Who says clients don't care about awards? I came across this press release for the Tootie Pie Company: The Tootie Pie Company, Inc., a premium baker and seller of high-quality, handmade pie, announces that its product packaging was awarded a 2008 Gold ADDY® by the San Antonio Advertising Federation. This top award qualifies the packaging for the American Advertising Federation District 10 competition in Dallas this …
Pyper Paul + Kenney Only Wins 56 Tampa ADDYs
We've been following Tampa agency Pyper Paul + Kenney's ADDY tally for a few years now. Apparently, the glory days may be over. In 2006, they won 127 ADDYS. In 2007, they won 129 ADDYS. Looks like this year was a big disappointment, with only 56 ADDYS won. That's a 57% decrease from last year. From the Tampa Bay Business Journal: The Tampa advertising agency received 56 awards for advertising produced in 2007. Pyper …
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Programming Is Programming (No Matter Where It Runs)
Original content distributed over broadband is now eligible for the Primetime Emmy Awards. WONGDOODY is helping to get the word out. Their campaign, “Welcoming Broadband to the World of Television” promotes standards for excellence in primetime genre television programming, created for distribution via broadcast, cable, satellite or broadband. This includes primetime dramas, comedies, variety/musical shows, “long …
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Day of the Iguana
"I resent going to France to celebrate advertising." -Lee Clow Lee Clow is not the kind of leader who is content with thinking big. He must do big. Which is why he's intent on creating a new epicenter for advertising hedonism in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. The surf is also radically better there. The concept of the show, as Clow sketched it, is to honor media arts in any form. He pointed to the need to recognize media …
Excellence NB2B
Colle + McVoy won a CEBA Awards Best of Show for this killer headline: My friends Chris Rock and Gale Venosdel at Marlin & Co. also scored at CEBA. Their "Pickle Productivity" ad for Vlasic won its category (single page print with a media budget greater than $100,000). According to Chris, Gale is now working at Littlefield in Tulsa (which reminds me to get in gear and dust off our old series, Agencies in Strange …
All That Glitters Is Not Gold
Tangerine Toad created a poll on PollDaddy that he's running on his site and hoping to see on other ad blogs, in effort to expand the data pool and get a better read on the question at hand—whether or not the industry is ready to wean itself from the award show tit. …
Wankers Get A Tan
Inimitable George "Adscam" Parker took a look at Howard "I own FCB now" Draft's video interview from Cannes. Typically, he is not impressed. He goes on and on about how he's still learning about creating the world's greatest agency, whilst taking the credit for the South African branch of FCB picking up a couple of gongs. He also says that after being in the business for over 30 years, nothing's changed. I couldn't …
Green Is The New Gold
Ad Age is reporting that Network BBDO, Johannesburg, took home the Cannes Grand Prix in outdoor for a solar-powered billboard. What ultimately swayed the jury in the favor of the NedBank "Power to the People" work was that the solar power being collected by the billboard was helping to power several community buildings, including a schoolhouse. That the work made a difference in the community made all the difference …
