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50th Anniversary CLIO Awards Announces 2009 Emerging Media Awards Winners

Posted on: Thursday, 14 May 2009, 07:00 CDT

-- Emerging Media Awards recognizes Content & Contact, Innovative Media, Interactive and Integrated --

NEW YORK, May 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The CLIO Awards, one of the world's most prestigious international advertising and design competitions honoring creative excellence and innovation in the industry, today announced the winners for the Emerging Media Awards, which recognizes Content & Contact, Innovative Media, Interactive and Integrated. The Emerging Media Awards were held at The New Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas on May 13th.

In honor of the monumental 50th Anniversary CLIO Awards, the 3-day CLIO festival featured decade-themed award shows. The Emerging Media Awards celebrated the 1990s and 2000s with a video montage highlighting the emergence of the internet and the impact it has had on the most powerful form of communication -- advertising. The show also featured a dance performance by Internet sensation Judson Laipply (whose "Evolution of Dance" video on YouTube has been viewed by 116 million people) and the presentation of an Honorary CLIO Award to Mark Cuban, chairman and co-founder of HDNet, investor, Internet entrepreneur, and owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks. Cuban was recognized as a digital media thought leader who helped pave the way for the industry by launching and investing in many successful online ventures and cutting-edge technologies.

Additionally, Dan Wieden, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wieden+Kennedy (W+K), was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award during a luncheon at AGO, the legendary Vegas eatery owned by Hollywood icon Robert De Niro and restaurateur Agostino Sciandri. The CLIO Lifetime Achievement Award, one of the highest, most prestigious honors in the industry, recognizes the outstanding and ongoing contribution of an individual who leads the industry forward.

The evening's list of Grand and Gold CLIO winners are as follows:

2009 CONTENT & CONTACT: 10 CLIOs Awarded (1 Grand, 3 Gold, 2 Silver, 4 Bronze)

Grand and Gold CLIO Awards are as follows:

• Droga5, New York, Corporate/Institutional, "Million" for Million (Grand CLIO Winner in Content & Contact)
• Bartle Bogle Hegarty, New York, Entertainment, "Oasis Dig Out Your Soul - In the Streets" for Oasis Dig Out Your Soul
• Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami & Boulder, Restaurants/Fast Food Outlets, "Sacrifice" for Burger King

2009 INNOVATIVE MEDIA: 26 CLIOs Awarded (1 Grand, 8 Gold, 9 Silver, 8 Bronze)

Grand and Gold CLIO Awards are as follows:

• Scholz & Friends Hamburg GmbH, Hamburg, Pharmaceuticals, "The Doppelherz Poem Reading" for Doppelherz Health Care Products (Grand CLIO Winner in Innovative Media)
• Cummins Nitro, West End, Travel/Tourism, "The Best Job In The World" for Tourism Queensland
• Dentsu Razorfish, Tokyo, Automotive Products/Services, "Melody Road" for Dunlop Tire - Safety Awareness
• Deutsch Inc, New York, Home Furnishings/Appliances, "DC Embrace Change" for IKEA
• Droga5, New York, Corporate/Institutional, "Million" for Million
• Leo Burnett Lisboa, Lisboa, Public Service, "The Hope Store+" for Red Cross Portugal
• Miami Ad School Europe (Student - Sandra Nicolas), Hamburg, Student, "World Vision Foodmail" for World Vision
• Saatchi & Saatchi, London, Telecommunications, "Dance" for T-Mobile

2009 INTERACTIVE: 31 CLIOs Awarded (1 Grand, 9 Gold, 5 Silver, 16 Bronze)

Grand and Gold CLIO Awards are as follows:

• Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami & Boulder, Fresh Approach, "Whopper Sacrifice" for Burger King (Grand CLIO Winner in Interactive)
• AKQA, London, Innovative Use of Technology, "eco:Drive" for Fiat
• Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami & Boulder, Online Application, "Whopper Sacrifice" for Burger King
• Dipdive LLC, San Jose, Video/Moving Image, "Yes We Can Song" for Barack Obama for President
• Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, San Francisco, Brand Building, "Now Widget" for Sprint
• Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, San Francisco, Viral, "Wario Land Shake It!" for Nintendo
• R/GA, New York, Online Application, "Nike Football Head2Head" for Nike
• Superfad¸ New York, Viral, "Get It On" for Durex
• Westerdals School of Communication (Students - Morten Halvorsen, Hallvard Fjeldbraaten), Oslo, Student, "Claim It!" for Element Skateboards

2009 INTEGRATED: 13 CLIOs Awarded (1 Grand, 3 Gold, 5 Silver, 4 Bronze)

Grand and Gold CLIO Awards are as follows:

• Obama for America, Washington, Integrated Campaign, "Obama for America" for Presidential Candidate (Grand CLIO Winner in Integrated)
• Berghs School of Communication (Students - Erik Hogfeldt, Gustav Johansson), Stockholm, Student, "Fortum Active" for Energy
• Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami & Boulder, Integrated Campaign, "Routan Boom" for Volkswagen of America

To see a complete list of all Grand, Gold, Silver and Bronze CLIO Award winners in all categories, please visit www.clioawards.com.

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About The CLIO Awards

The CLIO Awards is one of the world's most recognized awards competition for advertising, design and interactive. Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009, the CLIO Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the CLIO Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. To this day, CLIO's iconic statue is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry's creative accomplishments. The CLIO Awards are produced by Nielsen Business Media, a part of The Nielsen Company, a global information and media company.

About The Nielsen Company

The Nielsen Company is a global information and media company with leading market positions in marketing and consumer information, television and other media measurement, online intelligence, mobile measurement, trade shows and business publications (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek). The privately held company is active in more than 100 countries, with headquarters in New York, USA. For more information, please visit www.nielsen.com.

CLIO Awards Media Contact: Lauren Bobrowich, Coburn Communication 212.536.9838 Lauren.Bobrowich@coburnww.com

SOURCE The Nielsen Company

Source: PR Newswire

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