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News
The People Have Spoken
This year, we were presented with a People's Voice award at 2009 Webby Awards for a site we built for Sprint and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. GetWorkDoneNow.com was the site, stiff was the competition (over 10,000 entries from 60 countries worldwide) and many were the votes from the interactive community on our behalf. As humbled as we are by the honor, we've made some extra room in our awards case for any other Webbys that the people might want to pass on in the future. No pressure, people.
Kat on the Prowl
Exo's co-founder and CMO, Kat Egan, leads a glamorous life, if you didn't already know!
She's recently been spotted on a panel at the NXT STAGE Online & Mobile Entertainment Conference, and served as a judge and panelist at the AICP Next Awards. Where will she be this next? Follow her on Twitter to find out!
Exo HEARTS Parties
Pink cupcakes, Austrian crystal chandeliers, LiLo being denied entrance by security? A.K.A. Exopolis after dark! We took our new experiential capabilities to heart with the launch party for Charlotte Ronson's new clothing line for JC Penney. Sting, Samantha Ronson, Kim Kardashian, Nicole Ritchie attended. Yeah... its just another day at the new and improved Exo office...
Ranch on the Side
We like our veggies raw, tasty and preferably digital, which made us perfectly poised to work with Hidden Valley Ranch and Current Chicago. Their team tasked us with creating a little edutainment—enticing kids to play a game that teaches about the seed to field to table life of our vegetable friends. Our crunchy, sweet, delicious, friends. Who like to be dipped in Ranch. And devoured. Mmmm...
Lucky Ride
For Holiday '08, we partnered with agency Kirshenbaum Bond + Partners and their client, Lucky Jeans, to create the Lucky Buckoff—a fun (and funny) online app that makes you or a friend the star of your own reindeer rodeo. Buck well, and you got a discount at Lucky stores. Santa must have approved—no coal in the Exo stockings this year (whew).
One Lighthouse
One of our favorite projects ever—the short Lighthouse, written, directed and animated for Hill Holliday and Liberty Mutual—was awarded the Merit Award at The One Show. We're honored by the recognition, proud of our team, and did an office-wide happy dance when we got the news. (Our downstairs neighbors thought it was an earthquake.)
Chili's Stiff (as cardboard) Competition
In the mocu-site category, we submit PJ Bland's. Hosted by PJ himself, this site tempts the tastebuds, offers employment opportunities and gives new meaning to the word monochromatic. We had great fun with Hill Holliday on this site, which complemented their whole integrated campaign for Chili's. Bland's vs. babybacks? Check out the site and you'll know where we stand.
In the Mix
Mixercast, a leader in do-it-yourself rich media applications, has joined the family. Their widgets, banners and minigames are the kind you want to click on, offer insane tracking (and metrics, of course), and will be oh-so-tempting to engage with, wrapped in Exo strategy and design. They're the type of strategic partner that brings pumpkin and apple pie to Thanksgiving dinner—and we're excited to have them at our table.
Überminding the iPhone
We're proud to announce a new partnership with Übermind: genius iPhone app creators. Here's how it works: our teams get together to come up with strategy and design and development, and you get to download applications that you never knew you couldn't live without. Easy enough, right? Plus this partnership fulfills our ongoing desire to work with smart people who have an umlaut in their name.
MMA Joins the Team
(Drumroll, please)
Exopolis is pleased to announce the recent acquisition of boutique experiential and entertainment marketing firm, MMA Creative Group. They're the crew that puts on the amazing events that we've always wanted to get invited to, but never did. I mean, we always snuck in and won the crowd over with our charm, but now we get to walk in the front door and get photographed on the red carpet and stuff.
Welcome MMA!
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Microsoft Xbox
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Our friends at Microsoft Xbox came to us with an idea that we got kind of excited about (actually, we were full-on ecstatic). They wanted us to create the anthem for the new Xbox interface (high fives all around). The result was a hero animation piece that plays when you first download the new interface to your game console, which was seen by millions worldwide. It was great fun, great work and we finally had a really good excuse to play more video games in the office. (R&D, right?)
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