Posts filed under 'Awards & Ad Festivals'
The Cannes International Advertising Festival ended on June 24, 2006, and the winners in every category have been announced.
Apparently, BBDO Worldwide came out on top winning 41 Lions awards, including the grand prize for film (Film Grand Prix) for their “Evolution” commercial created by AMV BBDO, London for Guinness Beer.
It’s a well known advertisement, not in our part of the world, for obvious reasons 
Watch it here.
BBDO won awards in every major competition category including film, press, outdoor, radio, cyber, direct, media and promotion.
In all, 20 different BBDO agencies were awarded, led by AMV BBDO, which was named the runner-up “Advertising Agency of the Year.”
This is the Cannes Winners site with details on every winner in every category.
June 26th, 2006
Here’s more on the Cannes International Advertising Festival, running from 18 to 24 June, 2006.
The organizors are running a promotion entitled “Where are the best ideas coming from?”, and it covers every aspect of the festival including Film, Press, Outdoor, Cyber and other categories.
It’s an interesting and live update of the best of the festival.
Check it out.
We’re glad to see the excellent work under the ‘Cyber’ category.
Obviously, we at AdBlogArabia are big believers in digital (cyber) media. Aren’t you?
June 22nd, 2006
Apparently, Leo Burnett Worldwide thinks so.
As part of the Cannes International Advertising Festival, which is grabbing everyone’s attention this week, Leo Burnett presented a seminar on “Wildfire Brands: Ideas that Spread and Sell”.
The seminar also built on Leo Burnett’s ongoing study entitled “Does Award-Winning Advertising Sell?”, proving that more than 86 percent of award-winning advertising actually increases sales.
Leo Burnett is one of the world’s most awarded agency networks. You’d expect them to preach the value of award-winning ideas.
In fairness, though, it makes sense and applies to award-winning advertisements of all agency networks in the world.
Read more here at Strategiy.com.
June 22nd, 2006
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The American Advertising Federation (AAF) has announced the results of its ADDY Awards.
From a massive 58,000 ADDY Awards entries, 1,857 were judged in the national competition.
And the winners are quite impressive.
The “Best of Show” award went to the Microsoft XBox 360 commercial by McCann-Erickson.
Watch it here.
And visit the ADDY site for all the results. Enjoy.
June 14th, 2006
The ArabAd/IAA Kuwait advertising award ceremony for Kuwait, KREA, was hailed a success.
The KREA Awards aims to recognize excellence and innovation in the advertising industry.
A panel of nine judges, from five countries evaluated 370 submissions, with 20 advertising houses ultimately taking home awards.
At the moment, there hasn’t been a press release on the full results of the event, but stay tuned.
For now, this is a local blogger who tells the story of the KREA event very well, with a lot of pictures.
And, here’s is a press release by Memac Ogilvy on their win of 9 trophies.
The event was organized by The Communications Zone.
June 4th, 2006
Toot, the Arab blog network, is holding its first blog design competition.
From Toot:
Cast your votes now for the best designed blogs in your opinion… You can vote for up to 10 blogs blogs on toot. Show the love for the blogs you love!
So why a design competition? Well, toot is not only interested in providing the best content, but we’re also interested in making sure that this great content is represented in a visually pleasing manner- you know, eye candy!
Check it out..
May 30th, 2006
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