Mumbrella’s PR agency of the year: Edelman
Edelman Australia has undergone something of a renaissance in 2011.
Edelman CEO Michelle Hutton
The arrival of CEO Michelle Hutton in the middle of last year was followed by an intake of strong senior operators including Matthew Gain as head of digital for Australia and Anna MacIntosh as director of consumer marketing.
The agency has kicked on since, and proved itself with work beyond traditional PR, and beyond the areas it is best known for – technology and corporate communications.
Wow!!!! Thanks Mumbrella we are incredibly thrilled and excited at this news. The team here are high fiving and celebrating currently. Champagne is ordered for this afternoon.
Congrats also to Mango and Liquid Ideas. To be amongst such esteemed colleagues and formidable competitors is a true honour.
Fantastic news and congratulations to all my colleagues in Melbourne and Sydney.
Great pick!
Mumbrella i think you should clarify that this award is effectively for Consumer PR agency of the year unless you can confirm that you also evaluated the work of the top Corporate Affairs/Corporate Finance PR firms
Such a great pick! Everyone I know who works at Edelman is hard working, on the ball and an all round great person.
Congratulations Edelman!
Many thanks Mumbrella. We’re very proud and humbled to achieve this recognition. Congratulations to our very talented colleagues in Sydney and Melbourne. Thanks to our clients across Australia who allow us to do great work for them. Congrats to Mango and Liqiud Ideas – they are both great agencies doing great work. WooHoo!
Congratulations to the team at Edelman! Also well done to Mango and Liquid Ideas for the mentions. It is great to see so many PR agencies moving forward from just media relations and publicity into the realms of digital and experiential. We are communicators so it is all about creating those conversations across all different mediums.
Hey Michelle and Simone – big congratulations from all the Zingers!
Congratulations! Well done!
Go Edelman! Cracking news and very well deserved.
Congratulations Edelman! So very proud to have been a part of the Edelman family. Wishing you all the very best for a successful 2012.
Congratulations to all our colleagues at Edelman Australia. This is a great public acknowledgement of what those of us in China have known for quite some time. You are the BEST!
Big congrats to Michelle, Matt, Trevor and the team.
Cheers,
Steve
Congrats Michelle! You just keep going from strength to strength. So happy for you!
Congratulations Michelle and Team! Very well deserved.
H&K Australia was in a class of its own under your leadership. Edelman Australia has taken its place thanks to your hard work.
Karma to WPP & Hill & Knowlton for their poor actions and lack of judgement.
Congratulations Edelman.
Thanks Tim,Robin and the Mumbrella team, this is a great high to end a great year on.
The Mango team are a bunch of super bright, dedicated, creative souls who are a pleasure to come to work with every day. Thank you.
Well done Edelman – it’s great to see a world leading agency brand turn around under Michelle’s leadership. Inspiring stuff.
Go Stuart – you’re a legend, always happy to be on the same list as you.
Great work – good to see Edelman back where she belongs in Aus!
HUGE congrats to Edelman, Mango and Liquid Ideas! Shout outs to Matthew, Simone & Stuart who I’ve had the pleasure of working with over the years, you make the industry proud. Pats on the back to you and your teams from all of us here at Social Diary.
Does anyone know if there is an industry website for PUBLIC RELATIONS?
Something for PR that’s along the lines of Mumbrella / Campaign Brief / B&T / Adnews?
I know Mumbrella out of the others mentioned above has more of a holistic marketing/media/ad & PR foci, but the others are more heavily focused on advertising.
I’m trying to find Agency Rankings for Public Relations!
Where does Porter Novelli rank?
@WannabeHip, you’ll never see a dedicated ‘proper’ PR industry website because there’s too many things the industry doesn’t want journos, activists and the general public to know. Even the established offshore titles like PR Week, O’Dwyers etc are pretty superficial. As for the high stakes, pointy-end of PR – lobbying/campaigning, corporate and public affairs and corporate finance – where the work is the most interesting, challenging and best remunerated…you’ll only read about that in the occassional AFR, SMH/Age, Australian or Crikey article and only because the firms operating in these areas are indulging in a bit of self-promotion. You’ll never read about this stuff on Mumbrella.
@sven Thanks for that info! That’s sad! But I guess kind of understandable? I’m of the opinion that sharing some is the best way to grow, as per what the advertising + periphery comms industry think?!
This article fails to mention the former GM – Alex Kelly who was also instrumental to the success of Edelman in 2011.
Well done Michelle and sim and your teams. As the humble small bronze medallist you two will have to buy me lunch in January, but as tim says you have to let me order the wine… Good on youse all, merry Christmas one and all