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Visit Wales and The Great Football Experiment Win Awards

bigballs — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 11:47:01 +0000

It’s a sunny Friday and we’ve had a great week. We’ve picked up a Travvie and a Hollis for Visit Wales and Nivea For Men respectively.

We Want You Piers Bramhall is Visit Wales’ most recent campaign and features the Welsh nation inviting one man – that’s our Piers – to have a proper holiday, in Wales. The integrated TV campaign won Gold for Best Integrated at the Travel Marketing Awards or as it’s fondly known, The Travvies; the most recognised awards in the Travel Industry.

Meanwhile branded entertainment, The Great Football Experiment with Nivea For Men won a Hollis Sponsorship Award for Best Digital Activation in a Sponsorship Campaign. Nivea for Men wanted to show that preparation was everything so we found the worst Sunday league pub football team in the country and gave them the England Squad treatment. The series, which ran online, received over 2.8 million views and 45000+ facebook likes.

You can watch Visit Wales or The Great Football Experiment here.

Richard Welsh to talk at MIPCube in Cannes

bigballs — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 15:06:06 +0000

Our creative director will be on a panel with Arcade Fire director Vincent Morisset where they will be discussing…

THE NEW CREATIVE CANVAS – WHAT WEB CULTURE AND TECH CAN DO FOR STORYTELLING

It should be fun. If you’re there, don’t be shy, put up your hand and ask them a really awkward question about what the future of storytelling looks like, whether the world is going to end in December and what on earth is the point of this thing we call life. Actually, maybe just stick to the storytelling bit.

Bigballs is Fishing For Trouble with Channel 4

bigballs — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:43:06 +0000

The bravest Ballers headed out to the World’s newest nation South Sudan a few weeks ago alongside award winning war reporter and Time Magazine, Africa Bureau Chief Alex Perry to shoot a broadcast pilot for ‘Fishing For Trouble’, a show that will uncover the fascinating characters and stories in some of the World’s most unstable countries.

There’s real method to the madness though – it’s a little known fact that the biggest fish in the world, are found in the most dangerous places, because, as you’d expect, people often have other things on their mind.

The filming covered a range of locations, including The Sudd, one of the world’s largest wetlands and one of the last uncharted places on the planet and the aim is for the series to move to other platforms if a series is commissioned.

Here’s a nice little quote from the commissioner Sara Ramsden,

“Bigballs Films has brought one of the world’s leading Africa experts to work at Channel 4. As Alex Perry fishes for tiger fish, the scariest fish in the world, in the newest country in the world, we are very excited about this innovative new way to look at stories in Africa from a fresh angle.”

Check out the press here:

Another new client – the truth is out there…

bigballs — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:21:09 +0000

We’re currently wrapping on another fun job that has seen team Bigballs head down to Cornwall for 3 nights of alien abductions and general weirdness that will shortly to be seen in glorious widescreen on the nation’s cinemas. More news soon, but here’s a little tease of what’s to come if you pop down to watch Men In Black 3 at your local multiplex.

New work with Yazoo

bigballs — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:46:35 +0000

So we’ve been busy with a whole load of new work for Yazoo, through agency Mercieca that follows the adventures of The Shake Squad – there’s the commercial, there’s some extra bucket loads of content and there’s all of the digital and community build aspects of the campaign. Check out the ad here:

then head over to the Facebook page and Twitter to get a whole load of other milkshake goodness.

New talent arrives at Bigballs

bigballs — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 10:37:36 +0000

Another bit of exciting news as the Bigballs family gets a little bigger with the arrival of writer/director Wayne Holloway who will be working across our slate of brand, agency and TV work. With credits directing for adidas, Reebok, Samsung and NFL both in the UK and US, and two feature films about to go into production he’s bringing a huge amount of experience to the good ship Bigballs.

Nivea For Men Great Football Experiment – Sports Industry Awards nomination

bigballs — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:03:42 +0000

Hot on the heels of our BAFTA nomination for I AM PLAYR, we’ve been nominated for Best Use of Digital Communications in Sport for the Nivea Great Football Experiment. Again a brilliant team effort…

Sports Industry Awards – full list of nominations

Check out the round up film here – and hold tight, it’s an emotional rollercoaster

Great Football Experiment Roundup from Bigballs on Vimeo.

I AM PLAYR nominated for a BAFTA

bigballs — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:24:24 +0000

Nice bit of recognition from BAFTA for 18 months of incredibly hard work by the teams at Bigballs and We R Interactive. We now have 1.5m + installs of the game, 600,000 active monthly users, brilliantly integrated brands in Nike, Red Bull, Alfa Romeo and Ginsters with more to come, and an incredible platform which we can build a whole range of new games, starting with our first music game which launches in the next couple of months.

Check the news here:

BAFTA – Video games nominations

Here’s the latest trailer.

Romance – A Bigballs short for Valentine’s Day

bigballs — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:16:51 +0000

A week or so ago Bigballs writer/director Lewis Georgeson decided to make a short film for Valentine’s Day. This is the brilliant result. It’s beautiful. Sort of.

Andrew Conrad joins Bigballs as Director of TV

bigballs — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:17:44 +0000

Exciting news at Bigballs towers as Andrew Conrad joins at a key point in our growth bringing with him over 20 years experience in television, first as a founder of Princess Productions, then as MD of Jamie Oliver’s production company Fresh One and most recently as MD of Betty who were recently sold to Discovery Networks.

Check out the news of his announcement here:

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