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

The commercial “barfight” for Spa Barisart won this year’s grand prix at the Kinsale shark awards. It was the only grand prix allotted in tv. The commercial, which was shot completely under water, also got a golden shark in the category non alcoholic drinks.

And there were more reasons to celebrate. De Lijn “Pinguins” was awarded a silver shark for best animation, Tabasco “Streaker” got shortlisted.

A very sparkling result calling for something very sparkling to drink.

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.

London calling to announce campaigns from Duval Guillaume have been nominated five times for the London International Awards, the fastest growing award show on earth.

You can find the nominated campaigns and their categories below. Will these campaigns make it to the stage? We will find out on November 12th, during the official gala in London.

Television & Cinema Finalists

• “The dear hunter” for Pure FM
• “Compo bird” for compo

Integrated Media Finalists

• “Pigs in Pain” for Gaia

Digital Media Finalists

• “Blind Auction” for Belgian League of the Blind: Brailleliga / LigueBraille

Print Finalists

• “Swedish crime series” for Canvas

At Duval Guillaume we like animals. In June 2007 Duval Guillaume Brussels won 3 lions in Cannes. They were then joined by 3 sharks last month at the Creative Advertising Festival in Kinsale, Ireland. We are now considering starting a zoo.

A first bronze shark was awarded to Belgacom “Kindersurpise”, a second to Compo “Bird”. The latter also won the Grand Prix for best Belgian entry at Kinsale. Sometimes it comes in handy to live in a small sized country.

(to come: links to media)