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'Whassup?' Wins Grandy
NEW YORK--DDB Chicago's "Whassup?" campaign continued its strut through the awards shows last week, winning the $50,000 Grandy at the International Andy Awards here, sponsored by the Advertising Club of New York.
Emcees Andy Berlin of Berlin Cameron & Partners and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners' Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein (who also served as jury chairmen) ignored the script in favor of varyingly successful ad-libs during the presentation of 22 Andys to 13 agencies.
Goodby won the most Andys, seven, for work including Hewlett-Packard's digital soundtrack for a New York street, SBC's neighborhood Web hogs and E*Trade's Super Bowl spots. Arnold won three Andys for Volkswagen TV and print ads. Cliff Freeman and Partners took two Andys for Fox Sports ads depicting NBA wannabes and weird sports from abroad.
Other winners included Butler, Shine & Stem, Sausalito, Calif., for a Homewarehouse.com ad in which a woman uses the site's catalog to slap her husband into action; and Fallen, Minneapolis, for a PBS campaign showing a man who makes a flip-book movie from photo-booth pictures. The four winners from outside the U.S. included Leo Burnett, London, for an outdoor ad showing fishing tackle floating in the top...