STANANDLOU MARKETING/ADVERTISING

Saturday night, Feb 21, 2009, was the 47th Annual Houston ADDY awards. It was the night of the stars. The American Advertising Federation honored Lou’s former boss, Don Brown, of Taylor Brown & Barnhill, while Only In Houston honored Steve Farrell, of Radio Music Theater, who is also one of the funniest guys I have ever seen. I met him after the ADDYs when Lou and I went to the theatre to present him with his award.  Steve is a great man and I was proud to meet him and his family.

But wait,  there were more winners Saturday night!

STANANDLOU and I won two gold ADDYs, one silver ADDY, and a Special Judges Award for Public Service Advertising for our new “Just Ask! ads! . That was a total surprise to me. I’m thankful that the work here on the Just Ask campaign is getting noticed. More people will learn about nf as we keep pushing forward. Thank you all for supporting the site with your visits.  SEE ALL THE ADS HERE.

- Reggie Bibbs

Artist / Designer Interview 3 – Kim White
By DotDesign | September 30, 2008

How long have you been an illustrator?
I grew up in the mid-fifties the son of an illustrator. In my early teens, I followed my father and his promise of a career in commercial art that will be “fun” and “glamorous” and “rewarding”. This was about the same time that I learned one of the Great Truths of Advertising: “Don’t believe anyone, not even your father.”

What inspires your work?
Later, in art school, while pretending to listen to lectures, I would surreptitiously doodle unflattering cartoons of my lecturer. All the while asking myself the age-old student question, “What the hell good will knowing any of this ever do me?” (more…)

After receiving recognition at the local level, Houston ad agency STANANDLOU Advertising won two bronze ADDY awards from the American Advertising Federation’s 10th District, comprised of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas.

Both of the awards were for print work done for Tila’s – a restaurant that specializes in authentic Mexican cuisine. STANANDLOU won in two categories: overall print campaign and single print piece.

The Tila’s print campaign grabs the reader’s attention with a distinctive yellow background and clever headlines. One ad in the campaign promotes the variety of top-shelf tequilas with the directions, “Lick. Suck. Swallow. Repeat.” The second bronze ADDY went to an ad that plays off the restaurant’s authenticity by declaring, “Jesus eats here. So do his brothers Mateo, Marcos, Lucas and Juan.”

The two district awards come on the heels of the 2006 Houston Advertising Federation’s ADDY Awards ceremony, where STANANDLOU won five Gold ADDYS and seven Silver ADDYS in the newspaper, consumer magazine, direct marketing, trade publication, and self-promotion categories.

The HAF judges awarded the work for Tila’s two Gold ADDYS and a Silver ADDY. STANANDLOU’s magazine ads for Houstonian Lite earned two Gold ADDYS and a Silver ADDY as well. The final Gold ADDY was for The Houstonian Golf and Country Club. In addition, the agency took home Silver ADDYS for work done for NOEL Furniture, the Greater Houston Partnership, Aphelion Software, LOGIX Communications, and an agency self promotion piece.

“We are thrilled to be recognized at both the local and district level,” said Lou Congelio, president of STANANDLOU. “Our goal has always been to stay on the cutting edge of creativity and any recognition we get for our efforts is icing on the cake.”

STANANDLOU is a full service communications firm based in Houston, with projected 2006 billings of $31 million and is ranked among Houston’s top five full-service advertising agencies. Clients include Aphelion Software, Barefoot Properties, Buc-ee’s, Christus Spohn Health Sustem, Constellation NewEnergy, The Houstonian, Houstonian Lite, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, KRBE-FM, LOGIX Communications, Monterey’s Little Mexico, NOEL Furniture, Redstone Golf Club, Tortuga Mexican Restaurants and UHY Advisors.

STANANDLOU Advertising/Marketing, in association with KHOU-TV Houston and VT2 Media Design and Communication, won a coveted Emmy Award for Best Public Announcement Campaign at the Lone Star Chapter of the National Television Academy Emmy Awards held on October 15 in Dallas. The awards show attracted television professionals from across Texas to salute excellence in broadcasting.

