The Global Best of the Best Effies were unveiled alongside the 2022 Global Multi-Region Effies at the Global Effie Celebration, which was held virtually today (12/6).
Crayola, dentsuMB, and Golin PR’s “Color Yourself into the World” won the Iridium Effie and was named the most effective campaign in the world at the second annual Global Best of the Best Effie Awards.
The work also won the Global Grand Effie Award in the Product/Service Launch category, and previously won a Gold Effie in the 2021 Effie Awards U.S. competition. With the “Colors of the World” launch and “#TrueSelfie” campaign, Crayola enabled all children to access a power they had collectively been denied–the ability to accurately color themselves, their families, and their friends into the world.
The 2022 competition was open to 2021 Gold and Grand Effie winners from all regional and national Effie Awards programs around the world. Entrants competed in two rounds of review by the Global Best of the Best and Global Grand Juries. Out of 60 Global Grand contenders, 12 emerged as Global Grand Effie winners.
Traci Alford, global CEO, Effie Worldwide, said, “The Global Best of the Best Effies are just that. They represent the very best of our industry globally. Not only have this year’s Global Grand winners proven themselves to be effective across Effie’s framework and achieved top recognitions locally, but they have continued to impress and inspire global juries through two competitive rounds of review, proving that their ideas transcended borders. A big congratulations to this year’s winning teams, and to Crayola for being awarded the most effective work worldwide.”
Here’s a rundown of the Global Grand Effie winners:
- Brand Experience-Services: Sphera Group’s KFC and McCann Worldgroup Romania “Killer Discounts,” with UM Romania and Golin Romania
- Consumer Goods & Telecom: Spark New Zealand’s Skinny and Colenso BBDO “Friendvertising,” with PHD Media, Platform 29, Good Oil, and Liquid Studios
- Finance: United Commercial Bank and ACI Logistics’s UCash & Shwapno and Grey Advertising Bangladesh “Project AgroBanking”
- Food & Beverage: AB InBev’s Cerveza Victoria and Ogilvy Mexico “IcnocuÃcatl,” with Media Monks Mexico, Mediacom Mexico, draftLine Mexico, and Trendsétera de Mexico
- Government, Institutional & Recruitment: New Zealand Government and Clemenger BBDO “Unite Against COVID-19,” with OMD New Zealand
- Media Idea / Innovation: Tinder and 72andSunny Los Angeles “Swipe Night” with M ss ng P eces, Cabin Editing Company, Q Dept, and MPC
- Positive Change: Environmental – Brands: Reckitt-Finish and Havas Turkey “Water Index,” with Bee Istanbul, 3 Dots, Circus, and Cora Communications
- Product/Service Launch: Crayola, dentsuMB, and Golin PR “Color Yourself Into The World,” with Subvoyant
- Restaurants: Burger King and INGO Stockholm “Moldy Whopper,” with DAVID Miami and Publicis
- Sustained Success – Products: Beam Suntory Australia’s Canadian Club and The Monkeys “How long-term brand building led to the 3 most successful years in Canadian Club history”
- Sustained Success – Services: NRMA Insurance and The Monkeys “How commitment to brand building drove one of the market’s greatest comebacks”
- Transportation, Travel & Tourism: Business Iceland, SS+K, and M&C Saatchi Group “Looks Like You Need to Let it Out,” with Peel Iceland, M&C Saatchi Talk, M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment North America, and Skot Productions
Global Multi-Region Effie Winners
Global Effie Award winners for the year’s most effective marketing ideas that worked in multiple markets worldwide were also announced during the event.
Colgate Palmolive and WPP Red Fuse won the Gold Effie in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods category for Colgate’s “Protecting the world’s biggest brand with a smile,” with Wavemaker and Design Bridge.
There were two Silver Effies awarded in the Positive Change categories–one for Social Good and one for Environmental.
Unilever and Lowe Lintas earned Silver in the Social Good–Brands category for Lifebuoy’s “H is for Handwashing,” with MullenLowe, MullenLowe Salt, and Weber Shandwick.
WWF Singapore and Grey Malaysia took home Silver in the Environmental–Non-Profit category for WWF’s “Plastic Diet.”
Alford said, “Winning a Multi-Region Effie is incredibly difficult. To prove effectiveness across markets, languages, and cultures requires an insight that is strong enough to address a universal human truth that can change behavior. Each of this year’s winners has not only done so successfully, but their impact will be felt for years to come.”
Jennifer Kent On Why Her Feature Directing Debut, “The Babadook,” Continues To Haunt Us
"The Babadook," when it was released 10 years ago, didn't seem to portend a cultural sensation.
It was the first film by a little-known Australian filmmaker, Jennifer Kent. It had that strange name. On opening weekend, it played in two theaters.
But with time, the long shadows of "The Babadook" continued to envelop moviegoers. Its rerelease this weekend in theaters, a decade later, is less of a reminder of a sleeper 2014 indie hit than it is a chance to revisit a horror milestone that continues to cast a dark spell.
Not many small-budget, first-feature films can be fairly said to have shifted cinema but Kent's directorial debut may be one of them. It was at the nexus of that much-debated term "elevated horror." But regardless of that label, it helped kicked off a wave of challenging, filmmaker-driven genre movies like "It Follows," "Get Out" and "Hereditary."
Kent, 55, has watched all of this — and those many "Babadook" memes — unfold over the years with a mix of elation and confusion. Her film was inspired in part by the death of her father, and its horror elements likewise arise out of the suppression of emotions. A single mother (Essie Davis) is struggling with raising her young son (Noah Wiseman) years after the tragic death of her husband. A figure from a pop-up children's book begins to appear. As things grow more intense, his name is drawn out in three chilling syllables — "Bah-Bah-Doooook" — an incantation of unprocessed grief.
Kent recently spoke from her native Australia to reflect on the origins and continuing life of "The Babadook."
Q: Given that you didn't set out to in any way "change" horror, how have you regarded the unique afterlife of "The... Read More