Bulldog Reporter is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023 Bulldog PR Awards, which acknowledge outstanding PR and communications campaigns and spectacular particular person and company contributions to the PR {industry} from the earlier 12 months. The Bulldog Awards are the one PR awards program judged solely by journalists, providing a singular and industry-specific analysis course of.
“As a long-time Bulldog Awards decide, I’ve watched the evolution of PR/advertising go from press releases and chilly calls to true artistic storytelling,” says Pulitzer Prize successful journalist, Tom Hallman Jr. “We stay in an period the place it’s vital to adapt—to know-how, to the financial system, and viewers and shopper expectations. The work on this contest reveals outstanding creativity and teamwork, almost all of it behind the scenes. Considering, taking dangers, and believing within the crew is what issues most.”
The Bulldog PR Awards have honored distinctive PR campaigns, people, and companies for over 25 years. Each program, a Grand Prize winner is chosen from every group. This 12 months’s distinction goes to:
- “The 9/11 Group’s Marketing campaign to Fight Saudi Arabia’s Sportswashing Ways” by Winuk Communications, Inc. with 9/11 Justice for Finest Marketing campaign of 2022
- Dina Mostovaya, Mindset Consulting for PR Star of 2022
- French/West/Vaughan for Finest PR Company of 2022
To be thought-about for a Grand Prize, recipients should have entered the identical entry in a number of classes and received Gold no less than as soon as. With 40 marketing campaign classes, 11 company classes, and 7 particular person classes, there was one thing for everybody.
“This 12 months’s entries have been very spectacular,” says Christopher Elliott, writer, shopper advocate, nationally syndicated columnist, and veteran Bulldog PR Awards decide. “We noticed so many wonderful examples of PR execs elevating their purchasers’ messages and utilizing their platforms for good. I feel greater than something, they confirmed the true worth of a PR practitioner.”
Richard Carufel, editor at Bulldog Reporter, added, “It’s at all times inspiring to see so many of those improbable submissions, and all of the fascinating methods PR corporations and professionals execute for his or her firms and purchasers. The extent of creativity appears to get higher yearly. Seeing all of the wonderful media placements and different outcomes they earn reinforces my religion in PR and proves that, amid all of the tech-y bells and whistles—and, in lots of instances, as a result of of how PR leverages them—nice public relations is extra invaluable than ever. And it really works!”
Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2023 Bulldog PR Awards! The complete listing is offered beneath.
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Marketing campaign Classes
Grand Prize – Finest Marketing campaign of 2022
- “The 9/11 Group’s Marketing campaign to Fight Saudi Arabia’s Sportswashing Ways” by Winuk Communications, Inc. with 9/11 Justice
Finest Arts & Leisure Marketing campaign
- Gold: AHS:NYC Store – FX Networks by NVE Expertise Company
- Silver: Hilton Honors unveils new unique experiences that join members with artists and celebrities who encourage their passions by Hilton
Finest Model Launch
- Gold: Morro Bay Get Salty Model Launch by The Abbi Company
- Silver: HARD MTN DEW Launch by Golin
- Bronze: ICR Westwicke by ICR Westwicke
Finest Enterprise to Enterprise Marketing campaign
- Gold: Altair Sends the Crash Check Dummy into Retirement by Tier One Companions
- Silver: PAN Communications & Qualtrics by PAN Communications
- Bronze: Breaking BreezoMeter into the U.S. Market by Channel V Media
Finest Enterprise to Client Marketing campaign
- Gold: Ally Monetary and Tier One Companions: The Primetime-ification of Ladies’s Sports activities by Tier One Companions
- Silver: Dotted Line Communications for Match’s twelfth Annual Singles in America examine by Dotted Line Communications
Finest Marketing campaign on a Shoestring Funds
- Gold: Diapers to Dorms Sprint by 919 Advertising and marketing
- Silver: Powerhouse+Co.’s CRF Resilience Fund Marketing campaign by Powerhouse+Co.
