Category: Awards

Ad Age recently released their 2020 list of Best Places to Work, and UM is ranked among the winners. This annual competition honours the top 50 companies from around the world, rated across employee benefits, company culture, company environment, employee perks, employee development, and employee engagement.  Click here to read more.



At Canada’s premium industry showcase, UM claims the country’s most awarded media agency title twice in past three years. The agency brought home 17 trophies last night for campaigns Oh Henry! 4:25, Reese’s REESE the Movie: A Movie About REESE, Tim Horton’s The Away Game, Reese’s Pieces Peanut Extra Terrestrial Sampling Program, Reese’s Pieces Peanut in a Peanut, the

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UM brought home nine accolades from the prestigious Canadian Marketing Awards, or CMAs. The agency won 4 Golds, 1 Silver, and 3 Bronzes for their work on Oh Henry!, Motrin, Sobeys, Tim Hortons, and the Canadian Down Syndrome Society. Most notably, the agency won Facebook’s Mobile Marketing Business Impact award for Sobeys innovative Global First

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UM was honoured to be recognized by winning Media Campaign of the Year for Oh Henry! 4:25 and Silver for Media Agency of the Year at Strategy’s 2019 Agency of the Year Awards. Read below for the full article with UM’s President, Shelley Smit. Many agencies would say they’re client-focused. But when Shelley Smit says

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In the inaugural Canadian edition of the YouTube Works awards show, recognizing the most effective advertising content on YouTube, UM’s unstoppable Oh Henry! 4:25 won “Best Integrated Campaign” for their video content tied to the chocolate bar made exclusively for those who get the munchies just after 4:20. Winners were chosen by a jury of

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The Global SABRE Awards named UM’s Oh Henry! 4:25 campaign among the “Top Ten Best in the World” for 2019. The campaign was a rarity for the top ten, which is almost exclusively populated with social good and cause-related campaigns.



The team at UM are thrilled to see our clients’ campaigns take home 7 trophies at the 2019 Strategy Awards for our work on: Reece’s Pieces Peanut: A Free Sample for Extraterrestrials Canadian Down Syndrome Society: Endangered Syndrome Oh Henry!: 4:25 Tim Horton’s: The Away Game Johnson & Johnson (Motrin): Tina’s Uterus


UM took home its first-ever Entertainment Lions Grand Prix win for “5B,” the documentary film celebrating the heroic nurses who established San Francisco’s first HIV ward. Commissioned by Johnson & Johnson and executive produced by UM Studios, the film received the Grand Prix for “Entertainment Lions—Non-fiction Film Over 30 Min.” It also won Gold for

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