Countdown to annual YouTube Cannes Young Lions 48 Hour Ad contest – starts 10am today
Attention Australia’s aspiring young creatives: Enter the annual Cannes Young Lions YouTube competition – which starts at 10am today (Eastern Australian time), Saturday 15th May – for a chance to win an all expenses paid trip to Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. The two winners will be from separate countries, only meeting for the first time in Cannes to compete in the Young Lions Film competition.
At 10am today (Eastern Australian time) today, Saturday 15 May, Cannes Lionsorganisers will post a brief on You Tube for a 60-second ad for acharity. You then have 48 hours to make an ad that fits the brief andupload it before 9am on Monday, 17 May.
Making the video isjust half the job. Entrants will have one week (17 – 23 May) to driveas many people to their YouTube video as possible. Embed it, blog aboutit, tweet it – whatever it takes to get people voting.
A panelof advertising industry experts will then pick two separate winners,taking into account the public votes. The winners will receive anall-expenses-paid trip to the festival, from 20 – 26 June, where theywill compete as Team YouTube at the Young Lions Film Competition.
Who can enter?
1. You have to be between 18 and 28 (born between 20 June 1992 and 26 June 1981).
2. You can only enter the competition as an individual. You can get help, but only one person will be invited to Cannes.
For full entry details and criteria, CLICK HERE
18 Comments
Is there no one to sponsor an Australian team?
Not that I mind a bit of an international dust up – as long as those Greco Roman fellas stick to the rules.
For the love of god.
How many agencies are going to all over this like a fat kid on a donut? The Drogas, Saatchis and BMFs of the world will be giving their so-called “young entrant” a bucket of cash and a team of people to make their entry.
And the comp is skewed toward US and Europe if it’s measured on YouTube clicks. Pure population scale means smaller countries won’t be able to spread the word as far to get the clicks. And check out your YouTube stats. Countries like France are the biggest users of YouTube.
What bullshit
So 9:20 – you cynical prick.
Prove them wrong. Beat them in spite of the odds?
Or is it all too hard and you need your mummy?
Iggy and Justin. Definitely.
Click this link to get Baldrick and Paz to Cannes fro free!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otH1XzVkQnc
Check out mine too while you’re at it 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GSKIW7a4Qg
Weak, very weak
Spread it out!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGfW1PC-s2Q&feature=player_embedded
5:34
Funny.
This one (not mine, or anyone I know’s) is the best I’ve seen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY8-NbtUnFg
5:34
Classic.
@10:01PM Sure it’s not yours?
Doesn’t do it for me.
I’m jumping on this band wagon 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPuUUOA7v1Y
We have the luxury of having clean water, and we have the obligation of helping to the ones who dont have it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjYwj3jX9wg
5:34. Nice spot. Which suit did you slap?
dude, this one would be super good if the youtube ads weren’t getting in the way…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H56X1832EI0
This video would work if youtube’s stupid ads didn’t pop up every 10 seconds
http://youtube.com/watch?v=H56X1832EI0
This contestant used Ebay to promote their video.. very clever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy1rNEGD1ws