What a year it’s been so far!
We’ve weathered the storm and thankfully, we’re all moving into a post-Covid world. While new recommendations and sanctions are in place, and we face new challenges, we’re delighted to see that our clients are thriving – and we’re lucky enough to be a part of it!
We’re proud as punch to work with some of the biggest and best clients from all over the world. We get to research brilliant brands and help make them even better. It’s allowed us to grow our team, expand into new markets, and win lots of snazzy awards.
Of course, none of our success would be possible without our clients. And so, we want to celebrate this!
In doing so, we hope to amplify the work we’ve have done together and create an event where we can all take stock, post-pandemic, ahead of the (hopefully) roaring ’20s.
Introducing The Sparklers 2021
These annual awards will celebrate the importance and ability to innovate, be resilient and inspire change that builds brilliant brands.
As some of you may have come to expect from working with us, these awards are a bit different to your usual research awards. We pride ourselves on being professionally informal, so whilst we can chat to you all day about the most intricate research solutions (and really enjoy it!), we also like to have a bit of fun too!
The categories:
- Best International Project
In the last 12 months the world has become smaller as global events have dominated the news. Research has become even more global too. This award celebrates non-UK or Ireland projects where typically different languages, cultures and consumer attitudes play a role in the project delivery. - Best Sustainability Project
Sustainability is the challenge of our generation and understandably we see a lot of briefs that have sustainability positioning and understanding as a primary objective. This award celebrates the projects with a better, greener, future at their core. - Best Social Project
While the attitude of “keep calm and carry on” was something we all tried to subscribe to in the last 12 months, many brands had to engage with the social impact of coronavirus as well as its consequences. This award puts the spotlight on those brands. - Best Gen Z Project
Gen Z consumers – born between 1995 and 2012, make up a large proportion of consumers and marketing / insight managers. They behave differently to previous generations and this award celebrates the brands that focus on them. - Best B2B Project
What a year for business research?! Many business consumers have been working from home or at least working less in the office. A lot has changed. And it’s unlikely to ever be the same. This award honours the B2B brands who have persevered over the last year. - Best Covid Care Project
We won’t lie – we hope this award is for this year only! It’s specific to those Covid brands and projects that we have undertaken since March 2020.
And last but not least, we will be awarding Bravery In Research Innovation.
Sometimes at Spark we have a great idea for a research method, but perhaps the client is more risk averse, or the timing is just not right. That’s fine – there is always a way. This award celebrates the ones who go for it and get to reap the rewards afterwards.
