Naked wins CommsCon Grand Prix for ‘Get Simon off the loo’ campaign
Strategy-led agency Naked Communications won the Grand Prix in the first annual CommsCon Awards which were held in Sydney last night.
The “Who Gives A Crap – Help Get Simon Off The Loo” campaign, also won the awards for most innovative use of social media and best investor / community relations campaign. The campaign featured Simon Griffiths, CEO of Good Goods, sitting on a toilet on live webcam and pledging to not get up until $50,000 had been raised to build toilets in the developing world through sales of the new toilet paper brand.
The CommsCon Awards were chaired by Commonwealth Bank chief marketing and online officer Andy Lark.
The work was judged over a two-stage process by a panel of around 20 jurors from a PR agencies, internal communications leaders and independent consultants.
The CommsCon Awards followed the CommsCon conference, which was attended by around 200 people across the day.
The full list of winners:
- Winner: Who Gives A Crap – Help Get Simon Off The Loo – Naked Communications
- Highly commended:The Human Brochure – The Works
B2C campaign:
- Winner: M.J.Bale – Grazed On Greatness – Eleven PR & Whybin\TBWA
- Highly commended: Virgin Mobile: Fair Go Bro – One Green Bean & Havas Worldwide Sydney
B2B campaign:
- Winner: PwC Value Exchange – Two Social
B2C launch / event
- Winner: Bulleit Whiskey Speak Easy Series – One Green Bean
B2B launch / event
- Highly commended: National Telework Week – Professional Public Relations & Department of Broadband, Communication and the Digital Economy
Best campaign by small team or agency
- Winner: ASCA – Blue Knot Day – Launch Management Group
- Highly commended: Victor – A Pig’s Tale – BLACK Communications
Best reporting and use of measurement
- Winner: G.S.K Panadol Cold and Flu Tracker – Maxus
Best use of research and insights
Winner: A Snapshot of Australia’s Digital Future to 2050 – Text100 & IBM
Corporate social responsibility
- Winner: R U OK? Day – Liquid Ideas & R U OK? team
- Highly commended: Facebook Australia Be Bold Stop Bullying campaign n2n communications & Facebook Australia
Government Relations campaign
- Winner: Australians Deserve To Age Well – Essential Media Communications & National Aged Care Alliance
Internal Communications / change management
- Winner: Transformation of OPSM super brand – OPSM & Sefiani Communications Group
Investor / Community Relations campaign
- Winner: Who Gives A Crap – Help Get Simon Off The Loo – Naked Communications
PR Leader of the year
- Winner: Elly Hargreaves – Mango Melbourne
- Highly commended: Marguerite Julian – Stellar Concepts
Emerging PR professional
- Mandy Griffiths – Porter Novelli
- Highly commended: Patrick MacDonald – Cole Lawson Communications
Grand Prix
- Who Gives A Crap – Help Get Simon Off The Loo – Naked Communications
Well done Naked Communications PR team for the campaign. There were many excellent nominees.
If you want to support an interesting social entrepreneur then please visit http://www.whogivesacrao.org and purchase some 100% feel good toilet paper
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can’t wait for Dunners to swing down and take the credit.
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A great conference and fun night. Congratulations Naked & good show Bob!
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A shout out to the Melbourne PR agency Run Forrest who worked with Naked to deliver this campaign. Credit given where credit’s due http://www.runforrest.com.au/a.....logID=2182. Well done to all involved.
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yes, well done to Cathie and the team for pulling off a great event in a very short period of time! Looking forward to next year!
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Caroline, fair call on raising Run Forrest’s involvement. For the record, they were credited in the submission as being the agency that executed the PR strategy.
Matt – MD Naked Melbourne
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