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Event organizer: mac. brand spaces GmbH Partner agencies: Beyond disciplines, vorauerfriends, Ars Electronica Solutions, checkpointmedia

The WorldMediaFestival, founded in the year 2000, celebrates the world’s most outstanding achievements in corporate film, television, web and print productions. The award is regarded internationally as one of the most prestigious in the visual media sector. checkpointmedia was awarded the intermedia-FINALIST DIPLOMA in the category Corporate Communications: Multimedia Installations for their project “Wiener Stadtwerke Info Lounge Furnishings and Ceiling Projection”. The task to be accomplished in this project was to install a spatial intervention in the large foyer of Wiener Stadtwerke and use it to present the company in a visitor-friendly way. The items of furniture for the info lounge were developed as standalone objects that give the room structure. They serve as multimedia information carriers and can also be used as furniture. To complement and counterbalance the furniture and its factual, thematic focus, a ceiling projection was developed that combines technical complexity with a light and playful elegance. The projection shows animated depictions of Smart Mobility, Smart Energy and Smart City.

The WorldMediaFestival, founded in the year 2000, celebrates the world’s most outstanding achievements in corporate film, television, web and print productions. The award is regarded internationally as one of the most prestigious in the visual media sector. With “Presentation and New Media – 10 Years checkpointmedia: Concepts, Paths, Visions” checkpointmedia wins the intermedia-globe GOLD award in the “Corporate Print/Special Interest” category. This accolade brings with it nomination for the festival’s Grand Award and the Grand Prix. Besides presenting examples of checkpointmedia’s work over the past ten years, the book also contains essays by leading contempororary figures on current discourses on the media, worlds of discovery, communication and the internet.

On 13 October 2011 the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards were presented for the second time. The film "What makes Erste Group great?" conceived and produced by checkpointmedia for the Erste Group, won the Silver Award in the category "Marketing Communication", fighting off competition from 410 productions from 27 countries. "What makes Erste Group great?" was created to mark the 190th anniversary of the Erste Bank. The film brings to life the original vision that led to the founding of the Erste Bank in 1819 and shows how the past, present and future are inextricably linked. This historical outline aims to raise awareness about the origins and growth of the Erste Group and to emotionally anchor the information in the minds of staff and customers. Combining facts and figures with animated sequences using historical and present-day images, the film appeals to every target group in the countries in which the Erste Group is active, even if they have no previous knowledge of the company. "What makes Erste Group great?" is available to the 50,000 employees via an internal communication network and to the Erste Group's customers via a number of different platforms. This ensures that the key message, "We opened our doors 190 years ago and have not closed them since" reaches as many people as possible.

The Webby Award is one of the most prestigious prizes in the internet and multimedia industry. The awards have been presented every year since 1996. Winners are chosen by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, an interdisciplinary organisation that has 750 members worldwide, among them many well-known names including film director Darren Aronofsky, Huffington Post Media Group president Arianna Huffington, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, rock legend David Bowie, internet "co-founder" Vint Cerf, chairman of the Virgin Group Richard Branson and R/GA president and CEO Bob Greenberg. To do justice to the outstanding quality of this year's entries, official honours were introduced in 2011 on the initiative of the Academy, which, besides the nominations and prizes, are awarded to the best of the 10,000 entries worldwide. The criteria for these honours are, like the awards themselves, content, structure and navigation, visual design, functionality, interactivity and the overall user experience. checkpointmedia received the accolade "Official Honoree of the 15th Annual Webby Awards" in the Corporate Communications category for the website commemorating the 175th anniversary of Bertelsmann. Under the banner "175 years of Bertelsmann - the legacy for our future" checkpointmedia created a multimedia chronicle that uses an innovative navigation system to provide numerous texts, images, sound and film documents from the extensive Bertelsmann company archives, some of which have not been previously released. Access to the chronicle is by means of a floating cube that can be turned at will. Each of the cube's sides represents one era of the company's history. The virtual journey through the various eras takes place along a time bar that contains milestones of the company history. Visitors to the site can travel back and forth through time at will and can, at many points along the timeline, contribute their own personal memories, experiences and impressions and share them with other users. The numerous filters and opportunities for further exploration combine to produce a user-friendly and dynamic journey through 175 years of company history.

