Marketing Excellence Awards
AMAOKC Award Winners
Each year AMAOKC awards the best and brightest in the Oklahoma marketing industry by giving individual recognition to those that set themselves apart from the crowd. These award winners are nominated by their peers, judged by AMAOKC’s Board of Advisors, and awarded based on merit.
Thanks to our game-changing partners at Coin Creative for the 2023 MEA branding and creative!
Award Winners
Marketing Campaigns
Cause Marketing
- Awards of Excellence:
- Candor PR for Empowering Reproductive Health Access: The Oklahoma Morning-After Pill Campaign
- Freestyle Creative for Oklahoma State Department of Health – Take Time
- MidFirst Bank for their Pink Card Campaign
- MidFirst Bank for MidFirst Bank Financial Education
- Awards of Merit
- Smirk New Media for Oklahoma Bar Association Law Day 2023
- Candor for Care for Kids: Bridging Oklahoma’s Child Care Professional Gap
Digital Campaign
- Awards of Excellence:
- Siren Media for Bison Blinds Digital
- Smirk New Media for BancFirst
- Smirk New Media for League of Women Voters of Oklahoma Grab Your Future by the Ballot Digital Campaign
- VI Marketing & Branding for the Horizon Teacher Recruitment Campaign
- Awards of Merit
- Candor for Care for Kids: Bridging Oklahoma’s Child Care Professional Gap.
Campaigns: Large Budget
- Awards of Excellence:
- VI Marketing & Branding and the Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust for Tabacco Stops with me, Shapeshifter Campaign
Campaigns: Small Budget
- Awards of Excellence
- Coin Creative for Express Employment Professionals – the Fire Within: Marketing Campaign
- VI Marketing & Branding for the Cinco de Mayo Empanada Campaign
- Awards of Merit
- Freestyle Creative for Ortho STAT – Broken and Almost Broken Both Suck
- Smirk New Media for the TripShip Launch Campaign
Brand Launch/New Brand
- Awards of Merit
- Coin Creative for the Oklahoma City Museum of Art — Rodin & The Age of Impressionism
Rebrand Campaigns
- Awards of Excellence
- Coin Creative for The Coffee Gallery Rebrand
- Siren Media for the Virtue Tattoo Rebrand
- Awards of Merit
- Coin Creative & Sam Washburn for the whyHR Rebrand
- Siren Media for the Bison Blinds Rebrand
Tactics and Marketing Insights
Quantitative Research
- Awards of Excellence:
- Evolve Research & VI Marketing and Branding for Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline Animatic Testing
- Awards of Merit
- Evolve Research & VI Marketing and Branding for Shape Your Future Animatic Testing
- Evolve Research & VI Marketing and Branding for Tobacco Stops with me Animatic Testing
Hybrid Research
- Awards of Excellence:
- Evolve Research & Freestyle Creative for OSDH Take Time OK
- Evolve Research & Schnake Turnbo Frank for OSU in the Tulsa Community
Direct Mail
- Awards of Merit:
- Coin Creative for OKCMOA – Renaissance Ball 2023
Landing Page
- Awards of Excellence
- VI Marketing & Branding for Tobacco Stops with Me: Shapeshifter Campaign
Logo Design
- Awards of Excellence
- Coin Creative for the Wiggy Cotton Logo
Outdoor Advertising
- Awards of Merit
- Freestyle Creative for Otho STAT – Broken and Almost Broken Both Suck
Print Collateral
- Awards of Excellence:
- Coin Creative for Curbside Chronicle: Illustrations
- Toast Design Studio for the Wings 2022 Annual Report
- VI Marketing and Branding for the Route 66 Passport.
- Awards of Merit
- Freestyle Creative for the Oklahoma State Department of Health – Take Time
Product Packaging
- Awards of Excellence:
- Coin Creative for The Coffee Gallery
- Awards of Merit
- Coin Creative for Express Employment Professionals – The Fire Within
- Toast Design Studio for Saving Grace Wine Bottle
Promotional Product
- Awards of Excellence:
- Coin Creative for Express Employment Professionals – The Fire Within
SEM
- Awards of Excellence:
- Siren Media for Virtue Tattoo
SEO
- Awards of Merit:
- Smirk New Media for Smirk SEO Strategy
Social Media
- Awards of Excellence:
- Anglin PR for League of Women Voters Oklahoma
- Candor and Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon for Memorial Marathon Milestones
- VI Marketing and Branding forShape Your Future: Classroom Worksheets
- Awards of Merit
- Freestyle Creative for Norman Regional Health System – Our Community, Stronger
- MidFirst Bank for MidFirst Bank Summer-Fall Family Fun Giveaways
- Siren Media for Bison Blinds Social Media
- Smirk New Media for TripShip
Video – Short Form
- Awards of Merit:
- Coin Creative for EightTwenty Solar – Day In, Day Out
- Freestyle Creative for Oklahoma State Department of Health – Take Time
- Smirk New Media for BancFirst
Video – Long Form
- Awards of Excellence:
- Candor for Something for Everyone: Telling the Story of the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon
Video – Series
- Awards of Excellence:
- Candor for Lights, Camera, Impact: Candor’s Cinematic Approach to Child Care Recruitment
Website Design/Redesign
- Awards of Excellence:
- Siren Media for Virtue Tattoo
- Smirk New Media for Core4 Brewing
- Awards of Merit
- Smirk New Media for Equality South
Individual Awards
Young Pro
- Deleanie Moriello
Lifetime Achievement
- Dr. W. Chris Hudson
Marketer of the Year
- Mike Koehler
Volunteer of the Year
- Brinkley Acord
- Sara Graybill
Best of Show
- Candor for their Cause Marketing Campaign – Empowering Reproductive Health Access: The Oklahoma Morning-After Pill Campaign
- 2022: Nicole Smith
- 2021: Matt Morgan
- 2020: Kristen Southerland & Matt Farley
- 2019: Ann E Freeman & Bridget Rosebeary
- 2018: Michael Smith & Shannon Carr
- 2017: Jennifer Shrewsbury
- 2016: Caroyln Kelly