PARSIPPANY, NJ–(Jul 8, 2015) –  Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide (www.ochww.com), the health behavior change specialists of Ogilvy & Mather (www.ogilvy.com), and a WPP company (NASDAQ: WPPGY) (www.wpp.com), today announced one of the network’s UK-based agencies, Ogilvy HealthPR, achieved double honors at this year’s Communiqué Awards, announced last week in London. Ogilvy HealthPR received an award in the category of Excellence in Digital Communications – Prescription Products/Patient Health and was Highly Commended in the Excellence in Corporate Communications category.

“Our clients continuously challenge us to create innovative and memorable PR campaigns to help them stand out from the crowd,” commented Antonia Betts, Managing Director of Ogilvy HealthPR. “Our success at the Communiqué Awards is yet another recognition of our strategic thinking and careful campaign execution that enables effective healthcare communications across the globe.”

Despite working in a highly regulated industry, Ogilvy HealthPR has been leading the field in the use of social media for healthcare education. Winning the Excellence in Digital Communications Communiqué Award for the fourth time in five years is testament to the agency’s innovative approach to social media and its vital role in integrated multi-stakeholder communications.

Earlier this year, Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide published a new report entitled Connecting the Dots: Which Pharma Companies Are Succeeding in the Social Media Space?, which was the first of its kind to provide insights into which pharma companies are leading the way in integrated social media marketing strategies. To find out more about the report, please visit: http://bit.ly/1P5R5Ws.

About Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide
Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide is committed to creativity and effectiveness in healthcare communications, everywhere. Our global headquarters are in Parsippany, NJ, with additional hubs in New York, London, Paris and Singapore. We maintain multiple additional offices in markets critical to our clients’ global aspirations. Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide provides marketing services including behavioral insights, content strategy and management, digital, interactive and new media services, marketing analytics and research, media planning and buying, medical education, payer marketing and market access, professional advertising and promotion, public affairs and relations, relationship marketing, sales training development, social media and social listening, and wellness and consumer advertising and promotion. The network also offers scientific communications and publications planning services through a wholly owned separate legal entity. The organization houses and maintains individual Ogilvy CommonHealth and Ogilvy Healthworld brand identities within the marketplace.

About WPP
WPP is the world’s largest communications services group with billings of US$76 billion and revenues of US$19 billion. Through its operating companies, the Group provides a comprehensive range of advertising and marketing services including advertising & media investment management; data investment management; public relations & public affairs; branding & identity; healthcare communications; direct, digital, promotion & relationship marketing and specialist communications. The company employs over 189,000 people (including associates and investments) in over 3,000 offices across 111 countries. For more information, visit http://www.wpp.com. WPP was named Holding Company of the Year at the 2015 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for the fifth year running. WPP was also named, for the fourth consecutive year, the World’s Most Effective Holding Company in the 2015 Effie Effectiveness Index, which recognizes the effectiveness of marketing communications.

Contact:
Beth Paulino
Kerianne Slattery
Ogilvy CommonHealth Worldwide
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