The Best of Show honor at the 13th annual One Show Interactive competition was bestowed upon the Nike Livestrong Foundation’s “Chalkbot” out of Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore. The experiential campaign allowed users to text messages through their cell phones, online and Twitter to the Chalkbot, which was a robot that “chalked” inspirational messages along the Tour de France for riders and spectators to see. The initiative was among the efforts that earned W+K distinction as SHOOT’s Agency of the Year in 2009. Other prime winners included fashion label UNIQLO’S “Lucky Switch” from Dentsu, Tokyo, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library’s “We Choose the Moon” website by The Martin Agency, “Monopoly City Streets” by Tribal DDB in London and Gatorade “Replay” by TBWAChiatDay, Los Angeles…..MJZ topped the production company tally on the shortlist for the 2010 AICP Show, The Art & Technique of the American Commercial. MJZ scored 41 mentions, followed by Smuggler with 15, Anonymous Content with 14–plus an additional one for Anonymous Content/Gorgeous–and O Positive and Partizan each with nine. The final honorees will be unveiled at the AICP Show’s premiere on June 8 at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York….Former Smuggler producer Jeff Miller, who spent the last year as executive producer at The Cartel, has launched Interrogate, a production house that opens with the Snorri Bros. on its directorial roster. In addition to the Snorris, Interrogate will also represent several directors from the U.K. roster of Outsider, including James Rouse, Bart Timmer and Jörn Threlfall….

 

May 13, 2005
Honda’s “Grrr,” out of Wieden + Kennedy (W+K), London, scored Best of Show at The One Show, which was held this week (5/11) at New York’s Jazz at Lincoln Center. Meanwhile, Burger King’s “Subservient Chicken,” out of Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B), Miami, won Best of Show at the One Show Interactive competition….SHOOT’s third annual New Directors Showcase—which will be marked by an evening screening and panel discussions slated for next week (5/19) at the DGA Theatre in New York—offers a total of 21 helmers (including a two-man team) from diverse backgrounds….Representatives from ad agency in-house post shops throughout the country met for the second straight year during the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention last month in Las Vegas, moving closer to the goal of forming a trade association with chapters on both coasts and in the Central U.S….Greg Popp has signed with bicoastal Supply & Demand—the production house headed by managing partners/executive producers Tim Case and Kent Eby—for exclusive representation as a director. Popp had been senior VP/group executive producer at DDB Chicago….Cutters, the Chicago-based editorial house that this year celebrates its 25th anniversary, has spent recent months getting its new Venice. Calif. operation up and running. Heading up the office as executive producer is Nicole Visram, who made a shift after three years as a senior producer at Ogilvy & Mather, Culver City. The Venice base also includes three new Cutters editors: Dustin Robertson, formerly of Santa Monica-based Brass Knuckles; Tessa Davis, from Orchestra Blue in Johannesburg; and newcomer John Mailloux, formerly of bicoastal Lost Planet, where he served as an editorial assistant to editors Hank Corwin and Paul Martinez….