The Prolific North Marketing Awards 2022: The Winners

Prolific North Marketing Awards 2022

We are delighted to reveal the winners from this year’s highly anticipated Prolific North Marketing Awards.

Marking the 10th edition of this awards ceremony, the Marketing Awards were hosted at the iconic Royal Armouries in Leeds to celebrate the ambition, creativity and successes across the North’s thriving marketing world.

It was a night to remember, hosted by multi-award nominated comedian Pete Otway where guests were treated to doses of his razor-sharp Northern wit.

This awards ceremony couldn’t have gone ahead without the support of category sponsors – a massive thank you to BoutiqueCreativeRace, McCann Leeds, Bolser, The Voiceover Gallery, Awin and Galloways as well as our incredible judging panel of industry leaders.

Well done to everyone nominated and, of course, to the very worthy winners!

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The Prolific North Marketing Awards 2022: The Winners

Best Response to Change: Cravens & First Bus – Let’s Get There Together

Sponsored by Boutique

Also nominated:

Best Brand Building CampaignRefinery & East of England Co-op Funeral Services – It means everything to us, because it means everything to you

Also nominated:

  • 438 Marketing & Ecolab – Clean Matters
  • Evri – Rebranding the biggest dedicated parcel delivery company
  • Finecast and Wavemaker North – Finecast for Kikkoman
  • Hillsgreen – Marketing to Farmers 2022/23
  • iProspect & Freemans
  • Jaywing & Skipton Building Society – Meaningful Giving
  • Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner – Leading the Fight Against Crime
  • Live & Breathe – LEAF Arla Farm Sunday
  • Mosquito Digital #BeAstonished

Best Health Campaign: Drummond Central – Change of Heart

Also nominated:

  • Bolser & Leeds Teaching Hospitals – Shape Up 4 Surgery
  • Diva Creative & GMCA – Covid’s Still Here
  • Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership – Never Quit Quitting

Best Ecommerce/Retail Campaign: Mosquito Digital #BeAstonished

Also nominated:

  • Blue Whale Media – Search Marketing for Used Mobiles 4U
  • Drummond Central and Hope&Glory – Greggs x Primark
  • Evoluted & Sea to Summit – Silos to summit, bringing content and SEO together
  • Threefold & Xbox PC4GP for Very
  • We Influence & CCL – Multi Channel Revenue Growth Campaign

Best Tourism & Leisure Campaign: Frame & Northern – ‘Go Do Your Thing’

Also nominated:

  • Catapult PR – Shaping a Tourism Triumph
  • Cumbria Tourism – Welcome Back to High Streets Barrow-in-Furness
  • Holdens & Snowdon Mountain Railway – Spring 2022 paid search campaign
  • Marketing Liverpool – Taste Liverpool. Drink Bordeaux
  • The Swan hotel Newby Bridge – Spa launch influencer campaign
  • Wavemaker & Jet2holidays x Kiss – that’s a VIBE

Best Professional & Financial Services Campaign: Jaywing & Skipton Building Society – Meaningful Giving

Highly Commended: Intro PR and The Cumberland: The Kinder Shop

Also nominated:

  • Brand Ambition & Proxima: Scope 3 Success
  • Catapult PR & McCarron Coates – Premium Pros
  • Deloitte 368 – Oceans of Opportunity
  • Embryo & BCB
  • Zodeq & Entyce Creative – Now is the time

Best Property & Construction Campaign: theEword & Yugo

Also nominated:

  • Aurora & The Learning Foundry – #BuildingHistory
  • Holdens & Altura – Harrison St & Link City
  • Serotonin & Riverstone – Retirement living as it should be
  • theEword & Latimer Homes – HD MediaCity



Best Not-For-Profit Campaign: This Generation Communications & The Oliver King Foundation

Highly Commended: Eleven Marketing & Communication – Samaritans and Network Rail ‘Small Talk Saves Lives’ 

Also nominated:

  • Cumbria Tourism – Welcome Back to High Streets Barrow-in-Furness
  • Faith PR & The Sleep Charity – Empowering the nation to sleep better
  • Hitch Marketing & Liverpool City Region Combined Authority – ‘The best vehicle’
  • Lancashire Police and Crime Commissioner – Leading the Fight Against Crime
  • Propack Direct Mail & Sue Ryder – Supporter Acquisition Campaign
  • Wellington Square – Stockton Stories

Best Integrated Campaign: Drummond Central – Change of Heart

Sponsored by CreativeRace

Also nominated: 

  • Bolser & Leeds Teaching Hospitals – Shape Up 4 Surgery
  • Catapult PR – Shaping a Topiary Champion
  • Cravens & First Bus – Let’s Get There Together
  • Frame & Northern – ‘Go Do Your Thing’
  • ilk Agency – Sport England
  • Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership – Never Quit Quitting
  • Refinery & East of England Co-op Funeral Services – It means everything to us, because it means everything to you
  • Stein IAS – The Psychology of Clean Label
  • Tomoro Agency – Haier Expert Campaign

Best Social Purpose Campaign: University of Manchester – Climate Questions

Highly Commended: Scala – Nottingham Maternity Scandal: Lasting Change for Maternity Services

