STAD ANTWERPEN

Watch the casemovies of the award-winning cases here.

The main insight for this campaign is that when you work for the city of Antwerp, it's not the city, but its the 492.000 citizens that are your actual employer. It's them you are actually working for. How's that for adding value to your job?

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The Organization for Parents of Child Victims of Traffic Accidents gave us the 'Sinterklaas' award. This prize rewards inititatives for better traffic safety. Each year in Belgium, almost 350 young people under the age of 26 die in traffic accidents. OVK has over 1500 members throughout Belgium, all of whom are family members of a child who has died in an accident. And this is only the tip of the iceberg. For more information about the association: www.ovk.be.

The IMC European Awards reward the best activation campaigns in Europe. Not only did we receive gold, we took home the largest prize ever (35cm!). Literally a huge honour for us and for our client.

We used the typical 'caution, wet floor' signs to ask Antwerp citizens to keep the streets clean.

Antwerp city employees turned it into a teambuilding event and gave every trash can an overnight make-over.

Ils is Marketing & Communications Director at stad Antwerpen and having worked with her for many years we think this nomination is well deserved. The winner will be announced during the annual UBA Xmas Lunch in December. Fingers crossed for Ils!

We created a series of tv commercials featuring Antwerp citizens that are preparing for the 'Bollekesfeest'. On Facebook people can give a 'Tournée Digitale' and get a free 'Bolleke' at the festival.

The Care Award is already the third award for 'thank you for not speeding'. The campaign was recently awarded at the Best of Activation Award (gold) and at the Flemish Convention of Road Safety.

Words can't describe the sensation of visiting the museum, so we didn't even try. You have to actually see it in order to believe its greatness. And that's exactly what we decided to tell people.

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Antwerp citizens can post their memories, poems and thoughts on www.kaaiengedicht.be. Peter Holvoet-Hanssen will use their input to write his unique poem that will be painted onto the 'Kaaimuur' in June.

In a pitch with 3 agencies we convinced our client stad Antwerpen that we didn't take our partnership for granted. And that we'd love to keep working for them. And so we will.

The title for 2012 went to Istanbul, but the judges were so impressed with the Antwerp candidature, the city was at once chosen to be European Capital of Sport 2013.

The song we used is "Antwarpe", originally by De Strangers, and for the occasion performed by Axl Peleman. It's a song about the love for the city of Antwerp. After all, how can you continue to litter in a city you truly adore?

10.000 special boards and many, many enthusiastic Antwerp citizens, made sure our traffic campaign for the city of Antwerp did not go unnoticed.

This summer the city of Antwerp will be welcoming the Tall Ships Races. With no ships to shoot, we used shadows and created the illusion of tall ships sailing into the port of Antwerp.

In 2010 the 'citizen-inspired' plans were finished and everyone was invited to look into them.

The jury consisted of communication professionals, journalists and film director Lieven Debrauwer, former winner at the Cannes Film Festival.

De Morgen placed our spot in its Top 5 for the first quarter of 2009, calling it warm and gorgeous. We couldn’t agree more.

It’s great to live and work in Antwerp. Trust us, we know. Everything is nearby: shops, playgrounds, buses and train stations, sports facilities, theatres. Exactly what young families are looking for.

The city of Antwerp invests a lot of time and efforts into keeping the streets clean. Cleaner streets are a everyone's responsibility.

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We invited Antwerp citizens to create their own Thank You ad and use it to stimulate drivers to drive slower.

Real police work is not what you see on TV. It requires empathy, a strong personality, good social skills and love for the city of Antwerp.