To celebrate the concern's 175th anniversary, Bertelsmann published the anthology "175 years of Bertelsmann - the legacy for our future" which provides a review of the company's development since 1835. It spans the entire history, from humble beginnings in a small lithographers' workshop in Gütersloh to the worldwide concern of today and reveals what was, and still is, the key to Bertelsmann's success. Following a planning and production period of over a year, the publication was made available to the approximately 100,000 employees of the Bertelsmann concern free of charge. At the prestigious Inspire Awards of the League of American Communications Professionals (LACP) the anthology won first place ahead of 425 other corporate publishing publications and was awarded the highest possible rating for the prize for internal communications. The multimedia elements - a bonus DVD with rarely seen photos and film material plus an animated history - were planned and produced by checkpointmedia. Users can interactively "explore" the history of the Bertelsmann concern using a 3D navigation tool. The main navigation element of this tool is a cube that can be turned using the cursor. Each side of the cube represents a different period. When users select a period, the timeline appears as a virtual road that takes them through the most important events - each of which is represented by a 3D excerpt. Each of the milestones can be clicked on. This opens a brief summary and a submenu from which rarely seen visual material and video clips can be selected. In addition, users can apply specific filter criteria to select which milestones are displayed so they can focus on particular aspects of the Bertelsmann story.

At this year's WebAward presented by the magazine TV-Media websites by checkpointmedia won in two of three categories. In the Corporate Websites category the TV-Media users chose the internet presence of the online bank ING-DiBa as their favourite, while in the Service & Leisure category Vienna Airport's website edged out the competition. Both of these sites were created by checkpointmedia and are continually upgraded. The website of ING-DiBa www.ing-diba.at was produced using checkpointmedia's in-house CMS system JART. Since it first went online following compliance with the most stringent security standards, the site has been continually optimised. In particular the attractive product presentation, clear layout and practical web tools make the website especially user-friendly and enabled it to prevail against UNIQA VitalClub and O2Alive. The website of Vienna Aiport, www.viennaairport.com, has only recently been given a new look and a technical makeover. checkpointmedia was responsible for the new presentation of the site content and the new technical features. Flight arrivals and departures are clearly presented and there is a comprehensive search function. In addition, detailed map applications help visitors find their way around the airport. Ease of use and a high level of user-friendliness were the factors that helped the websites of Austrian Airlines and Schärdinger to victory.

The host organisation VIKOM (Association for Integrated Communication) paid tribute to the winners of the Silver Feather award in a convivial setting in Harmer's Bar. checkpointmedia picked up second prize in the category "Best Electronic Inhouse Solution" for the extensive intranet project carried out for Vienna Airport.

At the annual ARC Awards ceremony in New York, at which the world's best online annual reports are honoured, Austria scored two successes. The online company report of Telekom Austria created by checkpointmedia won silver, while Vienna International Airport's annual report won an Honours Award. On 19th September 2008 the prestigious ACR Awards - the "Oscars for annual reports" - were awarded to the competition's winners for the 22nd time at a gala celebration in New York City. Austria was able to score two successes in the online report category, the online annual reports of Telekom Austria and Vienna International Airport, both designed by checkpointmedia AG, winning a Silver Award and an Honours Award respectively. Both Telekom Austria and Vienna International Airport had chosen to use the online business report tool genesto® to create their financial reports. This tool was developed by checkpointmedia AG in cooperation with Mensalia Management Consultants. What really sets the special tool genesto® apart is that it enables annual reports to be presented on the web in a way that allows information to be accessed faster and more selectively. This year, checkpointmedia partner Mensalia was far and away the most successful entrant in the prestigious competition. The Vienna-based company came away with four "Grand Awards" and no fewer than 13 "Gold Awards". This year, around 1,900 annual reports of listed and private companies, organisations, associations and non-profit organisations from all over the world were submitted. The reports of Telekom Austria AG and Vienna International Airport impressed the jury, which was made up of over 200 experts from the fields of investor relations, public relations, journalism and design.

The experts' jury of the CCA chose 192 works from over 1100 entries for inclusion in the next CCA yearbook. checkpointmedia received an award in the category "New Media" for the adults' subsite on the ZOOM Children's Museum website.

The year 2006 has, for the fifth year in succession, seen a genesto® report chosen as the year's best online business report at the trend Austrian Annual Awards. As was the case in the previous year, it was Telekom Austria's online report that won the jury's Award for Excellence. In another repeat of the previous year's nominations, Wienerberger AG's company report was submitted as a second report compiled with genesto®. genesto® is a special tool for compiling and publishing online company reports and was developed by checkpointmedia and Mensalia Management Consultants.

checkpointmedia has been awarded the State Prize for Multimedia 2006 in the category “Culture and Entertainment” for the Mozarthaus Vienna. The jury's verdict: multimedia at the Mozarthaus Vienna stands out through its clear concept, the variety of installations and the high degree of knowledge transfer. checkpointmedia has created "A whole new dimension of multimedia presentation of information and entertainment for museum visitors in Austria and Europe". At the Mozarthaus Vienna numerous multimedia installations present the world and environment of Mozart, inspired by the media technology of Mozart's time: optical experiments and illusions, automatons and mechanical tricks caused the people of the 18th century to gasp in astonishment. The new media of our age take up this theme, enabling visitors to the exhibition to gain an insight into Mozart's life and times using all five senses. The highlight is the virtual tribute to Mozart's opera "The Magic Flute", set in an oversized theatre model with mirrored performers.

