Corporate and Business Public Relations

This award is for projects or programmes that aim to enhance corporate and business reputation with some or all stakeholders. Measurement of success will be closely related to achieving both business and programme/project objectives.

Community Relations and Engagement

This award recognises projects or programmes that improve or establish mutually beneficial relationships with communities in which the organisation operates. It may demonstrate an organisation’s commitment and determination to fulfil its social responsibilities.

Government Relations and Public Affairs

This award showcases campaigns or programmes designed to influence or inform public policy and political affairs. Your entry may include tactics on how your organisation/client effectively approached core matters and interacted with government, legislators and interest groups.

Internal Communications

This award is for a programme targeted at employee stakeholders that may, for example, support change, management initiatives, organisational goals, or internal culture. While other audiences may be involved, the primary focus must be on internal stakeholders.

Issues, Crisis or Reputation Management

This award highlights projects that utilise effective communication in situations where issues, crisis or reputation need to be proactively managed. Your entry may shine a light on how your organisation/client devises well-rounded strategies to respond to pressing challenges and recover reputation.

Marketing Communication

This award celebrates insightful and comprehensive projects that have successfully promoted a cause, product, brand or service. It may incorporate a range of internal or external activities, channels and strategies to influence perceptions and drive behaviours.

Experiential and Activation

This award recognises experiential and activation work that is either the centre of a campaign or in support of a wider public relations project. Your work may have an internal or external focus that features in-person or virtual participatory activities to deliver phenomenal results.

Best Use of Media Relations

This award showcases projects, events or ongoing programmes that meet business objectives through the creative use of media relations. It may demonstrate your adaptability to convey authentic and powerful messages in the evolving media landscape.

Best Use of Digital and Social Media

This award is for campaigns or projects that cleverly engage with the target audiences using social media platforms or other digital tools. Your entry may entail your approach to capture imagination and attract favourable attention.

PR Consultancy of the Year – Small to Medium (1-7 Employees) 

This award celebrates professionalism, agency culture, commercial success, as well as impact and innovation.

PR Consultancy of the Year – Large (7+ Employees) 

This award celebrates professionalism, agency culture, commercial success, as well as impact and innovation.

PR In-house Team of the Year

This award honours professionalism, organisational and team culture, the contribution of the team’s work to the organisation’s overall success, as well as impact and innovation.

Sally Logan-Milne Young Practitioner of the Year

This award is to recognise outstanding young practitioners (30 years of age or under as of 31 December 2024) who are committed to the profession and have demonstrated the value of public relations in their careers.

The judges are looking for practitioners who are purposeful in how they are engaging in their work, and who through that sense of purpose are improving and enhancing the reputation of our profession. Judges will holistically assess whether you think critically about projects and your practice, are growing as a professional, are thinking strategically about the practice of public relations, and are able to communicate effectively and persuasively.  

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Isentia Prize for Excellence in Research, Measurement and Evaluation

All finalists in the project/campaign categories are eligible for the ‘Prize for Excellence in Research, Measurement and Evaluation’. The judges will be looking for outstanding research that led to the development of an outstanding project/campaign; insightful measurement and analysis of project/campaign success against stated objectives, as well as evidence of critical evaluation on the execution of the campaign or project. Context will be considered. The final judge for this category will be Ngaire Crawford from Isentia. The Prize comprises complimentary attendance on a PRINZ CPD short course for up to five PRINZ members named on the PRINZ Awards entry.

Supreme Award

Winners of all categories (except PR Consultancy of the Year, PR In-house Team of the Year, and Sally Logan-Milne Young Practitioner of the Year) are eligible for the coveted ‘Supreme Award’. Supreme Award winner will be announced at the 2024 PRINZ Awards Gala Dinner.