Also Honoring the Cablefax Sales Hall of Fame

Awards Luncheon

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

On June 5, Cablefax announced the FAXIES winners and honorable mentions at an award luncheon at the Edison Ballroom in New York City. The FAXIES Awards winners represent the PR and marketing gurus whose creativity in devising smart campaigns, mixed with overall promotional prowess, makes them the best of the best. We salute these executives and the innovation that makes this industry so great!

Cablefax also inducted four honorees into the Cablefax Sales Hall of Fame.  Read Recap of the Luncheon. 

Cablefax Sales Hall of Fame 2018

Congratulations to These Faxies Winners

Winners

Communications Innovators

Winner

Crown Media Family Networks

Honorable Mentions:
  • Boingo Marketing Takes Broadband to New Heights
  • Charter Spectrum
  • Pop TV
Winner

Comcast

Honorable Mentions:
  • AMC
  • Discovery-Scripps
  • MTV, VH1, LOGO

Campaign Awards

Winner

Crime Rebrand

WGN America
Winner

Game of Thrones Season 7 Integrated Marketing Campaign

HBO
Honorable Mentions:
  • Bellevue Launch Campaign – WGN America
  • Big Ten Network's Fannequin – Big Ten Network
  • Let's Get Physical Campaign – Pop
Winner

The Audience Finders

Comcast Spotlight
Honorable Mentions:
  • FreePass – GALLEGOS United/Xfinity
  • Lemonade – GALLEGOS United/Xfinity
  • WGN America Crime Rebrand – WGN America
Winner

Xfinity Behind The Mask

Burrell Communications
Honorable Mentions:
  • Game of Thrones Season 7 – HBO
  • PyeongChang 2018 Olympic Winter Games Resource Site – NBCUniversal
  • The Defiant Ones – HBO
  • Xfinity Celebrating Women Behind the Scenes – Burrell Communications
Winner

Boingo Broadband’s Project Jake

Boingo Wireless
Honorable Mentions:
  • Animal Planet’s Puppy Bowl Dish – Discovery
  • Countdown to Christmas 2017 – Crown Media Family Networks
  • Genius – National Geographic
  • The Arrangement – E! Entertainment
  • Xfinity Behind The Mask – Burrell Communications
Winner

Maria Taylor Named First African-American Female Reporter on College GameDay

ESPN
Honorable Mentions:
  • One Strange Rock – National Geographic
  • SportsCenter on Snapchat – ESPN
  • The Coronation – Smithsonian Channel
Winner

Comcast Visions of King

Burrell Communications
Honorable Mentions:
  • Altice Connects – Altice USA

Community Awards

Winner

Altice Connects

Altice USA
Honorable Mentions:
  • Cable ONE Cares
  • Comcast Visions of King – Burrell Communications
  • Vyve Teacher of the Month – Vyve Broadband
  • Xfinity Celebrating Women Behind the Scenes – Burrell Communications
Winner

50 Capitals Tour

C-SPAN
Honorable Mentions:
  • Bravo Tango – National Geographic
  • BTN x Madsteez Court, 2018 – Big Ten Network
Winner

Xfinity Celebrating Women Behind the Scenes

Burrell Communications
Honorable Mentions:
  • 2018 Black History Month PSA Campaign – AMC Networks
  • Forecasting Hope – The Weather Channel and True Value

Corporate Communications

Winner

2018 Human Resources Performance Review Campaign

AMC Networks
Winner

Boingo’s IR Day Reaches New Heights

Boingo Wireless

Marketing Awards

Winner

You + INSP = The Perfect Pairing

INSP
Honorable Mentions:
  • Oversized Postcard – Comcast Business
  • Xfinity Instant TV Winter Olympics Digital Campaign – Comcast
  • Xfinity Sports & Family Magalog – DigitasLBi
Winners

