To reinforce the new baseline ‘That Calls for a Carlsberg’ Duval Guillaume Modem proposed an original experiment. In Belgian cinemas some innocent couples were confronted with a theatre filled with not-so-friendly gentlemen and only 2 seats left… How will they react? The result of this experiment can be seen in Kinepolis and online via YouTube.

In the beginning of this year, Carlsberg launched a new global positioning and baseline ‘That Calls for a Carlsberg’. Carlsberg is a well-known brand, but people didn’t necessarily know what the brand stands for. With this global positioning Carlsberg wants to add essence to the brand and tell the Carlsberg story, so every market understands that Carlsberg beer stands for tradition, quality, a great taste … and making the right choices.

Interview (Dutch) with Executive Creative Directors Geoffrey Hantson and Katrien Bottez about the new Duval Guillaume.

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At Duval Guillaume Corporate we help companies understand who they really are. Which elements contribute to the correct perception of their brand, and how they can communicate their story towards all their stakeholders, in particular to their (future) employees. Building brands & attracting talent in short. To highlight our work and cases in these fields we just launched our brand new site www.duvalguillaumecorporate.com. Go and have a peek. And if you’re interested to know more don’t hesitate to contact us.

Yesterday evening two of our most recent campaigns were rewarded at the prestigious EFFIE Awards. Which – of course – makes us very proud: it’s our 15th EFFIE Award since 2002. It makes us Belgium’s most EFFIE rewarded agency of this decade and confirms Duval Guillaume’s efficient creativity approach. Creativity not for the fun of it, but a great campaign idea, sharp media insight and excellent production execution, all anchored on an innovative strategic insight. Creativity that stands out and helps our clients business to be more successful.

Our Drink milk now for later campaign for VLAM Melk (the Milk Board of Flanders) was awarded a Gold EFFIE. The judges mainly praised the innovative strategic insight that milk allows you to stay flexible your whole life, and the consistency with which the strategy was translated to strong creative work. These two factors eventually lead to fantastic results with proven effect of communication: we succeeded to establish the first growth in milk consumption in Flanders in decades.

With the campaign Coffee and Lotus Speculoos, always together we won a Silver EFFIE. The strategic choice to grow Lotus Speculoos by focusing all our communication efforts consistently on one consumption moment, the coffee moment, proved to be effective and lead to significant growth with remarkable ROI results.

For more info about both cases, feel free to contact mattijs.devroedt@duvalguillaume.com

Public bus company De Lijn has launched a new campaign showing it’s smarter to take the bus or tram. Kick off is a commercial showing a group of ants beating an aardvark in a clever way. Pay-off : It’s smarter to travel in group, take the bus. The 3D-production was done by CC (Creative Conspiracy). De Lijn is also working on an smartphone game  featuring the ants of the commercial.

In follow up campaigns, De Lijn will also give the proof why it’s smarter to travel in group. These campaigns will focus on the nature friendliness of public transport and the fact that taking the bus gets you faster through traffic and helps you to get rid of the stress of finding a parking space.

At the Belgian CCB awards Duval Guillaume was called on stage 21 times. Awards were won in all categories and for all major clients.

CCB Awards for AXA iAd (Photo by Dimitri Mundorff)

Here’s the list of winning work: Gold and silver for AXA “i-ad”, for USG People ‘the crying invoice’ and for Opvoedingslijn (hotline for out of control kids) ‘little Robin’. Silver went to De Lijn ‘nieuwjaarsbadge’. Bronze for De Lijn ‘garagestickers’, Melk ‘twister’, Reborn to be alive ‘N-Korea’, De Morgen ‘biografieën’, De Morgen ‘live radio commercial’, Nacht van de poëzie ‘book poetry’, Alfa romeo ‘MitoManiacs’ and SOS idee ‘house of inventions’.

This overall result got Duval Guillaume Antwerp/Modem on the second place in the Agency of the year ranking; Duval Guillaume Brussels got ranked seventh.

Ethias insurance company is always doing what’s right. In this case they are the first to offer an omnium car insurance for every type of car, from brandnew cars to second hand cars. This gives every driver the perfect peace of mind, because it’s nice to know you’re fully protected. Even a total loss cannot stop you anymore. The animation of the tv commercial and the online bannering was done by CC, the advertising cell of 3D production company Creative Conspiracy.

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 “nightbusesâ€? in direct, Ché “Blowjobâ€? 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.