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PHD UK has secured four shortlists at the upcoming @campaignmagazine Global Agency of the Year Awards 2026, keeping company amongst the world’s leading performers in the industry! 👏

The nominations include:
🏆 Global Media Agency of the Year: PHD UK
🏆 New Business Development Team: PHD UK New Business team Sarah Nugent Sam Connor Hannah Woodman Andrea Smart
🏆 Head of Agency: Paul Knight
🏆 Strategic Planning Leader: Eva Grimmett

A fantastic recognition reflecting the exceptional work and results delivered across the agency, following a record-breaking performance in 2025.

Best of luck to everyone ahead of the ceremony on 18th June.

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Shortlisted 6 times at the 2026 @performancemarketingawards! 🎉

🌟‘Andrex gets comfortable…’ - @andrexuk - ‘Best Retail Media Campaign’ & ‘Best Social Commerce Campaign’

🌟‘Kleenex x Mr Doodle: turning media into accessible art’ - @kleenex_uk - ‘Best Multi-Channel Campaign’

🌟‘Making it pyjama o'clock on TikTok Shop’ - @sainsburys Tu - ‘Best Social Commerce Campaign’

🌟‘Taking a full funnel approach to the most important booking season of the year’ - @virginatlantic - ‘Best Travel Campaign’

🌟‘Transforming sales lead generation with a new Paid Search approach’ - @volkswagen_uk - ‘Best Paid Search Campaign’

Well done to everyone involved and fingers crossed for the results on May 12th!

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Yesterday, we brought clients, partners and PHDers together for our annual thought leadership event, PHD Connect, where we explored one of the most powerful forces shaping culture, behaviour, and brands today: ‘anticipation’.

The Insight and Strategy team opened the event with the launch of their new, proprietary cultural research into the subject ‘Do good things come to those who wait?’ - a deep dive into how anticipation influences decision-making and value creation. Later exploring what the research’s findings mean for brands.

The remainder of the day featured a brilliant line-up of guest speakers:

➡️ Martin Beverley (@aceofheartscreative), Lewis Corner (@timeoutlondon), Leighton Wall (@virginatlantic) and Charlotte Emery (Entain) shared their experiences of creating and harnessing Anticipation in a panel discussion hosted by PHD's Sarah Nugent
➡️ Richard Shotton, Behavioural Scientist and best-selling author, unpacked the behavioural science behind Anticipation
➡️ Phil Rowley, Head of Futures at @omnicommedia, explored how to anticipate the next decade in tech
➡️and the day concluded with talkSPORT‘s Jim White and Gabriel Agbonlahor chatting to PHD’s Sophie Sherwood about the most anticipated event of 2026 - the FIFA World Cup.

It was a day full of inspiration, provocation, and practical insight and we’re looking forward to how the research will fuel client campaigns through 2026 and beyond.

Huge thank you to all our speakers and to the hundreds of people who attended - with special thanks to our research partners @voxpopsint, David Wilcox and Liam Fisher at @talksport, and our venue hosts at the IET London: Savoy Place for a great experience. Looking forward to PHD Connect 2027 already!

#PHDConnect #PHDIntelligenceConnected #CulturalInsights

Yesterday, we brought clients, partners and PHDers together for our annual thought leadership event, PHD Connect, where we explored one of the most powerful forces shaping culture, behaviour, and brands today: ‘anticipation’.

The Insight and Strategy team opened the event with the launch of their new, proprietary cultural research into the subject ‘Do good things come to those who wait?’ - a deep dive into how anticipation influences decision-making and value creation. Later exploring what the research’s findings mean for brands.

The remainder of the day featured a brilliant line-up of guest speakers:

➡️ Martin Beverley (@aceofheartscreative), Lewis Corner (@timeoutlondon), Leighton Wall (@virginatlantic) and Charlotte Emery (Entain) shared their experiences of creating and harnessing Anticipation in a panel discussion hosted by PHD's Sarah Nugent
➡️ Richard Shotton, Behavioural Scientist and best-selling author, unpacked the behavioural science behind Anticipation
➡️ Phil Rowley, Head of Futures at @omnicommedia, explored how to anticipate the next decade in tech
➡️and the day concluded with talkSPORT‘s Jim White and Gabriel Agbonlahor chatting to PHD’s Sophie Sherwood about the most anticipated event of 2026 - the FIFA World Cup.