Finest Group Engagement Marketing campaign
- Gold: SPARK-ing Curiosity By way of Palms-on Science in Communities Worldwide by Crimson Havas
Finest Group Relations Marketing campaign
- Gold: Washington Gasoline: WAFF Ice Home by Washington Gasoline
- Silver: Hy Cite Offers Again: A New Social Affect Program by ROKK Options
Finest Client Product Launch
- Gold: Planet Health’ Excessive Faculty Summer season Move by ICR INC
- Silver: HI-CHEW Fantasy Home by Sharp Assume
- Bronze: Dittoe PR and WhistlePig Whiskey Rating a House Run with World’s First Baseball Bat-Completed Whiskey by Dittoe Public Relations
Finest Content material Advertising and marketing Marketing campaign
- Gold: Josh Cellars’ Joshgiving: Placing the “Thanks” Again in Thanksgiving by Deutsch Household Wine & Spirits
Finest Disaster Administration
- Gold: Navigating a Disaster and Preserving the Popularity of Risas Dental by 10 to 1 Public Relations
- Silver: “It wasn’t the pipes that triggered the massive Vistula River’s catastrophe”- Amiblu, Public Dialog, Maurent PR by Public Dialog & Maurent PR
- Bronze: Durée & Firm: Sea Tow – Navigating Crises within the Wake of Hurricane Ian by Durée & Firm, Inc.
Finest Variety & Inclusion Initiatives Marketing campaign
Finest Monetary Companies Marketing campaign
- Gold: Ally Monetary and Tier One Companions: The Primetime-ification of Ladies’s Sports activities by Tier One Companions
- Silver: Monetary Finesse: Revitalizing A Legacy Monetary Wellness Model by Marathon Methods
- Bronze: Crimson Fan Communications by Crimson Fan Communications
Finest Meals & Drinks Marketing campaign
- Gold: “Unleash the Bubbles” by French/West/Vaughan
- Silver: Porter Novelli Canada by Porter Novelli Canada
- Bronze: Blackened Rooster Sandwich by Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen
Finest International Marketing campaign
- Gold: The Ellinikon by Relevance Worldwide and V+O Communication
- Silver: Jongga Technology Preservation Marketing campaign by HUNTER
Finest Authorities/Public Service Marketing campaign
- Gold: Mpox Vaccination Marketing campaign with the Chicago Division of Well being (CDPH) by Topic Matter + Kivvit
- Silver: Nationwide Well being Service Corps fiftieth Anniversary by Ketchum, on behalf of HRSA
- Bronze: ASRC: Educating Voters On Alaska’s North Slope by Marathon Methods
Finest Inexperienced/Environmental/Sustainability Marketing campaign
- Gold: The Peach State Goes Electrical by Violet PR
- Silver: Rubik’s ReCube Launch by Spin Grasp
- Bronze: Crimson Lorry Yellow Lorry by Crimson Lorry Yellow Lorry
Finest Healthcare Marketing campaign
- Gold: SMA My Method: Reclaiming the Double Take to Problem Incapacity Stereotypes by Genentech
- Silver: Menopause Consciousness: Affect within the Office by The Bliss Group
- Bronze: Interim HealthCare Champions House Healthcare Advocacy by RH Strategic
Finest Integration of Conventional and New Media
- Gold: Rosenberg Area Habitat by Peppercomm, a Ruder Finn firm
- Silver: American Normal Heating & Air Conditioning by Havas Method
- Bronze: Advertising and marketing the Way forward for Office Financial savings by RF|Binder
Finest Investor Relations
- Gold: Xperi Investor Day by The Buddy Group
- Silver: Pushpay by Pushpay
Finest Subject/Trigger Advocacy Marketing campaign
- Gold: “The 9/11 Group’s Marketing campaign to Fight Saudi Arabia’s Sportswashing Ways” by Winuk Communications, Inc. with 9/11 Justice
- Silver: Land O’Lakes: Farmers are Unimaginable by Land O’Lakes
- Bronze: Marino PR by Marino
Finest Native/Hyperlocal Marketing campaign
- Gold: Outdated Wisconsin & O’Malley Hansen Communications by O’Malley Hansen Communications
- Silver: King’s Hawaiian Rolls House in Fashion by HUNTER
- Bronze: WM Educates Washoe Nation on Correct Recycling by The Abbi Company