Sponsored by McCann Leeds

Also nominated:

  • Cravens & First Bus – Let’s Get There Together
  • Hitch Marketing & the Office for Police and Crime Commissioner in Leicestershire – ‘you’re right, that’s wrong’
  • The Growth Guys & MyBubble – Proving Viability of an App with a Great Cause
  • This Generation Communications & The Oliver King Foundation – #LetsLegislateOK

Best PR Campaign: Catapult PR – Shaping a Topiary Champion

Highly Commended: Influential Agency & Madame Tussauds – Boris Visits the Job Centre

Also nominated:

  • ECHO PR & Manchester BID – Manchester Welcomes in the Year of The Tiger
  • Evoluted & OriGym – Outreach, Expert Comment & Gymtimidation
  • Intro PR and The Cumberland: The Kinder Shop
  • Refresh & Culture Shift: Paying the price for problematic behaviour
  • Wavemaker & GBBO – Chatting baking with home baker

Best Use of Data and Insight: Drummond Central – Change of Heart

Also nominated:

  • Boutique & Best Heating – Forgotten Radiator Strategy
  • Catapult PR & McCarron Coates – Premium Pros
  • Finecast for Isuzu
  • Propack Direct Mail & Sue Ryder – Supporter Acquisition Campaign
  • ROAR Digital Marketing & Inflo

Best Search Marketing Campaign: 43 Clicks North & The Stone Group – Black Friday

Also nominated:

  • Blue Whale Media – Search Marketing for Used Mobiles 4U
  • Brand Ambition & Proxima: Scope 3 Success
  • Holdens & Snowdon Mountain Railway – Spring 2022 paid search campaign
  • Salience & Flooring Supplies – Flooring it to Top of Market in Organic Search
  • Wavemaker & Nationwide Building Society – How Nationwide beat Martin Lewis to become the no. 1 authority during ISA season

Best Social Media Campaign: Mosquito Digital #TimeforaHorlicks

Also nominated:

  • Live & Breathe and Arla Foods Cooperate – LEAF Arla Farm Sunday
  • Mosquito Digital #BeAstonished
  • Return & San Carlo – “Saying salut to freedom”



Best B2C Campaign: Drummond Central – Greggs x Primark

Highly Commended: Nexus – Take the Kids for Free on Tyne and Wear Metro

Also nominated:

  • AlphaGraphics North East & Park’s Motor Group
  • Cravens & First Bus – Let’s Get There Together
  • Cravens & Parkdean Resorts – What are we going to do today?
  • Glass Digital x Horse and Country TV
  • iProspect & Freemans
  • Mosquito Digital #BeAstonished
  • Smoking Gun & Munchkin – Another Munchkin Miracle

Best B2B Campaign: Bevic Marketing Services & Bradford BID Member Gift Card Campaign

Also nominated:

  • Adler and Allan – Red diesel countdown: Ensuring Adler and Allan customers were prepared for significant legislation changes
  • Deloitte 368 – Oceans Of Opportunity
  • Hillsgreen – Marketing to Farmers
  • Lesniak Swann & FSi – Leave No Gaps
  • SLG & PolyMax – Polypipe to the Max

Best Small Budget Campaign: Hillsgreen & Aquagrain – Launch of Aquagrain

Also nominated:

  • 21 Degrees Digital – Children’s Corner Childcare campaign
  • Boutique & abnormal – Product Launch
  • CreativeRace – Banana Moon Anti Anxiety Hoody
  • durhamlane – It’s Slice to Meet You!
  • Glass Digital & Horse & Country – Leading the charge with a 422% increase in non-brand traffic
  • LTE Group – National Apprenticeship Week Campaign
  • Mosquito Digital #LoveableMess
  • One Brand Magic & Candy – Addams Family 2 campaign
  • The SME Partners – 250% Growth For 100-Year-Old Family B2B Bakery

Best Large Budget Campaign: Cravens & Parkdean Resorts – “What are we going to do today?”

Sponsored by Bolser

Also nominated:

  • All Response Media & DeadHappy – Dying to Grow
  • Evoluted & OriGym – Outreach, Expert Comment & Gymtimidation



Best In-House Marketing Team: Summize

Also nominated:

  • Caspian Insurance
  • Deloitte 368
  • FlexMR
  • Stockport Homes Group – Marketing by Home
  • LOFT
  • OPEN Media
  • St Pierre Groupe
  • Together Financial Services
  • Yorkshire Tea

Best Large Agency: Drummond Central

Also nominated: 

  • Stein IAS
  • The Armstrong Partnership
  • Wavemaker North

Best Midsize Agency: Evoluted

Highly Commended: Pharmacy Mentor

Sponsored by Awin

Also nominated:

Best Small Agency: Waterfall

Sponsored by Galloways

Also nominated:

  • Brand Ambition
  • Candidsky
  • Hillsgreen
  • Offended
  • Refresh
  • ROAR Digital Marketing
  • theEword
  • The Growth Guys
  • This Is Distorted

Marketer of the Year: Ollie Ratcliffe, Yorkshire Tea

Agency Marketer of the Year: Clair Heaviside, Serotonin

Sponsored by The Voiceover Gallery











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