Congratulations to Stun Creative, who last night was named 2014 North America Agency of the Year.

The Agency of the Year is awarded to a company who has demonstrated outstanding and creatively innovative work, and is ultimately decided by the sheer number of awards won in the 2014 Promotion, Marketing and Design North America Awards competition.

Stun Creative is an agency and production company based out of Los Angeles that also runs Buster, the design and motion graphics studio, and BusterINK, which handles print and outdoor campaigns. Stun Creative is operated by principals Mark Feldstein and Brad Roth, and has a long-standing relationship with top brands including Bravo, Food Network, CNN and “General Hospital,” which has earned them multiple Daytime Emmy nominations.

To celebrate their big win at The Conference 2014, Brief runs down some of their award-winning work from the past year, and looks ahead to what they’re working on next:

“Ravenswood”/ABC Family:

All three parts of Stun Creative’s studio (including Buster and BusterINK) handled aspects of the campaign for the launch of “Pretty Little Liar” spinoff, “Ravenswood,” which debuted last fall. “It was a 360-degree campaign,” according to Feldstein and Roth, who say that the campaign worked so well in the end because of the studio’s three divisions’ ability to share creative and collaborate successfully.

Nickelodeon:

The “Funny Rules” brand campaign set out to simply “remind viewers that Nickelodeon is funny,” using classic comedy rules and universal truths of what makes a joke good, according to Feldstein and Roth. The campaign IDs take classic jokes (pull my finger, etc.) and translate them into Nickelodeon scenes and logo animation.

CNN Films:

After working on the digital side for “The Sixties” docuseries, Stun Creative created the kickoff campaign for the franchise CNN Films. The agency had worked with CNN for years, but this project marked their first TV work and the first launch of a major franchise they had completed for the news network. “That was very exciting,” said Feldstein and Roth. “It was a very big, very important property for them. It was a very big bet for them and we were happy to be called in on that.”

“General Hospital:”

This year, Stun Creative is nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for their work on “General Hospital.” If they win, this will be their third Emmy win for their work on the soap opera (Outstanding Promotional Announcement – Institutional). “It was a really cool animated campaign,” said Feldstein and Roth. “We took a whole different approach to the show, where we didn’t use any live action. We did it in a surprising way, with hand-drawn animated style.” The spot, named “Carly,” updated viewers on the soap’s storyline through an original song, but used no show footage at all.

Food Network:

Feldstein and Roth say the best thing about working with Food Network is the opportunity to work with the talent there – Bobby Flay, Alton Brown and the other cooks in “Worst Cooks” and “Cutthroat Kitchen.” For the “Worst Cooks” campaign, Stun Creative worked off of the tagline “What these cooks do to food is criminal” to create an interrogation scene. “The conceit was almost a police procedural where these awful cooks were interrogated by the hosts,” said Feldstein and Roth.

Bravo:

This year marked the fifth “Summer by Bravo” campaign Stun Creative has created, this time going with a circus theme. “We got to shoot James Lipton out of a cannon – that alone was worth it,” said Feldstein and Roth. “Bravo is just a great brand to work with.”

Last fall, they also expanded on the “golden” theme for another Bravo franchise, “Shahs of Sunset.” Treating the promo like a music video with the cast, Stun Creative made a hyper-stylized spot that even involved a lion in the bathroom.

Next up, Stun Creative is focusing on football season with campaigns for NFL Network in the works, along with the former “View” host, Meredith Vieira, who is launching her syndicated show for NBCU this fall, “The Meredith Vieira Show.”

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