Australia picks up 12 Gold, 11 Silver and 20 Bronze at the 2018 Clio Awards – Host/Havas and BWM Dentsu most awarded Aussie agencies

The Clio Awards, the esteemed international advertising, design and communications competition, has announced the Gold, Silver and Bronze winners for 2018.

Australia has secured 12 Gold statues, 11 Silver statues and 20 Bronze. Host/Havas has secured the most metal with its highly-awarded ‘Palau Pledge’ campaign for Palau Legacy Project picking up five Gold and three Silver, along with its Fund for Peace ‘The Bottom 100’ campaign picking up a Bronze.

BWM Dentsu has also had an impressive haul. The agency’s The ALS Association ‘Project Revoice’ work has secured four Gold and five Bronze and it also picked up another Bronze for Qantas ‘The Passport Take-off’.

CHE Proximity was the only other Australian agency to score Gold; the agency won three Gold statues, one Silver and two Bronze for Carsales.com.au ‘AutoAds’, plus another Silver for Cochlear ‘Hearprint’.

Production company Alt.VFX has been awarded two Silver statues for Tile ‘Lost Panda’.

Australian agencies scoring one Silver statue apiece include Y&R Brisbane for QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute ‘Sandcastle Cemetery’; Tricky Jigsaw/M&C Saatchi Group for NRMA ‘Fireblanket’; Y&R Melbourne for Monash University ‘Sip Safe’ and VML Sydney for Unicef ‘The HopePage’.

Leo Burnett Melbourne scored three Bronze, two for Australian Marriage Equality ‘For Every Bachelor and Bachelorette’ and one for Honda ‘Centre of Everything’. whiteGREY also scored three Bronze for David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust ‘Hello In Elephant’.

Clemenger BBDO Melbourne scored two Bronze for Airbnb ‘Until We All Belong’.

Australian agencies and production companies scoring one Bronze each include Rumble Studios for UN Women ‘Leave no Women Behind’; Passion Pictures Melbourne for JD.com ‘Joy Story: Joy & Heron’ and TKT Sydney for V Energy Drink ‘Wasteland With a V’.

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