Gold both at Clio & One Show

The last week our and GSP´s Get the glass where competing in awards shows around US for the last time. And it ends as it started; totally incredible. It has won every single competition it has joined. Winning awards should never be purpose of its own ofcourse, but still it is a good way to show that your company exist and it gives you more work. But most important is that the campaign actually are doing some purpose for the brand, and for Get The Glass it have done that to;

Visitors: 3,3 millions (9000 visits a day in average).
Unique visitors: 2,5 millions.
Time spent: 9 min in average.
Browsers: 63% IE, 28% Firefox

From where?
Direct: 37%
123spill.no: 170 000 visitors (5 %).
Minijuegos.com: 118 000 visitors.
FWA: 85 000 visitors.
USA dominates with 1,2 million visits, and then Norway with 250 000 visitors.

(Data from Feb, 2008.)




Clio Awards 2008 Miami Beach, 49th Annual; One Gold (Get The Glass for Animation), one Silver (Get The Glass for Brand Building) and one Bronze (The Coke Zero Game).

I had the chance to be in Miami Beach in person together with Roger Stighall and his wife Sofia which was ! In the ceremony, placed at the great Jackie Gleason Theater, I and Mike Geiger (from GSP) went up to the stage together which was something else! Great feeling to go up there! It was the first time I have actually went to an award ceremony, and I hope it won´t be the last ;)


Roger and I after the Award Show. BIG thanks to Mike Geiger and his very nice gesture when he told us to keep the statues! Thanks a lot! I hope to work with you this winter! :)

Great also to see that almost 25% on the shortlist where from Sweden.

The One Show 2008, New York; One Gold (Get The Glass for Microsites Corporate Image)

Sweden finished on third place after USA and Great Britain.

We won a Yellow & one Black Pencil!

The successful fairytale continues! Absolute amazing! Last night in London our gettheglass.com campaign we did with Goodby Silverstein & Partners won two pencils at the D&AD Awards. It is the third time in history an interactive project won a Black Pencil! It is little shame thou that we did not get so much cred at the ceremony as usually when we works with bigger advertising agencies. But still totally awesome! For GSP it was the first Black Pencil every in its 25 years history! How cool is that? GSP is one of the best agencies in USA today.

It is only the third time in history an interactive project is given a Black Pencil.

Personally I´m in Miami right now for the Clio Show so I missed the possibility to be in place but I guess it must been amazing. David Eriksson and Mikael Forsgren from North Kingdom where at place thou! :)

6 Black Pencils where given this night. iPhone and iMac was two other winners of this big price.


Mikael is so happy with his new friends!

North Kingdom & The 2008 Creativity 50

A couple of month ago we where included on a list I never had dreamed about.

"The list represents the biggest innovators of the year, who—through repeated demonstration of sheer brilliance or even just one spectacular feat—brought new spark to their respective fields of advertising, entertainment, marketing, technology, design and beyond."

Absolute amazing! A great award for our whole office! :D

The article of North Kingdom.
The article about Creativity 50.

Grand at New York Festivals

We won both Grand in the 2008 New York Festivals (NYF) Innovative Advertising Awards and also won Gold for Best Microsite. It is amazing how much good publicity this project have given us :) Unfortunately we did not have time for this years Got Milk campaign for Got Milk, but I hope to have the chance again next winter.

Here is an article in the Swedish Resumé for the awards.

FWA Site Of The Year + People Choice Award 07

Shit! We did it again :D We won x 2!!

FWA Site Of The Year
FWA People Choice Award

"This is only the second time in FWA's history that the same site has won
both the SOTY and PCA awards, so huge congratulations!" - Rob Ford, The FWA

Last time we won the double was with our Vodafone Future Vision back in 2004. Amazing! I think I can quit now ;)

1 Year Long Global Competition
12+ million site visits
365 Site Of The Day Winners
12 Site Of The Month Finalists
1 International Public Vote
82872 votes cast
1 People Choice Award Winner

Comment from David Eriksson, CEO North Kingdom:

Holy Cow!

Getting the FWA PCA is from our view the greatest prize you can win. We have
always tried to put the users in the first room and this is a proof that we
have succeeded

It is also a recognition to the whole North Kingdom Team and a reward for
all the love and passion we put into our work.

Looking forward we will struggle to keep pushing the frontier of digital
media and make ourselves worthy of this award!

Here is a Swedish article as well by IDG.

.net Awards 07 - Interactive Site of the Year

"The 10th annual .net awards are upon us. Who’s won, who’s lost, who’s the hottest property on the internet?"
North Kigndom was given the Interactive Site of the Year by the international .net magazine.

The award was again for our "Get the Glass" campaign! Awesome! :) Sometimes it is easy to forget all late hours you have spent in a project. If it was worth it? Well, that is another question... ;)

But still, it is always great to get recognition like that! Thank you .net!

LIA Gold x 2

Together with Goodby, Silverstein & Partners we won two Golds Statuettes, at London International Awards with our Get the Glass project. What a year :)

Awards is not everything in the world but still, it is little sad that small creative agencies like ours never get the cred as we should have...

We also had a finalist with Vodafone Journey! Not bad either :)

"The Hottest Digital Agencies Around"

Wow! Advertising Age has listed North Kingdom as one of the "The Hottest Digital Agencies Around".

"Despite waves of consolidation across the ad-agency business, there remains a healthy bunch of independent digital shops doing everything from search optimization to building web interfaces to simply doing damn good creative. Some of these shops are near-acquisitions for digital-hungry giants; others are adamantly opposed to becoming part of something larger, hanging onto the romantic notion of David vs. Goliath."

I am very honored! And I can tell you that we are not Goliath! ;)

Here is a note about it in the Swedish press: Resumé

Winner at Flashforward Film Festival

North Kingdom and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners won yesterday with Get The Glass at the seventeenth Flashforward Film Festival awards ceremony.

Lovely :)

Hall of Fame

Amazing!!! My company has been chosen to FWA Hall of Fame! I am very proud of all our employees! You guys are the best!!!

Text from the website;

"North Kingdom is the first company to ever have won both a Site Of The Year award and a People's Choice Award. The fact that they made this, so far, unique achievement is even greater seeing that they won both in the same year for their pioneering Vodafone Future Vision site. North Kingdom is one of the very few agencies who consistently produce the most creative and progressive websites and is hailed as one of the world's best by their industry peers as well. - Rob Ford, FWA Founder.

Wow! Otroligt roligt! We don´t know what to say up here! We are very glad and very honored to be mentioned at the FWA Hall of Fame! It means a lot for us! We are a small agency but still fighting with the big bulls! Nothing is impossible in this branch! - Robert Lindström, Art & Design Director / Co-Founder, North Kingdom"

Gold at Cannes Cyber Lion 2007

YES! We at North Kingdom won gold at Cannes this year as well! Two years in a row! Get the Glass won a Cyber Gold Lion at Cannes. Great news! On the picture it is a glad Roger Stighäll (my colleague I started North Kingdom with). Too bad that I didn´t went to the festival this year but I will definitely go next year! Thanks Goodby, Silverstein & Partners for a good collaboration!

Staffan Lamm, who went down with Roger, have his thoughts about Cannes here.




Sad that we didn´t get more cred though :/