CB Agency of the Year Clemenger BBDO leads the agency pack at the shortlist stage of the 2009 MADC Awards with 30 finalists, followed by George Patterson Y&R with 23, Grey with 12, Publicis Mojo with 11, Lifelounge with 10 and DDB with 9.

Futher down the list is M&C Saatchi with 6, followed by The Campaign Palace and Leo Burnett with 4 finalists each.

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Over 200 ad industry creatives, production people and trade press were last night treated to a brilliant, big screen viewing of the work of the world's hottest new directors at the Sydney premiere of the 2009 AFA/Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase, held at the Palace Academy Twin in Paddington.
The screening was introduced by AFA board member Belinda Rowe, CEO Australia of Zenith Optimedia and Saatchi & Saachi Australia ECD Steve Back (pictured above).
Many kicked on at the after Party at nearby The Beauchamp Hotel, where CB snapped the following pics.

After great success in San Francisco, Chicago and New York, Google's first international Creative Sandbox is coming to Sydney - at an invitation-only event. This interactive evening will give an 'intimate' gathering of 300 of the Australian advertising industry's finest creatives and top suits, the chance to see, feel and touch the most cutting edge applications of Google's technology.  

303 founding partner and shareholder Ray van Kempen has decided to wind-down his involvement and exit the agency in the near future. The move was announced to staff on Friday but no time-scale has yet been finalised for his departure. It is believed van Kempen's shareholding will be taken up by other partners or by 303's Sydney agency management.
Van Kempen, Stephen Wells and Lindsay Medalia founded 303 when they left Marketforce in 1990. He has long been regarded as one of Perth's best ever art directors.
303 Perth managing director Alan Taylor said at 57 years of age and having worked tirelessly for the agency over the past two decades, van Kempen felt it was time to start winding back his workload and pursue some other interests.

There are a few key award deadlines this Friday 31st July, all count towards the annual Campaign Brief Creative Rankings:

CAXTONS
Downlowd an entry form here: www.thecaxtonawards.com.au.
Winners will be announced at the Caxton Seminar and Awards, which will be held October 23-25, 2009 at the Quay West Resort, Noosa. Bookings are now open. To secure your spot download a registration form at www.thecaxtonawards.com.au.

THE WORK 09
Now in its 8th year of publication, The Work (which is FREE to enter) is a 400 page, hard cover publication (including DVD) that features the very best advertising of the year from Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The Work is recognised as the only true permanent record of creativity from the entire region.
There are two things that differentiate The Work 09 apart from traditional award shows. Firstly, The Work is selective - to qualify for entry the ad or campaign must have already passed the test and been a finalist or winner at an awards show. Secondly, there is no wasted entry fees - only accepted work incurs an acceptance fee.
Download the PDF Entry Kit with all the details:
The Work09 CALL FOR ENTRY KIT.pdf

LONDON INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Entries submitted must be broadcast, published or released in a commercial environment with client approval between 1st July 2008 and 31st July 2009.
For Entry Kit visit www.liaawards.com. For more info or deadline extensions email info@liaawards.com

2009 NYF International Advertising Awards  in Shanghai; CumminsNitro, Brisbane awarded Boutique Agency of the Year, Revolver, Sydney wins Production Company of the Year Award

New York Festivals kicked off its first ever 2009 World Tour, with the NYF International Advertising Awards in Shanghai China. The spectacular day long series of events, held on Saturday at Jiading SINO ADO Creative Zone culminated with a gala award presentation and screening of the 2009 New York Festivals Gold Winners in TV and Film. 

CumminsNitro, Brisbane received the newly minted Boutique Agency of the Year Award, along with a Grand Trophy; Revolver, Sydney took home the just launched Production Company of the Year Award; Big Ant International, New York was bestowed the celebrated Grand Trophy;  and legendary ad man Neil French was presented the 2009 New York Festivals Lifetime Achievement Award.

Top creatives Paul Sharp and Mike Burdick will join the DDB Sydney creative department in August as senior art director and senior copywriter working across a number of clients including Wrigley's and Unilever.

"Put simply, Paul and Mike are among the best creatives in the country and we're absolutely thrilled and privileged to be welcoming them to the DDB Sydney team," said Matt Eastwood, DDB national creative director. "They have been responsible for some of my favourite creative work over the past 12 months including the Boags Draught 'Pipeline' campaign which was one of the few Australian campaigns accepted into D&AD this year."

Digital agency @www was has relaunched AMP Capital's Digital INsights, a video based information portal aimed at a senior (45+) audience.
 
@www Creative Director Tristan Fawley said the scope was to develop a destination site that could educate users through an engaging video format and that would link them through to further fund information.
 
The Digital INsights main goal is to educate and inform potential and current AMP Capital investors on its products and categories. The site will be the primary communication vehicle for AMP Capital in 2009/10.

Saatchi & Saatchi, Wellington was tasked to get people to donate to the Women's Refuge Annual Appeal. A lot of domestic violence ads leave little to the imagination. This one leaves a lot.
The spot has been included in this week's Top 6 on Bestads, voted the runner up by guest judge Andy Bird, head of art at Ogilvy London.
Also, in the Top 6 Outdoor, TV3 'Hitched' - a good stag do often ends with the groom being hand cuffed semi-naked to a street sign - which is exactly what Colenso BBDO Auckland did to help promote the premiere of the new reality TV show Hitched (which follows kiwi couples in the lead up to the big day).

Clemenger BBDO, Melbourne launches Fat Yak, the pale ale with an enormous flavour. And Leo Burnett, Melbourne creates a cheeky ambient stunt promoting the Suzuki Hayabusa, the world's fastest street bike.
Two of the Top Ads of the Week on Bestads, reviewed by Andy Bird, head of art at Ogilvy London.

