WPP Atticus Awards
2017/18
    
    
    
        
    Open exclusively to professionals working in WPP companies, the Annual Atticus Awards honour original published thinking in communications services. Winners share up to $57,000 in cash prizes.
Entry to the 2017/2018 Awards is now closed and winners will be announced by July 2018.
2017 ATTICUS AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
This year, two authors shared the top Grand Prix award: congratulations go to Alexander Wheatley of Lightspeed for his paper Head or Heart – 
The Conflicts of Political Polling, and Dave Knox of Rockfish for his book 
Predicting the Turn: The High Stakes Game of Business Between Startups and Blue Chips. Other category winners were Ajinkya Pawar of Phoenix Ogilvy, Izzy Pugh with Helen Firth of Kantar Added Value, Michael Oelschig with Craig Wynn of Cerebra, Lyndon Morant of Mindshare, Peter Hirsch of OgilvyRED and Kent Wertime of Ogilvy. Mindshare scooped the Corporate Award for its Point of View publication program, and Matilda Scullion of The Partners and Eric Tsytsylin of Ogilvy were named joint winners of the Under 30 Essay Prize. The Book Prize, a new category introduced this year, was awarded to Greg Quinton of The Partners for 
A Smile in the Mind.
Volume 23 of the Atticus Journal, containing extracts of these award winning entries, will be published in November 2017.
Full list of winners, highly commended and merited entries below.
    
        
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            Grand Prix Winner | Advertising | Branding and Identity | Digital Communications
            | Media and Communications Planning  | The Nature and Value of Insights |
            Public Relations and Public Affairs |
            Research Methodologies  | Strategy | Corporate | Under-30 Essay | Book Prize 
             
             
            Joint Grand Prix (from the Research Methodologies and Strategy categories)
             
             
            
                -     Head or Heart - The Conflicts of Political Polling
 
                Alexander Wheatley - Lightspeed, London 
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                -     Predicting the Turn 
 
                Dave Knox - Rockfish, Cincinnati 
             
             
            Advertising 
             
            Winner 
            
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                The Advertising Agencies of Future Will Be Open Sourced
                
 
                Ajinkya Pawar - Phoenix Ogilvy, Colombo 
             
            Merit
            
                - The Essential Metrics to Analyze for Keyword Research Success
 
                Paul Shapiro - Catalyst, Boston 
                - Where Are My Super Bowl Ads?
 
                James Cahill - Geometry, London 
             
             
            Branding And Identity 
             
            Winner 
            
                - Cultural Value: Mastering the New Cultural Vibrancy
 
                Izzy Pugh with Helen Firth - Kantar Added Value, London; New York 
             
            Highly Commended  
            
                - Group XP Experience Index
 
                Iain Ellwood and Tim Greenhalgh - Group XP; Group XP and FITCH, London 
             
            Merit  
            
                - A Smile in the Mind
 
                Greg Quinton - The Partners, London 
             
            
                - #Cultural Impact - The New Challenge for Global Brands and How to Master it
 
                Alessandra Cotugno - Young & Rubicam, London 
             
             
            Digital Communications 
             
            Winner 
            
                - The Social Media Crisis Handbook
                
 
                Michael Oelschig with Craig Wynn - Cerebra, Johannesburg 
             
            Highly Commended  
            
                - Interaction 2016
 
                Rob Norman - GroupM, New York 
             
            Merit  
            
                - Extra Sense
 
                Norm Johnston - Mindshare, London 
             
             
            Media and Communications Planning 
             
            Winner 
            
                - The Death of the Demographic
 
                Lyndon Morant - Mindshare, Tokyo 
             
            Highly Commended  
            
                - Brand Encounters of the Frictionless Kind: I Believe Brands Need to Generate Positive Friction
 
                Chris Worrell - MEC Global Solutions, London 
             
            Merit  
            
                - Finesse the Campaign Through Copy Testing
 
                Daren Poole - Kantar Millward Brown, Sydney 
             
             
            The Nature and Value of Insights 
             
            Winner 
            
                - The Velocity 12 Markets
 
                Kent Wertime - Ogilvy & Mather, Bangkok 
             
            Highly Commended  
            
                - Women, Next
 
                Shepherd Laughlin, Mary Cass, Emma Chiu and Lucie Greene - J. Walter Thompson, New York 
             
            Merit  
            
                - The Rise of the Machines - Programmatic Commerce and the Digital Retail Revolution
 
                Patrick Munden with Minos Makris and Hugh Fletcher - Salmon, Watford 
             
             
            Public Relations and Public Affairs 
             
            Winner 
            
                - The Caliphate of Numbers
 
                Peter Hirsch - OgilvyRED, New York 
             
            Merit  
            
                - Lessons from Journalism for Content Marketers
 
                Lalu Dasgupta - Hill+Knowlton Strategies, London 
             
             
            Research Methodologies  
             
            Winner 
            
                - Head or Heart - The Conflicts of Political Polling
 
                Alexander Wheatley - Lightspeed, London 
             
            Highly Commended  
            
                - Art Meets Insight: Eye Catching Visualization for Better Analytics
 
                Paul Shapiro - Catalyst, Boston 
             
            Merit  
            
                - The Seven Deadly Sins of Tracking Research - Thought Leadership in Healthcare
 
                Richard Goosey and Chris Donaldson - Kantar Health, Epsom 
                -  Connecting Data - How DMPs Can Power Better Research
 
                Phil Sutcliffe with Sam Curtis - TNS London; Kantar London 
             
             
            Strategy 
             
            Winner 
            
                - Predicting the Turn
 
                Dave Knox - Rockfish, Cincinnati 
             
            Highly Commended  
            
                -  All Avenues Open
 
                J Walker Smith - Kantar Futures, London 
             
            Merit  
            
                - The Software of Evermore
 
                Koen Speelmeijer with Frank Delmelle - These Days, Antwerp 
                - The Future of e-Commerce in FMCG
 
                Stephane Roger and Luis Simoes - Kantar Worldpanel, Barcelona 
             
             
            Corporate 
             
            Winner 
            
                - Mindshare POV 2016/2017
 
                Mindshare, London 
             
            Highly Commended  
            
                - Finsbury Insights
 
                Finsbury, New York 
             
             
            Under-30 Essay 
             
            It’s become more and more common for brands to champion a social purpose greater than their basic function. To take three prominent examples:
            Apple: To empower creative exploration and self-expression.
            Nike: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world.
            Dove: Helping women reconsider and redefine what beauty is.
            What is your opinion of the commercial value of such an approach? And should all brands consider adopting it?
            
             
             
            Joint Winner 
            
                - Matilda Scullion
 
                The Partners, London 
                - Eric Tsytsylin
 
                Ogilvy & Mather, New York 
             
             
            Book Prize 
             
            Winner 
            
                - A Smile in the Mind
 
                Greg Quinton - The Partners, London 
             
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