Brands2Life nominated for marketing excellence and best places to work awards

Brands2Life has been shortlisted for a trio of awards recognising the high employment standards and the quality of the work it delivers for clients.

Last week, the firm was included as one of the finalists in PRWeek UK's annual Best Places to Work Awards in the large agency category, with the winners to be announced in late February.

This nomination recognised the work Brands2Life has done to provide a welcoming working environment and progressive practices on training, mentoring, pay and maternity/paternity issues, as well as offering generous workplace benefits to staff.

Shortly after this, the agency received two nominations for the Chartered Institute of Marketing's Marketing Excellence Awards, being shortlisted twice in the brand experience category for its work with Appletiser and Virgin Media.

The campaign with Virgin Media, entitled #HighSpeedSelfie, saw more than 4,000 people taking photos of themselves while being blasted with 270 mph winds to visually evoke the experience of the client's ultrafast broadband service.

It generated 226 pieces of coverage, with one-third of stories including a link to Virgin Media's site, where 2,500 people clicked through to register their interest in ultrafast broadband in the first public activation alone.