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A total of 1364 entries from 16 countries have been submitted to this year’s Dubai International Advertising Festival, which kicks-off on Sunday. Dubai Lynx is the largest awards show celebrating creative excellence in MENA’s advertising and communications industry and the Festival will be attended by over 1000 delegates this year.
Entries have been submitted in 10 categories: TV/Cinema (159 entries), Print (300), Outdoor (233), Direct & Sales Promotion (94), Media (230), Radio (50), Interactive (83), Integrated (39), and the new TV/Cinema Craft (35) and Print Craft (141) categories. The entries will be judged by top international industry experts who will convene in Dubai at the weekend.
The top country participating is the UAE with 847 entries, followed by Lebanon with 142, Egypt on 124 entries, Saudi Arabia with 66 and Kuwait with 57.
Read more.
March 13th, 2010
Zeid Nasser, Founder of AdBlgArabia and mediaME, at Cannes Lions 2009
Entrance into Cannes Lions 2009 Exhibition & Shortlists Gallery area
Cannes Lions T-shirts for sale
Scenes from an Award ceremony
More scenes from Award show
Awards Show Ends
And that’s when I get my chance to get onto this impressive stage
People streaming out of Awards hall after the show
Some winners with their “Lions” posing on the red carpet
Global warming melts the ice caps, in Cannes!
Bob Geldof speaks at launch of Kofi Anan’s “Tck Tck Tck” campaign
Maurice Levy of Publicis speaks to Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google
Scenes from one of the Workshop/Seminars held in a casual setting
The Press Room at Cannes Lions. Free Internet & Coffee for press!
The Microsoft Advertising lounge. Free Internet for all, no coffee 
The Young Lions Competition area
Stunning interactive ‘touch & drag’ screen featuring the Cannes programme
June 30th, 2009
 
More than 10,000 delegates took part in Cannes Lions this year, making 2008 the biggest festival to date. The big news for our region is that Fortune Promoseven Doha have made history by becoming the first agency to win two Gold Lions at Cannes for “Medal of Honour”.
Read more at mediaME.com.
June 22nd, 2008
Grapheast and Corbis are bringing the European photography awards ‘Creatives Behind The Lens’ to the Middle East, the deadline or participation is 20th of February 2008 and the grand prize is a 17″ MacBook Pro!
Check their website for more details, of read all the details at mediaME.com.
January 23rd, 2008
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Advertising Agency: AGA ADK, Dubai
Creative Directors: Edan Aggarao, Martino O’Brien
Art Director / Illustrator: Edan Aggarao
Copywriter: Martino O’Brien
via [ ads of the world ] [ mediaME ]
October 17th, 2007
The Epica Awards are now in their 21th year.Their aim is to encourage the highest standards of creativity in advertising and to help agencies, film production companies and photographers to develop their reputations. And, best of all, Epica are accepting entries from Middle Eastern advertising agencies!
Click Here to get instructions on how to enter. Or send an email to Andrew Rawlins at info@epica-awards.com.
Epica entries are judged on the basis of 2 criteria only: the originality of the creative idea and the quality of its execution. The highest scoring entries in each category are the category winners (gold) – on condition that the work achieves a score that qualifies it as a winner. Other entries that do not win but achieve this score are finalists (silver & bronze). When no entry meets the standard there are no winners or finalists in the category.
Winners receive Epica pyramids and certificates. Finalists receive certificates. All winners and finalists are published in the Epica Book together with a selection of other short-listed entries.
Complete results of the 2007 awards will be announced on the Epica website in December 2007.
October 14th, 2007
mediaME reports that it’s already a good summer for MBC Group which dominated the competition at the Promax/BDA World 2007 Awards held in New York last week. MBC achieved a total of 27 awards and, by doing so, being the most awarded participant, winning even more than ABC, BBC, Fox and others.
The newly launched English news station, Al Jazeera English was awarded three bronze awards at the event. Also among the winners were Al Jazeera Sport, Dubai One and Dubai Sport. The Arab Radio and Television (ART) was absent of this occasion.
Promax/BDA is an international association for entertainment and promotion professionals, those marketers and designers specializes in promoting TV shows, networks, DVDs and other forms of television content.
Being part of this rewarding event is good for broadcasters in the Middle East. MBC which has been in the field for more than 15 years and has managed to grow into a group of channels that delivers the highest reach among households in the region.
Read more.
June 25th, 2007
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