FarmLife™ Content Program Takes Top Prizes at American Agricultural Editors’ Association Awards
Advanced Content by Red Barn Media Group is proud to announce that its FarmLife content program, produced for AGCO, took several top awards at the 2016 Agricultural Media Summit in the American Agricultural Editors’ Association (AAEA) Communications Awards program.
The program recognizes the top work from writers, designers and photographers in the agricultural media field from across North America. Hundreds of media professionals submit entries, which are judged by panels of experts in five categories: Marketing Communications, Digital and Social Media, Writing, Design and Photography.
Top awards in the program are Story of the Year, Photo of the Year, Writer of the Year, Designer of the Year and Photographer of the Year.
For 2016, Red Barn Media Group Creative Director Jamie Cole was named Photographer of the Year for his work in the FarmLife content program, and was also named runner-up as Writer of the Year. In the past five years, writers, photographers and designers at Red Barn Media Group have captured all five major awards in the program, the only media outlet to do so.
Here is a list of the award-winning work in the FarmLife program for 2016:
Overall Awards
Photographer of the Year
Jamie Cole
Writer of the Year, Honorable Mention
Jamie Cole
Marketing Communications
Speech/White Paper
1st – Jodi Helmer, AGCO FarmLife/Red Barn Media Group, AGCO FarmLife White Paper: Guide to Succession Planning
Advertorial – Multi-page or Special Section
2nd – AGCO FarmLife/Red Barn Media Group – Massey Ferguson Farmstead Projects
Digital
Podcasts
1st – Richard Banks & Jamie Cole, AGCO FarmLife/Red Barn Media Group, Cool Running: A Visit with the Sloans
Social Media
2nd – AGCO FarmLife/Red Barn Media Group, AGCO FarmLife Social Media
Multimedia Story
3rd – Richard Banks & Jamie Cole, AGCO FarmLife/Red Barn Media Group, Water for a Thirsty, and Hungry, World
Writing
Personality Profile
1st – Jamie Cole, AGCO FarmLife/Red Barn Media Group, “Farm, Family & Football”
Design
Cover Page Design — Custom
1st – AGCO FarmLife/Red Barn Media Group, Water Woes
Opening Page or Spread Design – Custom
1st – AGCO FarmLife/Red Barn Media Group, When the Levee Breaks
Web Design – Electronic Newsletter/Magazine
1st – AGCO FarmLife/Red Barn Media Group, Water for a Thirsty, and Hungry, World
Advanced Content by Red Barn Media Group produces FarmLife™ for AGCO Corporation, a global agricultural solutions company that features well-known brands including Challenger®, Fendt®, GSI®, Hesston® and Massey Ferguson®. The FarmLife content marketing program features FarmLife magazine and myFarmLife.com at its hub, but also includes social media, email and various other digital presences.
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