Portland, OR—Dec. 1, 2006—The Overland Agency, a growing branding and interactive advertising agency, has been awarded seven International Davey Awards for its interactive, multimedia, and print creations, selected from more than 3,500 entries submitted by creative firms around the world. The Daveys, partially underwritten by ADWEEK and Fortune Small Business, honors the work of small, focused firms that rely on ingenuity rather than large creative budgets.

The awards won are as follows:

Gold Award for Print and Collateral
• IQ Academies, “Day at the Dells”

Silver Awards for Websites/Online Marketing
• Campbell Pet Company (campbellpet.com)
• Stonebridge Life Insurance (stonebridge10yearterm.com/)
• Soloflex (overlandagency.com/soloflex)
• Extensis (two awards; extensis.com)

Silver Award for Film and Video
• Reel World Productions

These wins come on the heels of two international WebAwards for Soloflex and Moberg Fireplaces, awarded in September.

Overland Agency CEO and Executive Creative Director Arve Overland attributes the firm’s continued successes to its team of strategists, creatives, engineers, and account managers, as well as clients willing to embrace the unique marketing opportunities of the web. “I believe Overland Agency keeps winning national clients, and national awards, because our client partners are willing to go at risk with us—to continually push the strategic and creative limits of innovative online business models for what is clearly a new world of marketing.”

About the Davey Awards
The Davey Awards (daveyawards.com) honor the “Davids” of creativity, the finest small firms, agencies and companies in the world. The annual International Davey Awards honors the achievements of the “Creative Davids” who derive their strength from big ideas, rather than big budgets. The Davey Awards is the leading awards competition specifically for smaller firms, where firms compete with their peers to win the recognition they deserve.

The Davey Awards is sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts (iavisarts.org), an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms.

About the Overland Agency
The Overland Agency is a Portland, Oregon-based brand marketing and advertising agency with deep capabilities in web design and development that combines high-level strategic consulting with smart, passionate creative execution. The agency analyzes, develops and executes creative strategies that build stronger brands that meet and exceed sales and marketing goals. Clients include adidas, Aegon Insurance, Columbia Information Systems, Dolphin Software, Extensis, Fila, LightSPEED Technologies, McGee Financial, Merix and TSSI. The agency also does pro bono work for such groups as the Oregon Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.