The award-winning campaign consists of two 30-second television commercials promoting the Spay-Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP). The commercials feature KHOU-TV’s Lisa Foronda, one of SNAP’s devoted supporters, as well as three other Houston actors. The commercials were written and produced by STANANDLOU Creative Director Lou Congelio, STANANDLOU Associate Creative Director Josh Powers, VT2 General Manager Cliff Davis, and KHOU-TV Director of Public Relations Wendy Burkeen.

“As far as I know, this joint project between a local network affiliate, an ad agency and a production company is the first of its kind anywhere in the country,” said STANANDLOU Marketing/Advertising President Lou Congelio. “Not only did everyone put their egos aside to collaborate on this incredible project, but we all put our fees aside and did the work pro-bono. The results have been overwhelmingly positive.”

In addition to the two Emmy-winning commercials, STANANDLOU has created two other commercials for SNAP, and each one has won awards in multiple advertising industry competitions over the past five years.

“Doing award-winning work is very rewarding,” noted Congelio. “But doing work that also makes a positive impact in the community, as these commercials have, is one of the true testaments to the power of creative advertising.”

STANANDLOU is a full-service communication firm based in Houston, with projected 2005 billings of $27 million. Starting as a creative boutique in 1988, the agency has grown to a top-five full service agency that pushes the creative envelope. Clients include Aphelion Software, Christus Spohn Health Systems, Constellation NewEnergy, Harbercraft, The Houstonian, Kelsey-Seybold Clinics, LOGIX Communications, Monterey’s/Little Mexico, The Redstone, and UHY Advisors.

Following success earlier this year at the local level of the ADDY Awards, STANANDLOU Advertising has received a Silver ADDY at the district level for their work on the political web campaign at www.dontdelay.us.

Earlier this year, the top-five Houston agency won seven Gold ADDYs, seven Silver ADDYs, over twenty Citations of Excellence, and the coveted Best in Show for Print.

“We are excited as an agency to have been recognized by our peers on the regional level,” said Lou Congelio of the award. “And we are even more excited to represent Houston at the national level and aid in establishing Houston as a major center for creative advertising.”

The winning entry was for a multimedia campaign consisting of a music video, Web site, and a sign intended to divert votes from an incumbent Congressman. It read, ‘Congressman For Sale,’ in the typical fashion of a ‘Home For Sale’ yard sign, followed by the web address, www.dontdelay.us.”

The regional ADDY award is the highest honor granted within the 10th District of the American Advertising Federation. Industry leaders judge the entries in over 100 categories. Top performers from the district go on to compete nationally later this year. The national ADDY award competition is the largest in the nation and receives over 60,000 entries annually.

STANANDLOU is a full-service communication firm based in Houston, with projected 2005 billings of $27 million. Starting as a creative boutique in 1988, the agency has grown to a top-five full service agency that pushes the creative envelope. Clients include Aphelion Software, Constellation NewEnergy, Conoco LNG, The Houstonian, Kelsey-Seybold Clinics, LOGIX Communications, Monterey’s/Little Mexico, The Redstone, and UHY Advisors.

LOU CONGELIO NAMED 2002 CLEVELAND AMORY
HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR

HOUSTON, TX – The Spay-Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) has announced Lou Congelio as the recipient of the 2002 Cleveland Amory Humanitarian of the Year Award. This annual award was created to honor those who make outstanding contributions to the cause of animal protection on a local, state, or national level.

The award, named after life-long champion of animals and author Cleveland Amory will be presented to Mr. Congelio on Saturday, September 14, 2002, at the “Paws & Claws on Parade – A Salute to National Geographic” gala at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas. This is the sixth annual fundraising gala benefiting SNAP which provided direct care to 39,092 dogs and cats last year through clinic facilities in Houston, San Antonio, Albuquerque, and Monterrey, Mexico.

Lou Congelio, President of Stan & Lou Advertising, demonstrates an ongoing commitment to improving both the lives of people and animals through his charitable works. Lou was one of the initial organizers of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation’s “Race for the Cure” in Houston, and has served on the board of directors of the Texas Neurofibramatosis Foundation (NF) for the last five years.

