirit and a can do attitude.

  1. Student Award

This award will be awarded by the judges based on entries from final year students at MMU. This category cannot be entered any other way other than via the nomination scheme within MMU

Please click here to be directed to the online entry form