It was a day full of inspiration, provocation, and practical insight and we’re looking forward to how the research will fuel client campaigns through 2026 and beyond.

Huge thank you to all our speakers and to the hundreds of people who attended - with special thanks to our research partners @voxpopsint, David Wilcox and Liam Fisher at @talksport, and our venue hosts at the IET London: Savoy Place for a great experience. Looking forward to PHD Connect 2027 already!

#PHDConnect #PHDIntelligenceConnected #CulturalInsights

Yesterday, we brought clients, partners and PHDers together for our annual thought leadership event, PHD Connect, where we explored one of the most powerful forces shaping culture, behaviour, and brands today: ‘anticipation’.

The Insight and Strategy team opened the event with the launch of their new, proprietary cultural research into the subject ‘Do good things come to those who wait?’ - a deep dive into how anticipation influences decision-making and value creation. Later exploring what the research’s findings mean for brands.

The remainder of the day featured a brilliant line-up of guest speakers:

➡️ Martin Beverley (@aceofheartscreative), Lewis Corner (@timeoutlondon), Leighton Wall (@virginatlantic) and Charlotte Emery (Entain) shared their experiences of creating and harnessing Anticipation in a panel discussion hosted by PHD's Sarah Nugent
➡️ Richard Shotton, Behavioural Scientist and best-selling author, unpacked the behavioural science behind Anticipation
➡️ Phil Rowley, Head of Futures at @omnicommedia, explored how to anticipate the next decade in tech
➡️and the day concluded with talkSPORT‘s Jim White and Gabriel Agbonlahor chatting to PHD’s Sophie Sherwood about the most anticipated event of 2026 - the FIFA World Cup.

It was a day full of inspiration, provocation, and practical insight and we’re looking forward to how the research will fuel client campaigns through 2026 and beyond.

Huge thank you to all our speakers and to the hundreds of people who attended - with special thanks to our research partners @voxpopsint, David Wilcox and Liam Fisher at @talksport, and our venue hosts at the IET London: Savoy Place for a great experience. Looking forward to PHD Connect 2027 already!

#PHDConnect #PHDIntelligenceConnected #CulturalInsights

Following a record-breaking 2025, we have started 2026 with a bang, securing FOUR finalists at @campaignmagazine’s Agency of the Year Awards.

The nominations include:

🏆 Media Agency of the Year
🏆 New Business Development Team
🏆 Head of Agency – Media
🏆 Media Planning Leader

Best of luck to everyone for the ceremony on March 19th. 💥

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Congratulations to our Insight team and research partners for receiving two nominations at the @adwanteduk Media Research Awards 2026.

⭐️ Best custom research project (Agency) for ‘Is Optimism Dead?’
⭐️ Team of the Year (Media Agency) for Insight

Fingers crossed for the results announced on March 4th 🤞

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This week our London and Manchester PHDers enjoyed a festive day! 🎄 ✨

At our London office we had activities including a Jingle Bell Jukebox, ornament-making and gingerbread decorating. We also brought back our annual PHD Slays Awards, celebrating our office stars before heading off to our Christmas party.

A huge thank you to our amazing partners from @global and @immediatemediaco for bringing the festivities to our office.

And in Manchester, the celebrations continued with our own awards ceremony - followed by a competitive round of social cricket. 🏏🎉

#PHDUK #Christmas #Christmasparty

This week our London and Manchester PHDers enjoyed a festive day! 🎄 ✨

At our London office we had activities including a Jingle Bell Jukebox, ornament-making and gingerbread decorating. We also brought back our annual PHD Slays Awards, celebrating our office stars before heading off to our Christmas party.

A huge thank you to our amazing partners from @global and @immediatemediaco for bringing the festivities to our office.

And in Manchester, the celebrations continued with our own awards ceremony - followed by a competitive round of social cricket. 🏏🎉

#PHDUK #Christmas #Christmasparty

We're continuing our record -breaking awards year with two more accolades this week!

