Michael Canning named 2009 YoungGun of the Year at International YoungGuns Awards
Leo Burnett, Sydney creative Michael Canning (pictured far left) has been named the 2009 YoungGun of the Year at the International YoungGuns Awards held in Sydney last night. Canning received a number of awards for his work this year, including the WWF ‘Vote Earth’ global campaign.
Australian creatives won three of the 11 Gold Bullets awarded on the night. ‘Vote Earth’ won two, in the Digital – Being Involved category and the Media – Best Globalisation category; Merrin McCormick from SapientNitro, Brisbane won Gold for Tourism Queensland ‘The Best Job In The World’ in the Media – Best Globalisation. Anna Boothroyd from Colenso BBDO, Auckland also won Gold for Yellow Pages ‘Treehouse’ in the Integrated Campaigns category.
A sizeable young crowd rocked up to the free event, held at Publicis Mojo’sfabulous Walsh Bay premises. There was live music from two of Sydneybest DJs – DJ Shane and MissB, as well as an upcoming band – The Hooks.Lion Nathan provided alcohol and Google set up a creative sandbox lounge. Campaign Brief is the YoungGuns media partner in the Asia Pacific region.
Australian and New Zealand creatives (under 30 years old) scored32 out of the 99 entries that made the cut at the 2009 YoungGunsInternational Awards, which were selected by an international jurychaired by Tony Granger, worldwide CD of Y&R.
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Michael Canning! Congratulations my friend, could not have happened to a better dude!
Congratulations mate, you’re a superstar, well done.
Woop woop! Awesome creative. Awesome dude.
Well done champ!
Nice one canning…congrats dude.
Dale.
Money Mike. Does that mean I have to pay to talk to you now? well done bra, you deserve the shit out of it.
Congrats Merrin for Gold, also a special well done to Lisa for the only Silver in Australia, awesome. I’m sorry to say Melbourne and Sydney but SapientNitro Brisbane isn’t going away just yet.
awesome canning well done
what a wicked dude! well done Mike, that’s so awesome, you deserve it!
Golden touch! Great work Canning.
Michael ‘MC Hammer’ Canning…..3 words for you…..CAN’T TOUCH THIS! Well done my friend!
Ok, weird to have to do this here… Michael, if you ever worked for BMF? BWM? Can’t remember, you need to change your address because if it’s you, I got a letter addressed to you that got mailed to my Woolloomooloo apartment a few months ago, you must have lived in one of the units at some point. Call them and get them to resend it. Again, sorry to do this here. Love your work.
michael goldfinger canning…… onya mate
well done michael…..kieran’s a lucky man to have you pushing him along.
just googled you been trying to get in touch email me… an what can I say you are awesome congratts!!