Tribal, OMD, Special, Motion Sickness, Central Station win heavy metal at Asia Awards

HONG KONG, Today: NZ has scored two Golds at the Campaign Asia Agency of the Year Awards last night – both going to Tribal Aotearoa (for a 6th time) and OMD. NZ shared a Gold with Australia.

DDB Group’s Tribal Aotearoa was named NZ Digital Agency of the Year; while OMD was named NZ Media Agency of the Year.

Special Group NZ & Australia jointly won Independent Agency of the Year. Special NZ won a Silver in Digital AoY.

Motion Sickness NZ won Silver in the AUNZ Boutique Agency of the Year. Central Station picked up the Bronze.

Motion Sickness also took out Gold for AUNZ Production Company AoY, and Bronze in AUNZ Content Marketing AoY.

“Since Tribal grew out of the success of DDB Digital two years ago, it’s gone from strength to strength, exceeding 300% growth in fewer than three years.”

DDB Group Aotearoa Priya Patel said: “Since Tribal grew out of the success of the DDB Digital department two years ago, it has gone from strength to strength, exceeding 300% growth in fewer than three years, making the agency one of the fastest growing arms within the DDB Group Aotearoa business.

“Over the past 12 months, Tribal has worked with Samsung, L’Oreal, Skoda and Disney+, as well as local organisations like Arataki Honey, NZTE, Plant & Food Research, Sanford and Zuru Edge.

“Tribal Aotearoa NZ has been one of those great success stories – from their beginnings as an incredibly high performing digital department within DDB, the past two years have seen the team transform into a thriving agency with a client portfolio that continues to grow.”

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