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January Ri Fiver: Late result

After ending last year with a bang, the Ri Fivers got off to a relatively muted start in January with a modest albeit quietly impressive array of entries. In the event, just two of these succeeded in sharing all the votes cast by our panel of judges. And this month’s winner turned out to be a video for The LateRooms Group, produced by PeoplePeople Communications ... more or comment here 4 comments

Ri Fiver news

Sixty-six Ri Fivers have been awarded to date, plus five Ri High Fivers. The Winners’ Gallery shows all the brilliant work that has been honoured in the last six years, with credits for the winning agencies and their clients. ... more or comment here

The final Ri Fiver of 2011

The Ri Fiver year ended with a bang, and one of the biggest and best selections of creative work seen in some time. The jury was divided, with no fewer than eight different pieces of work attracting votes. The winner, however, won by a clear margin and, for the second time in the year, the Ri Fiver is heading abroad. ... more or comment here 4 comments

The October Ri Fiver: strong field beaten by NATS

A clear winner emerged from the high-class field of entries for the October Ri Fiver. ... more or comment here

The IET Prize 2011

Ri Fiver special bulletin: the deadline for The IET Prize 2011 is approaching. The search is for the best item of recruitment communication of the year in the engineering and technology sectors. A distinguished panel of judges will decide the winner. ... more or comment here

The Ri Fiver result: a battle of two websites

The results are in for this summer’s Ri Fiver competition, covering the months of August and September. Five entries attracted votes from our jury, with two websites rising to the top of the pile and the winner decided by the narrowest of margins. ... more or comment here

The Ri Fiver: the summer's must-have accessory

This winner of this summer’s Ri Fiver is the careers website produced by ThirtyThree for the distinctive retailer, Claire’s. Once again, however, our jury was divided. Faced with a diverse range of work, from websites, to internal comms, to a Facebook game, ... more or comment here

The Ri Fiver May: simples the best

No, it’s not a misprint. It’s those pesky meerkats again. Not content with selling insurance, they are now in the recruitment space and their latest effort has found favour with the Ri Fiver jury. ... more or comment here 11 comments

The April Ri Fiver: a winner from the public sector

The jury was split, but there was a big majority in favour of a clever idea targeting a very specific audience. ... more or comment here 7 comments

The first winner of the Ri Fiver year

The new jury system for the Ri Fivers has worked a treat. Nineteen of the finest creative minds in recruitment had a difficult choice to make from a field of the highest quality. Given the global nature of recruitment today, it's great to report that the winning work comes from Australia. Here are all the entries that attracted first-place votes from our jury, together with a selection of comments. ... more or comment here 2 comments

2010 Ri High Fiver goes to Penna

A record attendance for the annual Ri High Fiver awards event, held at the IET’s Savoy Place headquarters on the evening of Monday 31st January, saw Penna come away with Ri5’s top creative prize for 2010 ... more or comment here 1 comment

The IET Prize 2011

Ri Fiver special bulletin: the deadline for The IET Prize 2011 is approaching. The search is for the best item of recruitment communication of the year in the engineering and technology sectors. A distinguished panel of judges will decide the winner. ... more or comment here

Three men. Two entries. One white knuckle ride of creativity.

This is the judges’ description of December’s Ri Fiver deliberations. Jim Shannon of NGI Creative, and Stephen “Dixy” Dix and Russell Lynch of Bernard Hodes Group deliver their verdict, and mark a changing point in the annals of the competition. ... more or comment here 3 comments

The Ri Fiver's little helpers

Here is the verdict of judges Andy Holden (TMP Worldwide ) and Dan Gregory (Euro RSCG Riley) on the November entries: "Well folks, Santa's big day has been and gone. But, as part of the pre-Christmas build up, we judges met to consider the good old ... more or comment here

The Ri Fiver, October 2010
Ooooh! Ahhhh! Um…

It’s a pleasure to announce the winner of the Ri Fiver, especially as there’s a new name on the famous trophy. Our judges (freelance art director Ed Collingwood and Penna writer Lauren Compton) had a big field of entries to consider. Here is their verdict. ... more or comment here 12 comments

The IET Prize 2011

Ri Fiver special bulletin: the deadline for The IET Prize 2011 is approaching. The search is for the best item of recruitment communication of the year in the engineering and technology sectors. A distinguished panel of judges will decide the winner. ... more or comment here

