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Tonight's Gonna Be a Good Night......The ADDYs

Morgan Reagan - Monday, March 08, 2010

Have you ever noticed how our rewards for a job well done change over the years?  When you’re a kid, your Mom gives you a piece of candy when you use the big boy potty; as an adult your wife gives you a kiss for remembering to put the seat down.  In kindergarten, you get gold stars for good behavior and knowing your colors; in college, you get money for good grades and throwing an excellent curve ball.  In the advertising world, one of our biggest pieces of candy is the ADDY Awards.  It’s actually not edible at all, which is unfortunate, but it is shiny and comes with a fairly large degree of bragging rights.  Therefore, hold onto your seats ladies and gentlemen, let the bragging begin.

Winning one ADDY is applaud-able, but winning FIVE definitely calls for some crowd surfing.  And yes, you guessed it!  We won five ADDY Awards this year.  We kept the crowd surfing to a minimum though, with too many ladies in fancy dresses, crystal on the tables, and security guards roaming around.  Although, I would be lying if I said there weren’t some victory dances and high fives going around.  It was definitely a “shout it from the rooftops” moment; unfortunately the Skirvin seemed to read our minds and had locked all the doors leading to the roof.  So, we had to settle for strutting around with our chests popped out and huge contagious grins on our faces. 

There’s a lot of time and Mountain Dew that goes into creating an ADDY Award-winning website.  Yet before our illustrious design team can begin, we must have a project!  That’s where our clients come into play.  They throw the ball into our court and allow us to bounce it around for a couple of weeks.  After a behind-the-back pass to the client, we both score with a beautifully crafted, fully functioning website.  An added bonus is an ADDY Award; it’s like a championship ring that can be worn by the client and our whole Level9 design team.  Scroll through our list of winners below and see how the game is won! 

As we continue to bask in the afterglow of winning the ADDYs, we continue to do what we do best, roll out high caliber websites.  We’re actually looking for some viable candidates right now. Pick me you say?  Email or give us a shout today and let us put our team of gifted geeks to work for you!  And since we were cheated out of our acceptance speeches, let me give a humble kudos to Chesapeake Energy, Allied Arts, and the Shawnee Convention & Visitor's Bureau for allowing us to fashion their remarkable websites!

Chesapeake.com Website - Gold ADDY

AskChesapeake.com Website - Silver ADDY

Allied Arts Website - Silver ADDY

Shawnee Convention & Visitor's Bureau Website - Silver ADDY

Traffik Website - Silver ADDY