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    [Festival of Media] All the 2010 awards winners

    VALENCIA, SPAIN: Despite a volcano and an almost total shutdown of Europe's airspace, the Festival of Media Awards took place as planned, following the two-day Festival of Media 2010. The awards took place on Tuesday evening, 20 April 2010, at Valencia's City of Arts & Sciences, Spain.
    [Festival of Media] All the 2010 awards winners

    The awards are billed by the organisers as an “entirely new breed of award” and are aimed at conferring not only prestige on the winners in the various categories, but also worldwide recognition.

    And the winners are:


    • Creative Use of Media
      Winner: Farfar/Isobar - The World's Largest Signpost
      Commended: Mediacom Turkey - Man On Tree, Wieden+Kennedy - Livestrong

    • Consumer Benefit Award
      Winner: Starcom Australia - Pedigree Dog Adoption
      Commended: UM London, Computertan, Havas Media - Green Britain Day.

    • Best Use of Digital Landscape
      Winner: OMD Singapore - Intel Swarm
      Commended: Mediacom China - Lohas Social Networking, Mindshare US - Double Pits To Chesty

    • Best Consumer Driven Campaign
      Winner: Havas Media Mexico - Huevos
      Commended: Mediacom India - Shave India Movement, Initiative US - How Do You Eat Your Burger?

    • The Effectiveness Award
      Winner: Havas Media - Urbania
      Commended: Mediacom India - Shave India Movement, Mediacom - Paint For Change

    • Best Use of Mobile
      Winner: OMD - Mobile Make Up Mate
      Commended: BBDO Argentina - 5 Runners 650 000 Followers, B.Biz - Trident Fresh

    • Best Use of Content
      Winner: Starcom Australia - Strauchanie: Sponsoring A Legend
      Commended: MTV Networks - Swatch MTV Playground, Mindshare India - Lux Perfect Bride

    • Best Targeted Campaign
      Winner: Mediacom US - GSK Teams With Drag Queens
      Commended: MPG Portugal - A Woman's Story, UM Australia - You. Insured

    • Media Bravery Award
      Winner: Starcom Norway - Tele2 Everyone Loves A Bargain
      Commended: PHD UK - The Krypton Factor

    • Best Comms / Entertainment Platform
      Winner: OMD US - Reese's Perfect Xbox Live Halloween Event
      Commended: PHD US - True Blood "Hacking Reality"

    • Best Communication Strategy
      Winner: Mediacom UK - Dance
      Commended: Manning Gottlieb OMD - It Doesn't Have To Happen, Naked Communications Strategy - Ask Richard

    • Media Innovation of The Year
      Winner: Yahoo! - Consumer Connect
      Commended: Team One - MINE Magazine, The Lexus 2010 RX

    • Media Owner of The Year
      Winner: Financial Times

    • Media Professional of The Year
      Winner: Jack Klues

    • Agency of The Year
      Winner: MPG Mexico

    • Agency Network of The Year

      Winner: Mediacom

    Bizcommunity.com is the Festival of Media's African media partner.

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    About Rod Baker

    Rod Baker is Content Director at Bizcommunity.com. A journalist since before computers, he worked on a wide range of magazines and, in his youth, rose through the ranks from being a lowly and abused sub-editor, to a high and still abused editor and publisher. He has been editor and publisher of a number of magazines, as well as a newspaper. He has edited many books, and written a number too. Email him at moc.ytinummoczib@dor.
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