Malaysian ad trade magazine Adoi Magazine has received tributes to the much beloved Yasmin Ahmad from all of the world. Yasmin passed away on the weekend.

This week's breaking newspaper ad campaigns as featured on The Newspaper Works website:
Coca-Cola Minis
Victorian Govt - Save Water/Target 155
Victorian Govt - Gamblers' Help
Coopers Vintage
Michael Hill Jewellers
Toyota Prius
Mt Barker Free Range Chicken
The Tasmania Mercury Classifieds

DDB New Zealand today announced the appointment of New York native Adam Kanzer, in the role of creative director, replacing deputy creative director Bridget Taylor, who recently moved to Singapore.

Formerly an associate creative director at BBDO New York (Cannes 2008 Agency of the Year), Kanzer came to the attention of DDB New Zealand executive creative director Toby Talbot following his work on global brands such as Fedex, monster.com and BBC World Service.

Australia's leading independent advertising, media software and business solutions company, BCC AdSystems, has been commissioned to provide software and IT services for SMI, the new advertising revenue index co-founded by former journalist Jane Schulze.
 
Schulze, with co-founder and CEO Sue Fennessy (pictured), launched SMI this week. SMI is an Australian-first and will provide independent data on advertising expenditure across all mainstream media every month.

One of the funniest Ad-Blog is AdScam, written by the self-confessed hard drinkin', hard cursin', womanising George Parker.  He regularly takes aim at BDA's (Big Dumb Agencies) as can be seen by last week's "OGILVY IN SERIOUS SHIT... BIG LAYOFFS ON THE WAY!" and "GOT A HEADACHE? TAKE ONE "AGENCY OF THE FUTURE" AND GO KNOCK DOWN SOME SILOS!" . He also calls a spade a shovel like the time he had a go at GodJobs (Steve Jobs) for getting all upset about Microsoft ads that had a go at Apple - "IS GODJOBS LETTING THE "LAPTOP HUNTERS" GET UP HIS ARSE?". A common thread to his blog is an zealous facination of Kate Moss. Who can blame him.

Parker's blog is well worth catching up with. In a recent post he reminded us that last week was the 10th anniversary of David Ogilvy's death. He wrote this dedication for BrandRepublic in the UK and repeated on his blog

The Call for Entries deadline for the 2009 Caxton Awards for creative excellence in newspaper advertising is this Friday 31st July.
An entry kit can be downloaded from www.thecaxtonawards.com.au. Don't forget that the Caxton Awards count on the annual Campaign Brief Creative Rankings.
Winners will be announced at the Caxton Seminar and Awards, which will be held October 23-25, 2009 at the Quay West Resort, Noosa. Bookings are now open.  To secure your spot download a registration form at www.thecaxtonawards.com.au.

Corbis, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today announced that it is launching Creatives Behind the Lens, a competition to seek out the photographic talents of Australia's creative industry, with the support of D&AD. The highly-regarded competition, which originated in Europe and has been held annually in recent years, presents a unique opportunity for professionals working in advertising, marketing and media to showcase their photographic talent and receive recognition from a jury of industry experts.  2009 is the competition's inaugural year in Australia.  

The call for entries opens today and is open to all non-professional photographers working in the creative industries in Australia. Creatives can enter HERE. The call-for-entries continues through 4 September 2009.

The 2009 Caxton Seminar has announced three more high-calibre speakers for this year's weekend event: Clemenger Group chairman Rob Morgan (far left), CumminsNitro Brisbane joint creative director Nancy Hartley and consumer psychologist and founding partner of Naked Communications in Australia Adam Ferrier (left).
 
They will join keynote speakers announced last week, JWT creative chairman of continental Europe and Latin America Fernando Vega Olmos and Publicis Mojo's new chief creative officer Craig Davis, in addressing the Seminar to be held from October 23-25.

According to Simon Canning in today's Media section of The Australian, a combination of mutual respect and the changing needs of clients has prompted top creative team Mick Hunter and Ian Morton (pictured), who operate Sydney creative consultancy Brain Surgery to team up with Reg Bryson and Fiona Day, who run brand strategy operation Brand Council, to form a virtual full-service agency.

Australia's first, independent, real time advertising revenue index, SMI, launched today offering access to independent data across all media every month.

SMI is co founded by CEO Sue Fennessy, a media and sponsorship expert, and publisher Jane Schulze, the former Editor of The Australian's Media section and a media writer for over 15 years.

According to Michael Bodey in today's Media section of The Australian, The actors union expects to picket international television commercials shot in Australia after the Screen Producers Association of Australia terminated the offshore commercials agreement...

Leo Burnett Malaysia ECD and acclaimed film director Yasmin Ahmad passed away last night at 11.25pm in Damansara Specialist Hospital in Kuala Lumpur. She was just 51 years of age. She died from massive bleeding in the brain following a stroke on Thursday. The world is a much poorer place for her loss. Campaign Brief's thoughts and prayers go out to her husband, Tan Yew Leong, and all her family and close friends.

TRIBUTES pour in from all over the ad world

Read Harmandar Singh's (from ADOI Magazine Malaysia) dedication to Yasmin HERE.
Read more on ADOI.
Read more HERE.

Here's a much loved commercial, part of a series that won Gold at all the big international awards shows last year, as well as Gold at AWARD. Written and directed by Yasmin, it is a very engaging conversation with a seven year old Malaysian boy.
In 2006, Yasmin was inducted into the Campaign Brief Hall of Fame, which was published in The Work 06 Annual.

