Well wouldn't you know it - the first project we did with the National Film Board won a Gemini award! The Test Tube with David Suzuki snagged the award for Best Original Program or Series produced for Digital Media - Non Fiction. That's not only a mouthful, but a huge honour for us!

We thought it was pretty cool to be on the list of nominees. Turns out we were right, it was pretty cool. What was even cooler and more surprising though, was winning. Thanks to everyone who chipped in to make the project a success!

Posted by kris
November 1, 2011 - 2:15pm

TAGS: Awards / Flash / Motion / News / NFB



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Betcha Can't Give Away Just One!

50,000 Likes in a week for Ruffles Canada

After seeing our success with Juniper Park for Ruffles USA (100,000 Likes in 48 Hours), Frito-Lay Canada saw some potential. So they called up their agency (BBDO Toronto), who then called us with the concept of a "Mancave".

We then developed the creative, designed and built the coupon giveaway app. We also wrote the copy inhouse, which agencies usually do themselves when they work with us, so that was a fun bonus. Best of all, since we had the backend for a Ruffles coupon giveaway on Facebook already developed, we were able to repurpose some code, and pass savings along to BBDO, who passed them along to Frito-Lay. Everyone wins!

After escaping from a scarily bland suburban living room, the user descends level by level as they go through the steps of entering the contest - winding up in the very deepest of Mancaves. The campaign generated over 50,000 likes in its first week, and at the time of this post Ruffles Canada boasts 80,000 likes. We're really eating up Facebook campaigns these days. Get it? Eating up?

Posted by nate
October 26, 2011 - 4:33pm

TAGS: bbdo / facebook / giveaway / Ruffles



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Outside Magazine publishes Ogle shot

First imagery from the Bugaboos trip last summer surfaces.

If you get a chance, check out this month's (March 2011) Outside Magazine. Near the front, there's a sweet shot Steve Ogle took last summer in the Bugaboos, of Nelson Rocha. Nate was on the trip, and rigged this shot for Steve.  "...I climbed up ahead, then built an anchor and brought Steve up. Then I helped him get into position and belayed him while he took this shot. The hardest part was hanging in a harness waiting for the light - the wind goes through your clothes like butter in the alpine and after awhile I could barely move my fingers."

The crew had spent the previous night sleeping on a ledge halfway up Snowpatch spire (visible in the photo, Garry Tutte is belaying Nelson from it). Somehow a packrat manages to call this ledge home. He ate most of their breakfast. There's also a bunch of video that was taken on this trip, which we're hopeful will be released soon! 

Posted by kris
March 16, 2011 - 11:49am

TAGS: Bugaboos / Climbing / Ogle / Outside / Sports



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100,000 Likes in 48 hours!

The Vacuum and Juniper Park create a feeding frenzy for Ruffles.

People like chips, we mean they really like them! 

100,000 likes in 48 hours. How 'bout that? A combination of junk food idolatry, great design by Juniper Park and Facebook wizardry from our side meant that the "Get Bagged" promotion for Ruffles was a huge success.

Just before the holiday's, we helped our friends at Toronto Agency Juniper Park, by making a Facebook application to give away some free and delicious chips. It was a huge success generating a ton of Likes in record time (like 180,000 Likes in 1 week. We like that). Get Bagged was the fastest growing page on Facebook during the week of the campaign (pretty sweet) and also included videos of some very hungry fish at dinner time... Piranhas, a fish tank and meat = Feeding Frenzy!!

Click here to see how the Feeding Frenzies were built and shot, it's a good read!

Posted by renee
January 16, 2011 - 3:34pm

TAGS: facebook / Flash / Get Bagged / Juniper Park / Ruffles / Streaming Video / Toronto Agency



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People like us (and not just our moms!)

Projects (and People) that have been tearing up the award shows

Our very own Kris McLaughlin (Goaltender / Technical Director) was named Developer of the Universe (OK, Developer of the Year) at the CNMA awards this past December. We think he's pretty great too.

Our lovely and talented art director Tyler Kealey was nominated as Interactive Designer of the Year at those same awards (an award that was won by Nate way back when people used CD's, so we're not sure if that still really counts) and the project we did for the NFB with David Suzuki won Community Campaign of the Year. The Test Tube also won an FWA, a Pixel and a Communication Arts Interactive Award (just sayin' in case you were wondering).

One of our favourite projects last year was Cliff your Ride for Autotrader Canada. We worked on it with Toronto agency john st. That project just won an Applied Arts Interactive Award for best Integrated Campaign - we're pretty stoked on that as you can imagine.

Have a flick through our work section - you can see all the projects mentioned above. Make up your own mind as to whether they were deserving or not, but if you express any doubt - remember, we have your IP address. Ha!

Posted by renee
January 16, 2011 - 3:14pm

TAGS: Awards / David Suzuki / john st / News / NFB



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