21 Apr 10

MediaCom is Festival of Media's Agency Network of the Year

MediaCom is delighted to announce that we won Media Agency Network of the Year at the prestigious Festival of Media Awards 2010 last night!

MediaCom's Worldwide CEO, Stephen Allan says, "This award is regarded throughout the media world as the gold standard of industry accolades and is certainly a reflection of the hard work, dedication and creativity of our people. I am enormously proud of everyone for contributing to this well-deserved acknowledgement".

Last night at the Festival of Media we also picked up these awards for the following individual campaigns:

Best Communications Strategy , T-Mobile Dance, UK
Best Targeted Campaign, GSK Teams with Drag Queen to Fight HIV campaign, USA.

In addition, we received five Highly Commended mentions:

Best Consumer Driven Campaign, Gillette Shave India Movement, India
Best Use of Digital Landscape, Lohas Social Networking, China
The Creative Use of Media Award, LigTV Man on Tree, Turkey
The Effectiveness Award, Gillette Shave India Movement, India
The Effectiveness Award, Dulux Paint for Change, UK

The extent of our domination at the Awards last night is also underlined by the number of campaigns that we had shortlisted. In total, 16 MediaCom entries were short-listed across 7 categories – the highest amount by a single agency network.

Our other short-listed campaigns also deserve an honourable mention:

Best Communications Strategy, Gillette Shave India Movement, India
Best Communications Strategy, Oral B Did you know, Israel
Best Consumer Driven Campaign, Pringles 100 King Can Party, Australia
The Award for Media Bravery, Pringles 100 King Can Party, Australia
The Award for Media Bravery, Gillette Shave India Movement, India
The Award for Media Bravery, Audi Obama Inauguration, USA
The Creative Use of Media Award, Lohas Social Networking, China
The Creative Use of Media Award, Coca-Cola Bring Tom in Homer’s Ad Break, Germany
The Creative Use of Media Award, Oral B Did you know, Israel