News Limited announces 5 winning teams of the 2013 Australian Cannes Young Lions competition
The winners of the 2013 Australian Cannes Young Lions competition were announced tonight in Sydney.
Of 80 finalists, five winning teams of two were selected to represent Australia in the categories of digital, print, film, media and marketing at the International Festival of Creativity in Cannes this year.
In their 24 hour brief (48 hours for film), finalists were required to produce a campaign supporting the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute (MCRI) with the objective to drive brand awareness and increase donation revenue.
The winning teams were selected by a panel of Australia’s leading senior creative and media executives.
News Limited’s group director – sales Fiorella Di Santo said: “The level of talent demonstrated by this year’s finalists made selecting winners extremely difficult. The 80 finalists showed a high level of strategic thinking, clear innovation and relentless tenacity in their response.
“Huge congratulations must go to the five winning teams selected to represent Australia on the world stage.
“Through the Cannes Young Lions competition, we’re pleased to be playing a continued role in uncovering Australia’s best creative and advertising professionals.”
News Limited is the official Australian representative of the Cannes International Festival of Creativity.
On working with MCRI, Ms Di Santo said: “It’s terrific that through this competition we have been able to assist MCRI with the great work they do in supporting children’s health issues.”
Marketing manager at MCRI Fiona Gosschalk said: “We are delighted to be part of the Cannes Young Lions program. We are excited by the opportunity to collaborate with these wonderfully creative minds and have them working on innovative ways to help us spread the word about the Institute’s world leading child health research.”
The 2013 Australian Cannes Young Lions winners are:
Digital:
Liam Riddler and Alex Bolderoff, 303Lowe
Print:
Josie Fox and Sara Oteri, cumminsross
Film:
Omid Amidi and Michael Ashton, DDB Sydney
Media:
Kristine Ballensky, UM and Paul Den, UM
Highly commended:
Nelson Demartini, UM and Dean Schwal, OMD
Rebecca Alexander, Match Media and Jennifer Carroll, OMD
Marketing:
Laura Bindon, AMP Capital and Tim Seow, Royal Automobile Club of Victoria (RACV)
Winning teams receive return flights to Nice, accommodation and a Young Lions registration to the Cannes Festival with access to all the seminars, awards ceremonies, showcases and the Young Lions party. The Young Lions registration also allows them to participate in the Young Lions Zone, which includes 10 master classes and interactive kiosks showcasing winning work from the worldwide Young Lions competitions.
The 60th International Festival of Creativity is being held on 16-22 June 2013.
To view the winning entries, visit ozcannes.com.au
16 Comments
yeah Ashton, such good news mate!!
ASHTOMIDDBOOM!
Congratulations folks.
How can a idea that messes with YouTube API’s in such direct contravention of the ToS for developers win a competition of this importance? Did no-one think to check with Google?
Yeah Omid!!
People still work there?
DDB creatives clearly had the advantage by being so used to working on 24 hour briefs!
Well done everybody, enjoy your time.
so a button click is all it takes to book your ticket to Cannes? bravo
so a button click is all it takes to book your ticket to Cannes? bravo
hey, the winning film entry is private. Can someone fix that? I’m keen to see it again.
DDBOOOOOOOOM!!!!!
Where’s the winning film? C’mon guys…
Well done Omid. Great job!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxWai0wsJFc
Go O, you babe.
But it’s exactly the same as the Canadian ad that rewind posted the link to. How can this win?