Celebrating more than 30 years of creative excellence, Med Ad News honors the best in pharmaceutical and healthcare advertising at the annual Manny Awards ceremony April 2022
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For three decades, the Manny Awards have paid tribute to the creative work of agencies serving the healthcare market, their people, and their contributions to the industry. Each year at this gala awards ceremony, Med Ad News and agency professionals come together to acknowledge those making significant contributions to, and celebrate creative excellence in, healthcare communications. On this special evening, more than six hundred industry peers will join Med Ad News in honoring winners in a range of award categories.
Award categories are separated into those voted on by industry peers, nominated by industry peers, and selected by the editors of Med Ad News.
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Judging Process
Each year, Med Ad News Manny Awards categories are judged exclusively by the managing executives(s) and head creative director(s) from each participating healthcare communications agency. Independent to the rest of the awards program, Med Ad News editors vote on the Agency of the Year category awards.
More than 200 agency executives are eligible to review and vote. The judging process takes place in March. At this time, Med Ad News posts category submissions and samples from all of healthcare communications agencies on a specially created Judging Website. Judges will individually review and vote on these submissions via our online judging website. All individual votes remain confidential.
In addition, voters are invited to submit nominations for Industry Person of the Year and Best Launch Campaign of the Year.
In 2016, a second level of voting was introduced, conducted by a carefully vetted jury of industry experts. Finalists in each category, determined by the initial online voting process, will be reviewed in detail by our judging panel. Each finalist campaign will be assigned a “MedAdvocate”, an unbiased representative asked to present the outstanding components of that finalist campaign and to inspire a dialogue surrounding that submission.
This process will be repeated for each category finalist, for each creative category. Following the panel’s discussion, our Jury will be asked to cast their blind ballots for our winning campaign.
Industry Person of the Year and Best Launch Campaign of the Year are reviewed and determined by Med Ad News staff based on agency nominations. Remaining categories, including Agency of the Year winners and finalists in Category I, II, III and the Heart Award and Vision Award are decided by Med AD News staff based on profile submissions and subsequent research and review.
Each Manny Awards category has one winner and it is revealed in the Med Ad News April issue and at the Med Ad News Manny Awards ceremony in New York City.
If you would like to be included as a judge:
Submit the name, job title, and e-mail address of the agency representatives whom will be judging to [email protected]. Eligible judges include: managing executives(s) and head creative director(s) from each participating healthcare communications agency.
2020 Manny Awards / Categories
Leading pharmaceutical business and marketing publication Med Ad News announces the nominees for the 32nd Annual Manny Awards, recognizing the best in healthcare advertising and communications. The 2021 Manny Awards ceremony will be held virtually on Thursday, April 22. Klick Health CEO Lori Grant is being honored as the 2021 Industry Person of the Year.
Laura Mizrahi is one of the few truly ambidextrous people in the healthcare communications industry. Yes, she can literally write, eat, play tennis, bat, and throw with both hands. But equally rare is her ability to create compelling campaigns that drive growth for both the HCP and DTC sides of our business. At FCB Health Laura leads teams focused on Women’s Health, Rare Disease, Gastroenterology, Oncology, Neurology and Dermatology.
The 32nd Annual Manny Awards, to be held virtually on April 22, 2021, features nearly 30 award categories. Sixteen creative award categories were voted on by leading creative talent throughout the healthcare communications industry via an online forum, with three finalists selected in each category. To help determine the winners, a second level of voting conducted by a carefully vetted jury of industry experts is being conducted by a select judging panel. The “MedAdvocate” jury, which is gathering virtually on March 18, consists of unbiased representatives who analyze the outstanding components of each finalist creative award campaign as part of an inspiring dialogue.