Amsterdam – The 2nd Eurobest Festival held its Awards Ceremony last November 28 at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. The Eurobest is the continent’s leading awards in creativity.
665 entries were shortlisted from a total of more than four thousand submissions. Only 282 won awards: 37 winners in the TV/Cinema category, 30 in Print, 34 in Outdoor, 25 in Direct, 13 in Sales Promotion, 9 in Radio, 37 in Interactive, 48 in Media, 22 in Design, 21 in Craft and 6 in Integrated.
DDB won the Eurobest new award, Network of the Year. Ogilvy & Mather took 2nd place, with Publicis in 3rd place.
Ogilvy France won the prestigious Eurobest Agency of the Year. BETC Euro RSCG, Paris came in 2nd place and Marcel Paris in 3rd place.
Another new award this year is Eurobest Advertiser of the Year Award that was awarded to Guinness.
Winner of Eurobest’s Young Creative Integrated Competition was team Russia. Given 48 hours, the team delivered work based on a brief from the charity Join the Pipe.
Interactive Agency of the Year went to Happiness Brussels. Runners up were, in 2nd place Boondoggle, Leuven and in third place, Crispin Porter + Bogusky Europe, Gothenbug.
Belgium and Germany took the most wins with 49 awards each. France follows with 35, United Kingdom with 32, 28 for Sweden and The Netherlands with 22 awards.
List of winners below:
TV/Cinema Grand Prix for Product and Service category – BETC Euro RSCG, Paris, Canal+, “Closet”
TV/Cinema Grand Prix – Tribal DDB Amsterdam, Philips, “Cinema 21:9”
Print Grand Prix – Euro RSCG Group Switzerland, Zürich Chamber Orchestra, “Goosebumps, Teardrop and Heartbeat”
Outdoor Grand Prix – Robert/Boisen & Like-Minded Copenhagen, Suzuki, “Gas Station”
Sales Promotion Grand Prix – Mortierbrigade Brussels, Studio Brussels, “Eternal Moonwalk”
Direct Grand Prix – GOSS Gothenburg, “A Year at the School of Engineering”
Design Grand Prix – Serviceplan Hamburg, Lead Academy, “Procontra”
Media Grand Prix – Leo Burnett Lisboa, Diageo Portugal, “World’s First Ephemeral Museum work”
Prix Radio Jury – Mortierbrigade Brussels, Studio Brussels “The First Time, Opening Dance, Ringtones and Shemus, the Mysterious Whale”
Interactive Grand Prix – Happiness Brussels, Toyota, “IQ Font”
Craft Grand Prix – Ogilvy France, Mattel Scrabble “Sumo, Yoga and Hula”
Grand Prix Integrated –no winner
