4A'S announces 2011 Jay Chiat Awards For Strategic Excellence shortlist

First-round judging has been completed by a panel of industry leaders. A total of 68 nominees from 45 agencies have been selected. Finalists will receive their awards at the 4A's Strategy Festival in New York City 13 October.

The nominees

Brand Experience

• CP+B - American Express: "Small Business Saturday"
  
• Droga5 - Microsoft Bing: "Decode Jay-Z with Bing"
  
• Goodby Silverstein and Partners - Adobe: "Museum of Digital Media"
  
• JWT Melbourne - Melbourne Writers Festival: "Democratising Literature"
  
• The Martin Agency - Walmart: "The Smack Talk Launch of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2"
  
• McKinney - Qwest: "Starting a Conversation without Uttering a Word"
  
• MRM Worldwide - U.S. Army: "At the Ready"
  
• R/GA - Nike: "The Film Room"

Campaign for a New Brand

• CP+B - Bolthouse Farms: "Baby Carrots | Eat 'Em Like Junk Food"
  
• Fallon - The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas: "Just the Right Amount of Wrong"
  
• Gotham - Chobani: "A Love Story about Yogurt"
  
• LBi - SeamlessWeb.com: "Hijacking an Icon of Food Delivery in New York City"
  
• Lowe Asia-Pacific - Nestlé Vietnam: "Cafe Viet | Are You Man Enough?"
  
• McGarryBowen - Verizon Wireless: "Power Trumps Pretty"

Communications/Media Strategy

• BBDO India - P&G/Gillette Mach3: "W.A.L.S. | Women Against Lazy Stubble"
  
• CAMPBELL MITHUN - Chipotle: "Don't Give This Campaign an Award (A Subversive Approach to Marketing a Subversive Brand"
  
• Droga5 - Microsoft Bing: "Decode Jay-Z with Bing"
  
• Goodby Silverstein and Partners - Adobe: "Adobe Creative Suite 5 Launch Campaign"
  
• OMD - Pepsi: The Pepsi Refresh Project
  
• Optimedia - Citi Bank: "Citi Project Talk"
  
• VI Marketing and Branding - Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH): "5320"
  
• Y&R Brasil - Santa Casa Blood Centre: "Upgrading an Ancient Model"

Creative Technologies

• COLLINS - New York Public Library
  
• Goodby - Silverstein and Partners DaliMuseum "Helping People See the World Through the Eyes of Dali"
  
• JWT - Bloomberg "The Art of Looking Sideways"
  
• McKinney - Qwest: "Solving Problems by Creating Some"
  
• R/GA - Converse "The Sampler"
  
• R/GA - Nike "BOOM"
  
• Razorfish NY - Unilever: Lynx "Lynx Stream"

Existing Brand

• BBDO India - P&G/Gillette Mach3: "W.A.L.S. | Women Against Lazy Stubble"
  
• BBH -Unilever: "Axe | Clean Your Balls"
  
• Droga5 - Microsoft Bing: "Decode Jay-Z with Bing"
  
• Droga5 - Puma: "For the Joy of Sport"
  
• Grupo Gallegos - California Milk Processor Board: "Selling Health and Beauty by the Gallon"
  
• Leo Burnett, USA - Allstate: "Mayhem is Everywhere"
  
• Leo Burnett, USA - Sealy Posturepedic: "Supporting All the Living that Happens in Bed"
  
• Lowe Asia-Pacific - Unilever Vietnam: "Vim - Power of 1"
  
• Publicis - Pepto-Bismol: "The Little Pink Bottle that Everybody Thought They Knew"
  
• Venables Bell & Partners - Audi: "Shock the Sheep"

For Good

• Arnold Worldwide - American Legacy Foundation (Truth): "Do You Have What It Takes to be a Tobacco Exec?"
  
• COLLINS - New York Public Library
  
• Lowe & Partners - Colombian Ministry of Defense Program of Humanitarian Attention to the Demobilised (PAHD) "FARC | Operation Christmas"
  
• The Martin Agency - The American Cancer Society: "How Can an Ageing Charity Compete with Sexy, Young Causes?"
  
• McKinney - Urban Ministries of Durham" "Spent"
  
• Pyper Paul + Kenney - ASPCA: "Help Joey"

Idea for New Product/Content

• AgênciaClick Isobar - Fiat "Fiat Mio"
  
• Gotham - Denny's: "A Whole New way to Launch LTOs"
  
• Lew'Lara\TBWA - IG: "Complicou"
  
• R/GA - InnovativeThunder "Pay With A Tweet"
  
• Redscout - Gatorade: "G-Series Product Launch"
  
• Twofifteen - McCann Microsoft (Xbox): "Bright Falls: The Prequel to Alan Wake"

Innovative Design

• CP+B - Bolthouse Farms: "Baby Carrots | Eat 'Em Like Junk Food"
  
• R/GA - Nike: "Nike+ GPS"

Research Innovation

• BrainJuicer - "Let's Get Emotional About Advertising"
  
• co.r inovação - CO.R Youth Project: The Follow the Rabbit Methodology"
  
• The Marketing Arm - "Fans, Brands and Properties | Finding the Perfect Match"
  
• Starcom USA - "EQ"

Social Media Strategy

• Anomaly - Converse: "How Converse Became the Biggest Little Sneaker Brand on Facebook"
  
• BBDO NY - M&M's Pretzel: "Power to the People"
  
• The Brooklyn Brothers - Promote Iceland: "Inspired by Iceland"
  
• COLLINS - New York Public Library
  
• CP+B - Kraft Mac & Cheese: "Tweet Your Love"
  
• Goodby Silverstein and Partners - Tostitos: "Reunite America"
  
• Lew'Lara\TBWA - IG: "IHCOMPLICOU"
  
• M&C Saatchi - Pizza Hut: "Feed A Friend: Leveraging The Natural Fit between Loyalty and Social Media"
  
• Porter Novelli - HP ePrint Live: "Socialising Printing with the Digital Generation"
  
• R/GA - InnovativeThunder: "Pay With a Tweet"
  
• Starcom Sweden - The National HIV Council: "F**K TREE"

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