Belated Birthday Boy

The last few weeks have been totally crazy at 162 Collins. Late nights, weekends, pitch wins, sick staff, car launches. Madness I tell ya!

All of which meant we had a lot of trouble getting our MD Chris Jeffares to stand still long enough to blow out the candles on his birthday cake.

Today we decided enough was enough and hijacked him from a client meeting for a quick burst of Happy Birthday and some gorgeous mini cupcakes.

Given the importance of his meeting Chris then disappeared even quicker than the cupcakes did.

New brand experience training

WunderNic is in NZ at the moment on what she has termed 'brand experience training'. We just call it having a well-deserved holiday. Enjoy and Happy Birthday!

PS - try and avoid another avalanche please.

Wunderman Supermodel Rumours

Wunderman Supermodel 'CA' who can be seen below in her latest high-profile advertising campaign for Ford, has just jetted off for a week in Vegas ... with her lovely long-term boyfriend.

Rumours are swirling about their international jestset lifestyle and this flying visit, with comparisons to fellow Australian Miranda Kerr and Orlando Bloom.

Enough said for now. Stay tuned ...

Paulie Picks

Wunderman joined the World Cup frenzy over the last month with late nights, tipping comps, foosball chamiponships and a lovely little 'experiential' site from These Days - Paulie Predicts at www.pauliepredicts.com

Vuvuzela

Wunderman Sydney's social committee hosted another games night on Thursday, this time with an in-house Foosball comp in honour of the World Cup Fever that has gripped the agency recently. While vuvuzelas were banned from the event, the Wunderkids came for the early start (which means an early knock-off from work), the drinks, the cheese plate and pizza. And the game, of course.

Eight teams picked a country to represent, and after the bookie's favourite, Spain (Paolo and Will), was knocked out of the comp in the first round, the spectators were hoping for a trans-Tasman clash between Australia (Rabbit and Nat E) and New Zealand (Amanda and Paul). But Australia fell to England (Soph and James) leading to a best-of-three grand final battle between the old empire and the young colony – England vs. New Zealand. In just two rounds the kiwis scored 10-8 and 10-9, besting the lions and claiming the trophy.

(There is a video of the night, but this freakin' blog won't upload it).

Ten Grand Wins APMA Grand Prix

Last night Wunderman Sydney’s TenGrandisBuriedHere campaign for Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 took out Gold for Best use of Social Media Within a Promotional Campaign and the GRAND PRIX at the Australian Promotional Marketing Association Awards.

The agency almost missed out collecting the Grand Prix trophy as our two agency representatives at the Awards, Nicola Long and Paul Hayes, chuffed at having picked up Gold, were about to sneak out and go home early, but lingered long enough to get a very pleasant surprise when the Grand Prix was announced. In her subsequent excitement, Nicola managed to drop both trophies, which Paul is repairing with superglue as I write.

These wins add to Ten Grand’s previous haul of metal at both Caples and ADMA.