About 11am Sydney time today, three exhausted Aussie twits completed the 4320LA.com challenge to tweet every minute for three straight days in LA to promote V Australia's short breaks in LA.
Ben Smith and Ben Akers, the creative team at Droga5 Sydney that created the online promotion, watched the three contestants survive live tattooing, waxing, in-fighting and insomnia to pull off the stunt, which was picked up by Channel 9's Today Show on Thursday and has been featured on local media in the states too.
The site has been so successful that the team are now preparing 4320.syd.com. The three days' antics were filmed and will be launched as advertising content, as well as forming an inflight show for Virgin Airlines.

George Patterson Y&R has made a number of people redundant across the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane offices. Sources estimate close to 15 people in Melbourne and several more in Brisbane and Sydney have lost their jobs. CB understands the retrenchments were driven by a downturn in revenue following account losses including Telstra in the Sydney office and Energex in the Brisbane office. Furthermore, the global financial crisis has squeezed margins for agencies across the globe resulting in widespread job losses. 

Yesterday JWT Sydney associate creative director, Ben O'Brien was in contact with the top 30 graduates from Wednesday night's Sydney AWARD School graduation inviting applications for JWT Sydney's 100-day internship program, The Deep End. 
  
O'Brien, who is running JWT's intern program, says the three successful candidates really will be thrown in The Deep End. "The Deep End at JWT is for advertising and design students and young creatives looking for some real agency experience. Over 100 days, the three successful candidates will work in the creative department here at JWT Sydney. They'll be thrown in the deep end, and we'll see if they sink or swim. They'll work on real briefs, and at the end of the 100 days, they'll have real work in their portfolios." 

All entries are FREE -  ENTER HERE
Designed to recognise and promote exceptional new commercial directors in the Asia Pacific Region, the Kodak/AWARD New Director Of The Year will honor outstanding commercial directors whose fresh thinking and creativity sets them apart from the rest.

The Works continue their international recruitment spree with new team member Cherith Crozier. Crozier, formerly an Art Director at Arcade (creative partner to Host) brings with her a wealth of experience working on big brands in Ireland and London.

She joins Brand Partner Sophie Farquhar, who has recently returned to The Works after a stint writing for the global Guinness account at iiBBDO in Dublin.

Australia is ranked #4 in the world according to the latest rankings of the world's top award shows compiled by The Won Report, confirming what everyone at Cannes was saying; Australian advertising is pretty hot right now. BMF Sydney is the top Australian agency, ranked at #16 in the world.


The World's Top Countries:

1. GERMANY : 2692 points
2. UNITED STATES : 2663 points
3. UNITED KINGDOM : 1777 points
4. AUSTRALIA : 1070 points
5. INDIA : 1019 points
6. FRANCE : 975 points
7. BRAZIL : 905 points
8. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES : 697 points
9. JAPAN : 688 points
10. SPAIN : 612 points

The aim of this Grey Melbourne commercial for TAC is to disabuse drivers of the notion that it's OK to drive after smoking a joint. It's a simple story, simply told by Sean Meehan of Soma Films.

A new social destination for young creatives launches today to coincide with the AWARD School graduation. Findyouryang.com is a place for young copywriters, art directors, photographers, designers and illustrators to find their creative soul-mate. Using the networking capabilities of Facebook, Find Your Yang is somewhere to meet likeminded people, swap books, be inspired and hopefully find that special someone to work with.
 
Find Your Yang came about after two orphan AWARD School graduates, Luke Martin and Alistair Geikie, discovered the power of teaming up while on a placement at Ursa.
 
"After AWARD School, we were both left without partners. A few failed attempts at finding someone to work with made us realise the importance of finding exactly the right person when teaming up," said Martin.

ECD of Ursa, Denis Mamo, said: "If young creatives present as a well-drilled team, it makes them more attractive to a CD and takes the pressure off trying to bolt two strangers together. If they have an extended network of collaborators, even better. I'd encourage young creatives to do their best to team up"
 

The 2009 Caxton Seminar has announced JWT creative chairman of Continental Europe and Latin America Fernando Vega Olmos (left) and Publicis Mojo's new chief creative officer Craig Davis (far left) as its keynote speakers for this year.
 
"We are extremely fortunate to have two speakers of this calibre to speak at the Caxtons this year, especially with our theme of 'creativity as a currency," says Caxton chairman Rob Belgiovane, creative partner at BWM Sydney. "They will both bring an immense amount of global experience and knowledge to our seminar."

Radio commercials must have aired anytime between 25 May and 24 July 2009.
Entry is free @ sirenawards.com.au or click here to enter

Aussie expat Simon Foster, currently at Ogilvy and Mather New York, has been nominated for Outstanding Commercial at the 61st annual Emmy Awards.

His American Express 'Airport Lounge' spot, featuring Tina Fey and Martin Scorsese, was among eight nominees announced by the Academy of  Television Arts and Sciences last week.

Melbourne advertising agency, Flash Group has turned a Melbourne 'White Elephant' into a topical campaign for Sidchrome Tools.
Strategically placed Citylites direct the eye of passersby to the giant unmoving Southern Star Observation Wheel. The tagline - 'That bloody wheel! Shoulda used a Sidchrome!' - says it all, especially given The Age's recent report that 'The Wheel's' nuts and bolts weren't tightened correctly.  
"If you want a job done properly you use a Sidchrome. It's been like that in Australia for over 65 years. We're just offering some friendly advice to the Japanese engineers and reminding everyone why Sidchrome is the leader in their field and known for the best tools money can buy," said Flash Group Managing Director, Glenn Riseley.
The creative, launched this week, will run in the Docklands area for at least two weeks and stands as a constant reminder that, 'you canna handa man a grander spanner'.

Digital marketing agency Citrus in association with Sportsgirl has created an interactive online community in a major revamp of the iconic fashion retailer's online brand presence.
 
