IPRA Golden World Awards
The Golden World Awards for Excellence in PR is an annual global awards ceremony organised by the International Public Relations Association[1] to recognise public relations achievements around the world .[2] Established in 1990, the Golden World Awards (the "Oscars of PR") has 37 categories of In-house and Agency entries judged separately, and honours the overall highest standards of each year with the IPRA Grand Prix for Excellence. There is also a special Global Contribution Award for an entry meeting one of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Entry criteria
[edit]In Round 1 the jury considers programme summaries. There is an overall limit of 1800 words, and separate limits for each of the 6 Criteria. Entries must be in English.[3]
All entries are submitted online to the IPRA secretariat and must include a short Overview of the programme. Under separate headlines, each entry then addresses five Criteria:
- Statement of Problem/Opportunity
- Research
- Planning
- Execution
- Outcomes
Finalists from Round 1 are then invited to upload supporting media to assist the judges in the selection of category winners.
Award categories
[edit]For each of the 38 categories below Agency and Inhouse entries are judged separately and separate awards made. In addition, the best PR programme each year is awarded the Grand Prix for Excellence.
- Arts and entertainment: For a PR campaign in arts or entertainment.
- Business-to-business: For a business-to-business PR campaign.
- Climate Change: For a PR campaign addressing, issues relevant to, or awareness of, global climate change.
- Communication research: For research conducted for the development of business or communication strategies.
- Community engagement: For a PR campaign that helped engage a community in some specific way.
- Community relations: For a community relations campaign.
- Consumer PR for an existing product: For creative PR activities around a consumer product.
- Consumer PR for an existing service: For creative PR activities around a consumer service.
- Corporate communications: For excellence in enhancing a company's reputation through communications.
- Corporate responsibility: For a PR campaign demonstrating excellence in corporate social responsibility.
- Country, region and city: For a PR campaign to promote a country, a region or a city.
- Crisis management: For excellent communications management during a crisis.
- Crisis communications online: For excellence in the use of social media during a crisis.
- Digital media relations: For a PR campaign showing creativity in its use of social media.
- Environmental: For a PR campaign on an environmental or ecological issue.
- Event management: For the planning and delivery of a successful event with a PR dimension.
- Financial services and investor relations: For use of PR for a financial product or service or in investor relations.
- Food and beverage: For a PR campaign to promote a new or existing food or beverage.
- Gaming and virtual reality: For a PR campaign that launched a development in the gaming or VR industry.
- Healthcare: For a PR campaign in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.
- Influencer management: For a PR campaign that made use of identified influencers beyond traditional media.
- Integration of traditional and new media: For the creative integration of traditional and social media in a PR campaign.
- Internal communications: For a creative internal communications campaign that engaged personnel.
- International campaign: For a coordinated PR campaign in more than one country.
- Launch of a new product: For creative PR activities around the launch of a product
- Launch of a new service: For creative PR activities around the launch of a service.
- Media relations: For a PR campaign which showed impressive media reach.
- NGO campaign: For a PR campaign by a charity or non-governmental organisation.
- PR on a shoestring: For a creative PR campaign on a small budget.
- Public affairs: For lobbying that influenced or changed public policy.
- Public sector: For creative use of PR by a public sector body.
- Publications: For a creative PR publication in print or electronic format.
- Reputation and brand management: For the creative positioning of a company image or brand.
- Social media: For a PR campaign demonstrating imaginative use of social media.
- Sponsorship: For a PR campaign that promoted awareness of sponsorship of an event or activity.
- Sport: For a PR campaign to promote a sport for itself or to a community.
- Technology:For a creative PR campaign in the technology sector.
- Travel & tourism: For a PR campaign in the transport, travel, hotel or tourism industries.
Grand Prix for Excellence Winners
[edit]2024
[edit]Pots that Develop, Peru
Alicorp
2023
[edit]Call Russia, Lithuania
Not Perfect Vilnius
2022
[edit]Tencent Weixin Pay, China
One for All Love Meal Program
2021
[edit]Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori, New Zealand
Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori - The Māori Language Moment
2020
[edit]LLYC, Spain
The last older person to die in loneliness[4]
2019
[edit]Dentsu Public Relations Inc, Japan
Kobayashi City Department of SimCity BuildIt[5]
2018
[edit]FleishmanHillardVanguard and Orta, Russia
Aeroflot's Sulimov dogs[6]
2017
[edit]The alphabet of illiteracy
2016
[edit]FleishmanHillard / Royal Philips, Ireland
Philips breathless choir
2015
[edit]Atmosphere Communications, South Africa
Sanlam one rand man
2014
[edit]Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
A global university on the rise
2013
[edit]Women Empowerment in Economy
2012
[edit]Blumen Group, Serbia
The list is a note for the future
2011
[edit]Absa, South Africa
Absa rings the bell
References
[edit]- ^ "IPRA | PR Definition". www.ipra.org. Retrieved 2020-01-28.
- ^ IPRA Official Website. "IPRA".
- ^ "Golden World Awards". IPRA.
- ^ "LLYC ganadora del Grand Prix en los IPRA Golden World Awards 2020 | Actualidad" (in Spanish). 2020-09-07. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
- ^ "Dentsu Public Relations takes Grand Prix at IPRA Golden World Awards | News releases | Dentsu Public Relations". dentsu-pr.com. Retrieved 2021-03-24.
- ^ "IPRA 2018: Russia, Japan, Turkey win Multiple PR Awards in Barcelona". Vanguard News. 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2021-03-24.