Agency adds three national Agency of the Year honors, one leadership award and six campaign recognitions to its trophy case
RALEIGH, N.C. (June 27, 2025) – French/West/Vaughan (FWV), one of the nation’s most highly decorated public relations, advertising and digital media agencies, has once again received top honors in the 2025 Bulldog PR Awards, a national competition judged by a panel of the country’s leading journalists.
The agency was named Business-to-Consumer (B2C) Agency of the Year (Gold) and Most Innovative Agency of the Year (Gold), as well as the Agency That Gets Results (Silver). FWV Chairman and CEO Rick French was also recognized as an Agency Leader of the Year for the second year in a row, and a fourth time in the past five years. With these latest honors, FWV has now captured 39 Global or National Agency of the Year awards over its nearly three-decade history, while FWV’s principals have taken home more than a dozen Agency Leader of the Year awards across various competitions.
The agency also received two Gold, three Silver and one Bronze award for outstanding work on behalf of clients spanning media relations, social media, experiential marketing and video production. Winning campaigns include:
- Best Financial Services Campaign | Gold: FWV Secures Positive Results for Combination Announcement of Two Credit Union Industry Powerhouses (Velera)
- Best Thought Leadership Campaign | Gold: FWV Energizes Freedom Solar Power CEO Bret Biggart’s LinkedIn
- Best Brand Launch | Silver: FWV and AMP3’s PR Victory – Wrangler x Lainey Wilson
- Best Business-to-Business (B2B) Campaign | Silver: FWV Helps Eaton Let Media Drive Into The Future of Electric Trucks
- Best Use of Influencers | Silver: Influencers Grow NC By Train Socials in Lightning-Speed
- Best Use of Video/Multimedia | Bronze: FWV and Pendleton Whisky Shine on the Year of the Cowgirl
“We are really proud to receive 10 Bulldog PR Awards awards,” said FWV Chairman & CEO Rick French. “Our agency performed well in 2024 during turbulent economic times, and the work we did on behalf of our diverse portfolio of clients was exceptional.”
The 2025 Bulldog PR Awards recognize the most outstanding PR and communications campaigns and extraordinary individual and agency contributions from 2024. Honoring PR agencies, practitioners and standout campaigns, the Bulldog Awards are the only PR awards program judged exclusively by working journalists. Bulldog Reporter has been providing news, best practices and insights to PR and communications professionals since 1980.
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About French/West/Vaughan
French/West/Vaughan (FWV) is one of the nation’s leading public relations, public affairs, advertising and digital media agencies. Headquartered in Raleigh, N.C. with offices in NYC, Detroit, L.A. and Tampa, FWV has received 39 Global or National Agency of the Year honors since its founding in 1997, along with more than 1,700 PR, advertising and digital marketing awards on behalf of its global roster of blue-chip clients. FWV is the parent company of fashion and lifestyle PR firm AMP3; pet and animal health practice Fetching PR; and Prix Productions, a feature and documentary film production company. FWV is a partner in IPREX, a $508 million network of communication agencies with 1,100 staff and more than 60 offices worldwide. For more information, visit fwv-us.com or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Vimeo or Instagram.