Launched as part of a 'Speak Up' campaign, the online community is designed to further socialise the online shopping experience, give 'Sportsgirls' a voice to express themselves, create and collaborate.
 
With more and more Sportsgirls spending time online, the revamped website aims to deepen online brand engagement by establishing a destination for consumers to seek out and talk about fashion, style and culture. The online community enables consumers to converse and interact with each other via forums, blogs, vlogs, vox pops and polls.

After a three way pitch that included 303 Perth and BMF Sydney, Tourism Western Australia controversially announced today that Host, Sydney will be its new advertising agency.

Tourism WA executive director of marketing Stephanie Buckland said that Host was selected from a highly competitive field, based on their excellent submission and on a value for money assessment: "The rigorous two-stage tender process was designed to find the agency with the most outstanding and impactful marketing approach and the ability to deliver it within our budget," Mrs Buckland said.  

The  BESTADS PODCAST brings you the Best 6 Commercials in the World every week on your iPhone or iPod. It's the #1 video ad podcast in the world, which has just passed three million downloads, 42 weeks after launch.

Bestads Top 6 Commercials of the week in the world is now ready to view, reviewed by Parker Channon, partner/executive creative director, D/C, San Francisco:

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Sydney-based Red Cartel, a collaborative merger between two of Sydney's longest-standing 3d animation houses, Twitch Studios and ProMotion Studios, has opened for business.

The four founding partners are well known to their respective industries. Kim Neale (nee:Graham) as a commercial artist with a wealth of experience in storyboards and illustration for advertising. Matt Dignam with over 10 years experience as Creative Director in 3d animation production. James Neale as Producer and Landon Curry as Managing Director, each with over 10 years experience in production and financial management of animated projects for a multitude of industries.

Sony Australia has announced its involvement in a global campaign for the company's digital imaging products - a world first event named Twilight Football. 
 
A series of seven football matches will take place as the hour of twilight moves across the world on 22 September 2009*. These games - including one played in Australia - will provide the backdrops to demonstrate the leading digital imaging technologies Sony offers through its
Handycam camcorder, Cyber-shot digital camera and  (Alpha) DSLR ranges.
 
The picturesque locations where the games will be played are: Venice, Italy; Chamonix, France; Tintagel Castle, UK; Iguazu Falls, Argentina; Pinnacles Desert, Australia; Spain and South Africa.

In collaboration with NYC & Company, Google has just unveiled a new campaign for Google Maps that celebrates New York City for both consumers and businesses. The new innovative global campaign "Google Maps - Favorite Places" brings together technology, business and celebrity to strengthen the marketing of Google Maps as the premier resource for navigation through promoting some of the most interesting local businesses in 13 cities worldwide (go to http://www.google.com/favoriteplaces or Google Maps and look for the link on the homepage).

Former JWT Sydney creative director Simon Collins, who is now global creative director of Reckitt Benckiser for Euro RSCG, based in London (after a two year stint at Y&R New York) will be judging the Kinsale Sharks this year, which will be held in the picturesque Irish town on the weekend of September 11 to 12. The delegate fee has been halved due to the GFC (now only 220 Euros) so this could be a good year to attend.

If you didn't see the work of the world's hottest new directors in Cannes last month, join industry colleagues over drinks & canapés at the Sydney Premiere of the 2009 AFA/Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase.

THURSDAY, 30TH JULY 2009, THE PALACE ACADEMY TWIN, 3A OXFORD STREET, PADDINGTON FROM 6PM. SCREENING WILL COMMENCE AT 7PM

After Party at The Beauchamp, 265-267 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst. Cnr Oxford & South Dowling Streets.


TICKETS (incl. GST):
AFA/AWARD members $70* BOOK HERE
Non-members $80* BOOK HERE
Youngbloods & Students $55* BOOK HERE

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The Call for Entries to The Work 09 is out and this year, more so than ever, your Chief Financial Officer will be happy!

Now in its 8th year of publication, The Work is a 400 page, hard cover publication (including DVD) that features the very best advertising of the year from Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The Work is recognised as the only true permanent record of creativity from the entire region.
There are two things that differentiate The Work 09 apart from traditional award shows.
Firstly, The Work is selective - to qualify for entry the ad or campaign must have already passed the test and been a finalist or winner at an awards show. Secondly, there is no wasted entry fees - only accepted work incurs an acceptance fee.

Entry deadline is FRIDAY, JULY 31st 2009.

Download the PDF Entry Kit with all the details:
The Work09 CALL FOR ENTRY KIT.pdf

The London International Awards entry deadline is 31st July 2009. Entries submitted must be broadcast, published or released in a commercial environment with client approval between 1st July 2008 and 31st July 2009.
Note that the London International Awards are now counted in the annual CB Creative Rankings. For Entry Kit visit the website. For more info or deadline extensions email info@liaawards.com

In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing this Monday, Kastner & Partners, Sydney has created this print and poster campaign for Fischer Space Pens.
Says Darryn Devlin, creative partner at Kastner & Partners: "The Fischer Space Pens are just a remarkable engineering feat, yet look so damn cool. To work on such an icon of modernity (the Pens are featured in New York's MOMA)  let alone to have one in your fingers, is a great pleasure. I think Sean and Cream have done a beautiful job realizing the vision."

www.civilzingspace.com.au

Client: Stalex
Agency: Kastner & Partners
Creative Team: Darryn Devlin and Dan Foster
Photographer: Sean Izzard
Retouching: Cream

Film Construction's Michael Jackson Tribute party last night in Sydney attracted a good turnout, with over 100 guests rocking it out to old skool tunes by DJ's "Chip and Chad" (aka Dave Gibson and Nathan Lennon from Lowe).
They were welcoming new director Justin McMillan and saying goodbye to the King of Pop. Guests threw down the moonwalk and trademark crotch grab moves amidst original art work by Chris Thompson. 

