Congratulations to the winners of PR Daily’s 2016 Video Awards!

Video has become one of the fastest-growing, most engaging communication channels. PR Daily’s 2016 Video Awards proves it.

You displayed how beneficial video can be when crafting powerful internal and external messages. You used live video to take audiences behind the scenes of your most innovative projects. You empowered your employees to share their creative ideas with heartwarming internal communications videos.

Your interview videos gave a voice and personality to your organization’s mission. Your partnerships with celebrity spokespeople made your videos shareable. Your creative takes on current events gave your videos viral appeal.

We’re excited to celebrate your accomplishments and innovations in video.

To everyone who entered PR Daily’s 2016 Video Awards, thank you for sharing your work with us!

We are excited to announce the winners and honorable mention recipients for PR Daily’s 2016 Video Awards with this Special Edition of PRDaily.com:

VIDEOS BY TOPIC

Charitable or Nonprofit Video

WINNER

Honorable Mentions

  • Magnolia Ball, Moffitt Cancer Center for Moffitt Foundation
  • Good Catch! TideSmart Global LLC for Marine Stewardship Council
  • We Heart Kids, St. Jude Medical
  • Powering Bolivia, NRECA
  • Leading the Way in Atlanta, Piedmont Healthcare for L.E.A.D.
  • We're Here for You, CSMLS
  • The Kelsi Leah Young Respite Care Fund, ruckus. advertising + public relations

Company Overview

WINNER

Honorable Mentions

  • MIA Overview Video, Miami International Airport
  • Fiserv Manifesto Video, Fiserv
  • 2015 ADA Highlights, American Dental Association
  • Innovators, Lockheed Martin
  • Introduction to Cedars-Sinai, Cedars-Sinai
  • Innovation, Bell Helicopter

Honorable Mentions

  • Link Good Food, Link Asset Management Limited
  • LawBreakers, Wonacott Communications for Nexon America

Honorable Mentions

  • Special Enrollment Rap, Colorado Consumer Health Initiative
  • MRI for Children, Beaumont Health
  • Brigham Baby Academy, Brigham and Women's Hospital
  • LED Center, Cadmus
  • What is Advance Care Planning? ruckus. advertising + public relations

Honorable Mentions

  • Hometown Heroes Honor Flight Welcome, Miami International Airport
  • Otolaryngology Bootcamp, University of Michigan Health System
  • LawBreakers, Wonacott Communications for Nexon America
  • Things Everyone Does for #UWaterloo Grad But Doesn't Talk About, University of Waterloo
  • 36th National Veterans Wheelchair Games, US Department of Veterans Affairs
  • The Invictus Games 2016, Monument Communications

Honorable Mentions

  • NFPA Grilling Fire Safety Tips, National Fire Protection Association
  • Perfect Pumpkin Halloween Planter, At Home

Internal Communications Video > Over $5,000

WINNER

Honorable Mentions

  • Thank You/National Hospital Week, 133 Public Affairs
  • Right This Minute, HDR
  • Walking Legg, Turner
  • KVN News Update, KPMG

Internal Communications Video > Under $5,000

WINNER

Honorable Mentions

  • Airports of the North, Ministry of Transportation
  • The POWER to Move the World, AAM
  • After the Flood, Entergy
  • Mission Insight-Glenn Isbell, Bell Helicopter
  • "We'll Meet Again" Music Video, Rinck
  • Be the Difference, Piedmont Healthcare

Honorable Mentions

  • MultiCare Hospice Video, MultiCare Hospice Video
  • Bash Boris, University of Michigan Health System
  • The Determination of Mason Symons '07, Milton Hershey School
  • Open Your Heart 2016, American Heart Association for Greater Washington Region Heart Ball
  • Houston's Iconic Pumpkin Park Revitalized, Landscape Structures Inc.
  • The Blessings of a New Heart, Piedmont Healthcare

Honorable Mentions

  • The Cisco WebEx Experience, Golin for Cisco WebEx
  • ENTYVIO Virtual Reality Experience, Klick for Takeda Pharmaceuticals US
  • The Radeon Rebellion, Brand & Deliver for AMD Radeon
  • Outdoor Accents(R) Overview Video, Simpson Strong-Tie
  • #notyourgrandmasbranson, Branson CVB
  • Virtual Reality at Cedars-Sinai, Cedars-Sinai

