The Prolific North Champions Awards 2022: The Winners

Well done to all our finalists, Highly Commended entries, and of course the winners. Special thanks too to this year’s sponsors who helped make the 10th Champions Awards a reality – the UK Advertising Export Group, Metricomm, No Brainer, and Mustard Research – not to mention our illustrious judging panel. 

Let’s see all the winners from the 2022 awards.

The Prolific North Champions Awards 2022: The Winners

Tech Innovation of the Year: Hidden Creative – Simmerse Tech Innovation

Also nominated:

• Daena – Artwork automation tech innovation from the North that keeps graphics production here in the UK, removing the need for offshoring
• Haystack – Tech Uncovered
• Prodo – AI Assist
• Sequence – Launchpool
• Silverchip for Suits Me
• theEword & rebrix

Ad of the Year: On the Beach – The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Also nominated:

• Lizardfish TV – ‘Never Felt So Good’ Pall Mall Ad
• The Gate Films – The Deadline

Best In-House Marketing Team: St Pierre Groupe

Sponsored by Metricomm

Also nominated:

• OPEN Media
• SimpliSafe

Audio / Visual Production of the Year: The Gate Films x Lounge Underwear

Highly Commended: This is Distorted – A Little Respect for Virgin Radio Pride

Also nominated:

• GAS™ Music Ltd – BBC Winter Olympics
• Propaganda & Clipper – Enabling Retail
• The Great Garden Revolution! With Channel 4, Dentsu MB and The Storylab

Best Client Services Team: Pace Communications

Also nominated:

• Cantarus
• CreativeRace
• GenM Team
• Savvy Marketing Britvic Client Service Team

Performance Marketing Agency of the Year: Hello Earth Agency

Highly Commended: Castle International

• Circus PPC Agency
• The SEO Works

Tech for Good Award: Silverchip – Donate A Laptop and School Meal Finder

Highly Commended: Netsells – Good Food Talks

Also nominated:

• Prodo: AI Assist

International Reach Award: St Pierre Groupe – A Taste of Paris in America, with love from Manchester

Sponsored by the UK Advertising Export Group

Also nominated:

• Aire Global – Implementing brands all around the world through packaging, POS and ecommerce design
• ICS-digital
• MAG International

B2B Campaign of the Year: The SEO Works & LGC – Using Search to Reach a Global Audience

Also nominated:

• Don’t be Shy – Gathering insight for AppliedInsight
• Giacom – Sophos Product Launch Campaign
• Media Agency Group – Globalization Partners Campaign
• Mediaworks & Mobile Mini – Out of the Box Campaign for National Leader in Storage Containers
• Metamorphic PR – promoting green innovation expertise
• Propaganda – GenM relaunch
• SLG & Brett Landscaping – Perfect in Porcelain

PR Campaign of the Year: Influential & Madame Tussauds – Keep Calm… The Queen is Coming to Blackpool

Highly Commended: On the Beach – Free Covid-19 Tests

Also nominated:

• Brazen Wakes Up The Nation For Silentnight
• FIG & SRL – Accelerating change in the Highways Industry
• Hough Bellis Communications – ASB Awareness Week
• Mediaworks & Esh Group – Converting Publicity into Website Traffic
• The Audit Lab – Introducing Ruby Payne
• Viva PR – Launching the South Pennines Park

Production Company of the Year: The Gate Films

Also nominated:

• Lizardfish TV
• McGill Productions
• New Take Films
• ReelWorld Europe

Animation / Graphics Company of the Year: Flipbook Studio

Also nominated:

• Ben Wild Studios ltd
• REALTIME

Young Outstanding Contributor to the North: Jessica Adams, Head of Marketing & Communications, Syria Relief

Also nominated:

• Csilla Balint, Group Head of Marketing, iPensions Group
• Milimo Banji, CEO & Founder, Tapln
• Dominio Carter, Founder, Serotonin
• Adam Chandler, Founder, Reel Film
• Kristiana Georgieva, PPC Specialist, Hello Earth Agency
• Oliver Hodgson, Founder, Platinum Live
• Jake Lowes, Midweight Motion Designer, Don’t be Shy
• Tom Marshall, Designer, Aire Global
• Christopher Martin, CMO, FlexMR
• William Mollett, Co-Founder, Horizon Union
• Olly Moriarty, Head of Creative, One Agency
• Jessica Pardoe, Account Manager, Source PR
• Ollie Ratcliffe, Digital Communications Specialist, Taylors of Harrogate & Bettys
• Emma Rogers, Head of Content, Punch Creative
• Amy Shaw, Marketing Manager, OPEN Media
• Meg Wilson-Taylor, PPC Manager, Circus PPC
• Kieran Wood, Co-founder, Horizon Union

