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Army Everest Site Cleans Up At Awards

The British Army West Ridge Team may not have reached the top, but the expedition web site has kicked butt in the annual awards for digital marketing campaigns. Well deserved too.


Posted: 25 September 2006
by Jon

Just a quick heads up to let you know that the rather excellent Army On Everest web site for this spring's unsuccessful military assault on the West Rdige of Everest has cleaned up in a digital advertising awards scrap...

At this year's Campaign Digital Awards, the all-singing, all-dancing site so impressed industry luminaries including the UK MD of Google and the Head of Planning and Strategy at Yahoo that it won the overall Grand Prix Award for Best Digital Campaign of 2006.

And that wasn't all, the site - above - also landed Best Acquisition Marketing Programme and Best Use of Interactive awards, which is a pretty impressive achievement for an expedition web site. And in doing so, it beat most of the big hitters of the digital world.

Of course, the site was there for a reason, namely to help boost Army recruitment and there was a huge amount of investment in it, but that shouldn't take away from what was an astonishingly informative and innovative web site.

Just like Everest, it's still out there and still worth a look at www.armyoneverest.mod.uk. Congratulations to everyone involved in the project.

More about the award results at campaigndigitalawards.com


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Wasn't our very own Dave M' deeply involved with this?

Posted: 25/09/2006 at 18:39

I was Phil, and thanks for remembering :)))) Obviously the team are absolutely delighted with the success, and from a personal standpoint it's great news for an expedition site to beat off the big guns. We were up against the likes of Radio 1, Hasbro, Carling, Sony Erriccson and Sainsburys, so the recognition means a great deal to all involved.

Posted: 25/09/2006 at 19:04

Sorry Dave, I'd have credited you in the article, but I wasn't sure whether you were deep under cover or not :-)


Posted: 25/09/2006 at 20:04

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