72andSunny Wins thinkLA's AdJam: Battle Of The Agency Bands

72andSunny Wins thinkLA's AdJam: Battle Of The Agency Bands

Nine ad agency bands rocked it out at Club Nokia to the best songs from movie soundtracks





LOS ANGELES, Sept. 18, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- At thinkLA's annual AdJam: Battle of the Agency Bands presented by GlobalWide Media on Thursday, September 17th, nine advertising agencies competed for the AdJam Axe, performing their favorite songs from movie soundtracks. While everyone rocked it out and gave their best performances, it was creative agency 72andSunny's HR & the Violations that won the judges and crowd over. Phelps' Ruckus took second place, and newcomers to the competition, ZehnerGroup's Margot & The Baumers, took home third place.

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In order to perform at AdJam, agencies had to submit music videos. Nine were then selected as finalists to perform at Club Nokia. Here are their submission videos:

72andSunny - HR & the Violations (2015 winners)
Acento Advertising - Don Ramones
Garage Team Mazda - The Garage Band
Initiative - Blue Foot Band
Phelps - Ruckus
Red Tettemer O'Connell and Partners - JunkShot
Saatchi & Saatchi LA - The Rough Cuts
Team One - T-UN1T
ZehnerGroup - Margot & The Baumers

The energy was high at AdJam with over 1,600 people in attendance. The judges -- Nathan Gregory, VP of Brand Partnerships at CAA, Dave Rocco, Head of Music Production at Deutsch LA, Stephen Blackwell, CEO of Spin Media -- were not easy to please. However, HR & the Violations won them over singing all songs from the movie 50 Shades of Grey, including The Rolling Stones' Beast of Burden, Beyonce's Crazy in Love, The Weekend's Earned It, and Annie Lennox's I Put A Spell on You. Following the winner announcement was an after party with DJ Joe Kim.

An event recap page with a description, highlights video (coming soon), and photos is available here: http://www.thinkla.org/AdJam2015EventRecap.

AdJam was made possible thanks to our sponsors GlobalWide Media, Quantcast, Human, Elias Arts, Spin Media, AAA Flags, Radical Media, Cars.com, Twitch and Viacom.

About thinkLA:

thinkLA is a non-profit 501(c)(6) association founded in 2006 to promote Los Angeles as a network of creativity and innovation in media, marketing, and advertising. They connect LA's creative community by helping to foster ideas, business and talent, and inspiring through education, social and philanthropic events. For more information, please visit www.thinkla.org.

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