The Arkansas Advertising Federation held the annual ADDY® Awards on Saturday night and it was out of this world! Check out the complete list of winners here and photos here and here.
Special Judges Awards went to Show Creative Marketing, Heifer International and Thoma Thoma.
The Soundscapes Radio Listening Station was a hit again this year, thanks to Karen and John Crowley, as curious folks eavesdropped on award-winning radio.
A UFO was spotted at some point, but the occupant seemed to come in peace. He also seemed to like Bloody Marys. And the earth ladies.
Kudos to Dani Petty, ADDY® Chair, and outgoing AAF President Sam Cooper for his last ADDY® Awards show. Great job, and congratulations to all the winners!
Just another reminder that the deadline for the 2008 Radio Mercury Awards is coming up on February 22. Take a listen to the 2006 winner, courtesy of Fitzgerald+CO...it's good for what ails you.
The deadline for the 2008 Radio Mercury Awards is coming up on February 22. Last year's Grand Prize Winner, created by MMB for Subway Restaurants, includes cottage cheese thighs, a double chin and a badonkadonk butt. After listening to this, I really feel like eating fresh.
So, Stephanie and I made it to the EAR Awards in New York City...we ate, we drank, we laughed, and...we didn't win. We were edged out by a national Burger King spot. So, while there's no bright and shiny new BMW sitting in Soundscapes' driveway (the prize for our category) they did give us this great consolation prize, so really, who are we to complain?
The show itself was very slick, and the venue in Lincoln Center's Rose Hall featured a glass walled backdrop overlooking Columbus Circle and Central Park South. Very classy. Stephen Colbert was, of course, hilarious and even offered his own a cappella rendition of Barry Manilow's "I Write the Songs" to introduce the category of "Best Use of Music in a Radio Commercial."
After the show there was
really nothing left to do except eat at really great restaurants and go
to Broadway shows. We considered running in the New York City Marathon
that Sunday, but wisely realized we'd had way too much Ethiopian food the night
before and decided to pass.
It was an honor to be chosen as an EAR Awards finalist. Maybe next year you could go with us? Keep churning out those great scripts!
Okay, all truthiness aside...Stephen Colbert is not our new best friend. I mean, don't get us wrong, he's funny and we really like him. We've just actually never met him. But, we have been nominated for a national radio award! And if we win? He'll be there to present it. So, our qualifications for "best friend" have just been modified to include any and all people who are a) funny and b) give us awards.
"Amore," written by Wade McCune and produced by Soundscapes composer David Greaves for Cranford Johnson Robinson Woods client Cajun’s Wharf, was nominated in the category of Best Use of Music in a Radio Commercial in the EAR Awards. Check out that list of finalists! If we were all at a party together, we'd be so starstruck we would probably forget ourselves and trip headlong into the spinach dip.
The Excellence in Advertising on Radio (EAR) awards are sponsored by Clear Channel Radio, and will be presented in Lincoln Center in New York City on November 2. Talk about being starstruck. We promise to get pictures if we can get past security. And no spinach dip is involved.
Wish us luck!
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