The Herald Group Digital and Creative Teams Win AVA Platinum Achievement Award
The Herald Group’s Creative and Digital Teams have been recognized with a Platinum Award—the highest honor—at the 2026 AVA Digital Awards for Body of Work Achievement.
This recognition is especially meaningful because it honors not a single deliverable, but the full arc of work a team produces—strategy translated into creative, creative built to perform in the real world, and digital execution designed to meet audiences where they actually are. The AVA Digital Awards—administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP)—recognize excellence across digital communication, including web, video, social, and other interactive media.
What this Means
Our Creative and Digital Teams build work that’s designed for modern public affairs: fast-moving, high-stakes, and crowded with content competing for attention. This Platinum recognition reflects a few core principles we bring to every engagement:
Strategy-led creative: We start with the decision environment—who needs to move, what they need to believe, and what will make them care—then build creative that can actually carry that burden.
Platform-native execution: Digital work performs when it’s designed for the channel, not simply resized for it—message, pacing, and format all matter.
Craft + systems: We invest in the details (design, writing, motion, UX), but we also build repeatable systems so campaigns can scale, iterate, and respond in real time.
Integrated delivery: The best digital doesn’t live in a silo—it’s aligned with the broader communications plan, rapid-response needs, and stakeholder ecosystem.
