The Association of Communication Companies and Media Marketing magazine organized the Merit Awards 2008. At the awards ceremony in the Hippodroom of Groenendaal seven awards were handed out.

Douwe Egberts (Sara Lee), long time client of Duval Guillaume, was elected ‘Advertiser of the year’ at these Merit Awards. The jury explained Douwe Egberts is a brand that has committed to play a social role in communities and has communicated accordingly.

The people from Douwe Egberts were shiningly happy and asked all members of our brand team to join them on stage. The idea of holding hands may have been a bit too much, but hey…

You can find some recent TV spots for Douwe Egberts in the a good conversation article on this news blog.

Eurobest Awards announced it’s winners. The campaign “A Blind Call” by the “League of the blind foundation” has won gold in the Eurobest category “Integrated Campaigns”. This campaign was created by Duval Guillaume.

In the video below Pablo Alzugaray, jury president of Eurobest, explains why the Eurobest jury thinks the “A Blind Call” campaign is so special.

Quite some other campaigns Duval Guillaume has created for it’s clients during te past year have won a silver or bronze Eurobest Award. An overview:

Eurobest integrated campaigns

• Gold: “A Blind Call”, League of the blind foundation

Eurobest TV/Cinema

• Silver: “Never trust a man”, Mercator Insurance Pension Plans
• Bronze: “Lotto”, Belgacom Digital TV

Eurobest print

• Bronze: “Airtbag” Topps Bazooka Chewing Gum

Eurobest outdoor

• Bronze: “Bracelets”, Médecins Sans Frontières International Humanitarian Aid Organization

Eurobest Direct & sales promotion

• Bronze: “Burglar” Mercator Home Select Insurance

You can find an overview of the awards the clients of Duval Guillaume have won with their campaigns on the Eurobest website or download an overview of all winners in PDF.

The winners of the Epica Awards, short for Europe’s Premier Creative Awards, are announced. The ‘Airbag’ print ad for Bazooka Bubblegum - a Topps brand - has won an Epica Award in the print category.

For this year’s Epica 5.600 entries were submitted from all over Europe. Duval Guillaume is the only Belgian agency to win an Epica in 2007. Other Epica finalists by Duval Guillaume were:

• Film Silver: Belgacom “Bike” & “Swimming pool” and Mio Digiwalker “The Fly”
• Film Bronze: Belgacom “Lotto” and Brailleliga “A Blind Call”
• Poster Bronze: Utopolis “Reality Sucks”

Find all results on the Epica website or download the Epica Winners and the Epica Finalists as a PDF file.

Earlier we mentioned several campaigns from Duval Guillaume were nominated for the London International Awards. Today we received a pleasant phone call from London.

The Pigs in Pain campaign for Gaia won Gold in the category ‘Integrated Media’. The jury unanimously agreed the idea, the use of media and the results were unpreceded.

The Dear Hunter spot for Pure FM has been rewarded with Silver in the category ‘Television & Cinema’. Have a look at the video below.

The Tennis video for Ché Men’s Magazine campaign has won the award for Best Sports Advertising Film at Sportel Monaco.

For old times sake, we show you the Ché Tennis video one more time.