News from Duval Guillaume

News site Vandaag.be has found a new way to share articles. Every visitor can go to the site, choose an article and then read it like a real newsreader. By using your own webcam and with the help of a computer auto cue, you can choose a professional studio or your own place as background. A news jingle is added to every news item. By recruiting newsreaders, Vandaag.be wants to stress that they bring news people want to share.

Read all the details about the campaign right here.

To promote a new series of world biographies of De Morgen newspaper, we created facebook profiles of famous people. Through the facebook status we spread quotes and photo’s featured in the biographies. We also announced the release date of each book and triggered discussions by commenting on things happening in the world. If you became a facebook friend of Nicolas Sarkozy or Fidel Castro, you could learn to know them a bit. But only by getting the biography you learned to know them really well.

As part of the sales promotion campaign during the Brussels car show,
Alfa Romeo has converted 50 bus shelters around Belgium into free classified ad hoardings. After all, since a new Alfa Romeo is now so cheap, you’ll want
to be getting rid of your current wheels pretty quick.

More pictures here.

In a new tv-commercial for Telenet digital tv, a guy named Patrick tells us how it feels to play an extra in films and series. He tells us that more people start recognizing him in the street, which is pretty cool. According to him this is the result of more and more people switching to the outstanding image quality of Telenet digital tv.

For the commercial a real extra was used. The lead actor who greets the extra, is Roel Vanderstukken, a famous Belgian actor and ditto singer.

As part of a sales promotion campaign this ambient stunt in Belgium’s
busiest shopping places illustrates just how easy it is to buy an Alfa Romeo
Mito when the price is incredibly reduced. The headline reads ‘Your chance
to own an Alfa Romeo’ and invites people to discover all the reduced prices
at Alfaromeo.be.

More pictures here.

The ticket-to-me is a new product, developed for the new year’s campaign of public bus company De Lijn. It gave all seasonal ticketholders the chance to fulfill their good resolutions of 2010 : see their friends more often. Everyone could enter the names of his or her best friends on a special website. De Lijn saw to it these friends got a ticket-to-me by post.

TMF Travel is Belgiums favourite party travel organiser for teenagers between 16 and 25. And when you’re having  a clubbing holiday, it’s quite obvious that you’ll soon learn to leave mummy and daddy behind.

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Every two years in january, hundreds of car salesmen gather together in Brussels at the ‘Brussels Auto & Moto salon’ with the aim of selling as many cars as they can. So a huge amount is spent on advertising. Or rather, it’s spent on media. But Alfa Romeo, as a non-conformist brand, briefed us to do something different for their 147 model. But just like the others, the only thing we could talk about was price. Their exact words were ‘we can’t go any lower’. We took that literally.

Brussels, November 30th 2009 – Advertising and communications group Duval Guillaume won 8 awards at the prestigious Eurobest Awards in advertising. In total, Duval Guillaume won 2 golden awards, 2 silver and 4 bronze awards.  The agency contributed to Belgium’s success at this year’s award ceremony, as the most awarded country together with Germany.

Once again Duval Guillaume scored well at the Eurobest Awards. Duval Guillaume Brussels won a gold award for the ‘Freestyler/Jumpers’ campaign for VLAM in the category TV/Cinema. It won one silver award for the ‘Streaker’ campaign for Tabasco, also in TV/Cinema en another one for the Brussels Airlines campaign ‘Crisis’ in the category Radio. The bronze awards went to ‘Evy Naked’ for Telenet in the category Direct and ‘Motorcyclist’ and ‘Painter’ for Reborn to be Alive in Print.

Duval Guillaume Antwerp secured two awards for ‘The Ugliest Building’ campaign for Stallaert: one gold in the category Media and one Bronze in Direct. Duval Guillaume Antwerp landed a second bronze award for its MTV campaign ‘Virtual Sexually Transmitted Disease’ in Interactive.

The following links offer footage of the golden, silver and bronze award winning campaigns:

Freestyler/Jumpers campaign for VLAM

Streaker campaign - Tabasco

The Ugliest Building website for Stallaert

In Belgium it is obligatory to give VAT receipts with the bills in restaurants. Bus Company De Lijn is the first to use these VAT receipts as an advertising medium. On each receipt we added a message, inviting people to think about their choice of transport. If they consider taking the night bus, they don’t have to worry about ordering that extra drink.

. The branded VAT receipts will be distributed by 50 restaurants in 5 major cities. Later on another 30 restaurants will be added to this list.