Our work with @andrexuk on ‘First School Poo’ – a content partnership with The Guardian to destigmatise going to the toilet at school – was voted ‘Ad of the Year 2025’ at the @newsworks_uk Awards, which honour the best advertising in news brands.

Congratulations are also due to our @kccorp clients on Andrex being named No.1 Brand 2025 by @campaignmagazine yesterday

But there were more wins for US this week! 👏

At Tuesday’s @the_dma_uk Awards, our work with @talonooh and @grandvisual on @uberuk‘s ‘Making local media Uber contextual’ picked up another award, taking home Silver in the OOH category, taking the campaign’s award wins to TEN in 2025.

Great to see the agency finishing an award-winning year with more industry recognition. Congratulations to all the teams involved.

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Our @sainsburys team is getting the festivities started early - and we’re loving every moment!🎄🎅✨

Triple wins at the global Drum Media Awards 🏆

Last night we were recognised with three awards at @thedrumawards for Media, marking an outstanding achievement for the agency across multiple categories!

Three different client campaigns were named as winners:

🥇GOLD – CPG, Food & Beverages - ‘Kleenex x Mr Doodle’ - #Kleenex with @talonooh and @grandvisual
🥇GOLD - Automotive - ‘Creating the Redditor Edit’ - @skodauk
🥈SILVER - Tourism & Travel - ‘Making local media Uber contextual’ - @uberuk with @talonooh and @grandvisual

A big congratulations to the PHD teams, partners and clients who worked on the campaigns on their global recognition.

Following three Effie UK award wins last week, our record-breaking, award-winning 2025 continues!

#PHDIntelligenceConnected #TheDrumAwards

We got a TRIPPLE win at the 2025 Global Performance Marketing Awards 🎉

It was a great night for us at the Global @performancemarketingawards, taking home three wins, including GOLD in Best Use of Paid Social for @skodauk - ‘Creating the Reddit Edit’. 🚗

Great to see great PHD ‘work that works’ being recognised amongst the best in global performance marketing. Congratulations to all the teams and partners who won last night.

Big shoutout to the Insight Team!

Congratulations to our Insight team whose outstanding work has been recognised in the 2025 Media Research Group (MRG) Awards shortlist.

🌟 The team has been shortlisted for Media Agency Research Team of the Year.
🌟 Insight Manager Hayley Madhani has been recognised as a Rising Star.

Congratulations to the team on this well-deserved recognition. Fingers crossed for the Gala Awards announcement in Utrecht on November 21st!

#PHDIntelligenceConnected #mrgawards2025 #MRG

We shortlisted TWENTY times at Media Week Awards 2025

Huge news for us at the @campaignmagazine Media Week Awards after shortlisting 18 times across 14 categories.

SIX different campaigns were named as finalists:

@the_bhf -‘Til I Died’ (with @saatchiuk, @talonooh, @grandvisual)
🌟 Mid-sized collaboration
🌟 Media Creativity: £250k - £1M
🌟 Media Idea: £250K - £1M

@uberuk – ‘Making local media Uber contextual’ (with @motherlondon, @talonooh, @grandvisual)
🌟 Media Idea: Over £1M
🌟 Media Creativity: Over £1M
🌟 Best Creative and Media Agency Partnership

@the_bhf - ‘Making media behave like heart disease’
🌟 Long-term media strategy

@hsbc_uk – ‘Everything's Premier’ (with Sparkminds)
🌟 Research insight

@the_bhf - ‘Heart attacks can happen on any street’ (with ITV Media)
🌟 Media Idea <£250k
🌟 Media Creativity <£250k
🌟 Small Collaboration: Under £250K
🌟 Best Use of Content <£250k

@skodauk - ‘Creating the Redditor Edit’ (with @leoburnett and @reddit)
🌟 Media Idea: Launch
🌟 Mid-sized collaboration: £250K - £750K
🌟 Media Creativity: £250k - £1M
🌟 Media Creativity- Launch
🌟 Best Creative and Media Agency Partnership
🌟 Media Idea: £250K - £1M

💫We also shortlisted for Agency of the Year and Tess Gullis was nominated in the Rising Star category.

A fantastic set of shortlists showcasing the full breadth of our media creativity and effectiveness.

Looking forward to media’s biggest night of the year on October 16th.💥

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