Awards: Best single-market event (b-to-b)

  • Nespresso Creates an Art-Inspired 3D Cityscape

    Inspired by British Turner Prize winner Rachel Whiteread’s “Embankment” installation of white cubed casts, Nespresso created a cityscape modeled after that same work to celebrate the launch of its modern Nespresso Citiz machine. Playing on the campaign’s central urban lifestyle theme, Citiz Sky Lounge on the 28th floor of the Westhafentower in Frankfurt’s financial district […]

  • JDE Highlights Content with Celebrity Appearances

    Since attendees had to pay to attend J.D. Edwards & Co.’s Focus 2000 users group conference (held last June), the company was under pressure to deliver content, entertainment and technology well worth the price of admission. There were two critical elements: One was pre-selling potential attendees on the targeted education value of the “edu-marketing” event’s […]

  • GM Spruces up Dealers Meeting with Theme Nights

    What do you do at an event when you don’t have a lot of cash? “You get clever,” says Extraordinary Events president Andrea Michaels. And that’s just what the agency did for a Chevrolet dealer meeting last spring in Scottsdale, AZ. Three nights of events took dealers from past to present, as Chevy charged EE […]

  • Siebel Turns Conference Guests into Hollywood Stars

    Extraordinary Events had already filed for the permits to take over Hollywood Boulevard by the time Harrison Ford showed up. Turns out Ford’s crew at Sony Films were hoping to shoot a scene for Hollywood Homicide that night, but much to their chagrin the block was already spoken for. By Siebel. In a bleak and […]

  • DaimlerChrysler Heats Up a Media Event in a Firehouse

    Winning over the media at the North American Auto Show ain’t an easy task, but Clear!Blue made it happen with an interesting program for client DaimlerChrysler. With the key objective of countering other car brands’ evening media events, the agency set off to create something a lil’ bit different. An old 1929-built Firehouse across the […]