News Story Video

WINNER

Honorable Mentions

  • Stolen 1981 Ferrari Recovered After 29 Years, National Insurance Crime Bureau
  • FDA Approves World's Smallest Pacemaker, Medtronic

Honorable Mentions

  • MIA Wall of Honor, Miami International Airport
  • T-Mobile Launches Binge On Up for April Fools' Day, T-Mobile USA
  • Welcome to the Prairie, Ervin & Smith for Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce
  • A Mother's Love, Piedmont Healthcare

Real-Time Video

WINNER

Honorable Mention

  • Behind the Seeds Facebook Live Video, Maxwell PR for Dave's Killer Bread

Honorable Mentions

  • Panda. Inspiring Better Lives, JWT INSIDE for Panda Restaurant Group
  • Purina Stand Taller, JWT INSIDE for Nestle Purina
  • USI Summit Award, USI Insurance Services
  • Serve Our Co-ops; Serve Our Country, NRECA

Honorable Mentions

  • DCTA's New General Safety Video Educates Riders & Enhances Content Marketing Strategy, Denton County Transportation Authority
  • Deck the Halls with Fire Safety, National Fire Protection Association
  • Mission Zero Hero, Bell Helicopter

Honorable Mention

  • Outer Banks Home, Outer Banks Visitors Bureau

VIDEO ATTRIBUTES

Honorable Mentions

  • Florida Realtors® Form Simplicity 2016 Video, Florida Realtors
  • PANTCHEK: Get Your Ship Together in a Crisis, Fineman PR

Honorable Mentions

  • It's Your Life. Be Engaged | Hands, Blue Nile Inc.
  • Scott Tube-Free Impact-FULL Crash, 1991 for Kimberly-Clark/Scott Brand
  • EP Smart Suite Video, Entertainment Partners

Low Budget Video

WINNER

Honorable Mentions

  • Powell Randolph My Story: Drummer Beats Cancer Thanks to EVMS Surgeon, Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • Link Good Food, Link Asset Management Limited
  • IBM: Facebook Live, IBM
  • SAP Month of Service 2016, SAP
  • ACIPCO Bible Class: Celebrating 100 Years of the Golden Rule, AMERICAN
  • Get to Know Your Executive Committee, Popular, Inc.

Honorable Mention

  • Good Catch! TideSmart Global LLC for Marine Stewardship Council

Honorable Mentions

  • LCI Advances Brain Health With Celebrity Star Power, Landis Communications Inc. for Global Alzheimer's Platform Foundation
  • Liberty Mutual Insurance & Ellen DeGeneres 360 Video, Liberty Mutual Insurance
  • LawBreakers, Wonacott Communications for Nexon America
  • Undercover Ref, Weber Shandwick for DraftKings
  • John Hancock Vitality: Earning More From Healthy Choices with Chef Tom Colicchio, Weber Shandwick for John Hancock

Honorable Mention

  • Missile Defense 101, InkHouse Media + Marketing

Honorable Mentions

  • OBX Daydream, Outer Banks Visitors Bureau
  • In Their Own Words, Red Couch Stories for Cargill
  • 360-Degree Research Labs, IBM
  • Patients First, SideStreet Pictures for Novartis
  • 9/11—Inside the NYPD 15 Years Later, NYPD for Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information, Digital Communications Unit
  • The New Script of Nursing—We Got This, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
  • Don't Be a Vidiot with Polly Calm, Polycom, Inc.

Viral Video

WINNER

Honorable Mentions

  • U-M students Bring Disney Songs to Life for Kids in the Hospital, University of Michigan Health System
  • The Arrow Lego Paper Airplane Machine, Arrow Electronics
  • LawBreakers, Wonacott Communications, Nexon America
  • Airbus: One Thing to Say to Boeing, Airbus Group, Inc.

GRAND PRIZE

Grand Prize: Best Overall Video

GRAND PRIZE

Honorable Mentions

  • The Invictus Games 2016, Monument Communications
  • Open Source Stories—The Open Patient, Red Hat
  • The Extra Mile—Pardon's Journey, Augusta University
  • The New Script of Nursing—We Got This, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
  • AT&T STRATEGY SERIES: Exploring our Mission, AT&T
  • MIA Honor Flight, Miami International Airport
  • EVMS My Story: Powell Randolph, Drummer Beats Cancer Thanks to EVMS Surgeon, Eastern Virginia Medical School