Spikes Asia Unveils New Look Website and Announces Addition of PR & Mobile Categories and Independent Agency of the Year Award
14 March 2011 – Launching the newly designed 2011 website today, the Spikes Asia Advertising Festival have announced that they will be introducing Mobile and PR as two new entry categories and honouring the Independent Agency of the Year at this year’s Awards.
The PR category will reward the management of communication between organisations and their publics through the creation, protection and maintenance of their reputation and image. Example entry categories will include Best use of Media Relations, Best Use of Sponsorship, Best Launch or Re-Launch, Corporate Reputation, Public Affairs and Best Campaign. The inaugural Mobile category will award creative excellence in mobile websites, applications, video, games and technology.
The prestigious Independent Agency of the Year Award will be introduced to reward an individual office of an Independent agency, and in doing so, encourage the spirit of creative entrepreneurship that has helped forge so many outstanding agencies in the past. The winner will be the independent agency that has amassed the most points across all entry sections of Spikes Asia.
“As the Asian advertising and creative industries continue to develop using new methods, techniques and mediums, it’s crucial as awards organisers that we keep pace and reflect this. The introduction of Mobile and PR, as well as Independent Agency of the Year at Spikes Asia does just this, and they will sit confidently alongside the existing Spikes Asia awards becoming must win trophies for the industry,”
says Terry Savage, Chairman of Cannes Lions, who together with Haymarket, organise Spikes Asia.
Entries into all categories, including Mobile and PR, will be open from 19 May 2011 and close on 22 July 2011. All of the Grand Prix, Gold, Silver and Bronze winners, along with the Independent Agency of the Year, Network of the Year, Media Agency of the Year and Agency of the Year, will be exclusively revealed at the Spikes Asia Awards Ceremony taking place at the Esplanade Theatre on 20 September 2011.
Entry prices are as follows:
Print, Outdoor, Digital, Mobile, Direct, Sales Promotion, Media, Design, Print Craft, Radio and PR – S$365
TV/Cinema and TV/Cinema Craft – S$405
Integrated – S$599
For further information on entering work and the Festival, please visit www.spikes.asia. Anyone wishing to attend the Festival and Awards will be able to register via the website from 21 April 2011.
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The Spikes Asia Advertising Festival celebrating and inspiring Asia-Pacific creativity in advertising. Suntec City, Singapore, 18-20 September 2011
Building on 24 years of the illustrious Spikes Awards, the Spikes Asia Advertising Festival is the result of a collaboration between the International Advertising Festival, organisers of Cannes Lions, Dubai Lynx and Eurobest, and Haymarket, publishers of Campaign Asia. The Festival provides the region’s growing creative and advertising industry with a platform to network and exchange ideas, bringing together some of the finest creative thinkers from across the region and around the world.
Spikes Asia, attended by close to 1500 delegates in 2010, offers a challenging programme of seminars and workshops focusing on creativity and learning, exhibitions of creative work from Asia-Pacific, networking events in the evening and the Spikes Asia award show.
The Awards, judged by leading international and regional creatives, honour the best creative work in the categories of TV/Cinema, Print, Outdoor, Radio, Digital, Integrated, Direct, Sales Promotion, Media, Print Craft, TV/Cinema Craft, Design, Mobile and PR.
Key Dates
Delegate registration open from: 21 April 2011
Entries open from: 19 May 2011
Entries deadline: 22 July 2011
End of Early Bird Registration: 1 August 2011
Festival Dates: 18-20 September 2011
Contact
Amanda Benfell, PR & Press Manager
Spikes Asia Advertising Festival
Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7EJ, United Kingdom
[email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)20 7728 4040
www.spikes.asia