Through his advertising agency, Lou has produced publicity material and award-winning Public Service Announcements for NF, the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Race for the Cure, Crisis Intervention of Houston and SNAP. The PSA series created by Lou for SNAP features Texas folk-legend Kinky Friedman and is currently airing on television stations across the state of Texas. In addition to producing all of SNAP’s publicity materials, Lou developed and spearheaded the campaign to market the Texas “Animal Friendly” license plates which has generated $1 million in funding for spay and neuter clinic programs in Texas.

Previous recipients of the Cleveland Amory Humanitarian of the Year Award have been Leslie & Nanci Alexander, Micheal & Francie Willis, Jake Hershey, The Honorable Debra Danbury, and Barney & Ellen Kogen.

Jimmy Jongebloed, President of Houston’s Studio of the Americas, is the Honorary Chair of this year’s event. According to Jongebloed, “SNAP is an important part of the community, helping both animals and people in need. Charities in Houston have weathered the effects of September 11th and are now facing the impact of the collapse of corporate giant ENRON. Because of SNAP’s critical mission to “save lives through prevention,” we are all committed to make this year’s gala be a tremendous success.”

Houston’s own “Krewe of Olympus,” an authentic Mardi Gras Krewe, will mesmerize as they entertain revelers with all of the beads, doubloons, pageantry, and masquerade costumes with a theme saluting National Geographic magazine. This sure-to-be sellout gala extravaganza is not to be missed!

Table sales for “Paws & Claws on Parade” are currently under way. For information on the event, contact SNAP at (713) 862-3863. To learn more about SNAP, the organization dedicated to “saving lives through prevention,” visit www.snaptx.org.

Houston, TX—Stan & Lou Advertising received top honors last week from the
Art Directors Club of Houston for two public service television spots created for the Spay-Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP). SNAP provides free and low cost sterilization of pets through spay and neuter clinic facilities accessible to the general public in Houston and San Antonio.

In the first spot, “Rex”, a :60 television spot which received a Gold Award in the Pro Bono/Public Service category, Stan & Lou Advertising enlisted the talents of Texas author, singer and folk legend Kinky Friedman.

The spot opens on flashes of barbwire and of guards walking down a prison hallway. The guards enter a jail cell as Friedman’s voiceover relates the stark reality of life for his friend Rex, who has fallen on hard times, “With no home and no family… his only crime was being born. Now he’s going to die.”

As the camera moves to the execution chamber and a doctor prepares the syringe, a hand lifts a cage up to a steel table to reveal that Rex is a dog about to be put to sleep.

“Kinky was the natural choice for us as spokesperson,” stated Lou Congelio, President of Stan & Lou. “His rugged look and gruff persona made the prison scenes and storyline very believable. He looks like he actually could have a friend on death row. Just kidding, Kinky.”

Sean Hawkins, SNAP’s Executive Director, noted, “Landing a celebrity spokesperson like Kinky Friedman immediately added credibility and power to our television commercial and our cause.”

“Another reason we liked Kinky for the spot was that he is a true animal lover,” added Congelio. “Not only does he have a heart of gold but he’s also been running an animal rescue ranch down in Utopia, Texas, for the last three years. Like I said, he was a natural choice.”

The second SNAP spot, “Sparky”, received a Silver Award in the Pro Bono/Public Service Category and a Judges Choice Award. This spot opens with a cute Jack Russell terrier jumping up and down with anticipation as his owner explains to him that he’s about to take him for a ride and abandon him.

“The point of both spots,” noted Sean Hawkins, “was to dramatize in very different ways the importance of spaying and neutering dogs and cats to prevent needless suffering.”

Each year, more than a million dogs and cats end up in Texas animal shelters. 90% of them are destroyed. Surgical sterilization of dogs and cats offers an immediate and humane solution to end the urban crisis of animal overpopulation.
Both SNAP spots will be distributed to television stations statewide in an effort to heighten awareness of the need to help save lives through the prevention of unwanted pets.

Others involved in the production of the TV spots include Dan Blust of Bill Young Productions, Director, Gary Foster of Bill Young Productions, Editor, and Josh Powers, Copywriter/Producer. To view a Quicktime version of the spots, go to

http://www.stanandlou.com/snapads

Stan & Lou Advertising also received Art Directors Club accolades in the form of three Bronze Awards. Two awards went to print ads created for Boaka Bar, a new nightclub concept in downtown Houston from the owners of Zula and the Mercury Room, and one went to a poster series created for the Austin Huns, an Austin rugby team.

