Lil Jon, Grammy Award-Winning Producer and Philanthropist, Emma Heming Willis, Caregiving Advocate and Co-founder of Make Time Wellness, Receive Honorary Clio Health Awards
NEW YORK – (JUNE 11, 2025) – Clio Health announced the winners of the 2025 Grand Clio Health and Clio Health Of The Year awards at a live ceremony hosted in New York City this evening. The program, which celebrates creative excellence in the highly specialized fields of health and wellness, awarded Grand Clio Health trophies to Area 23, an IPG Health Company, FCB Chicago, SERVICEPLAN GERMANY, Patients & Purpose, and more.
The Grand Clio Health Award, the competition’s highest honor, was presented across fifteen entries that the Clio Health jury selected as head and shoulders above the rest of the year’s submissions. These winners were announced on stage, with representatives from each entrant on hand to accept the award.
The 2025 Grand Clio Health Awards went to:
- Audio (Health Institutions & Services): “In Transit” by Area 23, an IPG Health Company for Callen-Lorde, MTA, NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
- Audio Craft (Pharmaceutical): “Magnetic Stories” by Area 23, an IPG Health Company for Siemens Healthineers
- Branded Entertainment & Content (Lifestyle, Wellness, & Over-the-Counter): “The Last Barf Bag” by FCB Chicago for Dramamine
- Creative Use of Data (Lifestyle, Wellness, & Over-the-Counter): “Animal Alerts” by SERVICEPLAN GERMANY and L&C, NYC for PetPace
- Creative Use of Data (Pharmaceutical): “Magnetic Stories” by Area 23, an IPG Health Company for Siemens Healthineers
- Creative Use of Media (Consumer Brand Health Initiative): “SIGHTWALKS” by Circus Grey for Cemento Sol
- Design (Consumer Brand Health Initiative): “SIGHTWALKS” by Circus Grey for Cemento Sol
- Design Craft (Health Awareness & Advocacy): “Contrabanned” by Patients & Purpose for Claremont Forum, Prison Library Project
- Direct (Consumer Brand Health Initiative): “SIGHTWALKS” by Circus Grey for Cemento Sol
- Direct (Lifestyle, Wellness, & Over-the-Counter): “The Last Barf Bag” by FCB Chicago for Dramamine
- Film (Health Awareness & Advocacy): “The Count” by FCB Canada for SickKids Foundation
- Film (Lifestyle, Wellness, & Over-the-Counter): “Stop Working Out in The Past” by Quality Experience for Tonal
- Film Craft (Health Awareness & Advocacy): “Fer” by (anónimo) + Catatonia Films for Save the Children
- Integrated (Lifestyle, Wellness, & Over-the-Counter): “The Last Barf Bag” by FCB Chicago for Dramamine
- Public Relations (Health Institutions & Services): “In Transit” by Area 23, an IPG Health Company for Callen-Lorde, MTA, NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project
Clio Health Awards were also given out on stage for Advertiser of The Year, Agency of the Year, Independent Agency of the Year and Network of the year. These winners were determined by identifying the entrants with the most statue points earned for more work submitted across all medium types.
The 2025 Clio Health Of The Year Winners are:
- Advertiser Of The Year: Callen-Lorde and Dramamine (tie)
- Agency Of The Year: Area 23, an IPG Health Company
- Independent Agency Of The Year: Klick Health
- Network Of The Year: IPG Health
Also in the show, Lil Jon received an Honorary Clio Health Award for his groundbreaking work at the intersection of music and wellness. With his Guided Meditation albums Total Meditation and Manifest Abundance, he has reimagined how music can support mental wellness – particularly for men of color.”His health-focused remix of ‘Get Low,’ created with Cologuard to promote early colon cancer detection, highlights his unique ability to turn iconic music into a force for good—an anthem that helped the campaign earn four Clio Health Awards this year for its creativity, impact, and effectiveness in raising awareness.
Emma Heming Willis was also honored with an Honorary Clio Health Award for her leadership in caregiving and women’s brain health. As a Co-Founder and Chief Impact Officer of Make Time Wellness, she champions cognitive wellness through platforms like the Make Time Podcast and the Make Time to Connect series, providing vital information and support around women’s brain health. Following her husband Bruce Willis’s diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia in 2022, she has become a dedicated advocate for caregivers and individuals living with FTD, working to raise awareness and offer support to families facing this disease.
Official sponsors of the event included: Pinterest and Havas Health.
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About Clio
Clio is the premier international awards competition for the creative business. Founded in 1959 to celebrate creative excellence in advertising, Clio today honors the work and talent at the forefront of the industry in a variety of specialized fields, including: sports, fashion, music, entertainment, and health. As a leading authority on the diverse and ever-changing creative landscape, Clio celebrates creativity 365-days-a-year via its global ad database Ads of The World and its content platform Muse by Clio.
About Clio Health
Built on Clio’s enduring reputation for recognizing the most creative and culturally relevant marketing and communications, Clio Health was founded in 2009 to celebrate the work behind wellness. The program is a barometer for excellence in a highly specialized field, recognizing creativity that not only meets the advanced needs of consumers, but addresses the sophisticated challenges, demands and opportunities of a fast-evolving, rapidly expanding global marketplace and industry.
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