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During the Belgian advertising awards (CCB awards), Duval Guillaume was called on stage 19 times. Awards were won in almost all categories for almost all major clients. The annual gala took place in the casino of Knokke and on the adjacent beach, giving the ceremony a playful reference to the advertising festival of Cannes.

Here is the list with winning work : Gold for Brussels Airlines “Crisis�, Vlam Milk “freestylers and jumpers�, Vlam Milk “Leon� in innovative and best use of tv and GAIA “menu 1 and menu 2�. Silver for De Lijn “resto tickets�, Spa Barissart “Barfight�, Stallaert “The ugliest Building of Belgium� and Douwe Egberts “Fokkie in the dictionary�. Bronze for Telenet “Evi Naked�, Bongo “Herbert Flack does radio�, AXA “windowcleaner� and AXA “poles�.

This overall result got Duval Guillaume Brussels on the second place in the ranking of Agency of the year, Duval Guillaume Antwerp got ranked fifth.

We all know milk keeps you flexible. To stress this benefit, the Flemish Milkboard (VLAM Melk) developed its own version of the world famous Twister game. Everyone can order his version of the “Melktwister” on www.drinkmelk.be. Don’t forget to drink milk before you start playing.

If you take the bus or tram, you are already thinking about the environment. With the Green Pass (Bospas) you get the chance to do an extra effort for nature. For each Green Pass sold, public bus company De Lijn will plant one tree. And with 10.000 Green Passes sold already, we can start making plans to plant a real forest. The flyers announcing this action were distributed online, in order to save trees

With a new African campaign, Brussels Airlines wants to stress its superior service. In a 60� tv-commercial we see a stewardess performing her typical kindness and service in everyday situations on the ground. We see her bring coffee to a guy stuck in straffic or giving a small toy to a child looking bored during a museum visit. Every time the people react pleasantly surprised when seeing the stewardess appearing out of nowhere. The series of scenes is concluded with the line : “The kind of service you only expect in the sky�, followed by the logo of Brussels Airlines. The commercial is currently shown on CNN and TV5 in Africa.

In Belgium we have a good habit of eating something sweet with our coffee. Preferably a Lotus caramelised biscuit.

Lotus Bakeries now has the ambition of turning this Belgian habit into a worldwide way of drinking coffee. They start the new international campaign during the world expo in Shangai, showing coffee and Lotus as a perfect match. In their homecountry, Lotus Bakeries already started a nationwide tv-campaign reminding everyone it’s best to have a lotus caramelised biscuit (speculoos) when you’re drinking your coffee.

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.

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.

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.

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.