Category: Awards

UM proudly took home a prestigious award at Sponsorship Marketing Council Canada’s Sponsorship Marketing Awards (SMAs). Our incredible team clinched the gold for their outstanding work with Kenvue on the campaign “Tylenol: Score on Pain,” winning in the Sports category for budgets over $501K. The SMAs honour the best in the business, recognizing those who have maximized

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We are proud and excited to announce that UM has been shortlisted for Strategy’s 2024 Media Agency of the Year. This prestigious nomination underscores our team’s exceptional talent, dedication, and hard work. This annual competition has agencies across creative, media, digital, PR, and design disciplines vying for the title of Canada’s top shop. Each agency submitted

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UM wins a coveted Wood Pencil (bronze) pencil at this year’s D&AD Awards in the Gaming & Virtual Worlds/Use of Live Stream category for work on BMO’s “Gamer’s Branch NXT LVL.” Considered to be the world’s most prestigious benchmark for commercial creativity, the D&AD Awards celebrate and stimulate creative excellence in design and advertising. Click here

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UM took home a bronze for its stellar work with BMO on “NXT NXT LVL Gamer’s Branch: Stealth Mode Banking” at Strategy’s Shopper Innovation + Activation (SIA) Awards. This reflects our commitment to creating client solutions driven by innovative thinking, audience understanding, and strategic media planning.  The SIA awards celebrate the plans and partnerships that embody

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UM was awarded the top spot in Ad Age’s prestigious 2024 A-List & Creativity Awards, which celebrates agencies that have thrived creatively, financially and culturally amid industry disruption. AdAge credits the win to our industry-leading strategy, data and tech capabilities, but, equally importantly, our dedication to our people, our clients and our community. Our ONE UM

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UM brought home three awards at the 2023 Festival of Media North America Awards (FOMNA) for its collaboration with Boston Pizza on “Powered by Fanalytics” and BMO on “Gamer’s Branch: Stealth Mode Banking.”  The FOMNA Awards honour and showcase exceptional innovation and creativity within the dynamic world of media. UM’s campaigns, judged by senior industry

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UM’s ongoing commitment and leadership in innovation and creativity was recognized at the 2023 Media Innovation Awards (MIAs). UM brought home a total of three wins – one silver and two bronze – for partnership with BMO on “Gamer’s Branch: Stealth Mode Banking” and Boston Pizza on “Powered by Fanalytics.” The MIAs are Canada’s premium

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UM is obsessed with delivering effective and impactful work that helps clients achieve their business growth objectives. This commitment is reflected in UM being ranked #1 in Canada, #2 in North America and #5 in the world on WARC’s Effectiveness 100 list for media. This list is the industry benchmark for agency impact and effectiveness, published

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UM brought home 10 trophies at the CMA Awards 2023 for its stellar work across three brands. UM was honoured with the ‘Best of the Best’ award for its breakthrough work on BMO Gamer’s Branch. The CMAs recognize the best in Canadian marketing and celebrate the top campaigns and marketers of the past year. We

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