We never create work aimed at winning awards. Awards are simply a happy by-product of achieving business results first and foremost. Sometimes we don’t even enter our work, because it’s not “ad agency clever” — but rather simple, clear, strategic, and it works. That’s good enough for us. That being said, we are proud our work gets noted every year and brings attention to our clients. In the real estate sector alone, our work has been recognized in the “Marketing Campaign of the Year” category five times in the last six years.
Select Corporate & Marketing Awards
2010 Calgary SAM Awards
RUNNER UP “Marketing Campaign of the Year” — Baywest Homes (“H.D.D. Campaign”)
WINNER “Best Website” — Baywest Homes
Finalist “Best Brochure” — Baywest Homes
2009 Calgary SAM Awards
WINNER “Best Moving Media” — Baywest Homes (for the community “Ki”)
WINNER “Best Brochure” — Baywest Homes (for the community “Ki”)
2008 Calgary SAM Awards
WINNER “Marketing Campaign of the Year” — Astoria on Tenth (“Let the Romance Begin…”)
Finalist “Marketing Campaign of the Year” — Baywest Homes (“Unique Snowflake”)
WINNER Best Website — Astoria on Tenth
WINNER Best Moving Media — Astoria on Tenth
Finalist Best Billboard/Transit — Baywest Homes
Finalist Best Radio — Baywest Homes
Finalist Best Print Ad — Baywest Homes
2008 NATIONAL SAM Awards
WINNER “Marketing Excellence Award” for National Campaign of the Year — Astoria on Tenth
Finalist Best Brochure — Astoria on Tenth
Finalist Best Print Ad — Astoria on Tenth
Finalist Best Website — Astoria on Tenth
Finalist Best Sales Centre — Astoria on Tenth
Finalist Best Direct Mail — Astoria on Tenth
2007 SAM Awards
WINNER Best Radio x 2 — Baywest Homes
Finalist Best Billboard — Baywest Homes
Finalist Best Print Ad — Vintage Fine Homes
Finalist Best Moving Media x 3 (Commercials) — Baywest Homes
Finalist Best Brochure — Vintage Fine Homes
2006 SAM Awards
WINNER “Marketing Campaign of the Year” – Baywest Homes; The Red Pen
WINNER Best Radio — Baywest Homes
Finalist Best Billboard — Baywest Homes
Finalist Best Print Ad — Baywest Homes
Finalist “Marketing Campaign of the Year” — NEWS Condo; (Commotion created website and radio)
Finalist Best Website — NEWS Condo Project (Today’s Communities)
Finalist Best Radio — NEWS Condo Project (Today’s Communities)
2005 SAM Awards
Semi Finalist Website — Baywest Homes
Semi Finalist TV/Moving Media – Copperfield (Hopewell)
2004 SAM Awards
Finalist Website — Sagewood (Hopewell)
2003 SAM Awards
Finalist/Honorable Mention Website — Creekside (Hopewell)
Finalist Best Radio — Copperfield (Hopewell)
WINNER Best Brochure – Creekside (Hopewell)
2002 SAM Awards
“Community of the Year” for Copperfield
Finalist Website — Hopewell Residential Communities
Finalist Best Radio — Elbow Valley(Hopewell)
Finalist Best Brochure — Creekside (Hopewell)
Finalist Best New Idea – “Architectural Coordinates” (in Copperfield, for Hopewell)
2001 SAM Awards
WINNER Best Website – Elbow Valley (Hopewell)
Finalist Website – Martha’s Haven (Hopewell)
2000 SAM Awards
WINNER Best TV commercial (for Elbow Valley, Calgary SAM Awards)
WINNER Best TV Commercial (for Elbow Valley, NATIONAL SAM AWARDs)
Semi-finalist Website – Tanglewood (for Hopewell)
Finalist Best TV Commercial — Homes by Avi
1999 SAM Awards
WINNER, Best Corporate/Sales Video — Elbow Valley’s “The Nature of Community” Video (National SAM Awards & Calgary SAM Awards)
FINALIST, Best Corporate/Sales Video – Homes by Avi “Value by Design”)
1999 Yorkton Film Festival (Sask)
Nominee Best Corporate Video – “Brewing a Masterpiece,” (for Big Rock Breweries)
Nominee Best Educational Video – “Recycling Makes Sense” (for ABCRC)
1999 Emerald Environmental Awards (Calgary)
WINNER, Best Educational Video — “Recycling Makes Sense” (for ABCRC)
Select Television Commercial Awards
2009
WINNER “Best Local Commercial — Real Estate,” Telly Awards, New York (for “Astoria on Tenth”)
WINNER “Best Moving Media,” SAM Awards, Calgary (for “Astoria on Tenth”)
2008
FINALIST x 3, Best Television/Moving Media, SAM Awards, Calgary (for Baywest Homes’ Red Pen Spots “Dancing Harold,” “Maitre D,” and “Johnson”)
2004
WINNER, Best Television Single, 2004 Rochester Advertising Federation ADDY Awards, New York (For Nascar “Granny” spot)
WINNER, Best Television Series, 2004 Rochester Advertising Federation ADDY Awards, New York (For Nascar “Granny” and “Bathroom” spots)
2002
WINNER, BEST OF SHOW, Calgary AD RODEO, Advertising Awards (For Source Video’s “The Laundromat” spot)
WINNER, Best Commercial, Calgary AD RODEO Advertising Awards (For Source Video’s “The Laundromat” spot)
WINNER, Best Commercial Series, Calgary AD RODEO, Advertising Awards (For Source Video’s “The Laundromat” and “The Grocery Store.”)
WINNER, GOLD, Best Commercial, Summit Creative Awards (For Source Video’s “The Laundromat” spot), Portland Oregon.
WINNER, BRONZE, Best Commercial, Summit Creative Awards (For Source Video’s “The Grocery Store” spot) Portland Oregon.
2001
WINNER Best Commercial, Calgary Sales & Marketing (SAM) Awards (For Elbow Valley’s “Snowglobe” spot)
WINNER Best Commercial, Canadian National SAM Awards (For Elbow Valley’s “Snowglobe” spot)
WINNER Best Art Direction, Alberta Motion Picture Industry Awards (For Elbow Valley’s “Snowglobe”)
1999
WINNER Best TV Single, 1999 Calgary Ad Rodeo (for Greyhound Canada’s “The Bus is Better” spot)
1998
Top 10 Finalist “The Eddy’s” Big Rock Beer Commercial Contest (for “Big: The Titanic Big Rock Beer Commercial”)
Best Visual Effects nominee – Alberta Motion Picture Industry Awards (for “Big: The Titanic Big Rock Beer Commercial”)
