RAEAWARDS 2021 - celebrating research effectiveness across our diverse industry

A fantastic night of celebration took place last Friday 9th April at FISH at the Hilton, Auckland.

This year we celebrated 21 years of the effectiveness awards, with the inaugural awards being held in 2000 and every two years since. After the postponement of this celebration from last year RANZ opted for a new format cocktail event with plenty of glamour on show from the sold-out crowd. We were delighted to receive an almost record number of 54 entries across 10 categories, including 4 inaugural awards. The judges agreed that the standard of entries was exceptionally high which often made their task a tough one! So congratulations to all those who put such an effort into entering, and in particular to the very deserved winners. It’s indeed a testament to the insights community that such effective and diverse work is being done.

On the night Te Radar made a welcome re-appearance as MC. He did a great and humorous job of keeping the energetic and talkative crowd under control (well almost!). Dust Palace added a further dimension with their creative and often impossible looking entertainment.

Last but not least we’d like to acknowledge and thank this year’s sponsors for their support, without their generosity RANZ would not be able to hold such events. In addition, a big thank you to our diverse team of esteemed judges (below), and to chief judge John O’Toole for overseeing the judging process. Thanks also to the RANZ team who organised the event (no small task!) especially to Ian Mills and Claire Lloyd for all their time and effort.

GO LIST OF WINNERS

Key Awards

Supreme Award

Innovation Award

Sustained Impact and Effective Partnership Award

Insight Organisation of the Year Award

Insight Communication Award

Young Researcher of the Year Award




Categories

Business to Business

Consumer Products

Consumer Services

Financial Services (new)

Media

Social, Community and Not for Profit

Small Budget (up to $30k) (new)

RAEAWARDS 2021 Judges

John O'Toole (Chief Judge), Brandbiz Ltd.

Emily Blumenthal, Sky NZ

Kay Bramley, Goodman Fielder

Karin Curran, Curran Research Associates

Horst Feldhaeuser, Infotools

Paul Head, Commercial Communications Council

Elaine Koller, PRINZ

Nicola Legge, BNZ

RAEAWARDS 2021 Judges

Prof. Roger Marshall, AUT

Clare O'Higgins, Look Good Feel Better

Rick Osborne, Ramsgate Advisors

Ant Rainger, Rainger & Rolfe

Adi Staite, Bamboo

Jenny Stiles, Graeme Dingle Foundation

Julia van de Coolwijk, Pragmatic Marketing

RAEAWARDS 2021 Judges

Mark Finnegan, Clarity Insight

Jacqueline Smart, Just Jacqs

Simon Lendrum, Cornwall Strategic

Hudson Smales, ThoughtFull Design

Lindy Osborne

Suzie Dale, ASB Bank

Winifred Henderson, Dementia Auckland

Catherine Frethey-Bentham, University of Auckland Business School

Nicholl Oblitas-Costs, IAG

Ian Mills (Young Researcher of the Year and IO/IC)

Susanna Baggaley (IO/IC)


MC - Te Radar

Following his excellent performance as MC at the 2016 RAEAWARDS, we invited satirist, writer and TV personality, Te Radar, to return as MC.

Thank you to our 2021 RAEAWARDS sponsors:










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