This should be a campaign or activity which depended predominantly on PR activity in print, online, social or broadcast media.

Previous winners have demonstrated clear objective setting, coherence or integration with other  marketing activity, and robust measurement against performance indicators strongly linked to company success. This has not always been expressed in profit terms, but has also included various measure of perception or awareness.

Public Relations is about reputation – the result of what you do, what you say and what others say about you. Public Relations is the discipline which looks after reputation, with the aim of earning understanding and support and influencing opinion and behaviour. It is the planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain goodwill and mutual understanding between an organisation and its publics

As with other communication categories, entrants should demonstrate effectiveness against the following criteria:

  • There are clear objectives for the communication and these are linked
    to the company’s overall marketing objectives.
  • The audience is well defined and researched.
  • The communication is innovative and creatively designed for that target audience.
  • That the communication was cost effective in relation to the level of success, with a clear demonstration of ROI.
  • And most importantly that the objectives were measurably achieved (or exceeded) and that the campaign can be shown to have succeeded.

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