Awards season continues for our team after another shortlisting, this time for Northern Agency of the Year Award at the CIM Northern Marketing Awards.

The awards, hosted by the Chartered Institute of Marketing, recognise and reward the insight, creativity and success of the northern marketing industry, and aim to raise the profile of marketing in the region and champion professional marketing practices. The awards also take place as part of the International Festival for Business 2014.

The Northern Agency of the Year category looks at the agency as a whole, taking into consideration its objectives, team, recent campaigns, achievements and details of challenges faced and how they were overcome. Eight agencies, including Fantastic Media, Lancashire based agency Contrado Digital and Chester-Le-Street based agency, The Works, have been shortlisted after a high and competitive level of entries were submitted.

The CIM Northern Marketing Awards judges include David Teale, Chief Executive at North of England Excellence, Diane Earles, Network Manager and CIM, and Giovanna Battison, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University.

Andrew Hobson, Managing Director at Fantastic Media commented: