AIM Proximity, Auckland world’s most awarded agency in WON Report Q1 of ’09, Rapp ranked #19

April 30 2009, 10:50 am | BY Lynchy | 3 Comments

New Zealand’s AIM Proximity was today announced as the world’s mostawarded agency for the first quarter of 2009 by the prestigious WonReport. BMF Sydney came in at number 8 and Rapp New Zealand at number19. Each year the Won Report ranks the best communications basedupon the quantity and quality of the awards won.

AIM Proximity also had three of the ten most awarded campaigns for the quarter, Warehouse ‘The Great Love Conspiracy’ was fourth, iPhone Jonny for Yellow was sixth and Innovation Fold website for Vodafone was ninth.

Darryn Melrose, CEO of AIM Proximity commented: “We’ve had a longhistory of success in New Zealand. To discover that we are the best inthe world is just amazing. We’re very proud, but we’ll keep workinghard to keep our rankings up high, and deliver great business resultsfor our clients.”

Dave King, Creative Director of AIM Proximityadded: “Winning awards is great. Winning awards for major clients likethe Warehouse, Yellow and Vodafone is really satisfying, so thanks toeach of these guys for letting us do the work.”

TOP 20 AGENCIES

1.   Aim Proximity Auckland     New Zealand    121   

2.   FP7 Doha    Qatar    94   

=3  Leo Burnett Beirut    Lebanon    87   

=3  Starcom Mediavest UAE     United Arab Emirates    87   

5.   Memac Ogilvy & Mather Dubai    United Arab Emirates    85   

6.   Y&R France    France    80   

7.   JWT Shanghai    China    79   

8.   BMF Sydney    Australia    76   

9.   JWT Dubai    United Arab Emirates    75   

10.  DDB London    United Kingdom    66   

11.  JWT Beirut    Lebanon    58   

=12 Leo Burnett Frankfurt    Germany    54   

=12 Shackleton Madrid    Spain    54   

14.  Saatchi & Saatchi Petaling    Malaysia    48   

=15 Proximity London    United Kingdom    46   

=15 Dentsu Tokyo    Japan    46   

=17 Leo Burnett Mumbai    India    43   

=17 Jung von Matt, Hamburg      Germany    43   

19.  Rapp New Zealand    New Zealand    42    

=20 Proximity BBDO Malaysia 40   

=20  McCann Worldwide group     Hong Kong    40    

=20  OMD Middle East    United Arab Emirates    40    

=20  Ogilvy & Mather Bangkok    Thailand    40