NuZoo Media Wins Multiple Awards for Educational CD Series
(Chicago, IL) — NuZoo won a Gold International Davey Award in the Interactive Multimedia Category, and a Bronze Horizon Award in the Education / Training Category for the interactive, educational video series “Cancer Risk Reduction Through Dietary Intervention.” The NuZoo Media awards were for a video series that was produced for the National Cancer Institute.
NuZoo won a Gold International Davey Award in the Interactive Multimedia Category for the interactive, educational video series Healthy Eating.
NuZoo Media used video, audio, animation, graphics, original music and songs in the “Cancer Risk Reduction” series. The purpose is to educate and encourage lower income children 11-14 in healthier eating to reduce cancer risk. Interactive elements allow users to make choices that identify them as being part of one group and take them down one of three paths. Based on the users’ choices, strategies, benefits, and stories are offered for encouragement and education. Key interactive elements include a menu planner for breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack, and a drag and drop plate section enabling users to choose from more than 100 fruits and vegetables categorized in the program’s five color choices.
“This is an honor for the staff here at NuZoo to be judged by peers around the world and win these awards,” said NuZoo president Dan Pulik. “Our clients know how hard we work to produce outstanding programs, and when we win an award we’re winning it for them, too. Everyone involved in this, from the animators and programmers, script writers, video and creative staff, worked hard.”
The Davey’s received more than 4,000 entries from across the U.S. and around the world encompassing video, interactive multimedia, integrated and multimedia campaigns, marketing effectiveness, web sites, radio, advertising, print and collateral.
The Horizon Awards saw more than 1000 entries from 20 countries around world. An international panel of judges, consisting of industry professionals with diverse backgrounds, as well as an end user panel, evaluated 18 different categories ranging from online advertising to video games.
About NuZoo Media, Inc.
NuZoo Media, Inc. is an award-winning interactive communications company. We blend art with the latest technology to create communications with flair that promote the brand and deliver the message quickly and effectively to your target audience.
NuZoo, founded in 1999, has successfully produced dozens of projects across all major media for national and international clients in a broad range of industries. Here at the ‘Zoo we produce eye-catching, concise and focused materials. Our services include video production,web design, graphics, SEO and marketing.
About The Davey Awards
NuZoo won a Gold International Davey Award.
The Davey Awards exclusively honor the “Davids” of creativity, the finest small firms, agencies and companies in the world. David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock – the sort of thing small firms do each year. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the “Creative Davids” who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than big budgets. The Davey Awards is the leading awards competition specifically for smaller firms, where firms compete with their peers to win the recognition they deserve. Please visit www.daveyawards.com for more information.
The Davey Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Please visit www.iavisarts.org for a full member list and more information.
About The Horizon Awards
The Horizon Interactive Awards are judged by people from all levels of the interactive media industry and other related fields. These are people that live and work in the industry on a daily basis; in addition, end-users and non-designers are also part of the judges panel. Judges look for the best blend between creativity and functionality. The Horizon Interactive Awards was created to recognize excellence in interactive media production worldwide. Please visit www.horizoninteractiveawards.com for more information.