Month: December 2017

We’ve made a little Christmas animation just for you – you just know you need to brighten up your day by watching it.

We have really enjoyed working with you in 2017 and look forward to catching up with you again in 2018.

Thank you for helping us do what we love – it is through our work with amazing clients and partners like you that DTW has just been named Outstanding Consultancy in the 2017 CIPR PRide awards – we couldn’t have done it without you so it’s a huge thank you from us.

Have a fantastic Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year.

Don’t forget to put the volume up on your machine!

We’re a little bit chuffed so forgive us if that comes across a bit in this post!

DTW won three golds, including Outstanding Consultancy, and two Silver awards at the CIPR North East Pride awards on Friday.

We’d like to thank everyone at every client and every partner we’ve worked with who has contributed in some way to helping us achieve this – we literally couldn’t have done it without you.

As well as Outstanding Consultancy we picked up Gold awards for Social Media for our work with Bolton Council’s 2016 Food Festival and Integrated Campaign for our road safety project for RSGB North East.

The Silver awards were for our work with the Law Society on their Solicitor Brand campaign and Sunderland City Council on Northern Spire (some of you may know it as New Wear Crossing).

You don’t get to do this without a lot of hard work and effort, mixed with a little creative inspiration every now and then so it’s really satisfying to be recognised in this way.

Tonight is the annual CIPR North East Pride awards.

I’m rather pleased that our team has been shortlisted for ten awards. It’s been a busy, challenging, rewarding and hugely enjoyable year.

Our work on major infrastructure projects like Mersey Gateway and the newly-christened Northern Spire has really been an incredible experience and a privilege for all involved to see some incredible engineering and get involved in projects that change lives and shape communities.

Alongside that we’ve been working some with very clever clients and partners to deliver some great campaigns.

Paul Holmes from The Holmes Report (a man much cleverer than me on these things) said last year that ““The pace of change in public relations has never been faster than it is today, but at the same time, it will likely never be this slow again.”

How right he was, and how terrifying and exciting that concept is. The world is changing and the way we communicate is changing even faster.

Our challenge is to keep up – so if you’re in the industry standing still is not an option. Make sure you read the latest blogs from Wadds and others, get signed up to the CIPR and become part of a truly professional PR community, and never stop learning.

Awards are great, and I hope we win something tonight because the team deserves it, because you only get them through hard work and inspiration.

Well done to everyone who is shortlisted and good luck for this evening.

Thanks for reading

Chris