The wait is over…today, we can reveal all the talented finalists for the Prolific North Creative Awards 2025!
First launched in 2023, the Creative Awards recognises all the ambitious individuals, teams and companies across the creative sector in the North of England and Scotland.
We’ll be revealing all the winners at a live awards ceremony hosted on June 26 at Victoria Warehouse in Manchester. Early bird tickets are now on sale for this event here until 11am on June 2, where hundreds of creatives will come together to connect, see the winners revealed live, and most importantly to celebrate!
An independent panel of industry experts from the likes of the BBC, Mark Hill Hair, Drummond Central, Social Chain and more recently came together to judge and score all entries. A major thanks to them and to our category sponsors this year: The Eastern Blok, Sun Branding, Print.com and Dentsu Creative.
READ MORE: Prolific North Creative Awards 2025: Meet some of the judges
Two categories are yet to be decided – Creative Rising Star and Creative Trailblazer Award. The winners of these categories will be decided by a combination of judges scores and public voting. Public vote closes at 2pm on May 30 so get casting your votes here.
Now, it’s finally time to reveal the shortlist…
The Prolific North Creative Awards 2024: The Shortlist
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN: LARGE
- Cornerstone & Pyrocalm – Get to the Heart of the Burn
- McCann & Slumberdown – Searching for Sleep
- McCann & Yorkshire Water – Blockages
- News UK & Brown Forman – The Times Whisky Guide: A Perfect Blend
- Workhouse & Interfloor – Defying Gravity with Tredaire
ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN: MEDIUM
- BWP & Eldon Square – Fresh, Fearless & Fabulous
- Cravens & British Cycling – Paris 2024
- Leith & Irn Bru – Euros Campaign
- McCann & Leeds Beckett University – Be Unlike Minded
- McCann & Mayhew – Light at the end of the tunnel
- Ponderosa Agency & Russell Hobbs - A Moment of Me-Time
- Sergeant Walnuts & Betfred – Pick Your Nose
BEST COLLABORATION
- GAS™ Music & Leith & Luton Airport Express – 32 Minutes to Go
- GAS™ Music & McCann & East Midlands Railway – Epic Train Travel!
- HUB & La Redoute & Roisin Quinn – La Fleur
- McCann & Testicular Cancer Society – Highlight your balls
- McCann & Thomas Cook – Deflatables
- McCann & Yorkshire Water – Blockages
- Offended & Totally Stockport – On the Up!
BRAND LAUNCH/ACTIVATION OR EVENT
- BWP Group & Eldon Square – Fresh, Fearless and Fabulous
- CreativeHutch & Matrx – The Science of Seating
- HUB, La Redoute & Roisin Quinn – ’La Fleur’
- MadeBrave & First Bus – Fare’s Fair
- Mutatio Creative Ltd & Malka Livingstone – Brand Creation
- One Agency Media & ELEMIS – ELEMIS arrives in the heart of the city
HEALTHCARE CAMPAIGN
- Bupa Health Clinics – Breaking the Cycle
- Continuous & The Eve Appeal – Whatever gets you going
- GAS™ Music, 21 Grams & Bowel Research UK – Soil Samples
- Leith & Sanofi – Sanofi Meningitis Flag
- McCann & Testicular Cancer Society – Highlight your balls
REBRAND
- Applied Digital Marketing & Aquaspersions
- CreativeHutch & Kuschall
- KISS Branding & Fullers Foods – Feeding the Nation, Together
- MONO & That Lifestyle Co.
- Poke & National Football Museum – Football Matters
- Sergeant Walnuts & Joseph Holt – Spin Doctor
REBRAND: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
- EXP & Connect 2 Cleanrooms
- Jam & Perfect Pet – The Pawfect
- Manifest & Sonocea – The Sound of Science
- MONO & Liberty Blume – Freedom to grow
- Workhouse & Forbes Solicitors – More Than Law
SOCIAL IMPACT CAMPAIGN
- McCann & Testicular Cancer Society – Highlight your balls
- McCann & Thomas Cook – Deflatables
- Offended & Totally Stockport – On the Up!
- Poke Marketing & Alder Hey – Put Children First, ”The Sparks”
- Sam Teale Productions – Knives Claim Lives
- Sam Teale Productions & The Sisterhood – Let’s Goa!
BRANDING & VISUAL IDENTITY
- Brandon Medical & Hel – Bringing Innovation to Life
- CreativeHutch & S-Cape
- Fishtank Agency & Magnera
- Influential & The Champs Public Health Collaborative – Smoking Ends Here
- Jam & Perfect Pet – The Pawfect Rebrand
- McCann & Leeds Beckett University – Be Unlike Minded
- Sergeant Walnuts & Manchester Building Society
- Visions Design & Lemonade
- Workhouse & Forbes Solicitors – More Than Law
COPYWRITING
- McCann & Flymo – Easi Does it
- McCann & Leeds Beckett University – Be Unlike Minded
- McCann & Slumberdown – Searching for Sleep
- Sergeant Walnuts & Joseph Holt – Spin Doctor
DIGITAL DESIGN
- Cornerstone Design & Marketing – Cancer Research UK’s Manchester Institute
- Tall – SharkNinja
- Visions Design – Unreasonable Agency
DOCUMENTARY/BRANDED CONTENT
- Coolbox & University of Leeds – I’m Still Me
- McCann & VOOM – The Climb
- Prime Video – Molly Mae: Behind It All
- Workerbee – Four Kings
MOTION GRAPHICS & ANIMATION
- Flow Creative & Transport for Greater Manchester – Let’s Go Summer!
