mediaReach OMD Ghana Bags Gold & Silver at Pitcher Awards

mediaReach OMD in its quest to produce awarding winning work in Ghana has successful won one Gold and one Silver at the just concluded Pitcher Awards part of Creativity Week 2019 for West & Central Africa held recently in Lagos.

The Pitcher Awards celebrates and recognizes Best in Class work under various categories in the West African region. mediaReach OMD Ghana work stood out in the effective Use of Media category, two executions stood out: Use of Out-of-Home and Use of Radio.

According to a statement by the Managing Director, he commended the team led by Safo Mallet and Michael Jacquaye for the strategic thinking in addressable use of Out-of-Home and the innovative execution of Radio keeping client’s business objectives in view, which positively impacted in the results of the campaign.

“The creativity week also had the Young Lions Media & Young Pitcher Integrated Competition amongst multiple Media Agencies.” The competitions were open to young media professionals representing various Media Agencies. Teams representing various media agencies this year were given a Media Brief as part of Young Lions Media competition and had little over 24 hours to think, create and submit a communication strategy that answers the Media Brief.

Based on the presentations to the Jury, comprising of senior Media Advertising professionals, the winning campaign and team was chosen based on criteria used for the Cannes Young Lions Media – Global competition.

Commenting on the success of mediaReach OMD at the 2019 Creativity week, the Managing Director of mediaReach OMD Ghana, Stephen Onaivi, said: “Our global winning culture cascades into our local markets; for us to be able to win Gold and Silver with our Ghana executions shows how far we have come. We train our talent on an on-going basis with an in-house weekly Media Academy in Q2 and Q3 every year, including regular webinars with our Global team so that they are abreast of latest developments in the industry, get inspired and raise our game.

“We have many local initiatives through which we encourage our people to produce works that deliver on objectives and help overcome business challenges of our Client.” The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is the World’s biggest celebration of creativity in marketing communications. It is also the greatest opportunity of the year for industry professionals to network and learn about brand communications, he explained.