28.01.2010 | Awards
Wieden + Kennedy London picked up the top prize ‘Winner of Winners’ at last night’s Awards for National Newspaper Advertising for the Honda ‘Back To Work’ campaign.
Creative team Fabian Berglund and Ida Gronblom developed the winning print campaign to celebrate the reopening of Honda’s Swindon plant last summer.
The judging panel included VCCP’s Creative Director Darren Bailes who described the winning execution ‘Bacon’ as ‘news in the form of advertising’.
W+K also won the creative media partnership award (in partnership with Carat) for Lurpak and the 'Saturday is Breakfast Day' campaign.
The ANNAs were launched in December 2004 to:
• shine a spotlight on the best newspaper ads
• inspire agencies and advertisers to make the most of the opportunities presented by national newspapers
11.12.2009 | Awards
This week Campaign magazine awarded Wieden + Kennedy London 'Campaign of the Decade' for Honda - The Power of Dreams. They said: 'With a consistent combination of industry-defining, award-winning and brand-building ads, Wieden + Kennedy's work for Honda took the top spot.'
W+K was also included in the following round-up lists for the decade and for 2009:
Posters of the Decade - Number 5 - Nike St Wayne
Virals of the Decade - Number 3 - Honda Cog
TV ads of the Decade - Numbers 3 and 8 for Honda Cog and Grrr
Press Ads of the Year - Number 1 - Guardian Classic Comics
Digital Campaign of the Year - Number 1 (in conjunction with AKQA) - Nike Five Show Your Five
Posters of the Year - Number 7 - Honda Iron
23.11.2009 | Awards
SHOOT Magazine http://www.shootonline.com/go/, the leading publication for commercial and entertainment production, has announced that Wieden + Kennedy has been selected as its 2009 Advertising Agency of the Year.
A feature section on Wieden + Kennedy will be a vital part of SHOOT's high-visibility special Year-End Issue to be published on Friday, December 11, 2009.
SHOOT selected its pick for Ad Agency of the year based on which agency made the biggest positive impact in '09 in terms of brand building, creative, and successfully weaving its clients into the social fabric of mainstream and pop culture.
09.10.2009 | Awards
Wieden + Kennedy London triumphed at the APG Creative Strategy Awards last night, winning awards for campaigns for Nike and Nokia. Paul Colman and Graeme Douglas won a Silver for their paper on Nike ‘Show Your Five. And Andrew Stirk and Kevin Chesters were also awarded a Silver for their Nokia Supernova 7610 submission. Their paper also picked up ‘Best International Paper’.
Since 1993, when they began, the APG Awards http://www.apg.org.uk/awards/2009.cfm have given rise to the world’s most comprehensive and inspiring showcase of great strategic thinking. They have shown how agencies, and in particular their planners, are the primary source of strategic inspiration. The Awards play a vital role in defending the position of agencies at the heart of brand strategy.
This year the APG Awards attracted an all-time record of 153 entries.
