First UK agency wins Best in World award

Space, one of the UK's leading integrated marketing agencies, flew the flag for Britain at the Marketing Agencies Association Worldwide Globe Awards by winning the Grand Prix.

At the MGM Grand Conference Center in Las Vegas, space won the overall 'Best in the World' Grand Prix Award - the award that celebrates the very best promotional marketing campaign in the world.

It is the first time that a UK agency has won the prestigious Grand Prix.

Furthermore, space won an unprecedented five individual category awards for its Eurostar Quest campaign, which exploited Eurostar's partnership with the global release of the Da Vinci Code film last year.

The individual category awards it won were as follows.

* Gold for Best Sponsorship Campaign.

* Silver for Best Digital Communications Campaign.

* Silver for Best Integrated Campaign.

* Silver for Best Tie-In Campaign.

* Bronze for Best Awareness and Trial Campaign.

But The Eurostar Quest is no stranger to success since it has already helped space to win over 20 leading awards from around the world, including the 2007 ISP Grand Prix.

David Atkinson, Managing Partner at space, said: "To win five category awards at such a prestigious and globally recognised awards is outstanding - especially for an agency that's been around for only four years, but to scoop the Grand Prix, something that no UK agency has done to date, is a fitting tribute to both the exceptional team we have at the agency and to a client who had the bravery, confidence and foresight to challenge convention and work with us to establish a new set of rules when it comes to partnership marketing on this scale".

The MAAW Globe Gala Awards recognise the very best marketing campaigns from around the world.

Each year the MAAW receives over 1,200 entries from 25 national marketing award programmes, which are judged by a panel of senior level international marketing and agency professionals.

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