Innovation SABRE Awards — North America 2024 Winners

The Innovation SABRE Awards winners will be honored during the PRovoke North America Summit at the Whitby Hotel in NYC on May 1.

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PLATINUM SABRE AWARD FOR BEST IN SHOW

Finalists:

• Adopt-a-Stray — Fresh Step with Current Global, FCB 
• Asshole Activists — Tushy with Citizen Relations
• Ben Affleck *Officially* Runs on Dunkin' — Dunkin' (Inspire Brands) with MSL, Artists Equity
• From TikTok to Table - Chipotle Mexican Grill Fajita Quesadilla Hack — Chipotle Mexican Grill with Day One Agency
• Joaquin's First School Shooting — Change the Ref with BCW
  

Agency Awards

Disruptive Agency of the Year

• How Fame Became a Game Changer — Exponent

Data-Driven Agency of the Year

• Brand to Demand: Proving PR as Business Driver with Data-Driven Solutions — PAN Communications

Purpose-Driven PR Agency of the Year

• Manifest — Manifest

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Initiative

• How M Booth Turned Allyship Into Action — M Booth

Agency Thought Leadership

• Chosen Circles: How Black Americans Navigate Health Decision Making — M Booth Health

Agency of the Future

• Day One Agency — Day One Agency

Individual Awards

Creative Professional of the Year

• Josh Budd, Creative Professional of the Year — Citizen Relations

Data Professional of the Year

• Tejas Totade, Chief Technology Officer — Ruder Finn

Iconoclast of the Year

• From Skivvies to Scorpions — Bospar

Innovator of the Year: Agency

• Olga Fleming - Agency Innovator of the Year — MMC

Innovator of the Year: Brand

• Campbell’s USMB Brand PR & Social Media Team: The Soup Squad that Got Scrappy & Built an Empire — Campbell’s USMB Brand PR & Social Media Team with MSL

Experiential Marketing

Live Events

• Asshole Activists — Tushy with Citizen Relations

Online/Virtual Events

• Unlocking Overlooked Markets: Enthought's Integrated & Agile Approach to Webinar Engagement — Enthought with PAN Communications

Digital Promo & Activation

• From TikTok to Table - Chipotle Mexican Grill Fajita Quesadilla Hack — Chipotle Mexican Grill with Day One Agency

Sponsorships

• Taste of Greatness — Frito-Lay North America with Ketchum, OMD, D3, Genesco Sports Enterprises

Earned Media

Digital/Print Media: General, Consumer and Lifestyle Media

• The Decliner: La-Z-Boy Delivers JOMO With Help From AI Recliner — La-Z-Boy with Exponent

Digital/Print Media: Business/Trade Media

• “What’s in a name? Overstock becomes Bed Bath & Beyond” — Overstock.com with Method Communications

Broadcast Media

• With Heinz Remix, Your Sauce Game Will Never Be the Same… — Kraft Heinz with Zeno Group

Product Reviews

• Kicking the Bucket to the Curb to #MopSmarter With Swiffer PowerMop — Swiffer (Procter & Gamble) with MSL, P&G Internal PR

Earned Media with Influencers + Communities

• From TikTok to Table - Chipotle Mexican Grill Fajita Quesadilla Hack — Chipotle Mexican Grill with Day One Agency

Persuasive Content

• ReclaimYourName.dic — Elimin8Hate with Citizen Relations

Content Creation for Media Sites (Earned)

• The Break, Presented by The General — The General Insurance with NBA G League, Spool Marketing, Blue Cup Productions, Ideaquest, Performics

Sponsored & Paid Media

Content Creation for Media Sites (Paid)

• Here for What Matters — Dollar General with BCW

Paid Influencer Programs + Endorsements

• Cub Cadet Cultivates Fandom Through Dad-vertising — Cub Cadet with Exponent

Product Placement (Entertainment Vehicle)

• OMG: Infobip Celebrates 30 Years of Texting! — Infobip with Bospar

SEO/Content Distribution Program

• Making Synopsys Discoverable in the Digital Media Era — Synopsys with The Hoffman Agency

Digital Marketing/Advertising

• Recruiting Older People for a Dry-AMD Clinical Trial During a Global Pandemic — Ionis with GCI Health

Social Media & Community Management

Overall Use of Social Media & Platforms

• Cheetle in Cheadle — PepsiCo Foods Canada with Citizen Relations

Social Video

• #ClosingAmericasSmileGap — Crest and Oral-B (Procter & Gamble) with MSL

Social Photos

• Driving Awareness Of Tres Generaciones Via Social Photos — Tres Generaciones with Day One Agency

Influencer Marketing

• Talk Money to Me — Coast Capital with Citizen Relations

Crowdsourcing & Co-creating

• A Presidential Birthday to Remember — The Carter Center with BCW

Platform-Specific Campaigns

Best Use of Instagram

• BIC Back-to-School Supply Closet — BIC with M Booth

Best Use of LinkedIn

• HOW x Orveon — Orveon with HOW, a subsidiary agency of 5WPR

Best Use of TikTok

• Talk Money to Me — Coast Capital with Citizen Relations

Best Use of YouTube

• The Break, Presented by The General — The General Insurance with NBA G League, Spool Marketing, Blue Cup Productions, Ideaquest, Performics

