Creative Awards – 2024 Shortlist

The prolific north creative awards recognise the organisations, teams and individuals putting the north on the map in the creative and digital sectors.

Check out the extraordinary talent showcased in this year’s shortlist below! The big reveal of the 2024 winners is just around the corner at our lively ceremony on June 27 at Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. Get ready to celebrate with us!

Advertising Campaign: Large

CreativeRace & Northern Trains – Try The Train With Northern Trains
Eurocamp – Anything’s Europossible
Principles & Astonish – No magic. No spells. Just Astonish
STM AGENCY & Epaderm – ’Just in Case’ Campaign
THG Studios & Disney – There’s a Disney story in everyone
THG Studios & Toblerone – Never Square, Always Personal

Advertising Campaign: Small

A&P & University of Salford – My Story
C21 Creative Communications & England Squash – Let’s Hit It
Cairn & Blum – Open up
Karol Marketing & Newcastle Hospitals Charity – Unforgettable
Sam Teale Productions & More Years Limited (Years.com) – Dogs Deserve To Live Forever
Serotonin & Sussex Modern – Yours For The Making
THG Studios & ASDA Mobile – That’s Christmas covered early
Upp B2B & Fi Europe – Step inside a world of ingredients

Rebrand: Leisure / Retail - sponsored by The Eastern Blok

APS Group – The Pools Rebrand
Eurocamp – Eurocamp Rebrand
HUB & 247 Blinds – HUB’s cheeky new look for 247 Blinds
Manifest & Eko Brewery – Shine Bright
MuddyWellies – Salons Direct Group Rebrand
Poke & Liverpool Cathedral – Look Up
Superfly Marketing LTD – Connexin Live Arena Partnership
USP Creative & Downland Bedding Company – Sleep Well, Feel Good

Rebrand: Professional Services - sponsored by The Eastern Blok

Applied Digital Marketing – Pearce Group Rebrand
Cogent Claims – First rebrand for a growing Leeds company
Hotfoot Design & Onunda – Turning Waste into Worth
Influential & Routes Healthcare – Reinventing Healthcare Branding
OBI Property & Schroders – City Tower Rebrand
The Bigger Boat – 21° (formerly Green Building Store) Rebrand
Two Stories & OneTwo – Rebrand: Experience is everything
USP Creative & Curtins Consulting Ltd – Building a Better Future

Launch or Activation

GOLD79 & CLOUD NINE – Temperature Calculator
IF Agency & Parcel2Go – Sven the stork delivers
Manifest & Jameson Black Barrel – Black Barrel Ignites
Manifest & Wild Pack – Get Real
Mearns & Gill and Stoltman Brothers – The Strongest Brothers that Ever Lived
MuddyWellies & Modern Milkman – Transforming into a Movement
Smoking Gun & Alton Towers Resort – The Curse Unleashed: Launching the World’s First Giant Dollhouse
THG Studios & Avolta – PetSet Launch

Social Content

Dentsu Creative & OREO – What’s your OREO Twist?
Digital Media Team – Tim Hortons Organic Social
IF Agency & McBride – Wewantsurcare/Social
Manifest & Tommee Tippee – The Social Feed
Live & Breathe x Morrisons – Better Together: Combining Trends and Human-Driven Content for Success
Silentnight- Just Sleep®: The World’s First Bed Making Machine
STM AGENCY & St Pierre – Make Game Day Magnifique
The Gate Films & Injury Lawyers 4 U – Schmidtt-Tok

Out-Of-Home (OOH) Ad

Brazil Street & Travel Supermarket – ‘Blowing Up’ in Manchester
Serotonin & Sussex Modern – Yours For The Making
mFuse & Unite Martial Arts – Summer Martial Arts
mFuse & TfGM – Rain posters

Most Memorable Campaign of the Year - sponsored by THG Studios

Hello Earth Agency & Freja – Making Bone Broth Less Boring
Liverpool BID Company – Liverpool Restaurant Week
Smoking Gun & Alton Towers Resort – The Curse at Alton Manor: She Just Wants To Play
XSEM & Carling – Score with Carling

Creative Courage Award sponsored by McCann Leeds

C21 Creative Communications & Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership – Pregnancy Screening Campaign
Dinosaur & NHS Greater Manchester – What Will You Miss?
Hitch Marketing & Small Steps Big Changes (SSBC) – Feed Your Way
Karol Marketing & Newcastle Hospitals Charity – Unforgettable
Look Up & Sheffield – transforming place and the built environment through augmented reality
Made By Mortals – Bringing Lived Experience To Life
Manifest & Ecologi – Don’t COP Out

