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Cheers to the dreamers, the doers, the makers, the risk takers. Here’s to the Best of Us.

The IDEA Awards Gala honors campaigns, agencies, clients, marketers, media partners and individuals that exemplify the best our region has to offer. For the eighth year, we celebrated Southern California’s advertising, marketing and media superstars.

Thank you for supporting your fellow marketing and advertising family by showing up for our premier event of the year. BIG congratulations to all of our finalists, winners, and entries and special thanks to our host, Paul Ollinger, commentators: Jacklyn Uweh and Chris Denson, and our event partners and sponsors who helped us create all of the magic! #ThinkAwards #PowerOfUs

WINNERS

CAMPAIGN ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
COMPANY ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

HALL OF FAME

• Best Video Campaign: Fit “Incredibly Roomy Campaign”, RPA
• Best Branded Content/Storytelling Campaign: Shadow of War Campaign – “A Dork and His Orc Roommate”, Chive Media Group
• Best Visual Campaign: LA Original, 72andSunny
• Best Social Campaign: Xbox Holiday Sweater Campaign, Bradley and Montgomery (BaM)
• Best Social Campaign: DreamWorks Trolls Meets Musical.ly, The QYOU
• Best Cause Marketing Campaign: Imaginary Friends Society, RPA
• Best Experiential Campaign: HP and Intel Festivalization - Coachella and Panorama, Infinity Marketing Team
• Best Mobile Campaign: “UnBULLievably Entertaining” - 20th Century Fox International Theatrical: Ferdinand x Tapjoy, Vizeum Global
• ThinkLA Innovator: Stranger Things + Snapchat’s AR Portal Lens, Snapchat
• Campaign of the Year: Her Story is Our Story - The Laws of Gilead, UM

• Client of the Year: Susie Rossick, Honda Automotive Marketing, RPA
• Agency Person of the Year: Jared Blitz, Advantage
• Salesperson of the Year: Sean Booker, Conversant Media

• Silicon Beach Startup of the Year: Gimbal
• Partner of the Year: Spotify
• Boutique Agency of the Year: Battery
• Media/Full Service Agency of the Year: Assembly Media

• RPA