With 2 more bronze lions in the categories film and interactive film, we end the week with 3 lions in total. The film lions both go to Telenet, the first for “Evi Naked”, the second for “Extras”, where we show how extras claim to be recognized in the street since the introduction of the sharp image of Telenet Digital tv.

The third bronze was won for a national radio campaign for Bongo giftboxes. In the commercial soap actor Herbert Flack plays the role of himself as an actor you can hire to open your x-mas presents.

Next to this, there were shortlists for De Lijn “nightbuses” in direct, Ché “Blowjob” in media and cyber, Spa “Barfight” in film, MTV “stayingalive.org” and Stallaert “ugliest building” in cyber.

From now on, readers of De Morgen can express their opinion in the completely restyled opinion page “De Gedachte”. No need to demonstrate in the street anymore if you don’t agree with something.

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.

Other magazines might blow out some candles when celebrating their birthday. But when Ché – Belgiums favourite Men’s Magazine – celebrates it’s 10th anniversary they allow everybody to blow something much more interesting: skirts!

Try it.

Last Friday 23rd of October, Duval Guillaume organized a seminar in Antwerp about employer reputation management (“Employer branding is dead, so what now?”). Attendees included corporate communications and HR professionals of 50 top companies like Alfacam Group/EXQI, AstraZeneca, BASF, Electrabel, Euroclear,Fedex, GDF Suez, Ideal Standard, Mediamarkt, RealDolmen,  Sara Lee, Solvay, Spadel and Siemens.

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Duval Guillaume has made the new web worldwide commercial for TABASCO, the American icon brand from Louisiana.
The new commercial, called “streaker”, follows the humorous approach introduced by the brand with the famous ‘Mosquito’-spot that was first shown during the Super Bowl in 1997. The message underlines the TABASCO® brand’s fiery character, as well as its uniqueness in combining spiciness with flavor.

The commercial opens on a naked man face down on the gras during a soccer game with a bunch of policemen on top of him. In the subsequent images, the commercial is turned backwards and we see how the streaker runs in reverse out of the stadion, gets on his clothes again and finally ends up in an Italian restaurant where he generously puts TABASCO® Brand Pepper Sauce on his pizza. The commercial was directed by the international director Manu Coeman from the production house Latcho Drom.

The Creative Club of Belgium organizes the annual Gala of the CCB Awards. The most creative ideas in marketing, communication and advertising are rewarded by the Belgian industry. The Gala CCB for 2008 took place in Knokke and was themed ‘Comme A Cannes Belgium’.

Duval Guillaume and its clients received many awards. Twenty-five statues were taken home by the Duval Guillaume offices in Antwerp and Brussels, including a Grand Prix. You can find a full overview below.

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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.

Duval Guillaume was founded twelve years ago in Belgium (1996) by André Duval and Guillaume van der Stighelen. The agency has two full-service offices: one in Antwerp (DGA) and one in Brussels (DGB). Today the organization is regrouped - through the consolidation of other company-owned agencies into the two full-service agencies in Brussels and Antwerp - and now works in truly integrated fashion in marketing and communication services.

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