Stan & Lou is a full service advertising agency with over $15 million in billings. Clients include Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Coastal Banc, Scripps Clinic, Marble Slab Creamery, Time Warner Cable, Moody Gardens, 104 KRBE, Monterey’s
Little Mexico, Monterey’s Tex Mex Café, Hou-Tra International, Lukens Energy Group, Zula and The Downtown Club.

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(Houston- June 28, 2000) – Stan & Lou Advertising came home with the gold as only one of two Houston-area advertising agencies to win a national ADDY Award at this year’s American Advertising Federation’s annual award show in Las Vegas, NV. The award, for the Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation, won for a poster campaign in the Public Service Advertising category. The only other Houston winner was McCann-Erickson for a television spot promoting Texas Tourism.

“We are extremely proud to have won this very prestigious national award,” says Lou Congelio, President of Stan & Lou. “Not only does it say a lot about the caliber of work coming out of Houston but it also brings much needed attention to an unknown and misunderstood disease, neurofibromatosis (NF).

The American Advertising Federation awarded 105 national ADDY Awards from among 1,569 finalists and close to 60,000 total entries from agencies throughout the United States. They are considered by many to be the industry’s largest and most respected creative competition.

The winning poster campaign features three people afflicted with varying manifestations of neurofibromatosis. Each full-size poster includes a photo of each person smiling along with interesting and fun bits of trivia about each person.

Megan, whose outward appearance shows no sign of the disease, is a “tickle monster” and a “dessert specialist” who loves to torment her sister and is also a “Straight-A student.” Darryl, or D.L. to his friends, has thousands of match-tip size tumors covering his body, is a “hopeless romantic” and a “devoted husband” who is a two-step king,” an “expert fisherman” and a very “huggable grandpa.” Reggie, a young man whose face is disfigured by tumors, is described as a “class cut-up”, a web-surfer, a Kenny Rogers fan, trivia whiz, poetry enthusiast and a caring uncle.”

“Neurofibromatosis can be a very disfiguring disease and it can happen to anyone,” added Congelio. “ What we tried to show is that NF sufferers have the same needs, wants, talents and interests as anyone else. They just happen to have a disease that causes tumors to grow on the outside. We wanted people to get to see the person that is on the inside. It’s that simple.”

“We are extremely proud of the work Stan & Lou has done on behalf of the Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation,” stated Kathy Price, Executive Director of the Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation. “They show a level of understanding, sensitivity and compassion that continually comes through in everything they do for us. We are very fortunate to have them on our team.”

In the earlier Houston competition leading up to the national award show, Stan & Lou won 10 local ADDYs (the second highest amount of awards in the competition) and three 10th District ADDY’s for its work for Riverway Bank, the Spay-Neuter Assistance Program (S.N.A.P.), 104 KRBE, Icon Ventures, Coastal Banc and River Oaks Animal Hospital.

Among the winners of this year’s national award show includes Leo Burnett USA for Best of Show in Print for an Altoids ad for Kraft Foods, Inc. The Best of Show in Broadcast went to Young and Rubicam, Chicago, for a commercial for H&R Block. Wieden & Kennedy, Portland, OR, eclipsed all others in the sheer number of ADDYs, winning 10 awards for work produced for AltaVista, Nike, Powerbar and Stamps.com. The judges awarded seven ADDYs each to DDB Chicago and to Goodby, Silverstein and Partners. All seven ADDYs won by DDB were for work it produced for Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, including the highly popular “Whassup” campaign. Goodby, Silverstein and Partners won two ADDYs for Anheuser-Busch as well as for advertising for E*Trade, Nike and the California Milk Advisory Board.

Stan & Lou Advertising is a full-service advertising agency with over $15 million in billings. Clients include The Coastal Corporation, Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, Coastal Banc, Scripps Clinic, Marble Slab Creamery, The Mercury Room, Zula, Riverway Bank, Moody Gardens, 104 KRBE, S.N.A.P., Trendmaker Homes, The Texas Neurofibromatosis Foundation, Texas Back Institute, HOUTRA International, Greater Houston Builders Association, and The Houstonian.

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