Multimedia State Prize: checkpointmedia received the Multimedia State Prize in the category "Public Information and Services" for the Visitors' Centre at Austria's parliament. The jury was particularly impressed by the straightforward interactive access to the complex topics in politics and democracy, which are now available to a wide audience. The jury's verdict: "The multimedia approach to the question "How does democracy work?" has been accomplished in a striking way". Thanks to the use of new media the Austrian Parliament Visitors' Centre has become a place where politics can be truly experienced. 15 media stations offer information and entertainment. The history and the function of the Austrian Parliament are presented in an innovative way. A virtual "magnifying glass" installation enables the visitor to take a closer look at the architectural elements of the Parliament building's façade and also call up information on the rooms that lie hidden behind it.

At the ARC awards in New York City, the world's biggest awards ceremony for business reports, a report generated using genesto® was, as in previous years, among the winners. The Telekom Austria online business report of 2004 received the Gold Award. genesto® is a content management system for the publication of electronic company reports and was developed by checkpointmedia in cooperation with Mensalia Management Consultants.

For the fourth time in succession a genesto® report was nominated as the best online business report by the trend Austrian Annual Report Awards. The Jury's award for Excellence went to Telekom Austria for their online report for 2004. Wienerberger AG, another genesto® client and the winner in 2003, was also nominated for the prize. genesto® is a content management system for the publication of electronic company reports. It was developed by checkpointmedia in cooperation with Mensalia Business Consultants.

Telekom Austria wins the award for the worldwide best online business report in the category "Telecom & Media Industry". At the European Awards Ceremony of the "7th Annual Investor Relations Websites Global Rankings and Awards"in February 2005 in London, Telekom Austria outranked 57 other contestants and was awarded the prize for the best online annual report (category "RAO 1 BEST AR", best online annual report) in the branch Telecom & Media Industry. The IR Global Rankings criteria comprise design (presentation, navigation, etc.), content (depth and breadth of financial and corporate information), technology (maximum use of technology and multimedia), interactivity (user communication and feedback), timeliness, and flexibility (personalized viewing options, language selection, etc.). Online business report as an independent means of communication: Telekom Austria's internet online report meets the highest international standards. "The online business report of Telekom Austria in the IR section of the corporate website www.telekom.at doesn't just mirror the printed version but is a stand-alone edition that accentuates communication by means of modern internet technology", Mag. Hans Fruhmann, Investor Relations director at Telekom Austria, said proudly about the prestigious award. There were a record number of registrations at IR Global Rankings 2005. Held for the seventh time since 1999 the IR Global Rankings has confirmed its position as an important international financial market communication contest with a total of 426 companies from 42 contries participating. The IR Global Rankings are organized by MZ Consult LLC, a leading consulting firm for IR and financial services from Connecticut, in cooperation with JP Morgan ADR Group, KPMG Independant Auditors and Linklaters.

This year, an online report created with genesto® (for Wienerberger AG) again won the award for excellence at the "trend Austrian Annual Report Awards". genesto® is a special tool for creating business reports online and was created in a joint venture by checkpointmedia and Mensalia Business Consulting.

At the ARC Awards in New York - the world's biggest business report competition - an online company report generated by genesto® was again among the award-winners. The online business report for Wienerberger AG was awarded silver in the category "Construction & Building Material". genesto® is a special tool for creating business reports online and was created as a joint venture by checkpointmedia and Mensalia Business Consulting.

At the ninth German Multimedia Award (DMMA) show, staged in Berlin, checkpointmedia won the top award in the category "Interactive Space Installations". This year a total of 423 contributions were submitted to the DMMA, 16 of them were nominated by the international jury. The jury’s verdict was presented by jury member Professor Dr Anja Stöhr of the University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule für Technik und Wissenschaft) in Dresden: The jury notes with great pleasure that seven entries were submitted in the category “Interactive room installations” and that all are of a high and impressive quality. They reflect a new dimension in sales strategies by integrating multimedia technologies into architecture and spaces. The Red Bull Mayday Bar in Hangar-7 at Salzburg Airport is the centrepiece of the entire hangar and has as it most persuasive feature a focus on communication between the guests. In keeping with the slogan “Red Bull gives you wings” the guests are also encouraged to fly, and do so at the bar. Although the hardware and software architecture behind the installation is highly complex and was developed especially, it is completely unobtrusive in the bar area and barely noticeable to the guests, even though every guest can immediately and intuitively explore all the bar’s features. Stefan Reiter (member of the board) and Werner Schlossarek (project manager) were present to receive the glass stele. Stefan Reiter: "We are glad to have in checkpointmedia a team that manages to transform impossible ideas into realizable projects. The Mayday Bar in Hangar 7 was a challenge to us in many respects because no other customer leads us to such flights of fancy as Red Bull." Organized by the German Multi Media Association (dmmv), the German Multi Media Congress (DMMK) and the kommunikationsverband (communications association), the German Multimedia Award has been awarded to exemplary online, offline and kiosk applications since 1996. They illustrate the innovative power and capability of multi media communication. Red Bull “Mayday Bar”: the bar on the first floor of the Hangar 7 towers in Salzburg is not only a classic cocktail bar but a spectacular platform for communication and fun unique in the world. The entire surface of the bar, which sweeps round 270 degrees, consists of 18 video projections that provide the visitor with a bird's eye view of a continuous fantasy landscape over which the aeroplanes of the Flying Bulls circle. The visitors to the bar can interact with the aircraft as well as communicate with each other. The Mayday Bar in Hangar 7 was designed and realized by checkpointmedia with Gernot and Raimund Schatz on behalf of Red Bull together with: Instant,Vienna (www.instant.at) - graphic design, Chips at Work, Bonn (www.chips-at-work.de) - gesture detection and mechanics.