Creative for Good

Digital Urban – Digital Urban’s immersive urban consultations
Few and Far & Mind in Bradford – Healthy Minds
Green Bean Studios – Children’s IP Entertainment Brand
Molyneux Marketing & Ration.L – Spotlight On B-Corps
Mood Films & The Grieving Pint – Men’s mental health awareness ad
Manchester Local Care Organisation, The Showmen’s Mental Health Awareness Charity & Nice Cat Media – Cheetham Hill: A Showmen’s Life
npd – Thin Air
Visions Design & mender – mender web project

Creative for Good: Health

C21 Creative Communications & Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership – Pregnancy Screening Campaign
Cascade Productions & Iceland Foods and UK Sepsis Trust – Delivering the Message
CreativeRace & ASDA Tickled Pink – Raising Breast Cancer Awareness With Disruptive ASDA Tickled Pink Campaign
Dinosaur & NHS Greater Manchester – What Will You Miss?
Hitch Marketing & Small Steps Big Changes (SSBC) – Feed Your Way
Into Productions & Ileostomy and Internal Pouch Association – IA Ostomate stories
Made By Mortals – Bringing Lived Experience To Life
Round Midnight & Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust – Virtual Decisions: IDENTITY

Creative for Good: Positive Impact

Amy Manning & OmniMusic – Rebrand & Rise with OmniMusic
Everything & Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria – Northumbria Violence Reduction Unit
Hotfoot Design & Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council – One Degree Challenge
Manifest & Tommee Tippee – The Social Feed
McCann Manchester & Smile Group – The Invisible Bouquet
mFuse Manchester & Transport for Greater Manchester – Last Steps
Sam Teale Productions – Sam Teale Productions strikes again with another amazing Christmas ad
Think & Wood Street Mission – Pioneering rebranding and marketing for Wood Street Mission
xDesign – Leeds Unleashed: Opening the door to Leeds’ thriving tech community

Brand Partnership sponsored by one agency

Cascade Productions & Iceland Foods and UK Sepsis Trust – Delivering the Message
Wash Studio & Marketing Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University & The University of Sheffield – Your University City
THG Studios – Myprotein x Marvel

Creative Agency

Digital Urban
Manifest
Poke Marketing
THG Studios
Two Stories

Creative Studio

npd
Ride the Lightning
Sun Branding
THG Studios

Production Company

Badger & Combes
Dead Pixel
Jen Spence Production
Manto
Revolution Productions
Salamanda Media
Tungsten Media

Effective Design

ilk Agency & Generations Logistics
Serotonin & Sussex Modern – Yours For The Making
The Bigger Boat – Brand identity for Pavilion

Experiential / Immersive Content

ADI & Printworks/DTZ Investors – Digital Transformation
Golley Slater & Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) – Coca-Cola Metaverse
OneTwo & JSaRC – Destination: Churchill Station – A Live, Immersive Experience

Inspired Space

Colony – Fabrica
Imageco – SEW Eurodrive
Tileyard North

Animation / Graphics

HUB & CareCo – Reducing mobility stigma with CGI
Into Productions & The University of Manchester – Zero carbon without a net

Packaging - sponsored by Sun Branding

Begin & L J Fairburn & Son – Fairburn Famous British Blue®
HUB & Chooee – A challenger brand that’s out of this world

Website Design

Eurocamp
Serotonin – NQ64
Tangent – Conveying People, Planet and Purpose through Tangent’s new brand website
The Bigger Boat & Escape Studios – Empowering creative futures through energetic, accessible, and intuitive web design
Visions Design

Video / Film / Ad: Short Form

A&P & University of Salford – My Story
Cascade Productions & Iceland Foods and UK Sepsis Trust – Delivering the Message
Manto & NaughtOne – ’Percy’ – A Lounge Chair with Personality
McGill Productions & Brother Sewing Europe – Connected Creativity
mFuse Manchester & Transpennine Express – Where Next?
THG Studios & Disney – There’s a Disney story in everyone

Audio

Crowd Network & Manchester Airport Group – Your Airport, MAN
Made By Mortals
This Is Distorted & Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – NHS Vital Signs
VisitScotland: The Sound of Scotland

Broadcasting Programme: Entertainment

Salamanda Media – New Model Agency
THG Studios & The Overlap – Stick to Football

This award is decided by a combination of judge’s scores and public vote. Voting is now CLOSED!

Creative Trailblazer Award

Gemma Downes – Music Of The Future
Jack Dowell – Digitaloft
Paul Sheldon – Golley Slater