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The winners of the 2026 East Anglian Marketing Awards represent the very best of marketing talent, creativity and achievement across the region.
Following a rigorous judging process, one winner has been selected in each category from our outstanding finalists. The winners were announced at our ceremony at Epic Studios on Friday 11th September. These are the individuals, teams and businesses who have impressed our judges and earned the highest accolade in their category.
Congratulations to all of our winners – and to every finalist and entrant who made the 2026 awards such a celebration of East Anglia’s brilliant marketing community.
Discover our 2026 winners below.
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Individual Awards
What they celebrate: The person – their behaviour, values, mindset, and impact on others.
Analogy: You’re recognising the athlete, not the race they won.
Leader of the Year
Sponsored by Image Experiential
This award celebrates the person at the helm – the marketing leader who sets vision, drives strategy, and inspires the people around them to do their best work. They’re not just managing campaigns, they’re shaping culture, building teams, and raising the bar for what marketing leadership looks like in East Anglia.
Lucy Black
SNAP
Excerpt from nomination:
Lucy Black is an exceptional marketing leader because she combines strategic clarity, commercial accountability and people-first leadership in a way that has fundamentally transformed marketing at SNAP.
What differentiates Lucy from many senior leaders is her ability to combine vision with action, setting ambitious strategic direction while actively building what’s required to achieve it.
Rising Star of the Year
Sponsored by Bray Leino
This award shines a spotlight on the newcomers already making their mark. The Rising Star is someone in their first three years of a marketing career who’s showing bold ideas, fresh thinking, and real potential to go far. They’re the ones you notice straight away – full of energy, creativity, and impact beyond their experience.
Amrita Kaur Singh
University of East Anglia
Excerpt from nomination:
Joining UEA’s Strategic Marketing team as a Marketing Assistant in April 2024, after completing her Film and Television degrees, she quickly moved beyond the expectations of an entry-level role.
Within her first months in the role, she demonstrated the capability and confidence to take on complex, high-visibility work.
Freelancer of the Year
Sponsored by Ginger Pickle
This award celebrates the independent marketers carving out their own path. Whether they’re a one-person powerhouse or a specialist collaborator, this is for the freelancers delivering brilliant results, building client trust, and proving that working solo can be just as impactful as working in-house or in an agency.
Will George
Rolling Wave Media
Excerpt from nomination:
Since becoming a freelancer in 2022, Will has had one goal, and that is to help businesses and brands grow through visual storytelling and video production, primarily for social media and it has allowed him to work with clients in Norwich, the U.K and even worldwide. Since day one, Will has always put an emphasis on storytelling through his work.
Role Model of the Year
Sponsored by Ask Stephen
Celebrating someone of any career stage or seniority who leads by example. This award celebrates an individual whose actions, attitude, and achievements inspire those around them – raising the bar for what great marketing leadership looks like. They’re not just good at what they do, they make others better too.
Chloe Samways
Norwich Business Improvement District
Excerpt from nomination:
Chloe is a role model because of how consistently she lives her values – with integrity, energy and an unwavering commitment to others. She is kind, honest and deeply conscientious, bringing a level of care to her work and relationships that has earned genuine respect across Norwich’s marketing and business community.
Outstanding Contribution to Marketing
Sponsored by The Marketing Meetup
This award recognises an individual whose career has left a lasting mark on marketing in East Anglia. They might be a pioneer who’s raised the profile of our region, a mentor who’s championed and inspired others, or a leader whose ideas and innovations have changed the way marketing is done. It’s not about a single campaign – it’s about the impact of their journey, and the legacy they’re creating for the industry and community around them.
Stokely Howard
Trendy Grandad
Excerpt from nomination:
Stokely deserves recognition for his contribution to marketing in East Anglia because he has built a globally respected creative agency from Norwich roots – proving that world-class marketing does not need to originate from traditional industry hubs. What makes his contribution exceptional is not just growth, but where that growth began.
Work Awards
What they celebrate: A defined marketing output – campaign, rebrand, strategy, or creative execution.
Analogy: You’re recognising the race result – strategy, execution, and outcome.
Excellence in Branding
Sponsored by Brandland
For a bold, distinctive, and consistent brand identity or rebrand. This award celebrates work that nails the balance between strategy and creativity, delivering a brand presence that is both authentic and unforgettable.
TaxAssist Accountants rebrand
by krow Group for TaxAssist Accountants
Excerpt from nomination:
The TaxAssist Accountants rebrand (2024–ongoing) is a strategically driven transformation designed to realign one of the UK’s most recognisable high street accountancy brands with the scale, sophistication and ambition of its modern service offering.
Excellence in Storytelling
Sponsored by Select Recruitment
For content or narratives that connect, engage, and leave a lasting impression. This award recognises the marketing that isn’t always measurable – the power of great storytelling to inspire action, build loyalty, and make marketing memorable.
Driving Conversations
by SNAP
Excerpt from nomination:
Driving Conversations is a documentary-style video series that brings raw, human stories to the forefront of the mobility and transport industry. In a sector not often associated with emotion or storytelling, this campaign challenges expectations by uncovering the voices, experiences and realities that too often go unheard.