The online business reports of the German RWE AG and Telekom Austria, both created using genesto®, won awards at the ARC Awards (the "Academy Awards" for business reports). Two of the online genesto® business reports won awards this year at the ARC Awards in New York, the biggest business report competition in the world. In the category "Energy Revenues over $2 Billion" the business report for 2002 of the company RWE AG took second place (bronze; silver was not awarded). In the category "Telecommunications: Other Countries"Telekom Austria came first with its online report for 2002 (bronze; gold and silver were not awarded). This means that genesto reports were able to fend off American heavyweights in the branch such as Duke Energy, IBM and AT&T; at the same time the two reports are - together with Beiersdorf, who also won bronze - the only reports to win that are not from the USA. genesto® is a special tool for the creation of online business reports. It was developed by checkpointmedia AG in cooperation with Mensalia Business Consulting.

At the trend AAA Awards, the Austrian Annual Report Awards, genesto® clients were able to claim the first three places in the category "Online Reports": first place went to Telekom Austria, followed by Vienna International Airport and Austrian Airlines. As different as the three award-winning companies and their reports may be, they have one thing in common: their online reports are compiled using genesto®, a tool for the publication of electronic business reports which was developed by checkpointmedia in cooperation with Mensalia Business Consulting. In Germany, genesto® is used by companies such as DaimlerCrysler, Henkel and RWE AG. In Austria, the online reports of Telekom Austria AG, Vienna International Airport and the Austrian Airlines Group proved to be outstanding and received awards at this year's AAA Awards, sponsored by the business magazine trend. The crucial factors were the clear structuring, the numerous logical and very helpful links and the excellent portrayal of the subject matter. With genesto® Online Annual Report, publishers of business reports as well as quarterly and sustainability reports have a target group-oriented and user-friendly publication system at their disposal. This system is characterized by the following points: users can compile their personal version of a company report with genesto®, with information exclusively about their chosen topics. The editing of the topics (structuring, hyperlinking, etc.) is carried out by specialized editorial staff. Numerous further features allow business reports to profit fully from the advantages of the internet.

"An internet business report is not a business report put online but one that has been designed for this media." (trend) Each year, the Austrian business magazine trend awards its Austrian Annual Report Award to the best annual reports of Austrian companies listed on the stock exchange. In the category "Best Online Annual Report", the winner, Vienna International Airport, attained 94.44% of the possible maximum score; Sanochemia was a close second with 91.81%. Both online reports were published with genesto®, a product of checkpointmedia and Mensalia Management Consultants.

The Austrian Museum Award, presented by the Ministry of Education, goes to Haus der Musik in 2002. The jury commended in particular the "overall concept of the house" as having "a high educational value" and the presentation as being "didactically prepared to the most up-to-date standards" with new media being used in exemplary fashion. checkpointmedia is not only located in the Haus der Musik but also cooperates on various installations (e.g. Mozart's "Waltz Dice Game", the large projection of the New Year's Day Concert 2002 in the Vienna Philharmonic Museum).

Oscar nomination for Virgil Widrich’s short film "Copy Shop" in the category "best live action short film".

The Vienna MuseumsQuartier, a checkpointmedia client, wins the Europrix 2002 Quality Seal award in the category "Knowledge, Research and Culture". In the Europrix 2002 contest, the Vienna MuseumsQuartier (MQ) webpage http://www.mqw.at was awarded the EUROPRIX 2002 Quality Seal. The jury was impressed by the quality and intelligibility of the site's content, its simple, user-friendly navigation, as well as its graphical appearance and its technical implementation. The guidelines for the MQ website were developed by checkpointmedia together with our customer as part of a consulting job for MuseumsQuartier.