FCS Portfolio Awards Honor the Year’s Best in Financial Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations
NEW YORK (May 10, 2019) – Last night, nearly 500 financial marketing professionals gathered at the Ziegfeld Ballroom for the 25th Anniversary Financial Communications Society (FCS) Portfolio Awards. The black tie gala drew attendees from across the U.S., who came together to celebrate 2018’s most creative financial advertising, collateral, digital media, and public relations efforts.
The top prize, the Judges’ Choice Award, was won by State Street Global Advisors’ “MDY: Crazy Enough To Work” integrated marketing campaign (agency: McCann) The work was selected by a consensus from among the judging panel of 31 industry experts who each nominated their favorite from among 400+ entries.
CORPORATE IMAGE
- Prudential Financial
- Droga5
- Prudential Escape Room at the Fast Company Innovation Festival (Event Marketing)
BUSINESS TO BUSINESS
- State Street Global Advisors
- McCann New York
- “MDY: Crazy Enough to Work” (Web Video)
CONSUMER RETAIL
- Prudential
- In-House
- “Everyday Bravery Podcast: Season 2” (Audio category)
DIGITAL MEDIA
- Bank of America
- GroupeConnect
- “Camp Better Money Habits” (Social Media/Organic)
MULTICULTURAL
- AIG
- CMPG
- “We Believe” Chinese TV Commercial
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
- Goldman Sachs
- Forsman & Bodenfors New York
- “Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Portraits Campaign (TV campaign)
Bank of America, including Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust, led the night with a record-setting 28 awards, including its Best in Show award and 9 Gold trophies. Other big winners were Prudential (14 trophies, 7 Gold), OppenheimerFunds (13 trophies, 1 Gold), and Ally Financial (10 trophies, 4 Gold).
Another 21 firms were winners of multiple trophies, while 26 others received one each.
Download the full list of this year’s winners.
The awards were presented by six financial marketing executives:
- Lauren Boyman, Morgan Stanley
- Andrea Brimmer, Ally Financial
- Dipti Kachru, Chase Wealth Management
- Alison Lazzaro, Prudential Financial
- Brenda Tsai, BNY Mellon
- Damon Webber, Bank of America
The New York Times sponsored the Judges’ Choice Award and hosted the Judges Breakfast in March, where the award was determined;. The Gala opened with a cocktail reception sponsored by Investor’s Business Daily. The dinner was sponsored by Investopedia and the After Party was sponsored by Investing Media Solutions. SmartBrief sponsored the live band, “Hot Sugar,” comprising several FCS Board Directors.
At the Gala, the FCS launched the FCS Portfolio Awards Hall of Fame, naming two inductees: Charles Schwab’s “Talk To Chuck” print campaign (2006) and Mastercard’s “Priceless” television campaign (2003).
The FCS announced its annual FCS Race for Kids donation for 2019, totaling $100,000, which includes a $25,000 donation from Investor’s Business Daily’s private foundation. The donation supports Hope & Heroes Columbia University Medical Center, Downey Side Adoption Agency, and Make A Wish Vermont. Since 2000, the FCS has raised more than $2,600,000 for these three children’s charities.
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About the FCS Portfolio Awards
The Portfolio Awards competition recognizes creative excellence in marketing communications work from financial companies, with Gold, Silver and Bronze trophies awarded for Public Relations; Print & Digital Collateral & Annual Reports; Advertising in print, audio, television, out-of-home, direct mail, and multimedia; Digital Media including display/rich media, email, websites, web video, apps, and mobile; Social Media; Branded Content; and Visual Identity. Winning entries were received from financial services providers, including investment firms, credit card companies, investment banks, brokerages and exchanges, insurance companies, mutual funds, ETFs, hedge funds, accounting firms, clearing corporations and commercial banks.
