WPP Atticus Awards
2017/18
Open exclusively to professionals working in WPP companies, the Annual Atticus Awards honour original published thinking in communications services. Winners share up to $57,000 in cash prizes.
Entry to the 2017/2018 Awards is now closed and winners will be announced by July 2018.
2017 ATTICUS AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
This year, two authors shared the top Grand Prix award: congratulations go to Alexander Wheatley of Lightspeed for his paper Head or Heart –
The Conflicts of Political Polling, and Dave Knox of Rockfish for his book
Predicting the Turn: The High Stakes Game of Business Between Startups and Blue Chips. Other category winners were Ajinkya Pawar of Phoenix Ogilvy, Izzy Pugh with Helen Firth of Kantar Added Value, Michael Oelschig with Craig Wynn of Cerebra, Lyndon Morant of Mindshare, Peter Hirsch of OgilvyRED and Kent Wertime of Ogilvy. Mindshare scooped the Corporate Award for its Point of View publication program, and Matilda Scullion of The Partners and Eric Tsytsylin of Ogilvy were named joint winners of the Under 30 Essay Prize. The Book Prize, a new category introduced this year, was awarded to Greg Quinton of The Partners for
A Smile in the Mind.
Volume 23 of the Atticus Journal, containing extracts of these award winning entries, will be published in November 2017.
Full list of winners, highly commended and merited entries below.
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Grand Prix Winner | Advertising | Branding and Identity | Digital Communications
| Media and Communications Planning | The Nature and Value of Insights |
Public Relations and Public Affairs |
Research Methodologies | Strategy | Corporate | Under-30 Essay | Book Prize
Joint Grand Prix (from the Research Methodologies and Strategy categories)
- Head or Heart - The Conflicts of Political Polling
Alexander Wheatley - Lightspeed, London
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- Predicting the Turn
Dave Knox - Rockfish, Cincinnati
Advertising
Winner
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The Advertising Agencies of Future Will Be Open Sourced
Ajinkya Pawar - Phoenix Ogilvy, Colombo
Merit
- The Essential Metrics to Analyze for Keyword Research Success
Paul Shapiro - Catalyst, Boston
- Where Are My Super Bowl Ads?
James Cahill - Geometry, London
Branding And Identity
Winner
- Cultural Value: Mastering the New Cultural Vibrancy
Izzy Pugh with Helen Firth - Kantar Added Value, London; New York
Highly Commended
- Group XP Experience Index
Iain Ellwood and Tim Greenhalgh - Group XP; Group XP and FITCH, London
Merit
- A Smile in the Mind
Greg Quinton - The Partners, London
- #Cultural Impact - The New Challenge for Global Brands and How to Master it
Alessandra Cotugno - Young & Rubicam, London
Digital Communications
Winner
- The Social Media Crisis Handbook
Michael Oelschig with Craig Wynn - Cerebra, Johannesburg
Highly Commended
- Interaction 2016
Rob Norman - GroupM, New York
Merit
- Extra Sense
Norm Johnston - Mindshare, London
Media and Communications Planning
Winner
- The Death of the Demographic
Lyndon Morant - Mindshare, Tokyo
Highly Commended
- Brand Encounters of the Frictionless Kind: I Believe Brands Need to Generate Positive Friction
Chris Worrell - MEC Global Solutions, London
Merit
- Finesse the Campaign Through Copy Testing
Daren Poole - Kantar Millward Brown, Sydney
The Nature and Value of Insights
Winner
- The Velocity 12 Markets
Kent Wertime - Ogilvy & Mather, Bangkok
Highly Commended
- Women, Next
Shepherd Laughlin, Mary Cass, Emma Chiu and Lucie Greene - J. Walter Thompson, New York
Merit
- The Rise of the Machines - Programmatic Commerce and the Digital Retail Revolution
Patrick Munden with Minos Makris and Hugh Fletcher - Salmon, Watford
Public Relations and Public Affairs
Winner
- The Caliphate of Numbers
Peter Hirsch - OgilvyRED, New York
Merit
- Lessons from Journalism for Content Marketers
Lalu Dasgupta - Hill+Knowlton Strategies, London
Research Methodologies
Winner
- Head or Heart - The Conflicts of Political Polling
Alexander Wheatley - Lightspeed, London
Highly Commended
- Art Meets Insight: Eye Catching Visualization for Better Analytics
Paul Shapiro - Catalyst, Boston
Merit
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Tracking Research - Thought Leadership in Healthcare
Richard Goosey and Chris Donaldson - Kantar Health, Epsom
- Connecting Data - How DMPs Can Power Better Research
Phil Sutcliffe with Sam Curtis - TNS London; Kantar London
Strategy
Winner
- Predicting the Turn
Dave Knox - Rockfish, Cincinnati
Highly Commended
- All Avenues Open
J Walker Smith - Kantar Futures, London
Merit
- The Software of Evermore
Koen Speelmeijer with Frank Delmelle - These Days, Antwerp
- The Future of e-Commerce in FMCG
Stephane Roger and Luis Simoes - Kantar Worldpanel, Barcelona
Corporate
Winner
- Mindshare POV 2016/2017
Mindshare, London
Highly Commended
- Finsbury Insights
Finsbury, New York
Under-30 Essay
It’s become more and more common for brands to champion a social purpose greater than their basic function. To take three prominent examples:
Apple: To empower creative exploration and self-expression.
Nike: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world.
Dove: Helping women reconsider and redefine what beauty is.
What is your opinion of the commercial value of such an approach? And should all brands consider adopting it?
Joint Winner
- Matilda Scullion
The Partners, London
- Eric Tsytsylin
Ogilvy & Mather, New York
Book Prize
Winner
- A Smile in the Mind
Greg Quinton - The Partners, London
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