The Prolific North Champions Awards 2023: The Winners

Congratulations to all our finalists, highly commended entries, and of course the winners! A very special thanks too to this year’s sponsors who helped make the 11th Champions Awards a reality – UK Advertising & Export Group, Mustard Research, HUB, Enjoy Digital, Sedulo and Galloways  – not to mention our illustrious judging panel. 

Let’s see all the winners from the 2023 Champions awards!

The Prolific North Champions Awards 2023: The Winners

Tech Innovation of the Year: Recode XR Studio & ITV – Coronation Street – Super Soap Week

Sponsored by Sedulo

Highly Commended: GigPig

Also nominated:

• Mina & EV Report

Best In-House Marketing Team: Benenden Health

Sponsored by HUB

Also nominated:

• Airship
• Fearless Adventures
• LTE Group
• M247
• Mina
• Puddle Ducks Franchising Ltd
• Storyhouse
• The Spirit of Manchester Distillery & Three Little Words

Audio Production of the Year: 7digital Creative (BBC Radio 2) – 21st Century Folk

Also nominated:

• This Is Distorted & Virgin Radio Pride – Living Authentically; Trans Truths
• What’s the Story Sounds – Con Juan

Best Client Services Team: Force24

Also nominated:

• Bonded
• Brazen
• Enjoy Digital
• ilk Agency
• Reprise

Video of the Year: Entyce & SIMIAN – Women in Construction – Rianne’s LASC Journey

Highly Commended: Chief & M&S – Eat Well, Play Well

Also nominated:

• Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service
• Lizardfish TV & BBC Bitesize – Bad Careers Advisor
• Lizardfish TV & BBC Bitesize – Comedians Get Real Jobs – Russell Kane

Performance Marketing Agency of the Year: Hello Earth Agency

Also nominated:

• Circus PPC Agency

Tech for Good Award: BT/EE

Highly Commended: One Tribe – Climate Action

Also nominated:

• clinix by AnonyMind
• CHAPERHOME LTD – Walksafe
• Mathematical Services Limited & Paul Foy
• SteamaCo – Empowering the Light of the Nation
• The Bigger Boat & ANDYSMANCLUB – ANDYSMANCLUB New Website
• Yardd – Revolutionise the Equestrian Industry

Made in the North & Making Global Waves: ddroidd

Sponsored by UK Advertising Export Group

Also nominated: 

• Airship Interactive
• Corecom Consulting
• Flipbook Studio
• Initiative Health
• Rainy City Agency
• StraightIn
• The Insights Family

B2B Campaign of the Year: SLG Agency & Polypipe Building Products – ‘Mission Max’

Also nominated:

• Bonded & Making Moves – Transforming B2B property enquiries through Connected Search
• Entyce Creative & Zodeq – Do it your way
• First Internet X Kandy King – Sweet Growth
• Grayling North & Cummins – IAA
• Wild PR & BPI Auctions – Tool Theft Hotspots

PR Campaign of the Year: Smoking Gun & Alton Towers – Nemesis: Campaign to close a legend

Also nominated:

• Grayling North – YO! BYOG
• Influential, U+I – Mayfield Park launch
• JBH – Product Placement for NIO Cocktails DOUBLES Organic Traffic & Lands Dream Coverage
• Trafford Centre – Beauty Unfiltered

Production Company of the Year: Flipbook Studio

Also nominated:

• Dead Pixel Films
• LA Productions
• Craft & McCann Manchester
• McGill Productions
• New Take Films
• Northern Heart Films
• Powerhouse
• The Gate Films 

Outstanding Young Rising Star: Noah Chebouli – Westhoughton Films

The winner of this category was decided by a combination of judges scores and public voting.

Highly Commended: 

• Lauren Hughes – Social Trinity
• Conor Walsh – Patch App UK

Also nominated: 

• Ashleigh Holmes – Flowd
• Calum MacDonald Ball – McCann Manchester
• Charlie Lord – Six & Flow Ltd
• Chloe Fletcher – Boutique
• Elliot Chaim – Mina
• Fiona Bradley – FB Comms
• Freya Anderson – The Mancunion
• Jack Lynch – Chief TV
• Kirstie Jones – Entyce Creative
• Laura Lewis – FB Comms
• Leonardo Pizarro – Lunio
• Mitch Clayton – Flowd
• Nisha Mardania – Six & Flow Ltd
• Raegan Doherty – LDM UK
• Sarah Bell – Bonded
• Saskia Starritt – EssenceMediaCom
• Sophia Rimmer – Salience

Integrated Agency of the Year – Medium: Bonded

Sponsored by Galloways

Also nominated:

• ICG Strategic Marketing Agency
• ilk Agency
• Manifest
• One Day Agency
• SLG Agency

