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Your best shot

By admin | Published: February 24, 2012
Every agency is furiously working to finalize their award entry videos for Cannes. Recently Faris Yakob, chief innovation officer at MDC Partners, gave a presentation for the Clio Awards giving some tips on how to make awesome case study videos, from the POV of the judges. Inspiring stuff. View more presentations from Faris Yakob Tweet This Post
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Euro rising

By admin | Published: December 4, 2011
While things in the European economy are looking extremely dodgy the advertising awards season in Europe keeps rocking like there’s nothing wrong. This past week saw both the Epica and Eurobest awards. Let’s look at some of the highlights… EPICA d’Or for Interactive went to Jung von Matt in Stockholm for the Mini Getaway. I recently [...]
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British Rule?

By admin | Published: November 14, 2011
Who develops the best digital campaigns? America? Sweden? Japan? Who about Britain? Let’s take a look at the winners of the BIMA Awards (British Interactive Media Association) to see some amazing work coming out of Britain right now. The Grand Prix went to AMV BBDO for the Who Killed Deon campaign for the Metropolitan Police. Their [...]
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Awardzzzzzzzzzzz

By admin | Published: June 29, 2009
If there is one thing more tiring than judging awards it’s going through the long list of winners. Maybe I’ve been following too many award ceremonies and I’m all awarded out. Just been going through all the Cannes winners. There is a little debate about the Cyber Lions Grand Prix win for Best Job in [...]
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Digital @ D&AD

By admin | Published: June 16, 2009
The D&AD Awards last week recognised the very best in advertising, design and digital from around the world. Some worthy gold pencil winners in the digital category included the Radiohead 12 Cams project from Japan agency Bascule Inc. This brilliant extension of the concert experience involved 12 camera operators covering the live performance on stage and [...]
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And another awards goes to…

By admin | Published: May 25, 2009
The award season keeps on giving and as usual we see the same projects being rewarded. The CLIOs are celebrating their 50th anniversary and my favourite recent project from Crispin Porter + Burger King took the grand prize. The Whopper Sacrifice is roasting all competition this year. Let’s see how it does in Cannes. Golds went [...]
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One Show Interactive Winners

By admin | Published: May 18, 2009
So the One Show Interactive winners were announced a couple of weeks ago (sorry for the delay reporting on it) and I think the best in show is really representative of how digital advertising/marketing has evolved over the last few years. Utility seems to be the driving force without losing the creativity that the web is known [...]
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Webby favourites

By admin | Published: May 7, 2009
Boy, what hard work going through all those award winners and nominees!! Imagine judging that lot? Here are a few of my favourites from the list… Best homepage - http://www.adidas.com Nice way to show everything you can find in the world of Adidas. A bit chaotic but nicely executed. Best consumer electronics - http://tomtomsecrets.com We’ve all seen loads of these virtual [...]
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