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Not Another™ agency celebrates two Webby Awards
Not Another™, a Christchurch creative agency, has been recognised for its contributions to the Porn Week website with two Webby Awards.
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Webby Awards 2018: Colenso BBDO, Y&R NZ and DDB NZ among nominees
New Zealand agencies are showing off their excellence on the internet with a number of nominations in the 22nd Annual Webby Awards. Colenso BBDO, Y&R NZ and DDB NZ lead the way with three nominations each.
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Five of the best from the Webbys?
With the announcement of the Webby top dogs, we take a look at a few of the winning efforts for advertising and media.
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Colenso BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi and Y&R convert at Webbys
The winners for this year’s Webby Awards included the creative efforts of Colenso BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi and Y&R NZ.
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Putting finalists to work
For this year’s edition of the Webby Awards, the organisers of the event put the finalists to work by asking them to produce a visual interpretation of the phrase ‘The internet can’t be stopped’. And these creative efforts have now been turned into a series of posters that are now being used to promote the event. As is to be expected, every poster takes a slightly different approach to interpreting the phrase, and skeletons, planets, graffiti and a range of surreal images now stand as testament to the creativity that the event celebrates every year.
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Colenso scores a Webby Awards double
Colenso BBDO has won two Webby Awards, which the agency will scoop up during the ceremony in New York next month. One Webby was for the Best Use of Online Media for its Burger King ‘Anti Pre-Roll’ campaign while the other was a ‘People’s Voice’ award in the Best Use of Social Media category for ‘Motel BK’.
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Webby Awards 2015: strong Kiwi presence at the ‘Oscars of the internet’
The Webby Awards, which the New York Times has described as “The internet’s highest honour” and referred to by others as the Oscars of the internet, has come around again with nominees being announced last week. And there are a few talented Kiwi contenders, including Colenso BBDO, DDB, Special Group, Springload and Clemenger BBDO.
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Kiwis line up as Webby nominees get revealed — UPDATED
Colenso BBDO and Whybin\TBWA are the only Kiwi agencies in the running for a Webby Award, with DDB, Terabyte Interactive, Saatchi & Saatchi, DNA and Y&R also honoured.
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The frenzy for first
We all know the those types who are first to get online and tell us what we need to know, what to try and what they think. They’re leaders in the frenzy to be first, and it’s a trend Webby Awards managing director Claire Graves says has risks and rewards for brands.
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Rapp Tribal wins Webby for raising awareness of workplace sexism—UPDATED
UPDATE: Rapp Tribal is the only New Zealand agency to win a Webby Award this year, for its Demand Equal Pay corporate social responsibility campaign in partnership with the YWCA. Interactive, print and media elements worked together to raise awareness of New Zealand’s pay disparity between men and women.
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Kiwi e-heroes go huntin’ for Webby votes—UPDATED
The Webby Awards aim to honour general internet awesomeness, and fighting it out for gongs with big global beasts like Facebook, YouTube and Pinterest are local hopes Shift for Tourism New Zealand, Resn for Toyota’s Camry Effect, Xero and DDB/Rapp Tribal for McDonald’s. And they need your votes.
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New Cannes award reels in 142 entries, Webby’s to stream live on Facebook
Everyone loves a good awards show and as we head into awards season, developments keep rolling in, starting off with the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The new Creative Effectiveness award, which Colenso BBDO’s James Hurman is serving as a judge on, has taken in a whopping 142 entries, with five of those coming from New Zealand.
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Orcon business banner keeps on giving as Webby nominees announced—UPDATED
Over 10,000 entries were submitted from around the world and the nominees for The Webby’s, AKA the Oscars for nerds, were announced this week. And Special Group’s ‘Living Office’ web banner, New Zealand-based Drugs.com and Supply’s ‘Scam Machine’ for Netsafe are the only local contenders up for an award, while Resn, DraftFCB, Alt Group, Oh Baby, Fairfax and APN all received the next best thing, official honoree status.
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Good: “That Webby’s going straight to the Treehouse”
AIM Proximity/Colenso BBDO’s Yellow Treehouse is the only New Zealand Webby winner, after it took out the telecommunications trophy. And the Alt Group design boffins must be getting tired of walking up to awards podiums by now.
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Kiwi outfits in the running for Webbys
Nominees for the 14th Webby Awards, the world’s leading international honour for online excellence, have been announced, with AIM Proximity, Resn and Terabyte Interactive nabbing two nominations and The Gap Year: Challenge New Zealand by Endemol Digital Studios also honoured.
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Webby Awards call for entries
It’s time to spruce up and package your internet presence into winning applications for the 14th Webby Awards. The awards are an internationally respected symbol of success in the digital medium. Last year’s awards received nearly 10,000 entries from over 60 countries worldwide. There are more than …