Small Integrated Agency of the Year: SLG

Highly Commended: Don’t be Shy

Also nominated:

• Poke Marketing
• Punch Creative
• The Big Bamboo Agency
• Young Bright and Grey

Large Integrated Agency of the Year: Manifest

Sponsored by Mustard Research

Also nominated:

• Castle International
• CreativeRace
• CTI Holdings Ltd
• Definition Group
• Evoluted
• Mediaworks
• Propaganda

Web Development Project of the Year: Vital Agency & Shorts Lifts – New Web Solution

Highly Commended: Sequence for Launchpool

Also nominated:

• Cantarus for The Road Haulage Association
• First Internet & Fragrance Oils – fragrance-oils.com
• Herd – Newhay’s new D2C website puts a spring in the step of small pets nationwide
• Herd’s cutting edge new website sees FG Adamson & Son soar to new heights
• KMP Digitata for AGS Airports
• Mediaworks & Johnnie Johnson Housing – Tenant First, Digital First
• Platform81 for Wolves Academy
• Velstar – AVON

PR Agency of the Year: Future

• Altitude
• Aubergine
• Brazen
• Cause UK
• Jargon PR
• Roaring Mouse Public Relations
• The Big Bamboo Agency
• Truth PR
• Viva PR

Small Digital Agency of the Year: theEword

Also nominated:

• Candidsky
• Click Clique
• digia
• House Digital
• Platform81
• Reward Agency
• The Audit Lab
• Velstar

Large Digital Agency of the Year: Evoluted

Also nominated:

• Cantarus
• Castle International
• CDS UK
• DEPT®
• The SEO Works

Best Talent Acquisition Team: Corecom Consulting

Also nominated:

• Aire Global
• Slalom

Small Budget B2C Campaign of the Year: Truth PR – Make It For Real at UA92

Also nominated:

• Buy me Media – Home is on your High Street
• Herd – Revving Up Revenue for Cobra Sport Exhausts
• McCann Manchester & Aldi #FreeCuthbert
• Mosquito Digital & Vileda #LoveableMess
• Smoking Gun – Girls Let’s Swim
• Tempt & Bitter Twisted – Bar Hütte 2021

Large Budget B2C Campaign of the Year: ilk Agency & Aardman – What’s Up With Everyone?

• Bring Digital & Cotton Traders – Autumn/Winter Paid Social Campaign
• Jura Whisky, Channel 4 & Republic of Media – Say Hello to Jura
• Mediaworks & Beanies Flavour Co – Instant Coffee and Instant Results with Double Conversions and Revenue
• On the Beach – The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
• Untold – Welcome to the Republic of Beer

Most Memorable Campaign of the Year: McCann Manchester & Aldi – #FreeCuthbert

Also nominated:

• Audio Always – Olympic and Paralympic Dreams Bedtime Stories
• Channel 4 & Allies – Black To Front
• ilk Agency & Aardman – What’s Up With Everyone?
• On the Beach – The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
• OPEN Media – International Women’s Day
• Propaganda – Shattered

Tech Company of the Year: Silverchip

Sponsored by No Brainer

Also nominated:

• BOXT
• BrightHR
• Giacom
• Nimble Approach
• Northcoders
• Pentest People
• Slalom
• Street Group
• Summize
• thebigword
• XR Games

Independent Agency of the Year: Hello Earth Agency

Highly Commended: Manifest

Also nominated:

• Aire Global
• Cantarus
• CreativeRace
• Evoluted
• North PR
• REO Digital
• TapIn
• Waterfall

Outstanding Contributor to the North: Hannah Anderson, Managing Director, Kyma Media

Also nominated:

• Audrey Hall, Presenter, ALL FM
• Sean Hutchinson, Founder, Pecometer Software
• Mo Isap, Founder & CEO, IN4 Group
• Ash Jones, Founder, Great Influence
• Rosie Kenyon, Managing Director, Kenyons
• Caren Launus-Gamble, Founder, Kreativeinc Agency
• Chris Place, Creative Director, Don’t be Shy
• Dave Price, CCO, McCann Manchester
• Chris Ridley, PPC Specialist, Evoluted
• Rob Shaw, CEO, CreativeRace
• Catherine Shuttleworth, Founder, Savvy Marketing
• Mike Smith, Founder & CVO, OPEN Media