Awards & Shortlists

• Shortlisted for Best Paper and Best New Thinking at Research 2010, the annual MRS Conference , for David Penn's paper, Contagion-Making sense of A New Marketing Epidemic (winner to be announced in Dec 2010).
• Conquest is the inaugral winner of the Research Breakthrough award - sponsored by Research Magazine and given for the most significant breakthrough in 2008 - Metaphorix® - and its successful impact on Conquest's business.
• Conquest is a finalist for Best Agency 2009 - for the second year running. Research magazine’s top and most coveted prize given to the agency that really stands out from the competition.
• Conquest is a finalist for Marketing Magazine’s Agency of the Year 2009 - again for the second successive year. Judged by a panel of independent experts on criteria such as growth, innovation, creative thinking and overall best in class performance.
• Highly Commended for the 2008 David Winton Award for Innovation in Research Methodology - for David Penn's paper, Harnessing the Power of Metaphor to Measure Emotion.
• Finalists for the MRS Award for Research in Advertising and Media, 2008 - for our paper Using Metaphor to Capture Emotional Response in Advertising. Given to the paper that best indicates how research has made a fundamental contribution to understanding and excellence in advertising.
• Finalist for Best Methodology at the worldwide ESOMAR Congress, Montreal, Sept 2008 - for our paper: Getting Animated About Emotion.