Finest Media Relations Marketing campaign
- Gold: Planet Health’ Excessive Faculty Summer season Move by ICR INC
- Silver: “The 9/11 Group’s Marketing campaign to Fight Saudi Arabia’s Sportswashing Ways” by Winuk Communications, Inc. with 9/11 Justice
- Bronze: Bitwarden by Liberty Comms
Finest Newsjacking Marketing campaign
- Gold: Joshua Milne PR by Joshua Milne PR
- Silver: Revature Tech Expertise Hole Newsjacking Marketing campaign by REQ
Finest Not-for-Revenue/Affiliation Marketing campaign
- Gold: “The 9/11 Group’s Marketing campaign to Fight Saudi Arabia’s Sportswashing Ways” by Winuk Communications, Inc. with 9/11 Justice
- Silver: Marino PR by Marino
- Bronze: Hill+Knowlton Methods by Hill+Knowlton Methods
Finest PR podcast
- Gold: Belief Relations – PR Wine Down Podcast by Belief Relations
Finest Public Affairs Marketing campaign
- Gold: FleishmanHillard and AARP: The Combat for Truthful Rx Costs by FleishmanHillard
- Silver: Dial Tone Companies, The Mach 1 Group by The Mach 1 Group
- Bronze: Passing the Defend Illinois Communities Act by C-Methods Inc.
Finest Function/Model Values Marketing campaign
- Gold: Preventing Fires Collectively by Weyerhaeuser
- Silver: Wrangler® Faucets Lengthy Standing AOR French/West/Vaughan to Have fun seventy fifth Anniversary with Riveting Western Press Journey by French/West/Vaughan
- Bronze: Land O’Lakes: Farmers are Unimaginable by Land O’Lakes
Finest Particular Occasion or Publicity Stunt
- Gold: Laffy Taffy’s Summer season of Laff-Ter by Company H5
- Silver: Canadian Tire Christmas Path by Canadian Tire Company
- Bronze: AHS:NYC Store – FX Networks by NVE Expertise Company
Finest Expertise/Software program Marketing campaign
- Gold: Fusion Public Relations by Fusion PR
- Silver: Beating Apple to the Punch: Warming up Retail Launch of Nreal Air with Digital Attempt-Ons of AR Glasses by Eleven Worldwide
- Bronze: Personal 5G Marketing campaign Elevates Total NTT Model by Wireside Communications
Finest Thought Management Marketing campaign
- Gold: Past Fifteen Communications by Past Fifteen Communications
- Silver: Marathon Methods: Company Verdicts Go Thermonuclear by Marathon Methods
Finest Use of Influencers
- Gold: Dunkin’ Rewards Faucets Gen Z Creators by RF|Binder
- Silver: CÎROC by HUNTER
Finest Use of Character/Celeb
- Gold: NeuroStar x Drew Robinson by EvolveMKD
- Silver: KCSA Strategic Communications by KCSA Strategic Communications
- Bronze: Josh Cellars’ Joshgiving: Placing the “Thanks” Again in Thanksgiving by Deutsch Household Wine & Spirits
Finest Use of Analysis – Enterprise/Client
- Gold: PAN Communications & Ware2Go by PAN Communications
- Silver: State of Ransomware for 2022 and Past by Say Communications
- Bronze: Dittoe PR Leads 2022 Job Seeker Nation Report, Drives 2,200 Downloads, 531 Media Hits by Dittoe Public Relations
Finest Use of Social Media
- Gold: Honda Battle of the Bands, Flowers Communications Group by Flowers Communications Group
- Silver: Bogues Group by Bogues Group
- Bronze: Strategic Strategy to Social Media Helps Construct Consciousness and Engagement for Well being Tech Begin-Up by Amendola Communications
Finest Use of Video/Multimedia
- Gold: Tales of Pendleton: The Historical past of a City, Rodeo and Whisky by French/West/Vaughan
- Silver: Sonic Frontiers by SEGA
- Bronze: Josh Cellars’ Joshgiving: Placing the “Thanks” Again in Thanksgiving by Deutsch Household Wine & Spirits
Finest Viral Marketing campaign
- Gold: KCSA Strategic Communications by KCSA Strategic Communications
- Silver: Understanding the Monetary Wellness of People by LendingClub
Finest Digital Occasion Marketing campaign
- Gold: McDonald’s x Karen X Cheng Lunar New Yr Marketing campaign by IW Group Inc.
