DDB Stays Creative, Wins Again

  • June 7, 2001
For the second year in a row, DDB Chicago won the $100,000 Radio-Mercury Award Grand Prize for excellence in Radio creative. This marks the first time in the Mercury Awards' ten-year history that the Grand Prize was awarded to the same agency in back to back years.

A total of 12 cash prizes and 13 trophies were presented for the best Radio commercials of 2000 during an exclusive, invitation-only luncheon ceremony held today at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.

John Immesoete, VP/Group Creative Director of DDB Chicago, who was the writer on last year's Grand Prize Winning spot, served as both writer and creative director on this year's best Radio commercial "Heroes/Mr. Pickled Pigs Feet Eater," a spot developed for Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light.

In addition to Immesoete, the winning team consisted of producer Sam Pillsbury, composers Sam Struyk and Sandy Torano, talent David W. Bickler and Pete Stacker with music by Scandal Music recorded at the Chicago Recording Company studio.

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