The RT project won the Best Social Media Use category. Among the winners of the Digiday Marketing and Advertising Awards Europe in other categories are projects of major global brands.
# 1917LIVE is one of the largest historical reconstructions ever made on the Twitter platform.
As part of the project, dozens of accounts in real time published messages on behalf of historical characters - from Nicholas II and Lenin to workers and soldiers.
University professors from the USA and Great Britain, as well as the world-famous Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho took part in the project # 1917LIVE.
# 1917LIVE, having already won over 20 international and Russian awards, won the New York Festivals television competition and reached the final in three categories at the prestigious Cannes Lions advertising festival.
The project received the Epica Awards and the Shorty Awards, and also won the audience vote at the Webby Awards. # 1917LIVE won the Russian competition "Media Brand" and received the silver award of the Russian award Red Apple.
In August, the book project RT # 1917LIVE won the gold Project Isaac Awards from the magazine Adweek.