Effie awards 2018
Dubai – At the recently staged Effie MENA awards, OMD demonstrated once again its continuous commitment to marketing effectiveness. Its offices in the UAE and Egypt collectively won seven trophies, including one Gold, five Silver and one Bronze. The festival, which celebrates marketing effectiveness in MENA, saw OMD UAE collect six awards, earning it the title of the Most Effective Media Agency Office in 2018.
Several campaigns were particularly successful this year with OMD UAE picking up a Silver award for its work on Sephora’s “Blooming Beauty, #Nawarty” campaign in the Retail – Non-Food category and “Infiniti Dynamic Creative” in the Data Driven/Programmatic category. Two more Silvers were won jointly with FP7 for Babyshop’s “World Without Walls” in the Retail – Non-food category and “Uber Legends” in the Travel, Tourism and Transportation category. “Uber Legends” also won a Gold trophy in the Data Driven/Programmatic category, while “World Without Walls” picked up a Bronze in the Youth Marketing – Children category. OMD Egypt's “Pepsi Points” campaign got a Silver in the Shopper Marketing category.As a result of this performance, OMD MENA was the most awarded media network at this year’s event.
“We're very proud of this accolade, not only as a one-off, but as a consistent series of high performance in creativity and effectiveness, echoing our dedication to producing work that resonates with our consumers and therefore drives business results for our clients,” said Nadim Samara, CEO of OMD MENA. “All the winning campaigns were the product of our teams’ innovation, creativity and dedication – not to mention collaboration within OMD and our holding’s companies. We also congratulate our clients as these awards are also theirs and thank our partners for their part in the success of these activities. Our focus remains on the consumer for the advancement of our client brands and their businesses.”
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About OMD:
OMD, a global media network part of the Omnicom Media Group, is the largest and most innovative marketing performance company in the world, with more than 10,000 employees in 100 markets serving many of the most successful and well-known global brands. The Gunn Report for Media has rated it as the ‘Most Creative Media Agency’ for an unprecedented eleven consecutive years. Among its many global accolades, OMD received the title of ‘Media Network of the Year’ at the 2017 Cannes Lions and ‘Agency Network of the Year’ at the Festival of Media Global in 2015 and 2016. The MENA network was also celebrated as the ‘Media Agency of the Year’ by Campaign Middle East in 2011, 2013 and 2014, and the ‘Most Effective Media Agency in MENA in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2015, in the Effectiveness Index produced by WARC and Effie Worldwide. OMD was named ‘Agency of the Year’ in 2017 and ‘Network of the Year’ in 2016 at the Festival of Media MENA, in addition to ‘Media Agency of the Year’ at the 2017 Dubai Lynx. As part of Omnicom Media Group MENA, OMD’s sustainability practices are being reported in accordance with the GRI G4 Guidelines and the accuracy of its GRI G4 Content Index has been confirmed by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). It has also been named one of the UAE’s top employer six years in a row, ranking third in the Great Place To Work Institute’s survey in 2018.
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