A weekly roundup of the most important news from the advertising awards world
Midas Awards
The Midas Awards have announced their winners for the 2016 edition.
This year, the competition dedicated to the world’s best financial advertising was the last of the main awards schemes to reveals its winners list.
“A Priceless Delivery” for Mastercard by FP7/DXB Dubai (UAE) won the much-coveted Grand Midas Award.
View the winners list at http://www.midasawards.com/winners/2016/
Interaction Awards
The Interaction Awards have opened the vote for the People Choice Awards of the 2017 edition.
Vote now at http://awards.ixda.org/blog/2017/peoples-choice-award/ to decide who deserves to win the trophy awarded by the public
And also
- Dubai Lynx announced the speakers of its 2017 edition
- Madonna Badger, founder and Chief Creative Officer of Badger & Winters, announced as Ambassador for 2017 See It Be It programme of the Cannes Lions 2017
- Pentawards announces its 2017 jury
- Cresta Awards announces Yuya Furukawa, Chief Creative Officer of Dentsu Tokyo as its 2017 Jury President
- Call for entries for the Golden Award of Montreux 2017
- ADC Awards announces its 2017 jury
Story of the week: Directory
Directory magazine has revealed the Big Won, its annual rankings of the most awarded ad campaigns of the year.
The most awarded ad campaign of 2016 was “McWhopper” for Burger King by Y&R Auckland (New Zealand). New Zealand agencies managed to score another campaign in the top 10 with “Brewtroleum” for DB Export by Colenso BBDO Auckland.
See the complete rankings at https://www.directnewideas.com/bigwon/
This week also, TheNextGag has published its annual report of the most awarded ad campaigns of the year. Here again, the top campaign is “McWhopper” for Burger King by Y&R Auckland (New Zealand).
The rankings from TheNextGag only takes into account the top prize (ie, the Grand Prix, Best of Show …) of the main advertising awards competitions. That explains why the number of points earned by campaigns is smaller.
Quote of the week
“Startups” The new & young companies refuse to define themselves that way. The old & established companies insist they still are.
Nick Finck on Twitter