Gloo rocks Loeries 2009

Another power performance at the awards, taking home nine statues and leaving the digital agency at the top of its industry ranking. The Creative Circle's complete national agency review placed Gloo number five in the country compared to all creative agencies across the marketing spectrum.

Gloo won the only Gold Craft Award for the fourth year in a row, as well as the only two golds awarded across the online categories. On top of this, Gloo took home two additional ‘best of show' prizes for best use of mobile and best use of online advertising. Award-winning work was created for PUMA, MWEB, Cell C and Wicked Pixels, as well as self-promotional work.

This brings Gloo's tally to an impressive 43 Loeries, including two Grand Prix, over the past four-and-a-half years.

Brett Bellinger, PUMA's Marketing Director, commented: "PUMA always tries to push the boundaries in terms of creative and innovative ideas, especially in new media, and Gloo has certainly helped our brand achieve this here in South Africa. We are very proud of the Loerie won for the Tetralift mobile game and PUMA international has also acknowledged the great work done by our local agency."

Gloo's creative Director, Pete Case, added: "We've won gold every year since we opened, and this is the fourth year in a row that we've topped the tables, so a huge congratulations to my team for their hard work and attention to craft this year. The standard at this year's awards has risen everyone's game yet again, so it's pleasing to see our work still cutting through for our clients. With our focus on mobile this year and the increase in online advertising work for our clients, it's particularly rewarding to win the best-of-show awards in these categories too. From an industry point of view, the weekend included the first digital get-together in Camps Bay on the Saturday morning and the largest attendance to the awards from our community to date, which is a great sign of the increasing importance of digital in general and to the growth of our community."





Gold: Wicked Pixels (website)
Gold: Cell C Create Me (microsite)
Craft Gold: Wicked Pixels website (digital craft)
Best use of online advertising: MWEB Connect and You Can
Best use of mobile: Puma Tetralift (mobi)
Silver: Cell C Create Me (mixed media campaign)
Bronze: Wicked Pixels (mixed media campaign)
Bronze: Ghost Pops (online advertising)
Bronze: Love from Gloo (digital application)