Clio Health, a specialised off-shoot of the Clios, have announced the winners for the 2026 awards edition. The awards highlight marketing, advertising, and communications that promote physical, mental and social well-being. Agencies from region showed great performance at the awards, with work made for Saudi Arabia, UAE and Pakistan picking up 12 metals at the Clio Health Awards. The total tally of awards comes up to 12 metal awarded to the region including one Grand Clio, fours Golds, three Silvers and four Bronzes.
Here are all the winners from the region:
Grand Clio Winner
Impact BBDO won one of the highest honours of the awards – a Grand Clio for Health Awareness & Advocacy for its Child Wedding Cards campaign. The Grand Clio Health Award was presented to Impact BBDO and eighteen other entries that the Clio Health jury selected as head and shoulders above the rest of the year’s submissions.
The campaign also was awarded a Gold award for the same campaign under the Creative Effectiveness medium in the National category.
The campaign, created with the intention of fighting against child marriage and raising the minimum age to 18, directly engaged lawmakers in Pakistan by sending them invitation cards to a child’s fictional wedding.
The campaign also holds a Cannes Lions Grand Prix for Good in Health which it was awarded in 2024.
Clio Health 2026 – Gold Winner
Saatchi & Saatchi‘s Ruby Blooms campaign was the best performing campaign from the region at the awards, winning a total of three Golds across the Health Equity advertiser category and the Women’s Health Specialty and Direct mediums. The campaign also won a silver in the Design medium.
Ruby Blooms was a sensory guidebook created to help young girls on the autism spectrum understand menstruation in a way that meets their sensory needs. The collaboration between Nana and Saatchi & Saatchi Middle East focused on designing each page to mimic the real-life sensory elements girls encounter when they get their period.
Earlier in the year, the campaign won the only gold from the region at the main Clio Awards 2026.
Clio Health 2026 – Silver Winners
Memac Ogilvy UAE won two Silvers in the Design for IKEA Phone Sleep Collection campaign across the product design and direct category. The agency was also awarded with a Bronze Clio in the Innovation medium in the Medium Innovation category.
The campaign saw the launch of the Phone Sleep Collection, a line of miniature IKEA-style beds designed specifically for smartphones. The collection encouraged users to “put their phones to bed” at night, so they could fully enjoy their own IKEA beds, mattresses and duvets. It promoted better sleep while gamifying rest through the Phone Sleep Challenge.
Clio Health 2026: Bronze Winners
Rounding up the winners with the final three winning campaigns. Saatchi & Saatchi bagged another bronze for its Never Alone campaign – this time for King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre. One of the two winning campaigns from Saudi, the Never Alone took home the Bronze in Film Medium in the 61 Seconds to Five Minutes category.
A three minute film, Never Alone was created to humanise King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center (KFSHRC) by exploring the emotional reality of serious illness. Rather than depicting treatment or diagnosis, the film focuses on the psychological isolation patients often experience during life-threatening medical journeys.
Picking up one of the Bronze awards, Horizon FCB was awarded for its work on the Vitamin See for Centrum in the Creative Use of Data medium in the visualisation category.
Vitamin SEE transformed invisible health data into an immersive visual experience. Built around the insight that wellness data often feels clinical and disconnected from everyday life, the campaign invited people to “see” their health in real time. Using microscopic imagery of vitamins combined with reactive digital design, the campaign turned complex health information into an intuitive and highly shareable experience, helping reposition Centrum as a culturally relevant wellness brand.
The final one, also the only other campaign based in Saudi Arabia, went to VML’s Speak My Language for stc in the innovation medium and early-stage prototype Innovation category.
The campaign was centred around The Social Decoder – a smart tool that translates complex communications jargon used by gamers within esports arenas and virtual gaming worlds into autism-friendly, pressure-free language. stc saw an often-overlooked problem that gamers with autism face while playing popular multiplayer games: Communication. The goal of the campaign was to remove any comms barriers and create an inclusive gaming environment. As such, The Social Decoder tool was built to deliver messages in a calm, literal tone, making team communication more accessible and inclusive.