The buzz in the air was palpable as 18 teams from creative agencies across Sydney gathered to answer a brief for their 'client' at the inaugural Creative Challenge last night.

The Challenge, conceived by Adshel and brought to fruition in conjunction with AWARD, encouraged leading creative agencies to bring their ideas outdoors for Sydney Theatre Company - a brand characterised in the brief as complex, alive, mischievous, responsive and vital.  The brief was delivered by the Company's Artistic Directors Andrew Upton and Cate Blanchett.

Former De Pasquale CD Lars Vester (left) has joined creative partner Phil Nobay (far left) in the role of co-creative director at Gallery De Pasquale, Brisbane.
Nobay said it was proof of the success of the recent merger and the seamless philosophy of the combined team. "Lars and I share a passion for simple ideas, stunningly executed. With our copywriting and art direction backgrounds, it was a natural progression for us to team up and share the challenge of creative leadership. GDP's broad client base now provides enviable creative opportunities. Together, Lars and I will ensure they all get the energy and inspiration they deserve." 

In 1961 JFK set a goal for the US to put a man on the moon within the decade. Apollo 11 fulfilled that dream on July 20, 1969.
This site honors the trip using 2009 technology. For the next four days, until the shuttle lands on Monday afternoon, the site will host a complete recreation of the historic event in real time.
Interactive from The Martin Agency / Richmond VA for The JFK Presidential Library.

Leo Burnett Sydney is extending an invitation to imaginative people to become a part of their internal training program.
The Black Pencil Academy is Leo Burnett's comprehensive training programme which provides emerging talent with the necessary skills and experience to succeed in today's communications industry.
The invitation is open to applicants looking to kick-start their career in one of Sydney's leading creative advertising agencies, with some of the best people in the business. Successful applicants will be offered a four month internship at the agency.
Leo's will select the first two interns on 31 July 2009, with the initial placements scheduled from 3rd August - 27 November 2009.
Applicants to send their details along with creative portfolios by 5pm, 24 July 2009 to:

Sarah Palmer
Leo Burnett Sydney
Bond One, Level 6
20 Windmill Street
Walsh Bay  2000

sarah.palmer@leoburnett.com.au

DDB Sydney will offer four of this year's top News Limited AWARD School students a three-month placement in the LaunchPad program.  
The 2009 AWARD School graduation party will take place on Wednesday 22 July and for the third year running, four students from the top ten will automatically receive a placement in the Launchpad program.  
Says Matt Eastwood (pictured), DDB national creative director: "We're delighted to be actively involved and getting behind News Limited AWARD School. I'm a huge advocate for developing local talent and this initiative is such a great success for both the students and for DDB Sydney."
The LaunchPad program, which is operated in conjunction with FBI Recruitment, offers those selected the chance to work for some of the top creative directors in Australia.  Those involved will tackle live client briefs over the 12 week period with a real opportunity to stock their portfolios with a broad range of real work.  Previous graduates include Lisa McLeod and Maureen McCabe, most recently at Saatchi & Saatchi, Paris (soon to surface at another Paris agency), Derek Kim, now at 303, Sydney and Guy Rooke, now creative director at Clemenger BBDO, Sydney.

Bestads Top 6 Commercials of the week in the world (including VB 'Regulars' via Droga5, Sydney and MTV EXIT Foundation/The Killers via CRC Sydney) is now ready to view, reviewed by John Messum, freelance creative director, London: http://tr.im/fopw

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A report in the Guardian in the UK on young people's media habits written for investment bank Morgan Stanley by a teenage intern has caused huge interest in the City.

Everyone by now has seen the Evian Rollerbabies spot via BETC Euro Paris, first viewed by CB in the French agency two weeks ago, which has had nearly 6 million hits since on just one video on YouTube (over 17 million views in total). Here's the official 'MAKING OF vision and below is a viral featuring a 'normal' baby...

TBWA\Whybin\Tequila, Auckland has launched a campaign for Two Degrees Mobile to get kiwis talking again, spearheaded by this TV commercial featuring Kiwi stand-up comedian Rhys Darby.

Marketing services agencies can now add firepower to brainstorming sessions and ideas generation following the launch of Ideas Culture, a service that delivers unlimited fresh ideas using a global team of Ideas Agents recruited via Twitter to solve creative challenges.
 
Ideas Culture offers an invaluable creative resource for marketers and PR agencies constantly pitching for business and injects fresh thinking into existing client campaigns.

Spikes Asia, honouring creative excellence in advertising and communications across Asia, today announced the TV/Cinema, Print, Outdoor and Radio jury, which is headed by Aussie expat Dave Droga (left) and includes Australia's Warren Brown (far left). All awards will be presented at the end of the newly re-launched Spikes Asia Festival at Suntec, Singapore, 16-18 September 2009.

WORLD PREMIERE OF MUSIC VIDEO FOR GOODNIGHT, TRAVEL WELL PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH UNICEF AND USAID TO AIR TONIGHT GLOBALLY ON MTV






View the full-length spot at www.mtvexit.org

MTV EXIT (End Exploitation and Trafficking) and Sydney agency Colman Rasic Carrasco (CRC) have partnered with UNICEF and USAID to produce a music video for US rock band, The Killers, which dramatically highlights the dangers and impact of trafficking for sexual exploitation. The video for track 'Goodnight, Travel Well' from the new Killers album 'Day & Age' was filmed by top Hollywood director, David Slade (30 Days of Night, Hard Candy), and will premiere globally tonight across all of MTV's properties on-air and on-line.  

RSVP, Australia's top online dating site, has launched a new campaign via 303 Sydney.