Ri Fiver: the September result

After the summer break, what did the September Ri Fiver competition have in store for judges Philip Clarke, Colin Hood and Jon Dobinson? ... more or comment here 7 comments

Ri Fiver July: judgement twitter-style

Chris Bennett of DNA and Justin Ballantine of ThirtyThree used the tweet channel to reach their verdict this month. So - succinct comments (never more than 140 characters) on the month's excellent entries: ... more or comment here 7 comments

Over the moon, or sick as a parrot?
The Ri Fiver June result

Freelance writer Richard Marsden and Wave creative director Mike Tamlyn bring in their verdict: ... more or comment here

Three hearty blasts on the vuvuzelas: we have the Ri Fiver May winner

Some competitions seem to go on forever, don’t they? Not the Ri Fivers however. No sooner had the whistle blown for the end of May, than the officials (or judges as we call them) were concentrating on a fine array of creative work, to find the best recruitment communications of the month. So what caught the attention of Steve Paton (art director, Stafford Long) and Neil Harding (writer, freelance)? ... more or comment here 2 comments

Ri Fiver: Decision time April 2010

Turns out the Tories and Lib Dems aren’t the only team in town. Jonathan Richards, digital and creative services director at Penna Barkers, and Hugh McQueen, managing director of McQueen Consultancy, put aside agency differences and personal interests to form their own coalition and negotiate their way through the nine candidates for this month’s Ri Fiver. ... more or comment here

Ri Fiver March: dark arts at play, but judges see the light

Freelancers Lisa Mendes and Phil Woodford were plunged into darkness this month when judging the March Fivers, but valiantly fought their way towards the light. Here’s the story of their great escape… ... more or comment here

The Ri Fiver: Barcap brainteasers scoop February award

Pink Squid called upon some characters from the worldwide weirdosphere to add objective comments to their own opinions of the February Ri Fiver entries. Here's what they all had to say and, of course, the result. ... more or comment here 1 comment

The first Ri Fiver of 2010 goes to …

What with post-Christmas blues, the harsh weather, and gloom-laden economy, it was perhaps unsurprising that judges Martin Flavin (Five by Five People) and Matthew Sinclair (SMRS) were not swamped with entries for the January Ri Fiver. Here is their verdict: ... more or comment here 3 comments

Ri High Fiver goes to Hodes for Herts Constabulary (again)

The Ri High Fiver award for 2009 – the annual pick of all the monthly Ri Fiver winners – has gone to Bernard Hodes, for their work for Herts Constabulary, for the second year in succession ... more or comment here 5 comments

The noughties' final Fiver

The aia art director Ilinca Dumitrescu and TMPW writer Charli Matthews judged the final Ri Fiver of the year - and of the decade - and here's their verdict. ... more or comment here

Two judges judging: the Ri Fiver November result

Mark Horley, creative director at Work, and Chris Bann, copywriter at Penna TCS, had a bumper crop of entries for the penultimate Ri Fiver of the year. ... more or comment here 5 comments

The IET Prizes 2009: enter by Tuesday 12th January, 2010

Once again, the Institution of Engineering & Technology, sponsors of the Ri Fiver awards, will present an extra award this year - The IET Prize 2009. The winner will be the best item of recruitment communication in the engineering and technology sectors, to be decided by a distinguished panel of judges. An additional prize will be awarded - The IET International Prize 2009 – to the best entry from outside the United Kingdom ... more or comment here

Ri Fiver: the October winner

Our judges for the October Ri Fiver were freelance writer Richard Marsden and ThirtyThree art director George Barker-Wyatt. They were looking for creative brilliance and, once we had disqualified the bird photography entry, the search began in earnest. ... more or comment here 12 comments

Ri5 in Manchester

The Ri5 editorial team is attending this week's CIPD conference to find out what the HR world is talking about; and we took time out to present an overdue Ri Fiver. ... more or comment here

Ri Fiver first: September result a tie

The quality and quantity of entries for the September Ri Fiver was impressive, with a nearly equal split between online and offline work. In the end, judges Russ Hodgson and Jonathan Richards could not decide between a press ad and a website. Throwing caution to the wind, and fully aware that this may be a costly precedent, Ri5 has decided against awarding £2.50 each – both will receive a full-sized Fiver. ... more or comment here 2 comments