Integrated Agency of the Year – Large: Evoluted

Also nominated:

• Havas Media Manchester
• One Agency

Web Development Project of the Year: Bubble Design & Marketing Ltd (Polypipe Building Products) – Polypipe Underfloor

Sponsored by Enjoy Digital

Highly Commended: The Bigger Boat & ANDYSMANCLUB – New ANDYSMANCLUB website

Also nominated:

• Evoluted & Carmats.co.uk – Car Reg Lookup
• First Internet X Advantage Resourcing / Crone Corkill brand site relaunch
• Workhouse & Peldon Rose

PR Agency of the Year – Small: The Strong Agency

Also nominated:

• Aberfield Communications
• Cause UK

PR Agency of the Year – Large: Brazen

Also nominated:

• Grayling North
• JBH
• Prohibition

Digital Agency of the Year – Medium: First Internet Marketing LTD

Also nominated:

• Entyce Creative
• Mosaic Digital Media

Digital Agency of the Year – Large: Enjoy Digital

Also nominated:

• Campfire
• Cantarus
• CDS
• Evoluted
• StraightIn

B2C Campaign of the Year – Small: Smoking Gun & Alton Towers – Nemesis: Campaign to close a legend

Also nominated:

• Grayling North – YO! Chop Value
• Modo25 & GP Racewear – Aiming for pole position
• Overclockers UK – Refract Gaming PC Range
• Wild PR & The Kid Collective – Disney Baby Names

B2C Campaign of the Year – Large: Bonded & One Utility Bill – Increasing leads with paid search and social

Also nominated:

• Cravens & Bonded – Rugby League World Cup 2021
• ilk Agency & British Land
• Immediate Media – Love Sugar Science x The Ramblers – Lets Walk Together
• JBH – Product Placement for NIO Cocktails DOUBLES Organic Traffic & Lands Dream Coverage
• Northumbrian Water – Water’s Worth Saving
• Thornton & Ross, Zoflora – 100 Years of Beautifully Clean Homes
• TrunkBBI & Halfords –  Driving Exponential Organic Growth for Halfords’ tyres
• Wavemaker UK & Jet2holidays – That’s a VIBE by Jet2holidays

Broadcasting Programme of the Year: BBC Breakfast – Rob Burrow: Living With MND

Highly Commended: Coronation Street (ITV Studios) – Super Soap Week 2022

Also nominated:

• Lizardfish TV – BBC Bitesize The Otherside of the Story

New Agency to Watch: Flowd

Also nominated:

• Argento
• Blue Moon Marketing Ltd
• Proof3
• The Agency Lab

Independent Agency of the Year – Small: Bonded

Highly Commended: SLG Agency

Also nominated:

• Entyce Creative
• Hello Earth Agency
• Hopeful Studio
• IF Agency
• The Big Bamboo Agency
• The Yorkshire Marketing Agency
• Poke

Independent Agency of the Year – Large: Manifest

Highly Commended: Evoluted

Also nominated:

• BDB
• Boutique
• Campfire
• The Jargon Group
• We Are Syn
• Workhouse

Most Memorable Campaign of the Year: Influential and Madame Tussauds Blackpool – Boris Johnson heads to the Job Centre

Also nominated:

• Calderdale’s College
• Northumbrian Water – Bin the Wipe
• Wavemaker UK – Jet2holidays x MailMetroMedia: Holidays are go!

Tech Company of the Year – Small: Mina

Also nominated: 

• Dizplai
• Oddsphere – Shipster

Tech Company of the Year – Medium: Nimble Approach

Also nominated:

• BrightHR

Not-for-Profit Campaign of the Year: Waterfall & UUKi – #TwinForHope

Sponsored by Mustard

Also nominated:

• Blush & Eurogroup for Animals – Fur Free Europe
• Carat UK & StepChange – Captify Brand Awareness Campaign
• Doodledo – Caritas Salford Homeless Appeal
• Havas Lynx Group & The Lady Garden Foundation – Give Your Fanny Five
• ilk Agency & Couch To Fitness
• Journey Further & The Donkey Sanctuary – ‘Adopt a Donkey This Christmas’
• Platinum Live & Gary McKee – 365 Challenge
• Wriggle Marketing – A Better U

Outstanding Contributor to the North: Amy Wild – The Fearless Academy

The winner of this category was decided by a combination of judges scores and public voting.

Highly Commended: SocialNorth – Connecting the Digital Communities of the North

Also nominated:

• Steven Underwood – Bonded
• James Torry – Doodledo
• Ashley Tate – Mina
• Yasmin De Nardo – KPMG
• Vikki Rutter
• Paul White – Patch App UK