Monthly Archives: March 2010

Peter Mayer Advertising Scores at 2010 ADDY® Awards

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Agency Wins 23 Awards for Outstanding Creative Work

Celebrating its own sort of Super Bowl, the advertising community of New Orleans showered Peter Mayer Advertising with 23 awards at the 2010 ADDY Awards. Held at the Superdome on Saturday, February 27, the annual awards banquet attracted more than 200 ad professionals as Louisiana’s largest full-service advertising agency was recognized for excellence with 19 silver and four gold ADDYs. In addition, three Peter Mayer employees were lauded as “Ad Persons of the Year.”

“It’s always great to have a winning season, but it always means more when we are recognized by our peers,” said Peter Mayer President Mark Mayer. “And this year is the Ad Club’s 100th anniversary, so it makes these awards extra special to us.”

A list of Peter Mayer’s awards follows:

Ad Persons of the Year:

Communications Support Person
Office Manager Lisa Kozinko

Most Promising Person
Junior Account Executive Kady Collier

Agency Account Executive
Senior Account Executive Andrea Morris

The award-winning work ranged from state agencies like Louisiana Economic Development to the Audubon Nature Institute to Zatarain’s, a producer of New Orleans-style food products. The complete list of awards included:

Gold:

Louisiana Economic Development – 2
Fore!Kids Foundation/Zurich Classic – 1
Peter A. Mayer Advertising – 1

Silver:

Audubon Nature Institute – 2
CenturyLink – 4
Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots – 1
Fore!Kids Foundation/Zurich Classic – 2
Louisiana Economic Development – 5
KID smART – 1
Sam Houston Race Park – 1
Zatarain’s – 3

Winners from the NOLA ADDY AWARDS 2010 will go on to compete in the District 7 ADDY competition to be held in Jackson, Tenn. District winners will then be eligible to compete in the National ADDY competition, presented in June each year by the American Advertising Federation.

Peter Mayer Advertising Announces Two New Hires in First Quarter 2010

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Peter Mayer Advertising Announces Two New Hires in First Quarter 2010

“We are pleased that our workload allows us to add new talent to our company and our city. We intend to continue growing and hope that this is a testament to New Orleans’ rising economy,” said Agency President, Mark Mayer.

Peter Mayer proudly announces the following new hires to the agency:

Kristen Duffee – Administrative Assistant
Duffee joins Peter Mayer as Administrative Assistant. Prior to joining Peter Mayer, Duffee worked as an organizational guru at The Occasional Wife. She and her family recently returned to New Orleans after living in Memphis, Tenn., for several years.

Charlotte LeCorgne – Proofreader
LeCorgne, a New Orleans native, joins Peter Mayer as part-time proofreader after returning from Los Angeles, Calif., where she worked as an assistant to a TV sitcom director and at a small production company. LeCorgne graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 with a double major in English and French.

Peter Mayer Helps with Biggest Send-off Celebration in Camp Shelby’s History

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Peter Mayer’s PR team and Williams Creative Group partnered with the Office of the Lieutenant Governor to plan and host a send-off concert and jambalaya picnic for the Louisiana National Guard 256th Infantry Brigade and their families on Friday, March 5 at Camp Shelby, Miss.

The 3,500 troops who are being deployed to Iraq for their second tour, as well as approximately 6,500 family members and friends attended the event. The crowd was entertained Louisiana-style by Amanda Shaw; Meriwether; Trombone Shorty; David St. Romain; the New Orleans Saints cheerleaders, the Saintsations; the New Orleans Hornets cheerleaders, the Honeybees; and Miss Louisiana 2009 Katherine Putnam. The masters of ceremony for the event were Lt. Gov. Mitchell J. Landrieu, James Carville and Mary Matalin. The Lafayette Jambalaya Krewe provided jambalaya.

WWL-TV, WAFB-TV and The Advocate, among others, covered the event.

Peter Mayer Brings Home 23 Awards from the ADDYs

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The recent New Orleans ADDY Awards, held Feb. 27, celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Ad Club of New Orleans as well as the best advertising work done in the area in 2009. Peter Mayer received four gold awards and 19 silver awards at the event.

We received awards for work done for CenturyLink, Louisiana Economic Development, Audubon Nature Institute, Zatarain’s, Fore!Kids Foundation/Zurich Classic, Fair Grounds Race Course & Slots, Sam Houston Race Park and KIDsmART.

We are proud to have three employees recognized at the individual level: Agency Account Person of the Year, Andrea Morris, senior account executive; Most Promising Person of the Year, Kady Collier, junior account executive; Communications Support Person of the Year, Lisa Kozinko, office manager.

Peter Mayer PR, Sandy Hillman Communications and HBO Achieve Total Victory for “The Pacific” Premiere

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Peter Mayer Public Relations recently worked with partners at Sandy Hillman Communications and HBO to orchestrate a successful media campaign for the New Orleans premiere of HBO’s new WWII drama “The Pacific.” The event, hosted by our client The National World War II Museum, was a celebration of the epic mini-series created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg. The evening included two red carpet functions – a screening with Tom Hanks at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center and a gala in the Museum’s Great Hall featuring the HBO cast, with music by the Museum’s own Victory Belles.

Coverage appeared in all local media outlets as well as on Twitter and Facebook. Click here to watch the actors being interviewed on WWL-TV, the local CBS station. Click here to read the Associated Press story about the event.

JFG Coffee, Historic Charlotte, Inc and Peter Mayer Team Up to “Save Our Signs”

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Last Tuesday, Feb. 23, in Charlotte, N.C., Reily Foods’ JFG Coffee and its local preservation advocacy partner, Historic Charlotte, Inc. (HCI), hosted a joint press conference announcing the return of a famous, historic JFG sign to the city’s skyline. In addition, the two partners unveiled a new program known as Save Our Signs Charlotte, designed to preserve the city’s vintage signs. Peter Mayer Public Relations planned and staffed the news conference, held at Ratcliffe On The Green in Uptown Charlotte.

The event drew the attention of all five local TV networks, which featured the story in multiple newscasts that evening. Click here and here to view coverage. FOX TV also featured the event as a follow-up story the next morning. Print coverage appeared in The Charlotte Observer and USA TODAY.