Discovery Channel 2017 Shark Week

Discovery

ROTM Xfinity Tour

Pop
Honorable Mentions:
  • FYI Scraps/Sur La Table /KitchenAid – A+E Networks
  • HISTORY Ram: Stories from the Road – A+E Networks
  • Good Bones/LL Bean Outsider Campaign – Alkemy X
  • Hot Date / Xfinity – Pop
  • Universal Kids Kody Kapow and Cox Media Activation – NBCUniversal
  • Venevision Beauty Queen/Bring the Drama B2B Campaign – International Media Distribution
Winners

Game of Thrones Season 7

HBO

Project Westeros: Hyping Game of Thrones Season 7

SKY Cable Corporation
Honorable Mentions:
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 9 – HBO
  • The Arrangement – E! Entertainment
  • Bridezillas Museum of Natural Hysteria in Times Square – WE tv & Cataldi Public Relations
  • What's Cooking With Julie Chrisley – USA Network
Winner

Genius

National Geographic
Honorable Mentions:
  • Bravo Tango – National Geographic
  • Let's Get Physical Campaign – Pop
  • Radio Golic and Wingo Launch Campaign – ESPN
Winner

The Defiant Ones

HBO
Honorable Mentions:
  • American Dynasty: The Kennedys – CNN
  • Missing Richard Simmons – Alkemy X
Winner

JANE at the Hollywood Bowl

National Geographic
Honorable Mentions:
  • GENIUS Los Angeles Red Carpet Premiere Event – National Geographic
  • Hallmark Evening Event at Tournament House at Winter TCA – Crown Media Family Networks
  • The Alienist Premiere Event at Winter TCA – TNT
Winner

TV JAPAN “I Heart Tea” Comcast West Gift With Purchase Campaign

International Media Distribution
Honorable Mentions:
  • Comcast Visions of King – Burrell Communications
  • Lemonade – GALLEGOS United/Xfinity
  • Soccer Hacks – GALLEGOS United/Xfinity
Winner

A Night With My Ex: The EX-hibition

Bravo and Oxygen Media
Honorable Mentions:
  • 5th Annual SharkFest Announcement – National Geographic
  • Hallmark Channel’s Museum of Christmas – Crown Media Family Networks
  • JANE at the Hollywood Bowl – National Geographic
  • The Escape at SXSW – HBO
Winner

BBC AMERICA

Honorable Mentions:
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 9 – HBO
  • GENIUS: EINSTEIN – National Geographic
  • "The Jury Speaks" Summons – Bravo and Oxygen Media
  • THE LONG ROAD HOME – National Geographic
Winner

Total Solar Eclipse

The Weather Channel
Honorable Mentions:
  • Child's Play 2&3 Halloween – WGN America
  • JANE at the Hollywood Bowl – National Geographic
Winner

Let's Get Physical Campaign

Pop
Honorable Mentions:
  • Groundhog Day Promo – The Weather Channel
  • Small Yet Mighty: Boingo Broadband – Boingo Wireless
Winner

Hallmark Christmas Fantasy Game

DEFINITION6
Honorable Mentions:
  • Animal Planet’s River Monsters Sweeps with Verizon FiOS MyRewards+ – Discovery
  • Mr. Robot: E-Coin, Digital Easter Eggs and The Daily Five/Nine – USA Network
Winner

DASketball Campaign is a Slam Dunk

Boingo Wireless
Honorable Mentions:
  • 2018 Multicultural Calendar: Cosmopolitan Confections – International Media Distribution
  • Inflatable Couch Summer Programming Promotion – TLC
  • My My My Merlot - Lt. Joe Kenda – Investigation Discovery
Winners

2017 Independent Show

INSP

The Escape at SXSW

HBO
Winners

Shooter 360: Inside the Action

USA Network

THE PROTECTORS: WALK IN THE RANGER’S SHOES

National Geographic
Honorable Mentions:
  • Genius Thought Experiments – National Geographic
  • The Weather Channel and Mucinex

Questions

Submission Questions

For questions about the Cablefax Awards, contact:

Mary-lou French at [email protected]

Sponsorship and Advertising

For information on sponsoring the FAXIES Awards, contact:

Olivia Murray at [email protected]