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Creative Director: Julian Watt
Art Director: Bryan Dennis
Writer: Nick Levey
Agency Producer: Christina Wilmott
Business Director: Simon Murphy
Production Company: Film Construction
Producer: Yolande Dewey
Director: Eden Diebel
Client: Lija Jarvis

The Carlton and United Breweries (CUB) team is reshaping how its brands are serviced by its roster of advertising agencies. 
 
Post the split of the Foster's beer and wine businesses, a decision has been made to streamline the number of rostered advertising agencies working on the CUB business.
 
Droga5 and Clemenger BBDO will remain as retained advertising agencies for the CUB portfolio of brands, whilst the Foster's wine business has chosen to continue its relationship with rostered agency Badjar Ogilvy.

Award-winning US creative Leslie Ali joined Three Drunk Monkeys this week as the agency continues to grow, and will team up with creative director Noah Regan.
Ali started her career art directing ads for Nike and Coca-Cola at Wieden & Kennedy Portland. She has since worked as a copywriter, creative director and ECD at WCRS and BMP London, and her work has  been recognised and awarded by numerous international award shows, including D&AD, Cannes, BTA and The One Show.

Amid the chaos of Cannes week, this piece of news escaped our attention but is worth plugging now: Two RMIT University students were the first Australians to win the prestigious Cannes Future Lions student advertising competition organised by San Francisco-based AKQA.

Jason Deacon and Ebony Holmberg (pictured) developed their entry, "The Great Expedia Warm Up", as part of coursework in Advanced Art Direction for their final-year Advertising studies.

The annual Future Lions competition challenges students to develop an idea for advertising a global brand in a way not possible five years ago. There are no rules in terms of media or technology; no restrictions around product or target audience.

Lara Sinclair in The Australian's Media section today reports that Australia may be about to experience its first actors' strike affecting television commercials after the actors' union recommended industrial action in a ballot it sent to members late last week.

The National Performance Committee of the Equity division of the Media Entertainment & Arts Alliance has recommended its members take action from August 7 by refusing to appear in overseas television commercials that are shot in Australia.

The action comes in response to the decision by Australian producers to withdraw from the SPAA/MEAA Commercials Offshore Agreement which sets out terms and conditions for contracting of Australian performers for international commercials.

Take a look behind the scenes of the production of the Greater Building Society's advertising campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld, which was created by Loud, Sydney and shot in the US.
View the 60 second 'Maximum' launch commercial plus the tactical 'Sucks' spot, the 'Love' spot and 'Home Loans' spot.

DDB New Zealand has won The NZ Newspaper Ad of the Year 08/09 for Cadbury Hall's Throaties Knife, the winning creative team collecting the $10,000 grand prize. The prize was announced at a function held in Auckland last night at Hopetoun Alpha. Agency and newspaper guests viewed the 15 finalists on display, as well as student work from AUT and Axis Adschool.
 
"The Newspaper Ad of the Year winner is strikingly simple and page stopping. It's advertising at its best," said Lexie Ribot, creative manager of the New Zealand NAB.
 
The audience also participated in a pick the winner  competition where one lucky guest walked away with $1000.
 
A demonstration of newspapers' flexibility and timeliness was also given on the night with a winning announcement newspaper ad produced live and despatched from the venue to appear today in five metropolitan newspapers:  The New Zealand Herald, The Dominion Post, Waikato Times, The Press and Otago Daily Times.

CumminsNitro Brisbane has continued its winning run and trumped a strong field of competitors, taking out the 2009 IAB Awards' Best of Show for its Queensland Tourism 'Best Job in the World' campaign at the IAB Australia Awards last night, enjoyed by an audience of 500 from across the interactive media industry. They also won the Brand Awareness and Positioning category, beating out a record number of entries to secure the prestigious title and they've now secured entry in the 2009 US IAB MIXX Awards. Previous IAB Australia Best of Show winners have had remarkable success in the MIXX Awards, with the 2007 entry winning gold and the 2008 entry securing silver; so we're very hopeful for another great result in 2009. View all the winners here.

A few of the former staffers of George Patterson are holding a reunion on Friday August 14 and invite all past and present staff to attend.

Adelaide digital agency FNUKY today launched an integrated campaign for national political activism organisation GetUp!.

'Censordyne' is a campaign to raise awareness of the Federal Governments planned mandatory internet filter. The campaign was launched at 11am this morning by Fake Stephen Conroy on Twitter and includes a  60 SECOND TV COMMERCIAL  and a parody search engine.

EXCLUSIVE: Melbourne based digital agency Sputnik Agency (B&T 2007 Interactive Agency of the Year and recent Gruen Transfer winners) and sister agency Reality Group are set to merge in the next few months.

Global parent KITdigital inc. (a NASDAQ listed IPTV and digital video solutions provider) recently acquired the remaining shares of Reality Group, a Melbourne based Direct Marketing agency.

The combined agency will provide true integrated brand and marketing communications capabilities with a strong digital offering, differentiated in the market place by the added IPTV, video and video content delivery capability.

The London International Advertising Awards has signed on the services of Tony Gulisano and Wayne Youkhana, both former executives of the Clio Awards. The pair have a combined total of over 40 years experience and are considered to be two of the most respected individuals across the landscape of international award shows.
 

The long awaited VB campaign via Droga5, Sydney launches tonight with a two minute launch commercial during the first drinks break
of the npower Ashes telecast on SBS.
The netsite is now live.
The scale of the production demanded a cast that is a combo of professionals, CUB employees, punters straight off the street plus some well known faces.  Keep an eye out for cameos from Michael Clarke, Wally Lewis, Paul De Gelder, Scott Cam, Molly Meldrum, Peter Russell Clarke, Dean Jones, Michael Klim, Billy Brownless and yes, Greg Evans.