Owned Media

Website

• EY Accelerates Their B2G Business with In-House Think Tank — EY Government and Public Sector with M Booth

Digital Publishing

• Flying Higher: Capturing the Bigger Picture With Nearmap — Nearmap with MSL

Intranets and Workplace Apps

CSR, ESG and DEI Reporting

• Fundamentally: The 2022 Ally CSR Report — Ally Financial with Tier One Partners

Annual Report

• Pets for Better Wellbeing: Mars Pet Nutrition North America 2022 Report — Mars Petcare with Weber Shandwick Evolve Visual Design

Documentary Film and Video

• Open Your Heart — American Heart Association with Red Summit Productions

Tools and Tactics

Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality/Immersive Technology

• Keep It Real can — Molson Coors Beverage Company with Citizen Relations

Best Use of Artificial Intelligence in PR

• Lenovo AI & Queen Latifah Give Small Businesses Big Visibility — Lenovo with Zeno Group

Audio: Podcasts + Music

• Pfizer's Science Will Win Podcast - Season 2 — Pfizer with Real Chemistry, Wonder Media Network

Gamification/User-Generated Contests

• Adopt-a-Stray — Fresh Step with Current Global, FCB

Identity Branding

• Move Over Turkey, Campbell’s Celebrates and Owns Side Season — Campbell's with MSL

Illustrations + Photography

• Joaquin's First School Shooting — Change the Ref with BCW

Meme

• While the Competition Fearmongered.....We Turned to Barbie — The Hoffman Agency

Real-time Engagement (Crisis and Issues)

• Titan Submersible Search and Rescue — The Explorers Club

Real-time Engagement (Newsjacking)

• I Buy My Own Batteries — Duracell with Citizen Relations, VaynerMedia, and EssenceMedia

PR in the Metaverse

NFTs

• Mastercard Artist Accelerator — Mastercard

Partnerships

Media Partnership

• Ally and Disney Tackle the Vicious Cycle of Sports Inequity — Ally Financial with Tier One Partners

Influencer Partnership

• Tabasco® Brand x Tinx Normalize Hot Sauce as Dressing — Tabasco® Brand with Hunter

Celebrity Partnership

• Ben Affleck *Officially* Runs on Dunkin' — Dunkin' (Inspire Brands) with MSL, Artists Equity

NGO and Charity Partnerships

• Showcasing the Power of Partnership to Help Build a Water-Positive Future — Procter & Gamble with MSL

Brand Partnership

• Philadelphia Cream Cheese Tax-Free Bagel — Philadelphia cream cheese with Zeno Group

Data and Analytics

Social Listening

• Tropicana Mimosa Maker — Tropicana with MullenLowe U.S. PR Cramer-Krasselt

Data in Campaign Planning and Development

• Prevent Overdose WA — Washington State Department of Health with C+C

Behavioral Science

• Chunky Dares America to Try Their Spiciest Soup Ever — Campbell's with MSL

Insight

• Bounty is Your Wingman — Bounty (Procter & Gamble) with MSL

Original/Commissioned Research for PR

• Prevent Overdose WA — Washington State Department of Health with C+C

Measurement and Post-Campaign Analysis

• New PR Effectiveness measurement framework — Telus with Onclusive

The Tech Stack Awards

Social Media and Social Listening Tools

• Culture Compass — Kellanova with Weber Shandwick

Campaign Measurement Tools

• Brandgeist IQ — Allison

PR Software and Services

• PRophet: The Era of the Communications Engineer — PRophet

Campaign Awards

Platform Creation

• Recovery Plan for America's Physicians — American Medical Association

Content Marketing Campaign

• Frigo Cheese Heads Encourages Tweens to Embrace Creative Snacking — Saputo USA, Frigo Cheese Heads with Carmichael Lynch Relate

Storytelling

• Ushering in a New Era of Technology with Microsoft’s AI-Powered Bing Chat — Microsoft with WE Communications

Data-Driven Campaign

• Sick Guilt, Burnout and the Great Gloom: How American Workers are Really Feeling — BambooHR with Method Communications

Boldest Campaign

• Asshole Activists — Tushy with Citizen Relations

Most Disruptive Campaign

• Pootraits — Babyganics with Manifest

Combating Disinformation

• Accounting — Center for Audit Quality with Culture One World, Alipes

Corporate Values in Action

• Always Helps Hispanic Students Achieve Their Dreams — Always (Procter & Gamble) with MSL

Start-Up Marketing Campaign

• From Carnival to the Cloud: Digibee's Journey From Brazil to the Heart of American Innovation — Digibee with Bospar

Emerging Sector Campaign

• Reducing Ag’s Carbon Footprint 1 Million Acres at a Time — Agoro Carbon Alliance with Padilla

Pro-Bono Campaign

• War Stories — Brady with BCW 
  

Micro-Budget Campaign

• Girl Guides of Canada Name Change — Girl Guides of Canada with Veritas Communications

This Year’s Issue: LGBTQ Rights

• Defying DeSantis: Miami Beach Pride’s 15th Anniversary Amidst Anti-LGBTQ Pushback — Miami Beach Pride with GreenRoom

Write your own category

• Cooking Up McDonald's Employer Brand Love — McDonald's of New England with Shift