2023 Winners


Congratulations to all our 2023 UK Social Media Awards Winners! Be sure to celebrate your success by posting your finalist assets, and using #UKSocialMediaAwards Winners Assets

BEST USE OF INSTAGRAM

Winner: Goodstuff & Ella’s Kitchen – Eat Play Love: Food Time Stories Silver: StrategiQ & CAROL Bike – Turning customers into a community

BEST USE OF YOUTUBE

Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe and Little Dot Sport – Eurosport Youtube Channel

BEST USE OF X, FORMERLY KNOWN AS TWITTER

Winner: Heineken & Twitter Next – Strongbow #TamaGOATchi Silver: SocialChain & KFC UK&I – World Cup 2022

BEST USE OF SNAPCHAT

Havas Media Manchester & BBC – Leveraging Snapchat to Bring Freeze the Fear To Life

BEST USE OF LINKEDIN

StrategiQ & Beta Lucca – Rise Of The Multi

BEST USE OF FACEBOOK

ROAST & Kate Barton

BEST USE OF TIKTOK

Spinnaker London & Sony Pictures Releasing UK – Matilda’s Musical TikTok Revolt

BEST AUDIENCE ENGAGEMENT CAMPAIGN

Winner: StrategiQ & CAROL Bike – Turning customers into a community Silver: Heineken & Twitter Next – Strongbow #TamaGOATchi

BEST SOCIAL INFLUENCER CAMPAIGN

Winner: Purple Goat & Currys – Currys Tech Hacks Silver: SEEN Connects & Tommee Tippee – The Truth Is

BEST USE OF RESEARCH & EVALUATION

Carat UK & Wickes – #DIYIsGoodForYou

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN A CRISIS

Mindshare UK & Yorkshire Building Society – Empowering Families through Savings in Times of Crisis and Recession

MOST IMPACTFUL SOCIAL MEDIA INNOVATION

VCCP & Virgin Media – Catch The Virgin Media Cow

BEST LOW BUDGET CAMPAIGN

Mischief & Women’s Aid – He’s Coming Home

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR ENTERTAINMENT

IJPR Media & Bad Wolf – His Dark Materials Season 3

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR RETAIL

Heineken & Twitter Next – Strongbow #TamaGOATchi

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR FINANCE

Equator & The Mortgage Lender – Integrated LinkedIn Campaign

BEST USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR FMCG

We Are Social & McCain – Anything Goes

BEST CHARITY / NOT FOR PROFIT CAMPAIGN

Mischief & Women’s Aid – He’s Coming Home

BEST LONG-TERM STRATEGIC USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Mustard Media – How we disrupted the market with a brand new bingo rave. Brand strategy and creative direction. In collaboration with Fabric Social – Social media campaigns and creative, and branding

BEST INTEGRATED CAMPAIGN

Mosquito Digital & Astonish Cleaners – That Clean Feeling

BEST USE OF PAID SOCIAL

Winner: Anicca Digital & Books2Door – Meta CAPI triggers book-sale bonanza Silver: Extreme & Henry – say hello to Henry Quick

BEST DIRECT RESPONSE SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGN

The Social Shepherd & Passenger – Green Friday

BEST SOCIAL MEDIA TOOL

Performics – Understanding Competitors with Social Intelligence

MARK HANSON AWARD (RISING STAR)

Evie Clifton & Mindshare UK – Rising to the Top

BEST IN-HOUSE TEAM

NatWest Group Social Media Team

BEST IN-AGENCY TEAM

The LBG OneTeam at Zenith

BEST START-UP AGENCY

Antler Social

BEST SMALL AGENCY

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Naturally Social

BEST LARGE AGENCY

The Social Shepherd