In a move to cut costs, Procter & Gamble is planning to dictate which production companies its US agencies uses, threatening agencies' current autonomy over the process. View the story on Brand Republic and AdWeek

The question down under is: Could it happen here?

News Limited and AWARD are releasing a limited number of tickets available for purchase to the AWARD School Graduation party for 2009.
This is a rare opportunity to meet the hottest new creative talent, and view and exhibition of top work from the 12-week course.
If you wish to attend one of the biggest industry events of the year,  a very limited number of tickets can be purchased by filling out the attached booking form, and faxing it back to Hannah Morden at AWARD on 02 9699 2928.  
Tickets are $25 plus GST for members, and $35 plus GST for Non-AWARD Members and industry guests.
All food and drinks will be included.

Download the booking form:
AWARD Grad bookingform09.pdf

Top New Zealand copywriter Hywel James has moved across from Saatchi & Saatchi Auckland to The Campaign Palace, Sydney.

James is one of New Zealand's most awarded creatives, most recently picking up in Cannes for Vespa. He's spent the last two and a half years at Saatchi's working on brands such as Toyota, Westpac, TVNZ, Telecom and Sanyo.

"It's fantastic to be in Sydney and to be a part of the team at The Palace. It's a great brand with great brands to work on," says James.

After 15 years, editor Danny Tait has decided to close the doors to The Tait Gallery and will be joining MRPPP in Sydney.

Says Tait: "It wasn't an easy decision to make but unfortunately the way my business is structured it has become increasingly difficult to maintain the margins needed to provide the service clients expect, and to maintain standards of service and support I want to offer my clients. My history shows that I have never been afraid of changing course if I feel things are not quite right.  The changes we are seeing in the television industry I think will continue to impact on the nature of TV advertising for the foreseeable future, and so I feel for me the best way forward is to adapt to meet the ever evolving landscape.

Internationally acclaimed commercials director Ben Lawrence and his sibling producer Emma have decided to park their van @ The Feds!
After seven successful years as the principals of Caravan Pictures, Director Ben Lawrence and Producer Emma Lawrence have decided to join forces with Executive Producers' Michael Cook and Lizzy Nash.

Sound Reservoir partner Matt Hayward has been bought out by co-partner Barry Stewart and will pursue a new venture, together with Alex Gomez, in the music production sector.
Says Hayward: "I am opening up a new music production company (name tba) from the 
joint facility premises at Wharf Studios (in the old "Studio D" Dolby theatre downstairs) but will not launch officially until October."
Meanwhile, Jodie McClelland, Paul Taylor and Barry Stewart will continue to run the specialist audio post production and sound design facility, which will continue to be known as Sound Reservoir.

EXCLUSIVE - Everyone in France remembers the spot with the babies' underwater ballet, which made a huge impression when released in 1998 and which, 11 years later, still tops the charts as one of the public's favourite ads.

11 years later they have not grown or got older but are still bursting with an infectious energy and love of life. This new campaign via BETC Euro RSCG, Paris employs media on a larger scale, to be rolled out across the globe in a truly integrated fashion: on television and in print, through promotion and on the internet with an on-line feature to create a buzz in the pre-launch phase.

Aussie expat and former Y&R Asia regional creative director Rowan Chanen (who started his career at DDB Melbourne) has joined the M&C Saatchi Asia network in the same role.

Speaking about his new role, he said: "What's truly important these days is doing big ideas for big brands. And that's what M&C Saatchi Asia will be all about. The network is so diverse with so many great opportunities. Being the last truly independent agency network gives us a special place to operate within. BBH and Wieden have blazed the trail before us and done some of the best and most meaningful work for great iconic brands. As a big fan of both those agency brands, they've set the standard that we all need to aim for. Now that I'm back with my two old partners Chris Jaques and Rob Campbell, we'll be in a position to try to make that happen across the region."

Over a 3-year period at Y&R, Rowan re-established the Y&R Asia's creative profile and oversaw a tenfold increase in creative awards, lifting the network's overall standing in Asia. He departed Y&R following the appointment of Aussie expat Marcus Rebeschini as chief creative officer for Asia.

A reminder that the AWARD Call for Entries has been extended to this coming Wednesday July 8.
View the web film created by DDB Sydney and Fin Design.
Please note that at this stage late fees automatically apply to all entries submitted (+15%). All entry payments must be made before the 8th July in order for your entries to be accepted.
All hard copy entries and artwork must be received by AWARD before the 10th July 2009. For all queries contact Alette at AWARD on +61 2 9699 2999 or email callforentry@awardonline.com

View the AWARD CFE booklet
AWARD_CFE_booklet.pdf
View the AWARD CFE poster
AWARD_CFE_poster.pdf

Exit Films TVC director Glendyn Ivin's first feature Last Ride was released this week and is in cinemas around the country now.
Says Ivin: "I took time off from commercials for a year and half to work on it full time (even though I have been working on it for the last 5 years). It's been one of the most incredible experiences to say the least. A lot of the regular creatives I work with know about it but it would be great to get it out a little further afield to see what a commercials director can can do outside of the 30-60 time frame.
"The film stars Hugo Weaving and was shot by Greig Fraser (who has shot every award winning spot in Oz over the last few years) and was edited by Jack Hutchings who cuts most of my commercials at The Butchery. There is plenty of info on the site LastRideMovie.com and I have kept a blog right through production at www.glendynivin.com which is pretty warts and all."

