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Remember "The Pitch" Episode Featuring Bozell is on this Sunday Night

Bozell is going up again MUSE Communications out of Los Angeles for a project for JDRF. The episode airs Sunday, May 27th at 9:00 PM Central time right after Mad Men. So just block off three hours Sunday night starting with Game of Thrones and end with The Pitch. Click here to meet the Bozell team.

SKAR Wins Best of Show at 2012 AMA Pinnacles

SKAR Advertising won Best of Show in the 2012 Omaha American Marketing Association Pinnacle Awards. The Best of Show award was given to SKAR for it's "Trust the Taste" campaign for longtime client, Sue Bee Honey.

SKAR also won four other Pinnacles awards for the Nebraska Lottery, Ted E. Bear Hollow, Sue Bee Honey and a self promotional piece for the agency itself. The Omaha AMA Pinnacle Awards are a yearly marketing competition judged on creativity and sales results.

Bozell Wins Multiple Advertising Industry Awards

The agency has received multiple international, regional and local industry awards for its creative, advertising and interactive campaigns. Bozell was awarded the distinction of “Official Honoree” by the Webby Awards, the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, for its Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska and Right at Home website redesign and development. This prestigious distinction is awarded to the top 15 percent of all work entered and exhibits remarkable achievement.

Bozell also received two Bronze Telly Awards for its First National Bank “Heartbeat” TV spot and the larger “Born and Raised” TV campaign. Telly is the premier international award honoring the finest film and video productions, groundbreaking web commercials, videos and films, and outstanding local, regional and cable TV commercials and programs.

At the district level, Bozell was awarded Silver ADDY Awards for its First National Bank “Heartbeat” TV spot and VP Buildings poster campaign. Sponsored by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the ADDY Awards are the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition, recognizing creative excellence and the very best advertising worldwide.

Bozell also received 13 awards from the American Marketing Association Omaha Chapter (Omaha AMA). Pinnacle Awards were presented to Bozell for the best work in a particular category on behalf of First National Bank, Right at Home, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska, Borsheims, College World Series of Omaha, Inc., Westlake Ace Hardware, VP Buildings, Nationwide Learning, Heartland Automotive, Market to Market and Dan Wilson.

 

Bailey Lauerman Takes Home National Media Awards

Recently, Bailey Lauerman’s work for Union Pacific and Exmark was recognized with two Creative Media Awards. These awards take creative media strategies, plans and executions. Bailey Lauerman’s campaigns beat national players like MediaCom and Campbell Ewald, and brands like Dell and the United States Postal Service. MORE DETAILS

The Exmark Pride campaign that earned a Creative Media Award was also recognized last week by Nebraska PRSA as Best in Show for the year.

 

Bozell Recognized with State and National Awards

At the AIGA's Nebraska Awards Bozell’s awards included: Motion/Video for First National Bank’s Heartbeat video from its Born and Raised campaign (Silver Award); Advertising/Promotional Design for VP Buildings’ Company History Video  (Silver Award); Self-Promotion for First National Bank’s 25-Year Club Invitation (Bronze Award); Photography for Borsheim’s Picnic Engagement (received in conjunction with Bill Stutzman/minor white studios) (Bronze Award); Book for The Borsheims’ Signature Collection (Bronze Award).

At the OMMA Awards Bozell was named a finalist in the Retail category for the Westlake Hardware website redesignand in the Healthcare & Fitness category for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska website redesign.

 

AIGA Nebraska Good Design Is... Exhibit Tomorrow

Tomorrrow, Friday, April 27, 2012 from 5:00-8:00p at Gallery Exhibition at Minorwhite Studios

 

Join AIGA NE for an evening of great poster designs, inspired by Dieter Rams, the former design director of Braun. Charge is FREE. MORE DETAILS

DAAKE Wins 6 Healthcare Marketing Awards

DAAKE helped its healthcare clients win 6 Healthcare Advertising Awards during the 29th annual competition. Winning entries included total advertising campaign, website, new media, outdoor, external communication and newspaper advertising. DAAKE received one silver, two bronze and 3 merit awards. DAAKE’s design team worked in collaboration with Writing the Range on several of the projects.

Nearly 4,000 entries were received, making it the largest healthcare advertising awards competition. A national panel of judges reviewed each entry based on creativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design and overall impact.

 

Bozell Wins 2012 Ad Wars

Last night Bozell walked away with the Helmet Trophy, victors at the 2012 AAF Omaha Ad Wars. Congrats to Bozell and all of the teams that came out and played. 

Roundscapes Relaunches as 42

Roundscapes, LLC has relaunched as 42, a full service digital agency and software lab producing integrated digital campaigns and developing software. As part of the relaunch, the company has closed a $1.5 million, multi-year round of funding from Nelnet and Nebraska Global to scale development of a revolutionary approach to augmented reality and next-generation digital experiences.

42 will continue to serve longtime clients Duncan Aviation, Landscapes Unlimited, Nelnet and Haberfeld. The digital agency has recently produced work for FORTUNE 500 companies and leading brands, including General Electric, Honeywell, Western Union, Union Pacific, Smart Chicken, Cargill, Exmark and Cessna. The company’s development arm – 42 Labs – is working on two software products to be released in late 2012. One of the projects comes from 42’s core experience in immersive media and will transform the way people view the world through their smart devices. VISIT SITE

Bozell to Appear on AMC's "The Pitch"

Bozell announced the other day that they will be is one of 15 advertising agencies natiowide to be appear in the upcoming new AMC Network series “The Pitch.”

Cameras followed Bozell for 10 days, capturing brainstorming, planning, concepting and much more as they prepared to go head-to-head against another agency for a piece of real business.

The first episode of “The Pitch”will air at 10 p.m. locally on April 8, following a new episode of “Mad Men.” Stay tuned for more details as it gets closer to the airing of their episode later in the season.

I wish them the best of luck and look forward to seeing who their pitch was for and what they came up with it.