Watch as Alana, Jesse and Kellene compete in their first challenge.  A real photoshoot for Glamour magazines May issue!

Take look at the clip below.  It’s a highlight reel of some projects we worked on here at Diligent.  Although it could use a little updating, we still think it shows some of our capabilities.  What do you think?

Diligent Co-Founder, Gabriel Landau, is speaking on March 24th at the Nxt Stage Conference in Los Angeles, CA.  NXT STAGE Online & Mobile Entertainment Conference is an industry conference targeting specifically pre and post-production executives as well as programming executives from the film/tv production sector. The premise of the conference is that there are significant number of trade shows/conferences that address the commercial and technical aspects of the content markets yet very few that focus on the creative/production aspects. When you think about other digital media conferences and the number of panels that are dedicated to the pure logistics of ad serving! As a result, while the business models and technologies have rapidly evolved, the creative process has been left lagging behind. The writers, producers and proramming executives have not been told that they, too, are stakeholders in this new digital world. This is the opportunity for the platform solution providers and the distributors to bring the creative production community into our evolving digital world.

Here’s some information on the panel that Gabriel will be on:

Tuesday, March 24th at 10:30am

Track C – Social Media

Participation Programming

The holy grail for any development team is to create formats or concepts that secure traction quickly and feed off their own momentum. What is this “magical stuff” that can shift audiences in their seats and encourage them to adopt the brand in their daily lives?

Moderator Jason Ling – Promethean Industries – Founder/Chief Strategist
(former Head of Mobile – MySpace)  

Panelists:

Derek Handley -CEO -The Hyperfactory

Jason George –CEO – Telescope

Gabriel Landau –Co-Founder – Diligent

Frank Riva – Sr. Director, Marketing & Business Development – Apptera 

In episode 102 of Couch Crashers, Kevin and Ben try to find Conan Obrien but instead wind up buying an awful star map from a midget and having Rowdy Roddy Piper put the sleeper hold on them. It’s unbelievable, it’s Couch Crashers, baby!

First episode of C.C. is up…Watch Kevin and Ben go to the Battle in Seattle.

Episode 2, featuring Rowdy Roddy Piper, premiers March 16th..

The show we sold to Playboy.com, Couch Crashers, is premiering tomorrow, Monday March 9th, on Playboy.com.  It’s a lifestyle / interview show featuring two comedians (Ben Gleib from The Real Wedding Crashers and Kevin Kline from The Playboy Morning Show), “crashing” cool events, while getting full access to them. The show is being produced with Alta Loma Entertainment (playboy’s non-adult division).We’re very happy to announce that Bushmills has committed to sponsoring the first five episodes of the series.  Thank you Stacey Drucker for believing in the project when we brought it to you back in November!  Here’s a link to Episode 1:  http://playboy.com/arts-entertainment/features/couch-crashers/      

Check this out…

This video is from last year at TED.  It’s 20 minutes long and it gives some insight on his creative process.

We just found out the video we did with Eric Schwartz, aka Smooth E, won 2 Silver Davey Awards….one for

Music Video and the other for comedy short…The video, Crank dat Kosha Boy, went viral immediately, ending up with over 4 million hits online.

We’d like to give a special shout out to our man, Eric Schwartz, aka Smooth E, for involving us with the project.

We would like to announce that Diligent has taken home a total of three 2008 Davey Awards.  For the full press release you can go here.

First off, the project we did for Parrot with Ground Zero Agency, “Kid Fails Driving Test”, has won two Gold Davey Awards in this years competition.  There were many people that made that project such a success, but we’d like to thank Advertising Agency, Ground Zero, for making the project one of our best of 2008.

Now, onto the Davey Awards… here’s a little blurb about them:

“The International Academy of the Visual Arts was honored to have once again participated in the International Davey Awards competition.  We were truly amazed and excited at the overall caliber and quality of this year’s pool of entries” noted Linda Day, Executive Director of the IAVA.  She added “The Davey Awards serves as the benchmark for recognizing creative excellence and continues to raise the bar in honoring the best work from small agencies and firms worldwide.  Congratulations to the “Creative Davids” at the forefront of their industry, helping to push the limits in creativity and design.    

The Davey Awards is judged and overseen by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (IAVA), a 200+ member organization of leading professionals from various disciplines of the visual arts dedicated to embracing progress and the evolving nature of traditional and interactive media.  Current IAVA membership represents a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms including:  Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Yahoo!, Estee Lauder, Wired, Insight, Interactive, The Webby Awards, Bath & Body Works, Brandweek, Polo Ralph Lauren, ADWEEK, Alloy, Coach, iNDELIBLE, MTV, Victoria’s Secret, HBO, The Ellen Degeneres Show, Myspace.com, and many others.  See www.iavisarts.org for more information. ”