I just found the IAB Australia Youtube channel with the Great Place to work videos. Google and Yahoo! battle it out for the most produced video while the others go home made. I'm not sure if the winners has been announced but you can view the entries here for yourself.

11 Days in Cannes and I'm exhausted! This is what Paris Hilton must feel like partying every night. But a great time was had by all and compred to what you normally see outside a bar at 4am the atmorephere was one of happiness.

2,757 entries in Cyber were submitted this year and as always a few good entries feel through the cracks and some not so special ones were chosen. There was also a slew of trends and themes from this years entries.

I'm going to give my round up that will go a little more in depth than my twitter feed did. I'm so glad to not have to Twitter anymore. It's one way to make any occasion a chore.

The 2008 Cyber Lion winners have been announced. I'm going to do a bit of visualisation when I get back to graph the trends of entries as there were some real big trends that came out this year.

Webcam, crazy characters, blow into webcam, upload face (still going strong), PR and live events.

I'll be twittering from Canees for News this year. Keep up to date with every detail here. More info and links to the other jury's Twitter accounts here.

Just a friendly reminder that entries are due for the Variety Banner Competition end JUNE 10. We will accept scamps but would prefer finished ads.

The 2008 ANDY Award winners have been announced.

The list is short, but sweet. And no real surprises.

Get the Glass is still on a roll, and deservedly.

The interactive fun of Uniqlo makes it's annual appearance at the awards show, the bastards.

That crazy Norwegian multi-user live commenting thing that Ash showed us a while back made it through. Fun.

And Simpsonize Me has picked up recognition for being a bloody good example of what viral actually is.

Check out the rest of the winners here.

The unspeakable favors have paid off. I have been selected as Australia's representative in the 2008 Cannes Cyber Lions Jury.

Ashadi will also be attending the event side of things, so we'll be trying to organize some Bannerblog get together to put faces to the banners. SO if you are also attending get in touch.

PS: My mum thought I was getting a trip to Cairns which is understandable as she lives on the Gold Coast and wanted me to visit on my way over. Sorry mum.

I like both of these. I've wanted to rumble with a bear suit guy for a while now. I'll live vicariously through this vid.

This one ends up looking like Amy Whitehouse in the end.

OneShow has extended the entry deadline until February 8th. Enter Now>

Pay special attention to the entry requirements for the two banner categories - fixed and dynamic space, standalone versions / asset files have to be supplied on cdrom

Hopefully this means that OneShow will be distributing the shortlist / winners on CD using the actual ad assets, instead of video capturing them.

There's just one week left to Enter One Show. Which when you rank it among all the awards out there is in the top 3 you need to enter.

Enter now at www.enteroneshow.org

This year's judges is a who's who of the interactive crowd. In fact that's probably the most solid interactive jury I've seen in a while. They've even managed to track down four females which is impressives as usually these are sausage fests.

Enter the 2008 One Show Interactive and have your websites, online videos, mobile campaigns and more put to the test. One Show Interactive is the most prestigious award show in the industry, and the judges are some of the most respected and sought after creatives in the industry. They come from all corners of the globe to lift the bar higher by honoring a wide variety of work from multinational advertising giants to small regional shops.

-The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2008.

Winners will be announced during the One Show Festival, which is held from May 6 to May 9 in New York City.

Some weird and wonderful work amongst the stuff that's been awarded at this year's AWARD and ADMA awards.

Big kudos to Saatchi and Saatchi New Zealand who picked up Agency of the Year, and to Tequila and Host, who had a number of winners peppered through different categories

It seems AWARD certainly hasn't been easy-going with the pencils, and I've heard from one judge who confirmed that it was indeed "a tough year".

Some of the categories are of course getting even more blurred. Mobile and innovative media? Should that be included here?

More work is spilling out into other sections, which is awesome. Mobile is crossing over into online (and vice versa), and integrated work is becoming the standard rather than the exception.

Hmm.

Well, below are the main winners in the categories that as of 2007, are currently known as "Interactive".

(Compare to what won at Cannes in the Cyber category here.)

BRONZE - DIGITAL CAMPAIGN, SILVER - ONLINE AD
Only two banner executions picked up anything, and those were part of the follow-up Staedtler The Pen is Mightier than the Mouse campaign by Host.

BRONZE - WEBSITE
Nicely-told story of the Battle for the Bronchs done by Tequila



The black character does look a little like Allen Iverson, no?

BRONZE - MICROSITE
It almost looks like Tenacious D themselves had a hand in The Greatest Website in the World again by Tequila Australia

BRONZE - MICROSITE
Tight make-your-own-ad for Nike with Kimewaza Battle by Beacon Communications Japan

GOLD - ONLINE AND MOBILE GAME, SILVER - WEBSITE
ElectroCity by Rivet New Zealand is the kind of game you would have tried to get your school teacher to let you play instead of doing real work. Nicely crafted too.

