Creative Y&R team celebrates the APA award.[Photo/HBR]Kenya’s advertising agency, Creative Y&R, won a Grand Prix at the Association of Practitioners in Advertising (APA) awards held in Nairobi.
The agency also won eight other awards.
The Grand prix was won for Mandevu Beard Care campaign which also won accolades at the 2017 Cannes Festival of Creativity and Loeries.
Mandevu is a Kenyan-based company that produces beard care products.
Creative Y&R also won three bronze awards for Qatar Airways’ Sri Lanka tours campaign for Travelshoppe, Eyeris’s spectacle campaign and another for self-promotion for the Relentlessness recruitment ad.
The agency was also awarded craft awards for excellence in art direction and copy writing. Its partner digital media agency, Qube, bagged a silver award in the digital interactive category for their ‘DIY-FI’ social media campaign for Crown Paints.