DC media is officially excellent

At the American Association of Advertising Agencies’ annual conference in LA yesterday, Duncan Channon took home the O’Toole Award for Media Excellence in the Small Agency category for StubHub. In addition to a handsome two-foot-high black statue that would not have been out of place in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, the agency receives $10,000 that it is invited to donate to charity (good thing, because otherwise media honcho Leslie Diard might head to Vegas and celebrate by putting it all on black).

In keeping with the mission of the 4A’s O’Toole Awards, the Media Excellence category awards the agency for a body of work. In the past, Duncan Channon was a finalist three years in a row for the O’Toole Award for Creative Excellence.

“We believe great ideas are as likely to come from media as from creative – that’s why we put so much emphasis on collaboration,” said agency president Robert Duncan. “And this campaign is proof. We couldn’t be more proud of Leslie Diard and her communications planning team. And for me, it was a special honor to accept the award – mostly because it’s the only time they’ll ever let me touch the thing.”

Tying into DC’s Ticket Oak TV, outdoor and digital campaign, the media campaign honored yesterday involved custom partnerships with FX’s “The League” and with Rolling Stone in a special Venues that Rock program, as well as StubHub-branded food trucks offering Ticket Oak karaoke, free hot dogs and sports- and music-related trivia contests outside football and concert venues. The campaign was designed to counter increasingly aggressive competitors and resulted in dramatic increases in traffic and in StubHub’s brand power index. And special thanks to all our team members at StubHub.