BRONZE - INTERACTIVE VIRAL
Golden Compass Daemons by Tequila again. (You might have to dig deep into the Flash for it.)

BRONZE - OTHER DIGITAL MEDIA
And the Hallensteins Interactive Changing Room by Saatchi's New Zealand which I believe also won in the newly-created Dressing Room Innovation Category

Over at ADMA, some of the big winners were the lovingly-crafted Home Sweet As by Host, the Aussie-as Ashes Viral by Tribal DDB and Clemenger Proximity picking up a big tick for "social networking" withV-Raw

A text only PDF of ADMA and AWARD winners can be found here and here respectively. And Campaign Brief, in a great move forward with digital technology, have actually got color pictures of the winners in their PDF round-up.

More work to be posted as we come across it.

Well done to those who won. To those who didn't, we best get working for next year.

Australian Creative magazine are again running their Hotshop award for 2007. This time they remembered to include "Digital/Interactive" in the official entry form!

It's $110 an entry and entries close Jan 23, 2008 so plenty of time to get a sexy looking entry together. Last year there were around 11 interactive agencies who entered. Let's see if we can boost that up for this year.

The People's Choice nominations for the 6th Annual Eyeblaster Creative awards are up. EB also asked me to be one of the judges and has also invited me to NY to present the people's choice winners.

Voting closes Oct 19th with winners announced Nov 6 so cast your now.

Over the next few days we'll be posting the Cannes shortlist entries. To make life easy, we've added a new category called 'Cannes 2007' and you can see it all right here. The most recent additions will appear at the top.

So the rumor on the croisette today is that Swedish Agency Far Far will take home the Cyber Grand Prix. Not sure what campaign is, but stay tuned.

We're just 1% behind in the webbys with 3 days to go. We can do it with your support. So all those people that havent voted as it's too much hassle to enter your email and click a link please pull your finger out and vote.

We're nominated in the Business Blog category.

And to all those that have voted thank you. We've come from 11% behind to almost snaring the win.

The In book and nominations for D&AD 2007 have been announced. Check the PDF here.

Will there be another black pencil winner this year? There were quite a few good campaigns so it's looking good.

The only Aussie winner in digital was Leo Burnett (iLeo) with Turtle. which is also a One Show finalist.

We're chuffed to be nominated for a Webby Award in Blog - Business We'd love to get your vote in the People's Voice awards.

We'll be posting the best banners from the Webbys over the next 2 weeks aswell. There's quite a few goodies that we haven't seen before, so it's a win for everyone.

Check out this years SXSW Interactive Festival winners.

SXSW, the Webbys and TheFWA are the only awards that count outside of the big advertising ones.

For some reason I'm on the Dubai Lynx Awards mailing list. Which is for Middle East and North African agencies.

It's hard to check out the interactive winners when they only provide a .jpg

Sadly I wasn't on the jury list as I could have used a round of golf in Dubai :)

THE ONE CLUB ANNOUNCES JURY FOR TENTH ANNUAL

Twenty-six of the top creative directors in the field of interactive advertising have been chosen to judge the One Show Interactive awards, a prestigious international competition now in its tenth year.

The jury, hailing from 15 countries, will meet in New York to choose the winners of the coveted 2007 One Show Interactive awards from March 11-17. Winners will be announced on May 11 at an awards ceremony held during the One Show Festival in New York City.

Judges for this year’s One Show Interactive competition are:

• P.J. Pereira, AKQA (San Francisco, U.S.A.)
• Marco de Boer, Artmiks (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Daniel Bonner, AKQA (London, England)
• Heike Brockmann, Scholz & Volkmer (Wiesbaden, Germany)
• Martin Cedergren, Forsman & Bodenfors (Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Meera Chandra, Tribal DDB (Mumbai, India)
• Ben Clapp, Tribal DDB (London, England)
• Sam De Volder, These Days (Antwerp, Belgium)
• Pedro Gravena, DDB Brasil (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
• Ken Hamm, Manner Maker Media (New York, U.S.A.)
• Naoki Itoh, GT (Tokyo, Japan)
• Ian Kovalik, Mekanism (San Francisco, U.S.A.)
• Nick Law, R/GA (New York, U.S.A.)
• Stefan Lindfors, Stream (Helsinki, Finland)
• Gustav Martner, Daddy (Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Will McGinness, Goodby Silverstein & Partners (San Francisco, U.S.A.)
• Pete Moss, Ogilvy (Singapore)
• Matias Palm-Jensen, Farfar (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Edu Pou, Crispin Porter + Bogusky (Miami, U.S.A.)
• Robert Rasmussen, JWT (New York, U.S.A.)
• Fernanda Romano, Lowe (New York, U.S.A.)
• Liz Sivell, Freelance (Sydney, Australia)
• Rafa Soto, Herraiz Soto & Co. (Barcelona, Spain)
• Ulises Valencia, Grupo W (Saltillo, Mexico)
• Adam Whitehouse, Stonewall (Cape Town, South Africa)
• Robert Wong, Arnold (Boston, U.S.A.)

