Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney’s Penny the Pirate has won 4 more awards – this time at The Global Awards for the World’s Best Healthcare & Wellness Advertising.
The 2015 Global Awards Grand Jury and Executive Jury gave out 1 Grand Global Award, 38 Global Awards and 112 Finalist Certificates to agencies in 18 countries.
Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney, Saatchi & Saatchi Health Sydney, Showpony Advertising, and H&T Melbourne won 7 Global Awards between them.
Australia won another 12 Finalist Certificates.
Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney led the Aussie agencies with its 4 Global Awards for Penny the Pirate, for Luxottica / OPSM in Educational Awareness; Integrated Campaigns; Direct Mail; and Mobile Media.
Saatchi & Saatchi Health Sydney won a Global Award for Noodle Critter for Vivaxim/Vaccine Awareness. It also won 4 Finalist Certificates – 2 for Noodle Critter and 2 for In the Dark for client Schizophrenia Awareness/Janssen.
Showpony Advertising won 1 Global Award and 1 Finalist Certificate for Hands Off Our Ambos for SA Health.
H&T Melbourne (The Healthy Thinking Group) won 1 Global Award and 1 Finalist Certificate for Australia’s Top Foot Model for SolvEasy tinea cream.
Australia’s other Finalists Certificates went to:
Affinity for Kissably Clean for Prozym
- DDB Remedy Sydney for Isentress – Too important to change for Isentress
- Droga5 for Game To Quit for Nicabate
- GHG Australia for Blood bag for Advantix Tick Protection
- Ogilvy CommonHealth for Trapped for Suboxone.
McCann Health is Healthcare Agency Network of the Year for the 4th year running.
The network won 4 Global Awards and 19 Finalist Certificates:
- McCann Health South Africa won 2 Global Awards and 4 Finalist Certificates
- McCann Health Japan won 1 Global Award and 5 Finalist Certificates
- McCann Echo North America won 1 Global Award and 2 Finalist Certificates.
McCann Health’s other Finalist Certificates went to:
- McCann Health India
- McCann Health Dubai
- McCann Health London
- McCann Health Shanghai
- McCann Torre Lazur
- McCann HumanCare, USA.
Jeremy Perrott, global chief creative officer, McCann Health, noted, “The Global Health Awards represent what our industry strives for – innovative thinking, diligence, passion, and commitment to creativity as both skill and art. Winning the Global’s Healthcare Agency Network of the Year Award for the fourth consecutive time would not have been possible without our talented teams and our clients’ terrific support and belief in our work around the world.”
Langland, United Kingdom won the 2015 Global Health Agency of the Year Award, with 6 Global Awards and 7 Finalist Certificates.
Downtown Partners USA won the 2015 Grand Global Award – Integrated Campaigns for The Luck Plan for Get Covered Illinois – Illinois Health Insurance Marketplace. The campaign targeted millennials and encouraged them to take notice and sign up for health insurance through Obamacare.
View the complete 2015 winners showcase here.
Australia’s Global Awards ceremony was held at the X Studio in Sydney. The ceremony was hosted by the Global Awards and Bravo!, a group of Australian healthcare agencies and the Communications Council of Australia.









