Interactive

NEWS FLASH: Canada snags its first Grand Prix at Cannes Lions 2007
Last year, we won 15 Lions. This year, we’re already up to 11.

Technorati puts power into CBC.ca
The Ceeb has announced its second tie to a social media giant in less than a month.

Canadian gamers can ‘go pro’ in sponsor-packed league
Canada now has a professional gaming circuit with sponsors in broadcast, online media and retail. Get ready to play with the big leagues.

Rising Young Media Star: ZenithOptimedia’s Cosic
This is the fourth installment in MiC‘s series profiling next-gen media minds. Curious as to who these new thinkers are, and what they’re thinking, strategy and MiC canvassed the industry, asking media shops to single out their top innovative and strategic recruits.

Streets.to to spawn sister cities online
Toronto’s interactive visual search engine is growing, and more marketing opps are in the works for the virtual city streetscape.

MuchMusic puts awards on mobile – live
CHUM is pulling out all the stops for this year’s MMVAs. Who signed up as sponsors? Read on.

AOL adds branding opps to Winamp
Millions of Canadians use the Winamp media player. Now AOL is giving marketers new ways to reach them.

Coors Light backs MTV’s The Stew
MTV Canada is mixing short-form content with Coors Light branding in a bid for online and mobile men.

Virgin Mobile putting freezies on wheels
Freebies will direct summer event consumers to sign up for prepaid wireless packages and chances to win prizes.

Rising young media star: Mediaedge:cia’s Michael So
This is the second installment in MiC‘s series profiling next-gen media minds. Curious as to who these new thinkers are, and what they’re thinking, strategy and MiC canvassed the industry, asking media shops to single out their top innovative and strategic recruits.

Guinness tackling search for Canuck rugby anthem
Scotland’s got one, and so does New Zealand. But Canadian rugby aficionados have had to go tuneless . . . until now.

Branchez-Vous partners with UGC site
Quebec’s biggest French-language online ad network is putting UGC alongside its own professional video content.

Teletoon fan gets animated for Reese Puffs
Teletoon is tying Hershey cereal and Maynards candies into online games and offering fans a chance to get animated.

AOL serves up Degrassi ‘verbal mash-up’
Stars from a massively popular Canadian television brand are the draw for AOL Canada’s coverage of a teen issues talk in New York.

MTV invites Canadians to pick movie award winners
Canadians are getting an exclusive interactive contest and their own red-carpet event for the MTV Movie Awards this weekend. And the net’s got a new self-promo campaign ready to break during the programming blitz.