The Hall of DMA Awards Grand Prix Fame

They reached the pinnacle of their craft, building work so good that it tamed our judges and won the biggest prize of them all, the DMA Awards Grand Prix.

Check out the entries that went on to ultimate glory in the last 13 DMA Awards.

Warning: contains some pretty impressive stuff.

2023 - The Creative Consultancy and Royal Mail

Royal Mail is the UK’s greenest delivery partner due to mostly on-foot deliveries. As a result, it produces half the CO2 per parcel of any of its competitors. It wanted to share the message to open doors with C-suite decision-makers.

2022 - Ogilvy UK and Mayor of London

The Mayor of London’s office wanted to make the city safer for women by asking men to shift from a passive role as bystander to misogynistic behaviour, to intervening in potential acts of violence.

2021 – Engine Group for EA and The Kiyan Prince Foundation

Engine Group and EA helped reframe the death of a talented, young footballer, Kiyan Prince, from tragedy to inspiration. Relevancy was key, as the campaign targeted a notoriously elusive audience – young, urban males. Working with the University of Bradford and VFX experts at Framestore, Kiyan returned to life as a virtual footballer, entering into FIFA 21 as a playable character. The work spread The Kiyan Prince Foundation’s message of anti-knife crime internationally, and continues to be successful in raising funds.

2020 - Wunderman Thompson for BT Sport

The plan was to create a 60-page dossier that would ignite a global debate like nothing the football community had seen before. BT Sport united its partners under a shared vision and purpose: to create genuinely game-changing work. It was released to pundits, players, influencers, journalists - and the nation, sparking huge conversation up and down the land.

2019 – ELVIS for Mondelez

Mondelez needed to hit its Creme Egg sales targets during the four months of the year it's on shelves. With an audience craving newness, not predictability, ELVIS created a multi-media experience that meant anyone could become a Creme Egg Hunter, wherever they were.

2018 - MRM//McCann and McCann London for Microsoft

Microsoft, MRM//McCann and McCann London reimagined the shopping journey for Gamers. Customers could now customise their controller and claim ownership of it. A newly built e-commerce platform allowed others to buy designs, with commission paid to the designer –changing the traditional buyer-seller dynamic.

2017 – Karmarama for The British Army

Previous army campaigns motivated applications from people who were most likely to join anyway. A step change was need, with communications and creative that would work harder to drive interest and applications from a broader pool of people. To create that sense of belonging.

2016 – Karmarama for Unibet

Can a betting agency tell you how to win? This thinking underpinned a campaign to increase brand awareness of Unibet across seven global markets. And it would all be done in a competitive market against the backdrop of Euro2016 when Unibet’s competitors would go big on offers to the young male adult market.

2015 - Proximity London, UM London, for The Economist

As subscriptions plateaued, The Economist desired a route into a younger audience, wanted to refresh their brand and sought to move the Economist name away from its corporate elite perceptions. They teamed up with Proximity London and UM London to develop a campaign that was a runaway success, winning over 3.6million new prospects and £12.7million return on a small media budget - and, of course, winning a DMA Awards Grand Prix.

2014 - Leo Burnett, for Business in the Community (BITC)

People with a criminal record find it incredibly difficult to gain employment - costing the UK economy £11bn a year. BITC wanted to reverse the trend, and focused on removing a tick box on job applications that obliged ex-offenders to declare convictions. BITC partnered with Leo Burnett to develop the Grand Prix-winning "Second Chance" campaign that used a crucial human insight to power brilliant work.

2013 - WDMP, for Monarch Airlines

Monarch lacked the budget to compete with established airlines in the lucractive ski market. So guess what? Time to get inventive. Augmented reality, DM pack inventive to be precise. The work won over £2.2million in sales, the website saw a pick-up of over 20% and the DM pack engaged users with the Monarch brand way for weeks and months after landing.

2012 - OgilvyOne UK, for Kern & Sohn

It turns out that it is possible to use a travelling, garden gnome to prove a theory about Earth's gravity. And boost business results by over 20% in the process and reach more than 350million people in over 150 countries.

2011 - Indicia, for Shop Direct Group

120,000 mirosite visits, nearly 4,800 new customers, a huge boost to brand value and some razor-sharp creativity and execution: the "Work It Baby" campaign also showed an early appreciation of social media and online activism to cultivate advocates and a warm, community-driven endorsements.

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