A pretty good line up of judges. Also the one Aussie Liz has left One Digital at Australia to join an agency in the UK.

The winners have been announced in the first Creative Showcase AU competition. Check out the winners & runners up here.

The Creative Showcase has been going strong in the UK for a while now (it's a great place to grab banners from) and we've decided to start one up in Australia. And when I say 'we' I mean Mike from Profero and the other peopel not Bannerblog.

The Australian Creative Showcase will be judged quarterly and hopefully will be a good chance for some friendly competition.

It's free to enter so get submitting as there's been some nice work done lately by everyone.

Note: The first round clsoes very soon (Monday, Nov 27) so get your entries in ASAP

Bannerblog won Best of Industry (for Blogs) in the 2006 Web Awards.

All the editors will be getting their stylish commmorative Leather Bomber Jackets. Jealous? While it feels good to win (no wait it feels better to beat other people) if you check the list of winners they pretty much handed an award to any old MOFO that entered. Seems I've invented a new catgory. Whinging winners :)

You have just a week to enter Creatives Hotshop award for 2007. Now with the Interactive category added. It'd look bad if we don't get many entries in the Interactive category after fighting for it to be added. So get your pens out and start entering. Also it's free!! so no need to budget for this one.

Also D&AD, New York Festivals, One Show , Clio and the Webbys are open for entry. Phew that's alot of entries fees.

If I've missed any other awards let me know. There's too many to keep track of.

The 2006 finalist for AWARD have been announced. See the full list here.

We trying to put together a list of the Interactive winners as it's a waste just getting the title of the job with no URL.

Hopefully one of the judges will slip me the URL's. Ashadi??

This looks like fun.

Newcreatives.com, the online community database driven by the ideas of young creative people launches its ‘call for participation’ for its 2006 ‘newcreatives award’ competition. Young, global creatives can compete for the best ideas for ALESSI, the renowned, high-end Italian “Factory of Design”. The participants will look for the most impactful ideas in support of Alessi’s soon-to-open US Flagship store on Greene Street, in Manhattan’s fashionable SoHo District. (The store will open in mid-September of this year), as well as focus on branding ideas for the US market.

Interested creatives of all disciplines (advertising, graphic design, product design, free artists, photography, web design, filmmakers, fashion designers, illustrators, etc…), up to the age of 30, and with a maximum of 3 years of professional experience, can get their copy of the briefing by confirming their participation at award@newcreatives.com.

The competitors will have a month to complete a 2-category task on ‘How beauty can affect your daily life'. Mid-September, an international jury of professional advertising and design creatives will select category winners, who will get a free trip to NY and will be invited to the newcreatives award ceremony and winners’ exhibition in the new Alessi store in NY. At the award ceremony, the Grand winner will receive an additional $1000 in Alessi product.

The full press release can be downloaded here.

AdNews, Australia's leading industry publication, has tallied up the damage done to the collective balance sheets of Australian agencies at this years Cannes Lion festival.

Leading the charge, was Saatchi & Saatchi Australia, spending a mammoth AUD$65,350 (approx US$45,000) on entry fees, outspending its nearest rival by more than double.

Adnews produced the chart using publicly available entry data and used the lowest entry fee in that category as the basis for the calculations.

No doubt the chiefs over at Singleton's who have a steadfast 'no award show' policy are smiling.

Entries close July 10! So get in quick

Sadly no diatribe from me about the ills of using the word viral just a notice that the Asia Interactive Awards are open for entry.

Entries close July 5th so theres still time to enter.

Note: I am part of the jury which sadly only has one female. Which is one more than there was at D&AD for interactive.

Cannes Cyber Lions Short list here.

Good to see the steadler campaign from HOST has made it thus far, I liked the work.

Ashley says: This has to be the best year for Australia yet though. Congrats to Leo Burnett, Host, Tequila, Saatchi & Saatchi and I guess Netx too. And a big finger to the judges for not shortlisting any of our stuff. Bastards! hehe :)

The OneShow winners were announced on Friday night, and it would appear it was a tough competition this year, with only 60 pencils handed out. (I think this is lower than usual?) Over the next week, anyone that has a OneShow winner or indeed a finalist, please send it in to us.