Finest Visible Storytelling Marketing campaign
- Gold: ROKK Options Southern Firm VR by ROKK Options
- Silver: Black McDonalds Operators Affiliation (BMOA) Murals, Flowers Communications Group by Flowers Communications Group
Most Modern Media Relations Marketing campaign
- Gold: Brodeur Companions by Brodeur Companions
Particular person Classes
Grand Prize – PR Star of 2022
- Dina Mostovaya, Mindset Consulting
Finest PR and Communications In-Home Staff of the Yr
- Gold: Amy Butler, eToro US
Chief of the Yr (Company)
- Gold: David Gwyn, French/West/Vaughan
- Silver: Neil Mortine, Fahlgren Mortine
- Bronze: Marc Brumer, The Herald Group
Media Relations Skilled of the Yr
- Gold: Colleen Frerichs, Topic Matter + Kivvit
PR Skilled Who Makes a Distinction
- Gold: Natalie Finest, French/West/Vaughan
- Silver: Mustafa Tameez, Outreach Strategists
- Bronze: Katherine McLane, The Mach 1 Group
PR Star Below 40
- Gold: Dina Mostovaya, Mindset Consulting
- Silver: Heather Houston, Dalton
- Bronze: Catherine Turco King, Topic Matter + Kivvit
PR Up and Comer
- Gold: Kana Oliver, Full Swing Public Relations
- Silver: Anahi Leyva, Hawthorne Technique Group
- Bronze: Talan Tyminski, The Mach 1 Group
Public Relations Skilled of the Yr
- Gold: Colin Brown, MullenLowe
- Silver: Becky Carroll, C-Methods Inc.
- Bronze: Adam Pryor, Genentech
Company Classes
Grand Prize – Finest PR Company of 2022
Company That Will get Outcomes
- Gold: French/West/Vaughan
- Silver: Fahlgren Mortine
- Bronze: Dittoe Public Relations
Finest Boutique Company
- Gold: Riff Metropolis Methods
- Silver: Eleven Worldwide
- Bronze: Crenshaw Communications
Finest Trade-Centered Company
- Gold: Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JSA)
- Silver: Silverline Communications
Finest New Company
- Gold: Foxglove Communications
- Silver: Disrupt PR
- Bronze: Milk and Honey PR
Finest PR and Communications Company Staff of the Yr
- Gold: REQ Public Relations Staff, REQ
Enterprise to Enterprise (B2B) Company of the Yr
- Gold: Fahlgren Mortine
- Silver: The Bliss Group
- Bronze: Forefront Communications
Enterprise to Client (B2C) Company of the Yr
- Gold: Fahlgren Mortine
- Silver: French/West/Vaughan
Most Modern Company
- Gold: French/West/Vaughan
- Silver: Forefront Communications
Small Company/Sole Practitioner of the Yr
- Gold: Capwell Communications
- Silver: Powerhouse+Co.
- Bronze: McLean Media
Midsize Company of the Yr
- Gold: 10 to 1 Public Relations
- Silver: C-Methods Inc.
- Bronze: Greenough
Massive Company of the Yr
- Gold: French/West/Vaughan
- Silver: Fahlgren Mortine
- Bronze: The Bliss Group