- Flow Creative & Trussell – Stand for Change
- McGill Productions & Almanak – Launch on Legion
- One Agency & Tatcha – The Dewy Skin Cream
- Workhouse & Interfloor – Defying Gravity with Tredaire
OUT-OF-HOME (OOH) AD
The judges have decided the winner of this award will be announced specially on the night.
SOCIAL CONTENT
- McCann & Flymo – Easi Does it
- McCann & Testicular Cancer Society – Highlight your balls
- McGill Productions & Protein Works – Soundtrack to Your Summer
SOUND DESIGN & AUDIO BRANDING
- 344 Audio & ThunderHawk Studio – Craft & Instinct
- GAS™ Music & 21 Grams – Soil Samples
- McGill Productions & Protein Works – Soundtrack to Your Summer
- This Is Distorted & LNER – Routes
STORYTELLING
- Cravens & First Bus – First Bus Storybook
- Leith & EFPIA – Chris Roberts Alzheimer’s Story
- McCann & VOOM – The Climb
- Offended & Totally Stockport – On the Up!
- OneTwo & Joint Security and Resilience Centre – CityWatch: Streets of Tomorrow – a live, immersive experience
- Sam Teale Productions & The Sisterhood – Let’s Goa!
- Smoking Gun & Alton Towers Resort – Nemesis Reborn: Back with a vengeance
- The Avenue Agency & Saint Lucia Tourism Authority – Saint Lucia Stories
VIDEO/FILM/AD
- Coolbox, Creed Comms & G4S – Women In Security
- McCann & VOOM – The Climb
- Picture Lock Films & Barrie Wells Trust – Box4Kids
- The Chase Films & Zyxel Networks – Zero to IT Hero – A Tale of Two Offices’
- Workhouse & Interfloor – Defying Gravity with Tredaire
BEST USE OF HUMOUR AWARD
- McCann & Slumberdown – Searching for Sleep
- McCann & Testicular Cancer Society – Highlight your balls
- McCann & VOOM – The Climb
- Sergeant Walnuts & Joseph Holt – Spin Doctor
CREATIVE FOR GOOD AWARD – LARGE BUDGET
- Flow Creative & Trussell – Stand for Change
- Leith, Campaign for Better Transport & Fossil Free Football – Carbon Boot
- MadeBrave & Catherine McEwan Foundation – Shooting the Sh*t for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- McCann & Testicular Cancer Society – Highlight your balls
- McCann & Yorkshire Water – Blockages
- npd & Safepoint – Callie: From Concept to Life-Saving Jewellery
- One6th – Two Black Boys in Paradise
- Think & Once Upon a Smile – Brings a Smile
CREATIVE FOR GOOD AWARD – MEDIUM BUDGET
- Films Not Words & Manchester Women’s Aid & The Pankhurst Trust – Kate’s Story: Transforming the Lives of Women In Refuge
- Fishtank Agency & Stripes – Purpose Over Profit
- Gemma Downes – Music Of The Future
- Gumpo Digital Marketing & The Castle – Fundraiser for Chester Womens Aid
- McCann & Mayhew – Light at the end of the tunnel
- McCann & Thomas Cook – Deflatables
- NDIM – Bringing Neurodiversity to the forefront of media employer consideration
- Sam Teale Productions & The Sisterhood – Let’s Goa!
- ThinkPR & Autism and Neurodiversity North Scotland – The Think Different Dinner
CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY AWARD
- OneTwo & Joint Security and Resilience Centre – CityWatch: Streets of Tomorrow – a live, immersive experience
- Ponderosa Agency, Tungsten Media & Russell Hobbs – A Moment of Me-Time
- Printworks & ADI – Europe’s Largest Digital Ceiling
- Proof3 – Content personalisation using historical order data
DATA-DRIVEN CREATIVITY AWARD
- McCann & Slumberdown – Searching for Sleep
- McCann & Yorkshire Water – Blockages
- XSEM & SIG Roofing – SIG Roofing Rewards
MOST MEMORABLE CAMPAIGN AWARD – SPONSORED BY THE EASTERN BLOK
- McCann & Slumberdown – Searching for Sleep
- McCann & Thomas Cook – Deflatables
- McCann & VOOM – The Climb
- Workhouse & Interfloor – Defying Gravity with Tredaire
CREATIVE AGENCY
- Add People
- Cornerstone DM
- MadeBrave
- Mutatio Creative Ltd
- Poke Marketing
- Sun Branding
- Tall
CREATIVE STUDIO – SPONSORED BY SUN BRANDING
- Flow Creative
- npd
- OBI Studio
- One Agency Media
PRODUCTION COMPANY
- Coolbox
- Revolution Productions/Aime Leon Dore/Porsche
- Sam Teale Productions
- Workerbee
CREATIVE RISING STAR – SPONSORED BY DENTSU CREATIVE
- Erin Ingram – ThinkPR
- Evie Logue – Peter Tyson
- Jennifer Davies – Interactive Investor
- Jessica Baillie – Coolbox
- Laufey Guðnadóttir – One Agency
- Millie Graham – Tall
This award is decided by a combination of judge’s scores and public vote. Voting is now open here!
CREATIVE TRAILBLAZER AWARD
- Anastasiia Komarnytska – AK-EXPERIENCE
- Audrey Hall – The Safe Space Sisterhood CI
- Eve Young – SocialChain
- Mark Blundell – BPM Rehab
- Samuel Marriott-Dowding – Marriott Communications
This award is decided by a combination of judge’s scores and public vote. Voting is now open here!
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