For a list of the winners, click here

On a local note Australia did it tough once again :

SILVER George Patterson Y&R / Melbourne
Promotional Advertising VB Boony Doll

SILVER OneDigital / Sydney
Business to Consumer adidas adidas_1 Interactive Store

MERIT Tribal DDB Sydney / Sydney
10B: Web Sites McDonald's Australia McDonald's Corporate Website

MERIT NetX / Sydney
03A: Business to Consumer - Single Virgin Atlantic Airways Virgin Atlantic Phobias Self-help

MERIT RMG Connect Australia / Sydney
05A: Business to Consumer Samsung The Inside Job

George Patterson/Y&R's Boony doll was a huge success here. To find out more about this innovative piece, its worth taking a look at this article from the Sydney Morning Herald Well done guys!

A little disappointed we didn't achieve a pencil for Samsung, but hey the work we were up against in that category was phenomenal !

Australia has managed just one finalist in this years Clio Internet Awards. Again we've kept our head high in the other categories so it's not a total loss.

Congrats go to Tribal DDB for their McDonalds site. Let's hope it brings home a gold.

I can't see any NZ finalists so we aren't that bad :)

The webby's are a combination of judges votes on one hand an peoples votes on the other. It's really good because it's about the online community as distinct from awards which tend to apply the analogue judging to digital some of the time.

The winners here.

There's a huge range of work, and all generally good work. Check it out.

(btw unashamed plug - Poke seems to do quite well we got two this year, and a couple last year as well...)

I have returned from D&AD and letting you know the team will endevor to post up as many of the shortlisted entries as we can in the next few weeks. I've also posted a few photos which show the sheer scale of the event.

While there were no Aussie noms or in book for online Campaign Brief reports a record 7 noms for Aussie entries in D&AD in the other catagories. Although there's an interesting discussion going on about some of the nominations.

D&AD Judging Area 2006: eXcel London

Now I'm not exactly sure on the due diligence of this report but it's pretty sad to see Australia not even in the top 20 countries for Interactive. Where as we are 5th for direct.

But hey at least New Zealand didn't beat us. Phew! Let's make it Australia's goal to at least break the top 20 in 2006.

Judging for D&AD takes place from the 2-3 of April in London. There were quite a few good entries this year and picking who gets the pencils will be hard.

Hopefully I can also help cement Bannerblog into the minds of all the jurors to further promote and enhance the quality of the work submitted to this site.

I'll also be taking an extended break around Europe so I leave you in the capable hands of Ashadi and the rest of the crew.

Last night was 12th AIMIA awards which was held in very hot Adelaide.

With 21 awards there were quite a few winners but for me the three main categories were:



Best Entertainment
Winner: TEQUILA\: Wedding Crashers online campaign (well deserved)

Best Interactive Advertising
TEQUILA\: Life On Mars (again well deserved)

Best Integration with an Offline Advertising Campaign
Clemenger Proximity: Online launch - a.o taste

The full list of winners with links can be found here.

Worst speech would have to go to Massmedia who couldn't resist trying to sell themselves on the night and ended up sounding like cheeseburgers.

Note: we (Soap Creative) didn't win anything but it's hard to go up against Wedding Crashers and Think Tank.

Tribal DDB has won the AdNews Interactive Agency of the Year. More info here on the "sell out success" from the night. Tribal also won the same title for B&T this year as well as for Ad News in 2004. M&C Saatchi and White were runners up.

Ralph Wiggum : What's a Battle?

The Battle of the Ad Blogs is over and the votes are being couted. A big thanks to all that voted and a "TALK TO THE HAND" to those that couldn't be bothered :)

Went along to a reasonably modest ICA night in London last night, it was the Creative Showcase grand prix awards - run by the IAB.

The awards were based on the monthly showcase 12 winners for the 2005 year - judging consistes of a number of new media professionals who vote on entries by agencies or individuals, there's a winner and two runner ups - it's a good view of the (mainly) UK industry as -it-happens.

Some really nice work there, but anyway the winner this time around was Agency.com London with their NSPCC banners and overlays - which were featured right here on bannerblog in december.

Second were Glue with their Navy campaign and third was a collaboration of Agency Republic, Glue and AKQA with the Make Poverty History. I'm guessing Hamish will be able to point the way to these. nice one.

Tobie.

You have less than 2 weeks to enter most of the major interactive awards for the 2006 ego season. If we have missed an award that's worth mentioning please let us know.

Entries close:

27th: Jan D&AD
31st Jan: OneShow Interactive
31st Jan: Internet Advertising Competition
1st Feb: Clio Awards
28th Feb: NineMSN Creative Clique AU Only
1st March: Golden Award Montreux
31st May: Create Awards AU Only

Entries havent opened for Cannes Cyber Lions yet so theres still time to scam some entries up :)