We’re Reed Award Finalists!

February 20, 2023

Award season is among us, as Campaigns and Elections just announced finalists for the 2023 season. We are finalists for an impressive FOURTEEN Reed Awards this season.

The categories we are finalists in are as follows:

  1. Bootstrapped Campaigns > Best Direct Mail Piece for a Bootstrapped Campaign
  2. Brand & Merch > Best Piece of Campaign Merchandise
  3. Digital – Advertising & Targeting > Best Campaign Meme
  4. Direct Mail > Best Mail Piece for a Bare-Knuckled Street Fight Victory
  5. Direct Mail > Best Villain in a Mail Piece for Republican Campaign
  6. Direct Mail > Best Mail Piece for State Legislative Campaign (Republican)
  7. Direct Mail > Best Mail Piece for Independent Expenditure Campaign – Local, County, or Municipal
  8. Direct Mail > Best Mail Piece for Special Election Campaign
  9. Direct Mail > Best Use of Technology to Support a Direct Mail Program
  10. Direct Mail > Best Comparative Mail Piece
  11. Direct Mail > Best Mail Piece for Independent Expenditure Campaign – US House/Senate
  12. Television > Best TV Ad on a Shoestring Budget
  13. Mobile > Best Use of Mobile to Support a Field Program
  14. Brand & Merch > Most Original/Innovative Collateral Item

We pride ourselves on building award-winning campaigns unique to each district and candidate while providing the best services in the industry. Our company has seen so much growth since our inception in a small spare bedroom office. We’ve won 34 awards for our political excellence, expanded our in-house public affairs capabilities, and served as Senior Advisors to campaigns for Congress all the way to President. We added in-house design that allowed us to deliver tens of millions of pieces of mail and hundreds of thousands of digital impressions – all while maintaining our high service standards to our clients.

If you need an award-winning mail, digital, voter contact, and consulting firm – look no further. Reach out today; we will gladly help you make your project a reality.

Check out some of our out-of-the-box designs below that are Reed Award finalists.

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