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DDB Seattle took home two Best of Show awards at the annual district ADDY Awards competition this week. The agency was awarded Best of Show Broadcast for our Television spot “Garden Wedding” for the Equality California Institute, and Best of Show New Media for “Piping Cold” for McDonald’s of Western Washington.
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Seattle Metropolitan magazine recently named DDB Seattle one of the hottest companies in town. Click the link below for a peek at the article.
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At the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York, Widemile Inc. announced the beta availability of its third–generation optimization platform, a browser–based application which helps online marketers maximize campaign performance by testing and optimizing landing pages and other web content for higher conversion rates. DDB Seattle is among the small group of partners offering this service to its clients.
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Today, on CRO's (Corporate Responsibility Officer) website and in CRO its magazine, DDB BIG was named #7 of the Top 10 Firms in Corporate Responsibility. CRO is a leading membership organization and media company for corporate practioners, service providers and influentials in the field of corporate social responsibility. We're delighted by the recognition but...WTF?
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DDB’s much ballyhooed McDonald’s 24-Hour campaign won yet another major award last week at the Adweek Media Buzz Awards celebrating the best in brand/media integration. The campaign, which has also received two Effies and Adweek’s Media Plan of the Year Grand Prize, won top honors in the Outdoor/Out-of-Home category.
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DDB’s Holland America Line Campaign Is Finalist for Best In Show
Seattle, October 22, 2007 - Last night at the 78th Annual Direct Marketing Association’s International ECHO Awards Ceremony in Chicago, DDB in Seattle won a Gold ECHO for a Holland America Line campaign and a Silver ECHO for their work on Exclusive Resorts. The Holland America Line campaign was one of only six finalists, out of a record setting 1,124 entries, for the Best In Show Diamond ECHO. Both wins were in the Travel & Hospitality/Transportation category.
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Jesse Hamlin writes about DDB's campaign designed around the idea: "What if you couldn't marry the person you love?"
As reported by MarketWatch, DDB Issues & Advocacy took home Best of Show honors at the Thoth Awards, which recoganizes excellence in public relations, for the launch of HopeLab's cancer-fighting video game, Re-Mission.
SEATTLE WA - DDB Brand Integrity Group (DDB BIG) in conjunction with Ideal Bite released findings today from a consumer trust survey providing marketers with insights into why some corporate responsibility communications drive consumer trust while others fail. Answered by more than 700 Ideal Bite subscribers, this hybrid qualitative and quantitative survey underscores the urgency of values-driven corporate citizenship initiatives and straightforward communications. Key findings include:
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We had a choice. Build a website in our best corporate voice saying all the things we want people to think of us. Or do something different. Sure, we still had to get in all the normal stuff (work, jobs, news). But because transparency is inherent to how we work, we’ve built a site based on that very notion.
Everyone in the company can post here, unfiltered. So you’ll see what genuinely inspires, amuses and angers us, not just what the Company wants you to see.
Let the chemistry check begin.