IPRA 2018: Russia, Japan, Turkey Win Multiple PR Awards in Barcelona

IPRA 2018: Russia, Japan, Turkey Win Multiple PR Awards
in Barcelona
… Nigeria, Spain, UAE Win Dual Awards
… 30 Nations Receive Trophies for Campaigns by Inhouse,
PR Agencies

It was a celebration of excellence when 30 countries from
different continents won awards at the 2018 Golden World Awards
(GWA) of the International Public Relations Association (IPRA) in
Barcelona, Spain.

Leading the multiple award winners at the event was the Republic
of Russia which carted away 12 trophies.

Others were Japan 11 awards; Turkey( 10); the United Kingdom(
6); The Netherlands( 4) and Germany and South Africa received three
awards each.

Countries that received dual awards for the successful public
relations campaigns from in-house and PR Agencies were Nigeria,
Greece, Indonesia, Spain, Argentina, Philippines, United Arab
Emirates, China and Austria.

The single-award recipients were South Korea, Latvia, Australia,
USA, India, Taiwan, Hungary, Ghana, Israel, Romania, Singapore,
Italy, and Peru.

In the ranking of multiple award winners among the PR agencies,
Dentsu PR of Japan led with 10 awards in different categories
followed by FleishmanHillard with Headquarters in the United States
of America which won 6 awards for PR campaigns in Russia while
Hill+Knowlton Strategies of United Kingdom received 3 awards for
its campaign in Britain and Netherland.

The dual recipients, who received two Golden World Awards at the
event were Image Merchants Promotion Limited of Nigeria, Creation
PR of Britain, Turkcell of Turkey, Hollander en Van der Mey of
Netherland, V+O Communication of Greece and QC Partners of Germany
and Weber Shanwick for its projects in India and Taiwan.

The single recipients were Burson-Marsteller of South-Africa,
Orange 360 of Peru, Graffiti PR of Romania, Global Media Alliance
of Ghana, PR One of South Korea, navos – Public Dialogue
Consultants of Germany, Djembe Communications of UAE, Fuentes
Publicity Network of Philippines; Marco de Comunicación and
LLORENTE & CUENCA of Spain, Ruder Finn PR of China; , Excel
Communication & Perception Management, DeVries Global and Lobby PR
of Turkey, Stein IAS of United Kingdom,

About 30% of the awards came from inhouse PR campaigns by
organisations mostly in Turkey, Germany, Indonesia, Austria,
Argentina and Israel.

Speaking on the 2018 GWA awards, the President of IPRA, Bart de
Vries said the PR professional body utilises the help of a wide
group of judges from around the world to do the preliminary online
judging.

Vries said: “In the spring, after the entries’ deadline close,
each GWA judge is allocated several categories to evaluate online
and thus help establish a short-list per category. Next, a group of
20-25 judges convened in person to pore over the shortlists during
a single intensive workday.

“For the 2018 GWAs, the judges came together in Brussels in
early July from 22 countries for selecting the very best public
relations campaigns from around the globe by maintaining a
transparent quality standard across the board. Therefore, the
annual IPRA Golden World Award initiative, established in 1990,
remains the highest peak of international standard for recognizing
excellence in public relations practice worldwide in a variety of
categories.”

By PRNigeria