Media Contacts Argentina won a bronze Diente Award for its Fanta campaign in mobile marketing category. They also received a Book, a special Diente award for its Renault Koleos campaign in rich media banner category.
Media Contacts Brazil has been awarded Bronze at the Internationalist Awards for the Citroën C4 Hatch campaign within the Local Campaign category.
Media Contacts Brazil and Mobext Brazil won Gold at the El Ojo de Iberoamerica Festival, with Webmotors, in the Mobile Marketing category.
Media Contacts Hungary won a Bronze EFFIE in the FMCG category for its “Jobb reggelt!” campaign for Györi Keksz.
Media Contacts Philippines obtained great success at the Philippine Ad Congress Araw Awards obtaining the most coveted Media Agency of the Year award. In addition they picked up a gold in the best use of internet category for its campaign for Department of Tourism, Philippines and bronze for its viral work for BPI (country's largest bank).
Two young ladies in the Media Contacts Philippine team of 11 beat all the big and award winning creative agencies at The Oscars of Philippines Advertising Industry and won the grand prize of Nokia's short film competition.
Media Contacts together with MPG UK won the Best International Campaign award at the prestigious B2B Marketing Awards for its campaign iShares Boost. They were also winners of the Grand Prix: Campaign of the Year.
Ricardo Mezcua Operations Director Media Contacts Spain has won the bronze award as best media director by the CONTROL Awards
The US Media Contacts Kmart team in Chicago won a CIMA Award on November 17th for Best Interactive Media Campaign 2009. They won for their integrated Protégé sneaker launch campaign.
Media Contacts together with Mobext US have won the Best Direct Response award for its Amtrak’s Acela campaign at the 14th Annual MITX Interactive Awards.
Media Contacts Hong Kong was ranked the 9th Direct Agency of the Year and the 10th Media Agency of the Year during the Agency of the Year Awards organized by Marketing Magazine.
MPG/Media Contacts Direct Spain and Havas Digital Research team won an Effie Silver award for their campaign carried out for Carglass, the world’s number one for car glass.
MPG and Media Contacts US, Boston office won two Maven Awards. Amtrak won the Best Use of Traditional Media award. Sears won the Best Use of Digital Media award
Media Contacts USA’s Kmart and Volvo account teams won two OMMA Awards during the NYC Advertising Week. The Kmart team won an OMMA Award in Retail for the "Kmart/Protege" campaign. The Volvo team won an OMMA Award for the "Volvo Twitter" campaign.
Media Contacts Philippines team won the gold award in the Boomerang Awards 2009 for its Philippine Tourism Second Life PressConference. In total Media Contacts Philippines got six finalists (3 for Philippine Tourism, 2 for Dove and 1 for BPI).
MPG & Media Contacts US, Boston campaign Amtrak’s “The Moment to Consider Train” took top honors in the 2008 Catalyst Awards winning the Gran Prix. In addition Sears’ “Back to School” campaign picked up a Silver Qee.
Boston based Media Contacts US Sears team won a Bronze Media Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival for their Back to School 2008 campaign. It was submitted in the "Retail, Ecommerce and Restaurant" category, for both online and offline media programs. The short-list for this category included global entries from the likes of Walmart and Ikea. The amazing effort was led by VP, Group Account Director Tom Penque and Account Director Mike Nuzzo. Their team included Brian Coulombe, Marcy Freedman, Mike Searles, Alyssa Bonetti, Cori Roberts and Christine Look.
Media Contacts Brazil got two bronze hens at the Festival de Gramado this year. With two great campaigns the agency conquered such important award in the Country. One of the campaigns was for the Brazilian Red Cross; it was an initiative for blood donations between young people. The idea was to show people from 18 to 25 years old how important it is to donate blood, not just for now but how it should keep on happening throughout the next generations. The video can be seen at http://www.virtualboat.net/red-cross/countdown/ .
The other campaign was for a condom brand called Prudence. A screensaver was developed, made in 3D, to show how sensitive their “Ultra-Sensitive Condom” is. When the screensaver is on it creates an ultra sensitive texture on the desktop computer screen and when you try to click something, the “condom” won’t let you do it, as it is safe. The idea concept was developed by Media Contacts Brazil. You can check it out at http://www.virtualboat.net/prudence/invisible-protection/ . Unfortunately, Luis Renato, MC São Paulo Art Director is not pictured because he was in Cannes during the week.
Media Contacts Australia has been shortlisted for two awards this year – Cannes and IAB Awards Australia with the digital campaign for the movie Twilight “Dawn of Twilight” for Hoyts distribution. This is a great achievement and is a very welcomed reward for all the effort and good work being carried by the Media Contacts Australia team.
The Spanish Interactive advertising magazine Interactiva, hands out annually “The Interactiva Awards”. This year the magazine has celebrated the VII edition. Media Contacts Spain has won the Golden Award as “Best Online Media Agency” in Spain! For MC, this is the 6th consecutive year that receives the highest prize!! (Silver in 2003, and gold from 2004 to 2009). The ceremony was celebrated last May 21st in Madrid. Rafael Torres, Director of Trading & Buying HD Spain picked up the award in name of Media Contacts.
Interactiva also awarded, MC Barcelona’s client Nike, with the Bronze as “Best Interactive Advertiser” and this award was picked up by Ricardo Mezcua (Operations Director MC Madrid) and Rafael Calleja, Account Director.
MC Levante & MPG have won the Silver “Cat” Award in the category of Best Interactive Campaign at La Lluna Festival, celebrated in Valencia. The work awarded was the campaign planned and developed by MC for Grefusa (one of the top European companies in the area of production and distribution of Snacks, Potato Chips and Nuts) client. Mª Angeles Safont, Account Manager, received the prize.
MC One to One won a Silver AMPE for El Corte Ingles campaign. Media Contacts One to One has won the silver AMPE Award in the category of Interactive campaigns with its work for el Corte Inglés, Christmas Toys campaign 08. The work of MC Madrid and MC One to Work was excellent: the business idea of bringing an entire catalogue into a banner, the design of the creative (expandable rich media interactive catalogue), the integration, and campaign planning. The cad enables the user to browse through an entire catalogue without ever having to leave the banner.
The MC Boston based Sears team which is led by VP, Group Account Director, Tom Penque and Account Director, Mike Nuzzo along with their Sears BTS 2008 team: Brian Coulombe, Media Supervisor, Marcy Freedman, Media Planner, Mike Searles, Media Planner, Alyssa Bonetti, Media Planner, Cori Roberts, Assistant, Media Planner, Rachel Gotthelf, Assistant Media Planner, received exciting news from the Valencia Festival of Media on April 22nd. The festival announced the Sears Back to School 2008 campaign was a runner up for the Valencia Festival of Media People’s Award.
Media Contacts Argentina won a Bronze IAB Award (Internet Advertising Bureau) for its Koleos Caminos Difíciles campaign for Renault.
On March 4 the Interactive Advertising Bureau held the 2009 IAB Conecta Awards, sponsored by Yahoo. MC Mexico City won the bronze in the Food & Beverage category, no-one won the gold or silver award so again MC Mexico was the overall winner! The Vitalinea Plan was the winning campaign out of 40 contenders who entered the competition in January. With this award, the Vitalinea plan has now won four prizes in total! The team who developed this campaign were Ricardo Camarena, Dale Piceno, Donny Aguilar, Gerardo Barrios, Laura Alvarez, Francisco Moreira, Fernando Torres and Marco Limon. Thanks to all of them this campaign has becaome a multiple prize-winning example!
