Australasian shops clean up at Caples

At the 31st John Caples Awards for Direct Marketing Excellence held in New York on the weekend, AIM Proximity Auckland won the Sackheim Best In Show award for their interactive ‘Get in on the secret’ Valentine’s Day campaign for client The Warehouse. The campaign also won Gold and Silver. The judges also awarded the AIM Proximity 'iPhone Jonny' campaign for Yellow Pages Group the coveted Courageous Client award, for “innovative advertising an insecure client would never authorise”, as well as a Silver. This is the first time in the Caples’ 31 year history that the one agency has won Caples’ two most prestigious awards.
AIM Proximity, together with their sister agency Colenso BBDO also won a Gold award for Vodafone.
Gold went to BMF Sydney for their Wonder Performance Bread 'Not for Ducks' campaign, Gold and Silver for their 'TED 696 Project' , Silver for their BMF 'We've looking for people with heart' self promo, Silver for their Commonwealth Bank 'Free Bee' campaign, Bronze for their Ella Bache 'Ella' campaign and Bronze for their Lion Nathan 'HarvesTED The Trials'. Gold and Silver went to Clemenger BBDO Sydney/Clemenger Proximity Sydney for their Sega 'Offset the Evil' campaign, Clemenger Proximity Melbourne won Gold and Bronze for Mars 'Tongue' plus Silver for Black Dog Institute 'Paint by Numbers', M&C Saatchi, Melbourne won Gold and Silver for their Save the Children 'Lessons in Leadership' campaign and Bronze for their ANZ Bank 'Dress Pattern', Rapp New Zealand won two Gold and one Silver for their Telecom New Zealand 'No one will know you are gone' campaign, Silver went to DraftFCB, Auckland for their 'BMW X6' campaign, Silver went to Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand for their Toyota Hilux 'Motion Sensor' Screensaver, Silver went to Lowe & Rivet NZ for their Genesis Energy 'Tree People' campaign . Bronze went to AIM Proximity Auckland for their 'Xmas Elves' self promo and Academic Excellence 'Dead End Job', Bronze went to Euro RSCG Sydney for their Tangible Financial 'Invisible Brand' campaign as well as their Integral Energy 'Calculator' campaign and Sony 'The crowd's story' campaign, Bronze went to M&C Saatchi/Mark, Sydney for their Chalk Urban Art Festival 'Disappearing Art' campaign and their Sydney Cats & Dogs Home 'Take me home' campaign.

About the Caples Awards
The John Caples International Awards, honoring the best in direct and interactive marketing around the world, was founded in 1978 by Andi Emerson, a direct marketing pioneer, in order to honor well-recognised copywriter John Caples. With international chairs in 53 countries, it is funded by industry agencies, clients and suppliers; is run by industry volunteers and is judged by more than 100 active, senior-level, international creative professionals. Between 200-300 creatives and marketers from around the world attend the annual dinner and presentation.
For more information visit www.caples.org