Here is another wave of photos taken at the Dubai Lynx 2012 Awards Night, congratulations to all winners! Don’t forget to check: Photos of Dubai Lynx 2012 Awards Night – Batch#1 Video & Photos of the Dubai Lynx 2012 After Party Full List of Dubai Lynx 2012 Winners If you’ve missed the festival check out these photos: Dubai Lynx 2012 [...]

With 7 Grands Prix, 44 Golds, 55 Silvers and 82 Bronze, 188 in total, Dubai Lynx celebrated creativity in the MENA region last night where Leo Burnett was declared the Network of the Year with their Beirut office winning the Media Agency of the Year title, Y&R Dubai retained its Agency of the Year beating both Ogilvy & Mather in [...]

Dubai Lynx 2012 came to end yesterday with a line up of interesting speakers, my 2 favorite presentations were the Idea and Creation by Gastón Bigio the Regional Creative Director Ogilvy Latina and the Founder of DAVID, and the Think Lazy by Ted Royer, Partner and Executive Creative Director Droga5. Everybody is looking for the big night tonight with the [...]

The Dubai Lynx 2012 continued with a line up of presentations from different companies including McCann, Leo Burnett, Initiative, VivaKi, Big Kahuna Films and others. The festival also revealed the shortlisted work from different categories including Media and Film, read more about the Dubai Lynx 2012 Shortlists.

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Foods EDITA FOOD INDUSTRIES – MOLTO / CHEESE CROISSANT by FP7/EGY & AND CUT Cairo NINJA HELMET, CAMEL, TOWER, CARTOON EGYPT FOODS / CONO by LEO BURNETT CAIRO and LIGHTHOUSE FILMS Cairo Egypt DOG, FLOWER, LION, EGYPT FOODS / KALBAZ CRISPS by ELEPHANT Cairo and ELEVEN Cairo LIVING ROOM, PING PONG EDITA CONFECTIONARY INDUSTRIES / MIMIX CANDY by FP7/EGY Giza [...]

The Dubai Lynx International Advertising Festival kicked off yesterday with a movie screening of THE 99: Unbound, which was followed by a Q&A with its creator Dr. Naif Al-Mutawa, who was praised by President Barack Obama as perhaps the most innovative of the thousands of new entrepreneurs viewed by his Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship, while Forbes named THE 99 as [...]

OMD tops the Most Creative Agency Network list but Mindshare is closing the gap The Gunn Report for Media, the global evaluation of media creativity launched in 2004, has today released its new report on the state of the industry. The report covers several categories, including: · the most creative agency network · the most creative holding company · the [...]

UPDATE: Below is the full list of winners at the MENA Cristal Festival Awards 2012, congratulations to all winners and we look forward to seeing more great work at the 8th MENA Cristal Festival next year! The second day of the MENA Cristal Festival 2012 concluded with an award night to celebrate the creative work submitted by agencies in the [...]

13 Years ago, one of London’s renowned mad-men with the name Donald Gunn decided to launch an index that measures creativity in advertising in Madison Avenue and the planet where it exists, he launched the Gunn Report, which combines the winners’ lists from the most important award contests across the planet to create an annual index for the industry. According [...]