Won 2 ADDYs - Best of Category!

While everyone else on the planet was watching the overly long and indulgent Oscars, Animax Entertainment was indulging in an Odyssey of our own at the LA North ADDY ceremony held at Odyssey restaurant in Granada Hills. While we missed seeing The Hurt Locker upset over Avatar, we did walk away from the ADDYs ceremony with two awards for Slotcar, the branded entertainment webisode series we produced for Carl's Jr. and Hardee's - Best of Category and a Special Judge's Award. We now move from the local level to the district level of the American Advertising Federation competition. Keeping fingers crossed.

Animax Wins an ADDY Award

Animax Entertainment just won a 2010 ADDY Award for our work on Slotcar, the branded entertainment series we produced for Carl's Jr. and Hardee's.

The ADDY® Awards run by the American Advertising Federation are the creative industry’s largest competition, attracting over 60,000 entries every year in local ADDY competitions. The mission of the ADDY is to recognize and reward creative excellence in the art of advertising, graphic design, web design, and in the elements of advertising, illustration and photography.

DPAC Awards Finalist

Animax's branded entertainment division Animax Unplugged is a finalist in this year's Digital Publishing and Advertising Awards in the category of Best Video Campaign for our work on Slotcar. The award results gets announced in December so keeping fingers crossed. This comes on the heels of having just won a Platinum MarCom Award for the campaign.

Secret Girlfriend

We also wanted to mention that one of the stars of Slotcar, Derek Miller, is now a regular cast member of Comedy Central's new series Secret Girlfriend. Congrats, Derek, from Animax.

Hardee's & Carl's Jr. Tweeted Us

Wow - the burger powers that be over at Carl's Jr. and Hardee's just tweeted us a nice note of congratulations on our MarCom Platinum Award for the series we produced for them called Slotcar. Thanks, guys, much appreciated.

Congrats to @animaxent for their MarCom Award for the Slotcar series produced for @Hardees and @CarlsJr. Good job! http://ow.ly/15Ya1r

The series got over 2 million views on FunnyorDie alone and is still ranked in the top 100 of their most watched series ever.

Platinum Award Winning

Animax just won a Platinum MarCom Award for Web Video for our work on Slotcar. The awards recognize achievements in creative excellence in marketing and communications programs. Slotcar is the branded entertainment video series we developed and produced for CKE's Hardee's and Carl's Jr. The award-winning series garnered over 2 million views during it's run.

YouTube News

Tim Jones, Animax COO, was quoted in a recent Mediaweek article about how YouTube is playing a role in the future of branded entertainment.

SLOTCAR Greatest Hits

Let me hear y all say SLOTCAR Episode 8 - watch more funny videos

SLOTCAR in SHOOT

SLOTCAR, Animax Unplugged's branded entertainment series for Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, was covered by SHOOT magazine.

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More SLOTCAR for Hardee's

SLOTCAR – Episode 04 – The Vegas Striptease - watch more funny videos

SLOTCAR Episode 05 Juan Montoya Punked - watch more funny videos

The Ghost of Dale Sr. SLOTCAR Episode 06 - watch more funny videos

Animax is Immortal

Episode 3 of SLOTCAR achieved immortal status on Funny or Die. First Animax wins an Emmy and now we are Highlander! What more could you ask for?

SLOTCAR Ep3 Launches

http://www.slotcar2009.com

SLOTCAR - Ep2 Trash Talk'n Busch

Watch SLOTCAR !!!

Get your engines started! Hardee’s® has signed on as the premier sponsor of the original Animax Unplugged video series, SLOTCAR which can be seen at http://www.slotcar2009.com. The no-holds-barred, explosive webisodes, produced by Animax Unplugged, launches online this week and parodies one of America’s largest and favorite sports – stock car auto racing. Watch the teaser now!

Animax has a proven track record having won the first-ever Broadband Emmy for ESPN’s “Off-Mikes.” SLOTCAR will be directed by Richard D’Alessio (Unplugged TV), who has three Cannes Lions and has worked alongside Barry Levinson and Jerry Seinfeld on the pioneering series, “Adventures of Seinfeld and Superman.” D'Alessio was also the creative force behind “Knob Hockey,” a similar branded entertainment series spoofing the NHL.

The first full webisode featuring a Hardee’s slotcar will launch Sat., Feb. 7th on http://www.Slotcar2009.com and http://www.hardees.com. Carl’s Jr., is also a series sponsor and will be featured in future webisodes on http://www.carlsjr.com.

Read the full press release.