Top South African production company Velocity Films and Campaign Brief Asia combined on Friday evening to throw a very cool party on the beach in Cannes. Around 200 guests from Asia, South Africa, Australia and around the world enjoyed food, drinks and the sounds of DJ "Les Champs on the Docks" in the perfect location of the Cannes Beach Restaurant. Campaign Brief Asia wants to thank Barry Munchick and everyone from Velocity for their support and a special thanks to the great organisational skills of Velocity's Ange Ramsey. Following are all the photos from the CB Asia camera....

TUESDAY JULY 7 @ 7PM 
THE LOCAL TAPHOUSE 
184 CARLISLE STREET, EAST ST KILDA
 
"We want the finest wines available to mankind, we want them, and we want them now."     Withnail (Withnail and I)

With GETTY IMAGES' kind sponsorship and kind BAR TAB we can assist in this quest!  Not ONLY are they showing RAD films, AND giving us MORE free booze on TOP of our regular FREE ALE, we also have great give away prizes of beautiful photography, books and prints kindly supplied by GETTY IMAGES. Tangerine is supported by Campaign Brief.
Come and Share the last Tangerine hosted by Colette Crespin in Melbourne for a while as she's off the USA to discover more director talent and share films around the globe. Tangerine is going on Tour!

The Big Won, in association with the UK's leading recruitment agency for creative talent The Garden Partnership, has analysed the entire Cannes 2009 Advertising Festival shortlists and winners lists to produce rankings of top people as well as top campaigns, top agencies, top networks and top countries.

In the tally of Top Countries, Australia ranks an impressive #6 (614 points) in the world, after the USA (1546 points), UK (1064), Germany (1030), Brazil (698) and France (680). South Africa is in 7th spot with 476 points, followed by India (468), Belgium (390) and Japan (386).
Tourism Queensland's 'Best Job in the World' is ranked the #2 campaign in the world at Cannes, with BMF Sydney's TED 696 Project at #6 and Leo Burnett Sydney's Earth Hour 'Vote' at #8..

View the rankings PDF:
thebigwonpressrelease010709.pdf

The New York Festivals International Advertising Awards, now in its 52nd year, has announced its 2009 United Nations Department of Public Information Winners. Lowe, Sydney was honored with the Gold UNDPI Award for the Mixed Media campaign website "Tree People" for client Genesis Energy.  The website, designed to bring attention to climate change in New Zealand features a virtual forest community with individually sponsored trees. The sponsored trees grow as results of New Zealanders making pledges promising to make small changes in their lifestyle, changes designed to help the environment.  

Yanni Pounartzis, who was CD of Brave, Sydney for 15 months, has been another casualty of reduced budgets. He joined Brave in March 08 as deputy creative director and within 3 months was appointed creative director.

Under his leadership, Brave won pitches for The Daily Telegraph, NSW Cricket, Drambuie and more recently, an undisclosed international airline account. Yanni also made a significant contribution to the creative product with unconventional work such as the world's first 'Hippy Cement Truck' for Boral and Josh Pyke's new film clip 'The Summer'.

The Lab Sydney recently completed its work on series two of Underbelly - A Tale of Two Cities. According to producer Prue Fletcher the second series, although working with stricter timeframes, was more seamless than the first.

Fletcher said, "We moved straight from working on Baz Luhrmann's Australia to Underbelly - A Tale of Two Cities, so we were all prepared for the volume of work to be done in a short amount of time. We have a long-term successful working relationship with Screentime having also just finished The Informant and False Witness for them so everybody knew what was expected in terms of quality and service. To stay ahead of the game, for Underbelly - A Tale of Two Cities we also did a lot of pre-testing grades so Screentime and the Nine Network could approve the look ahead of schedule."

Commercial and documentary filmmaker Justin McMillan has joined Film Construction, bringing with him close to a decade of cinematic experience.

Along with his background as a successful documentary filmmaker, Justin continues to build an impressive body of commercial work, including spots for clients such as Hubba Bubba, Glad, Jeep and WA Road safety. Driven by a passion for all facets of film production, Justin explains that it is "the planning and logistics part of production" that inspires him most. "Dissecting and storyboarding an ad for the first time is a lot of fun as that's when you get the vision and can really see how it's all going to come together. Then making that vision come alive on screen is the ultimate payoff"

John Hartigan (left), chairman and chief executive of News Limited, gave this speech on the future of journalism at the National Press Club today. Australian media and marketing online site Mumbrella is not favorably mentioned and as a result hit back with this response.

Check out the new animated spot for Sakata, via agency 303 Group and Yukfoo Animation Studios.

Agency: 303 Group
Creative Director: Julian Watt
Copywriter: Nick Levey
Art Director: Derrick Kim
Agency Producer: Lucy Trengrove
Animation Director: Alan Dickson
Production Company: Yukfoo Animation Studios

The GFC continues to take its toll on Australia's once prosperous TVC production industry with Sydney-based Cream (formerly Republic Films) and Ozpan Productions the latest casualties.  Emails to Cream's principal producer Adam Wells state: Thank you for your email. I will not be in the office this week. If the matter is urgent please contact Ian Bennett in the office. Calls to the company go to a recording with the message: Thanks for calling the offices of Ozpan and Cream. If you're calling in regards to any outstanding invoices please contact Pitcher Partners in Sydney on (02) 9221 2099  who are acting as the liquidators of Ozpan Productions and Cream.

A teaser spot created by US, Sydney for Mad Men, currently showing on SBS, has won the overall award and single category in the latest round of the Siren Awards.
Judge and previous round winner, Steve Dodds from Whybin\TBWA in Sydney said about the winning ad: "The Madison Cookware stuff stood out because it is part of a strong campaign idea. It is an unusual idea that works well in radio."

Agency: US Sydney
Writers: Nigel Clark & Adrian Ely (pictured)
Directors: Tone Ashton, Nylon
Client: SBS
Title: Madison Avenue Cookware