Media Idea

The award honors media led ideas that are powerful enough to become the genesis of the communications program itself.

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2008 GOLD

KCA's Media Ambush of the iPhone Launch

With only $600 Keep A Child Alive, a small AIDS charity battling against bigger competitors and a charity-fatigued public were able to ambush the launch of Apple's eagerly anticiplated iPhone. By leaning into frame with smart media thinking they galvanized the new digital landscape of networks to own the mainstream media for a week, gather over 20mm media impressions and raise over $100k that saved literally thousands of lives.

Brand: Keep A Child Alive
Client: Keep A Child Alive
Agency: Anomaly Communications

2008 SILVER

Marathons Are...Cute

In 2006, The North Face, a brand not known for footwear, set out to gain distribution for a new line of endurance shoes. With Dean Karnazes, poster boy for endurance running, we created a historic expedition to demonstrate the boundaries of human endurance: The North Face Endurance 50. The implausible and never-before-attempted, jaw-dropping 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 consecutive days helped propel The North Face's endurance business by 208% between 2006 and 2008, an 832% increase over goal.

Brand: The North Face
Client: The North Face
Agency: DDB, Seattle

2008 BRONZE

Stories of Innovation

IBM pioneered the modern case study in the 90s and they worked great. Take a big story, tell it well and people listen. And in IBM's case, they didn't just listen, they did more business with the brand. But that was the 90s. Pre-YouTube. Pre-user generated content. Pre-TVs dead. Today's media-neutral climate has many people believing everything's changed. Absolutely everything. We disagree. We still believe if you tell a great story, people will listen. What's changed is how you get your story out there. The answer? Brand journalism.

Brand: IBM
Client: IBM Corporation
Agency: Ogilvy & Mather