Winners of the Gold Standard Awards 2025 Announced! 🏆

Congratulations to all our winners from the Gold Standard Awards 2025!

Golin were the big winners on the night taking home 5 trophies and a highly commended plaque.

DBS won the In-house Award and Ruder Finn won the highly coveted Regional Consultancy Award.

See pictures from this special night here and all winners listed below.

PRACTICE AREA CATEGORIES

Corporate Communications 

🏆 Winner:
Ruder Finn China Montblanc
100 Years of Meisterstück Campaign

Country and Trade Promotion 

🏆 Winner:
Edelman Singapore Pte. Ltd:
GO MonGOlia

Employee Engagement 

🏆 Winner:
Grab
G/AI Sprint

Financial Communications

🏆 Winner:
Bud
Demystifying Money: How Chocolate Finance Won Customers, Investors, and Regulators

Government Relations 

🏆 Winner:
Golin
FROM RESISTANCE TO ACCEPTANCE: PAVING THE WAY FOR RIDESHARING

Issues Management and Crisis Communications 

🏆 Winner:
Bud

Stemming the Tide: How A Crisis Response Stabilised Half a Billion Dollars in Four Days

Media Engagement 

🏆 Winner:
Red Hat Asia Pacific Pte Ltd:
Long-Term Media Engagement Strategy Rooted in Trust, Access, and Relevance

Highly commended: 
The Weber Shandwick Collective:

Bridging Talent, Building India

Public Service Campaign 

🏆 Winner:
Golin:
Taiwan AIDS Society & Taiwan AIDS Nurses’ Association and Golin Taipei

Stakeholder Engagement 

🏆 Winner:
Zeno-Lenovo
The Power of One Lenovo: Redefining Perception from PC Maker to Global Technology Powerhouse

Thought Leadership 

🏆 Winner:
PRecious Communications:

Igniting Trust, Awareness and Action: Establishing AI Cybersecurity Authority Across ASEAN

Highly commended:
Sandpiper
Retirement Reimagined: Facing the Future with Confidence


DIGITAL & SOCIAL

Broadcast and Video 

🏆 Winner:
Midas PR

Virgin Active Thailand “Real Wellness, My Way

Digital Communications

🏆 Winner:
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

HAILEY – Human or AI?

Integrated Communications 

🏆 Winner:
Midas PR

Virgin Active Thailand “Real Wellness, My Way

Social Media Communications 

🏆 Winner:
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
HAILEY – Human or AI?


GOOD BUSINESS & CITIZENSHIP

Corporate Citizenship (Community Relations)

🏆 Winner:
Temus

Building a Smart Nation for Al:  How Temus Cultivates Community Trust

Corporate Citizenship (CSR and Sustainability)

🏆 Winner:
Golin:

Lovin’ Me

Corporate Citizenship (Philanthropy)

🏆 Winner:
COMCO Mundo League of Enterprises

The Communications Olympiad: Rewriting Climate Change with the Next Gen Communications Practitioners

Diversity and Inclusion 

🏆 Winner:
Golin
Taiwan AIDS Society & Taiwan AIDS Nurses’ Association and Golin Taipei

NGO Engagement 

🏆 Winner:
Golin
Taiwan AIDS Society & Taiwan AIDS Nurses’ Association and Golin Taipei

Public/Private Partnership 

🏆 Winner:
Makaira KK
From an Uninhabitable Land to a National Space Hub:  The Fukushima Space Industry Initiative

Highly Commended
Golin:

FROM RESISTANCE TO ACCEPTANCE: PAVING THE WAY FOR RIDESHARING


INDIVIDUAL

Young Professional of the Year

🏆 In-house winner:
Nanyang Technological University

Vivian Lim

🏆 Consultancy winner
H/Advisors Klareco

Nicola Powell

Professional Excellence

🏆 In-house winner:
Trinasolar: Finian Lim

 🏆 Consultancy winner
Sandpiper: Emma Smith

IN-HOUSE & CONSULTANCY

In-House Team of the Year 

🏆 Winner:
DBS Bank Group

Strategic Marketing & Communications

In-Country Consultancy of the Year

🏆 Winner:
We. Corporate Advisors (Formerly WATATAWA) 

Multi-market Consultancy of the Year 

🏆 Winner:
Sandpiper

Highly Commended:
The Hoffman Agency

Regional Network of the Year 

🏆 Winner:
Ruder Finn

Highly Commended:
The Hoffman Agency

See you all again next year!