But the best bit of all…. is that we took home the coveted ‘Best Agency with Integrated Digital Expertise’ award!

We’re so humbled that we’ve been recognised for such a fantastic award. On-and-offline communications must work inherantly together, and we feel very lucky to work with Onlinefire on a daily basis.

Thank you very much to the judges, Helen Dunne, and the rest of the CorpComms team!

Great news from Eulogy! Towers today. The PR Week ‘Best Places to Work‘ list has just been released, and Eulogy! scored a Silver.  Out of 120 entries, there were only two gold awards, four silver and four bronze.  Naturally, we’re beyond chuffed.

You can read our entry on why Eulogy is one of the best PR agencies to work for, but if I’m tooting our horn, I’d say it’s probably all about the Christmas party. They’re pretty much legendary:

Wow – what a brilliant week at Eulogy! Full of good news and smiles all around.

Why, you ask?

Well, the PR Week Top 150 Leagues came out and we have made astounding progress!  We’re up EIGHT places on 2009, which means Eulogy! now resides at number 57 in the Top 150.  And in the Top 50 Independents, we’re at number 21 – up 4 places from 25 in 2009.

Well done team!

The aricle, which outlines Eulogy’s humble beginnings to the agency we’ve become now, can be read in full on PR Week.

Eulogy! has won 7 awards so far this year. By the end of November we had 3 accolades for best campaign, 2 agency of the year awards and another 2 for agency individuals.

Sounds good doesn’t it?  Yes, our email footer is ridiculed for being so long and our clients mock us for showing off about it again, but I refuse to apologise. Industry recognition is important!

But the taking part in the awards process can have just as much impact. For example:

1. Morale. Enter a campaign into an award and team morale goes through the roof. Even if you didn’t work on the campaign, you get a buzz knowing you work among award-winners, award-winning contenders even
2. Recruitment. Other people see you at the award ceremony; they see you shortlisted in the trade magazines; they visit your website, and see the campaigns and awards there, too. Hello direct job application, goodbye recruitment fees.
3. Reputation – we’re in the business of it, after all. The award circuit is a tight one. Judges talk and they usually judge several different awards throughout the year. When your name pops up again and again, people get thinking and talking.

Despite the ridicule about our signatures, I believe our clients enjoy the awards as much as we do – especially if it’s their campaign that wins. Saying, “this campaign, that we worked on together, is worthy of an award” is great for client retention.

But let’s get down to the hard facts. A client recently won an agency of the year award. Being the technical sort they were quick to look at the uplift on their website. In just two hours they’d had 172 visits, the average time on the site increased to more than two minutes, average page consumption was four.  In the latter part of this year the Eulogy! website has seen similar results. Visitors are up 20%, page views are up 15% and time on site is up 10%. We’ve not won every award we’ve entered, and sure there are peaks in website performance when we do, but the overarching effect of entering any award is a positive one.

I was at the CorpComms Awards, held at the Park Lane Sheraton (which, for some reason, is actually on Piccadilly, and not Park Lane) where we picked up two awards!

Onlinefire was awarded with Best Digital Campaign for ‘It’s Amazing What You Can Do With 30 Peas’, a campaign that combined the best in digital outreach, blogger relations, viral videos and news generation.

Taking home the prestigious Young Achiever of the Year was Onlinefire co-founder, Graham Lee.

The judges described him as “an excellent ambassador for creativity and innovation”. “WOW!” was the general consensus.

On the B2B side, the team arrived at the venue where there was a collection of male models in boxing gear, skipping and shadow boxing on four plinths around an imaginary boxing ring. You guessed it – the theme for the 2009 B2B Marketing Awards was boxing.

We were confused too, but Ben and Rik weren’t fussed – especially being surrounded all night by promo girls in boxing gear:

But on to the important stuff!

Adding to our win earlier this month at the PRCA awards, Eulogy!’s campaign for Mortascreen won again last night, picking up Best PR campaign!

And naturally, like at the PRCA awards, we were the loudest table in the venue.

What can I say?  We like a good party.

Eulogy! had been nominated for three PRCA awards, Agency of the Year, Specialist Agency of the Year and Best B2B campaign. Our sister agency Onlinefire was shortlisted for Best Technology Campaign for its work with Virgin Mobile and its 30p tariff.

We took home two almighty awards: we are now crowned Consultancy of the Year 2009 and Best B2B Campaign for our work with Mortascreen.

It was a spectacular night. And I can’t lie, it was made all the more wonderful by our two award wins. Throughout this year, Eulogy!’s board, executive committee and team – from the graduates to the directors – have worked exceptionally hard to make a difference to every aspect of the agency, from things like training and internal comms, to client service, marketing and team structure.

It’s been worth all the hard work. These accolades are a great demonstration of the agency’s excellence. Our growth proves we’re a leading agency that delivers creativity with media insight – a formidable combination.

And, as you can see, we really know how to party! Apologies if we deafened anyone sitting near us. We were the noisiest and most fun-loving crowd in the room!

The moment we found out we had won PRCA Consultancy of the Year 2009!

In the PRCA Awards 2009 Eulogy! has been shortlisted for Specialist Agency of the Year (second time running), PR Agency of the Year and best B2B campaign for our Deceased Mail Funeral for Mortascreen. On top of this, Onlinefire’s consumer PR and social media campaign for Virgin Mobile has been shortlisted for Best Technology campaign. Phew! So we’re keeping everything crossed until Tuesday evening.  

Elaine from Eulogy! with our award for PRCA Specialist Agency of the Year 2008

But it’s not just PR awards that are getting us excited, it’s our clients’ success too. On Thursday, Mediaedge:cia (MEC) beat the competition (and it’s fierce out there in media land) to become Media Week’s Media Agency of the Year! A well-deserved result and one which recognises the phenomenal growth of the agency through huge wins such as Lloyds Banking Group and Orange. Massive congratulations to everyone at Mediaedge:cia.