Archive for the ‘Awards’ Category

Duval Guillaume Brussels is awarded with a Grand Clio for the campaign ‘A Blind Call’ for the League of the Blind. It’s the first time a Belgian agency wins a Grand Clio.

The Clio Awards is an international recognized advertising competition, with 20.000 entries from all over the world. They have as strong focus on innovation in the advertising industry and groundbreaking work.

The Grand Clio was awarded in the category innovative media. The jury praised the campaign for its new way of thinking and approaching advertising.

Good news from The One Show in New York: Duval Guillaume Brussels wins a golden pencil for the campaign “A blind call” for the League of the blind. As from today, we’ll be writing with a golden pencil.

The One Show is one of the highest appreciated award concours on the planet. For this year’s 2008 edition there were 25.000 submissions worldwide. As far as we can recall, this is the first gold pencil ever for a Belgian-based advertising agency. For the record: our memory only goes back to halfway the nineties.

The Belgian Effie Awards, organized by ACC, UBA and the Marketing Foundation, honour campaigns that achieve real results. This year, two of our clients’ campaigns are nominated: Lotus gingerbread and Douwe Egberts breakfast.

All 7 nominees actually win an Effie Award. That means the nominees are already certain of Bronze. But we’ll have to wait until the Effie gala on the 10^th of June to know whether the Bronze turns into Silver or Gold.

‘Restaurant’, the new TV commerical for Spa Reine, has been elected the best commercial of the month March at the Dutch Gouden Loeki awards. At the Gouden Loeki, the Dutch audience selects the best, funniest & most original commercial on TV.

As this month’s winner, the commercial automatically enters the semi final in december.

Have a look at all of this month’s 10 nominees here.

Hyundai and GAIA both won Silver at the second edition of the Belgian Cyber Lions. These Cyber Lions are organized by IAB and RMB, and want to reward online creativity in Belgium.

Hyundai took home a silver trophy in the category ‘interactive campaigns’ with the i30 launch campaign. GAIA won silver in the categorie ‘online advertising’ with a banner in last year’s anti foie gras campaign ‘torture a goose’.

Have a look at the winners:

Continue reading Cyberlions: silver for GAIA and Hyundai →

Three ‘Best of Activation’ awards were handed out to campaigns created by Duval Guillaume Brussels. These ‘activation’ awards are organised by the European Association of Communications Agencies (EACA) and reward campaigns with an approach that is truly integrated.

The Hyundai i30 Helicopter campaign won silver in the category ‘consumer durables’. The A Blind Call campaign by the League of the Blind was awarded gold in the category ‘non profit & charity’. A Blind Call also received gold from the jury in the category ‘creative award’. Both cases will be sent to the IMC European Awards European.

These awards reward the integrated approach of Duval Guillaume. If you visit our office in Brussels, you’ll see them at the reception desk.

The AMMA Awards - the Annual Masters of Media Awards - for 2007 are announced. AMMA rewards media expertise in Belgium. Last year Gaia and Duval Guillaume won an AMMA award in the category Best Creative Media for the Pigs in Pain campaign.

Hyundai and Duval Guillaume won the award for Best Media Strategy with the Hyundai “Helicopter Launch” campaign. The jury praised the use of internet and user generated content as powerful tools to create awareness before the actual launch of the car.

Christophe Mottint (Sara Lee), for whom we work with Douwe Egberts, was nominated in the category Media Advertiser . Christophe took the trophy home. Congratulations.

The AMMA Awards - the Annual Masters of Media Awards - reward media expertise. These media awards are organised in Belgium since 2007. The seven categories are:

• Best Media Strategy
• Best Creative Media Use
• Best Media Research
• Media Representative of the Year
• Media Saleshouse of the Year
• Media Advertiser of the Year
• Media Agency of the Year

Last year Duval Guillaume won Best Creative Use of Media with the GAIA campaign Pigs in Pain. This year the Hyundai “Helicopter Launch” campaign is nominated in het category Best Media Strategy.

Christophe Mottint from Sara Lee is also nominated in the category Media Advertiser. Duval Guillaume works for Douwe Egberts with Christophe. The winners will be known on the 23rd of April.

The 2008 RMB Awards are known. The “never trust a man” campaign for Mercator has won silver. “Colours that stay longer” for Brother was awarded with bronze.

Both campaigns were created by Duval Guillaume Antwerp. Let’s put a smile on your face and have another look at the Mercator video.

With the Pigs in Pain campaign for Animal’s rights organisation Gaia, Duval Guillaume has won the 5th edition of the Conga Awards.

This award puts the focus entirely on groundbreaking and integrated ideas. The Conga Awards is organised by the Arteveldehogeschool of Ghent and has some very critical students as a jury.

The campaign for Gaia already got shortlisted in Cannes last year and it won gold at the London International Awards (LIA).