This year’s She Says Golden Stiletto Awards (the second year for the awards honouring women in digital advertising) brought together top talent in London's digital advertising industry to celebrate female achievements in creativity, and showed that there is growing appeal for the organization, and...
I’ve now thankfully recovered from a fabulous evening at The Dorchester thanks to Simon Ferguson and Charlotte Davies at Travolution . The event has now grown into the much larger surroundings since its inauguration a couple of years ago, and had garnered 450 of the top Travel digerati to attend. Emily...
The biggest criticism laid at the door of the big awards events is that they are a money spinner for events companies and celebrate only the most selfish or the most sophisticated self promoters. Sir John Hegarty and Steve Henry tell us that more than 90% of the work out there is rubbish. Obviously all...
Enter now people. This year the Best Blog awards will be decided via a public vote in two rounds. In the first round BIMA will take nominations for your favourite blogs and in the second BIMA will shortlist the nominations and publish a poll to allow the community to vote for their favourites. Entry...
Methinks all this talk of cancelled parties and an empty Croisette may turn out to be a case of agencies which doth protest too much. In a year of mass redundancies, most have been keen to show that they are acting with sobriety and cutting back on the expense of jetting a whole load of people out to...
Dunno about you but I’ve had a frantic week. Getting near deadlines on the book I’m doing. And I’m aware that this is supposed to be a “creative’s” blog – whereas I tend to ramble on about more strategic issues. So this week, something nice and easy. The equivalent of one of those shows Chris Tarrant...
It's about that time, not quite squeaky bum time, because lets face it awards are not as important as football but all the votes for the big awards shows, bar Cannes, will be in. If you were a betting man you could do worse than check out Michael Lebowitz's top 5 campaigns of the year that he...
Hello. I’m going to treat this initial blog as a soft launch. Because I've been told that all the publicity - the massive war-engine of publicity which Campaign has at its disposal – is to be deployed next week. So this week, we’re not expecting anyone to log on at all. So, please look at this as...
On the back of Adweek giving R/GA digital Agency of the Year Mark Wnek wrote a drug like rant about the whole awards system and it being bullshit. I have to say I know a lot of people don't like him (don't really know why, or care, little before my time) but I think he's spot on. I have cut...
At the British Interactive Media Awards (ps got one for Intel woohoo) last night Nike and AKQA did really well – congratulations to them for an outstanding showing. I was asked by another Client at the event how helpful it is to have Nike as a brand to play with. Poke did well with Orange too, another...
