Celebrating standout creativity, Zyxel Networks and The Chase Films earn Silver in the People’s Telly Awards for their collaborative online commercial, Double Take.
Zyxel Networks today announced that its online commercial Double Take from the Tune Up Your Network campaign, created in collaboration with The Chase Films Ltd, has been awarded Silver in the People’s Telly Awards at the 47th Annual Telly Awards.
Based in New York City, the Telly Awards honors excellence in video and television across all screens and is judged by leaders from video platforms, television, streaming services and creative production companies. This year’s winners include industry leaders such as Paramount TV, Warner Brothers Discovery, FOX Entertainment, Sony Music, MoMA, TED and Harvard Business School.
About the winning work
Double Take is a humorous, character-driven online commercial designed to highlight how businesses can improve connectivity and performance with Zyxel Networks’ secure cloud networking platform, Nebula. Produced in partnership with The Chase Films, the advert forms part of the wider Tune Up Your Network campaign, which uses relatable storytelling to make network optimization accessible and easy to understand.
"Video has never been more contested, more creative, or more consequential than it is right now,” said Amanda Needham, Managing Director of The Telly Awards. “The Telly Awards has had a front-row seat to this industry for 47 years, and today’s entertainment is happening in multiple formats, across every screen, and at every budget level."
Voices behind the project
“This People’s Telly Silver Award is incredibly meaningful because it comes directly from public voting,” said Kevin Drinkall, Senior Marketing Director, Zyxel Networks. “To see Double Take resonate with real viewers reinforces the power of using humor and narrative to make networking more engaging. Our continued collaboration with The Chase Films is a huge part of that success.”
Alexander Roberts, Executive Producer, The Chase Films, said: “We’re delighted to celebrate this People’s Telly Silver alongside Zyxel Networks.
“Following our previous ad’s win at the Prolific North Creative Awards, it’s exciting to see our latest collaboration Double Take recognized here. Zyxel Networks’ openness to bold, character-driven storytelling makes our creative partnership genuinely rewarding.”
Zyxel Networks also extends its thanks to the creative team whose craft brought Double Take to life, including:
- Executive Producer: Alexander Roberts, The Chase Films
- Producer: Natalie Lewis, The Chase Films
- Creative Director: David Barraclough, Squad
- Director: Sami Abusamra
- Service Producer: Eddy Schwartz, Bazuka Films
- Service Producer: Edward Michongwe, Bazuka Films
The 47th Annual Telly Awards
This year’s awards saw over 13,000 entries from across the globe, with new categories covering generative AI, creators and emerging forms of animation. Winners were selected by the Telly Awards Judging Council, a global panel of more than 250 experts from organizations such as Google, HBO, the BBC and Netflix.
As part of the program, the People’s Telly Awards follow a distinct two-stage process: entries shortlisted by the Judging Council are then opened to public voting on the Telly Awards rating platform, giving audiences and industry peers the final say.