Excellence in Creative Production
Sponsored by SNAP
For imaginative, eye-catching visual work that elevates marketing. This category celebrates outstanding production across photography, video, animation, design, or mixed media that brings ideas to life and makes audiences stop, look, and feel.
Protect & Lubricate
by SubMotion Productions for WD-40 (spec)
Excerpt from nomination:
This is a short 1 minute spec ad for global household brand – WD-40. An experiment to test, and hopefully prove, that narrative comedy has a place in short form content, whilst also delivering a lasting brand message. With over 50 millions view globally, it seems it can, and it does! Think Pot-Noodle meets Shameless.
Excellence in Innovation
Sponsored by Unmatched
For fresh thinking, bold ideas, or creative risks that push marketing forward. This category celebrates innovation in strategy, execution, or use of technology that challenges conventions and sets new standards.
Tough on Performance. Kinder on the Planet. The Lignacite ECO Range
by Lignacite
Excerpt from nomination:
Cutting Carbon, not corners. A game changer for the construction industry – from Suffolk. Eco-Friendly. High-Performance. One Smart Block. Lignacite’s next-generation concrete block combines 70% recycled content with excellent technical performance.
Excellence in Performance
Sponsored by Pollard Media
For campaigns that delivered measurable results and can prove it. This award recognises the work where strategy, creativity, and execution came together to achieve clear, demonstrable success.
Dunlop Sport – ATP Tour PPC Campaign with Jack Draper
by Footprint Digital for Dunlop Sport
Excerpt from nomination:
The Dunlop Sport ATP Tour campaign with Jack Draper was conceived as a globally coordinated paid media initiative designed to capitalise on peak interest in professional tennis and translate that attention into measurable digital performance.
Grand Prix
Sponsored by Digital Bridge Skills
This is the big one. The Grand Prix is our overall award, chosen from all the category winners. Every winning campaign is automatically entered, and from there our judges select the single standout – the work that rises above the rest.
While the individual categories compare like-for-like, the Grand Prix crowns the very best of the best: the campaign that defines East Anglian marketing at its most brilliant.
Tough on Performance. Kinder on the Planet. The Lignacite ECO Range
by Lignacite
Excerpt from nomination:
Cutting Carbon, not corners. A game changer for the construction industry – from Suffolk. Eco-Friendly. High-Performance. One Smart Block. Lignacite’s next-generation concrete block combines 70% recycled content with excellent technical performance.
Business Awards
What they celebrate: The people behind the work – how they function as a team and what makes their way of working exceptional.
Analogy: You’re recognising the relay team – how they supported each other and passed the baton, not just the finishing position.
In-House Team of the Year
Sponsored by Pivotal
For in-house marketing teams making a big impact from the inside. This award celebrates teams who deliver exceptional results for their organisation, show creative and strategic thinking, and work together brilliantly to raise the bar for in-house marketing.
UEA (University of East Anglia)
The Marketing Team
Excerpt from nomination:
Our marketing team is 36 strong, split into Digital & Marketing Automation, Strategic and Corporate teams. In a team this size, splitting into silos is a significant risk. On the flipside, a university the size of UEA, which operates rather like a small town with many competing organisations within it, can breed over-collaboration and risk-aversion. We trust each other to deliver.
Creative Agency of the Year
Sponsored by Signs Express
For creative agencies producing exceptional work with originality and flair. This award celebrates agencies that consistently deliver standout ideas that solve problems, capture attention, and deliver results for their clients.
Nu Image
Excerpt from nomination:
We showcase our values consistently across our client delivery and, importantly, within our team. We work in partnership with our clients as trusted advisors, cheerleaders and troubleshooters, focused on increasing return on investment and amplifying their businesses. Our team understands that success is not measured by vanity metrics, but by tangible outcomes.
Marketing Agency of the Year
Sponsored by Swarm Recruitment
For marketing agencies driving results through smart strategy and execution. This award celebrates agencies who deliver measurable impact for their clients and demonstrate excellence in planning, performance, and partnership.
RevWise
Excerpt from nomination:
Culture isn’t a backdrop to our performance, it’s the engine behind it. Our leadership team has built the agency around a clear principle: take commercial ownership and embed into our clients’ businesses as true growth partners. This mindset is lived daily, not documented. From founders to exec level, there is consistent visibility, open communication and a hunger towards action.
Non-Profit Team of the Year
Sponsored by Zagwear
For marketing teams using their skills to drive social, cultural, or environmental good. This award celebrates non-profit marketing teams who deliver meaningful campaigns, engage communities, and make a measurable difference – often with limited resources.
Break
Excerpt from nomination:
Break’s marketing and communications team truly has a values‑led culture that directly supports the charity’s mission to ensure young people in, around and leaving care receive the love, support and ambition they deserve. The team live Break’s values by working with curiosity and towards positive change, all while building strong relationships internally and with the wider community.
Dates For Your Diary
03.03.27
Nominations Open
05.05.27
Nominations Close
07.07.27
Shortlists Announced
04.08.27
Finalists Announced
September
Celebration Event