Facebook Awards
Submissions are officially open for the 2015 Facebook Awards (formerly the Facebook Studio Awards), which celebrates top creative work on Facebook (and Instagram this year). This year’s awards feature four additional categories, which recognise even more aspects of creative excellence in marketing: Social Technology, Media Strategy, Facebook for Good and New Frontiers. The Facebook Awards are open to campaigns that ran between February 1, 2014 and March 31, 2015. Original work can be in any language, but submissions must be in English.
Cannes Lions
Cannes Lions announced earlier this week that award winning designer Dan Formosa will be presiding over the Product Design jury at this year’s International Festival of Creativity. Formosa is a famed design consultant, who was a member of the team that designed IBM’s first personal computer and more recently, established two design collectives; “4B,” and “Brainpool.” The festival introduced the Product Design category last year, acknowledging that as a global awards ceremony celebrating creativity in communications, it was essential for the industry that product design be recognised for the part it plays in brand communications.
Cannes Lions announced that Dan Formosa will be presiding over the Product Design category this year
Cannes Lions CEO Philip Thomas, said “The Product Design category is a necessary piece in the make-up of the awards” because “Design touches everyone’s lives every day and is an intrinsic part of every brand.” He added that “Cannes Lions is delighted to have someone of Dan’s standing at the helm of the category as it's established further in its second year.” Formosa himself, said “Every product a company creates is a personification of the brand that created it and a representation of the people standing behind that brand.”
SAP Hybris Global Partner 2015 Awards
Razorfish has been nominated for three major SAP Hybris Global Partner Awards, with award winners to be announced at the Hybris Global Partner Summit, which takes place February 11-13 in Munich, Germany. Razorfish is shortlisted for the “Americas Partner of the Year,” “Americas Service Delivery Partner of the Year” and “Asia Pacific Partner of the Year” awards. The agency has experienced significant growth in commerce assignments since the Publicis Groupe acquired Crown Partners in July last year and aligned the company with Razorfish as its Technology Platforms pillar, creating one of the industry's largest teams of Hybris-certified commerce experts. Razorfish also recently developed and launched an industry-leading Adobe-Hybris accelerator.
Razorfish has been nominated for three major SAP Hybris Global Partner Awards
Paul Do Forno, senior vice president of global commerce and content lead at Razorfish, said, “These prestigious nominations are an acknowledgement of the multi-disciplinary, customer-centric solutions that Razorfish offers clients on a global scale.” He looks forward to “A strong 2015 and continued momentum” based on their comprehensive offerings and capabilities. Razorfish Technology Platforms president Richard Hearn, meanwhile, is incredibly proud to “Partner globally with SAP Hybris and espouse its best-of-breed offerings and vision to clients,” he says their global clients “Are realising the immediate and durable value of Hybris' truly extensible and comprehensive omni-channel suite, plus its role within the overall SAP market basket.”
CLIO Creative Bowl
CLIO's inaugural Creative Bowl has named BBDO New York the winner of the 2015 Super CLIO for their Super Bowl Brady Bunch Snickers spot, which featured action star Danny Trejo in a spoof of the classic sitcom The Brady Bunch. Nicole Purcell, President of CLIO, said “The Creative Bowl aims to encourage creative excellence and bring a new perspective to the advertising industry.” By honouring the finest Super Bowl Creative, she believes this award “Celebrates what brands with strong year-round platforms can do on advertising's biggest night,” and CLIO extends a “Huge congratulations to BBDO and all Creative Bowl finalists.”
ADC Annual Awards
The ADC Awards team officially extended the deadline for the ADC 94th Annual Awards Advertising category by exactly one week. Everyone interested in submitting work in this category must now do so by midnight on Monday, February 9. The ADC Tomorrow Awards, which celebrates the future of creative and technological innovation, also has a new future deadline; Friday, February 20.
