Friday night hosted the industry’s most glamorous night of nights – the B&T Awards! and it was M&C Saatchi that walked off with the top prize – agency of the year 2015 – for the second year running.

In a sold-out event, the industry’s finest and prettiest packed out Melbourne Town Hall for the announcement of the winners of this year’s 30 categories at the B&T Awards.

It was the first time the event had been held out side of Sydney in its decade-long history and was warmly received by a heaving parochial Melbourne crowd who were duly titillated by hosts The Chaser boys.

But again, it was arguably the M&C Saatchi team who went home with the biggest smiles and possibly the sorest heads. The agency not only snaring best agency, but taking home the trophies for NSW agency of the year and advertising agency of the year.

M&C Saatchi Australia Group CEO Jaimes Leggett said of the win: “We are humbled to be here a second year in a row. This is an achievement from a brilliant team and an amazing bunch of clients. What better way to end our twentieth year.”

B&T editor-in-chief David Hovenden quipped through excessive flutes of bubbles: “Undoubtedly this has been the biggest and best and closest Awards in its history. We had a record number of entries and the closeness in the judging was testament to the high calibre of work being produced around the county at the moment.

“I’d also like to thank everybody from Melbourne who so wholeheartedly got behind the event and supported it. There’s so much talent in this city and it’s shame that it doesn’t always get the acknowledgement it perhaps deserves.

“Thank you to everybody who entered, to all our judges and, of course, my hearty congratulations to all of this year’s winners.

“Let’s do it all again next year!” Hovenden slurred.

The full list of winners for 2015 include the following and stay tuned for more reports and photos of this year’s Awards on B&T on Monday…

Category	Name	HC
Best Use of Sponsorship	Traffik Samsung SlideLiner
Best Digital Campaign	DDB Melbourne Radiant Return
Best PR Campaign	Cummins&Partners Father Bob: “Win Happiness”
Best Use of Social Media	DDB Melbourne Radiant Return
Content Marketing Strategy of the Year	Leo Burnett Sydney LifeLIVE – Samsung
Data Driven Marketing	Atomic212 Group Hunting Out The High Value Punters
Best Advertising Campaign	Clemenger BBDO Sydney Pepper Hacker
Best Media Campaign	UM & SOCiETY Creatures of the Night
Best Use of Real Time Marketing	Cummins&Partners The Live Stream Stream
Best Trading Team	Ikon Communications CBA
Media Sales Team of the Year	Seven West Media
Media Brand of the Year	Spotify Australia
Marketing Technology Company of the Year	Adrenalin Media
Young Achiever of the Year	Yakub ErogulMilkable
Marketing Team of the Year	Asahi Premium Beverages
Outta Box Award	Tricky Jigsaw
Employer of the Year – Under 100 Employees	Leo Burnett Melbourne
Employer of the Year – Over 100 Employees	OMD
Emerging Agency of the Year	The Idea Shed
Experiential Agency of the Year	Colenso BBDO
QLD Agency of the Year	Y&R Group Brisbane
NSW Agency of the Year	M&C Saatchi
VIC Agency of the Year	Cummins&Partners
State Agency of the Year – Other States/Territories/NZ	Colenso BBDO
DM Agency of the Year	WiTH Collective
Specialist Agency of the Year	Columbus
PR Agency of the Year	One Green Bean
Independent Agency of the Year	The Monkeys	Highly Commended – The Hallway
Interactive Agency of the Year	Leo Burnett – Sydney and Melbourne
Media Agency of the Year	Carat Australia	Highly Commended – MEC
Advertising Agency of the Year	M&C Saatchi	Highly Commended – The Monkeys
People’s Choice – Agency of the Year	Carat Australia
B&T Agency of the Year	M&C Saatchi