News in Brief 27 Nov 2013

Eurobest Advertiser of the Year announced

Eurobest, Europe’s largest and leading Awards and Festival championing creative excellence in advertising and communications, is set to recognise the outstanding creative brand marketing of the leading French broadcasting company, Canal+, with the Eurobest Advertiser of the Year 2013 award. The honour is presented to advertisers born out of Europe who have distinguished themselves for inspiring innovative marketing of their products and who embrace and encourage the creative work produced by their agencies. In recent years, working with their agency BETC in Paris, Canal+ have won two Eurobest Grands Prix, five golds, two Silvers and four Bronze awards. The first Grand Prix, in the TV/Cinema category, was awarded in 2009 for ‘The Closet’; the second Grand Prix was won in the Film Craft category in 2012 for ‘The Bear’. For information on Eurobest or to register to attend, please visit www.eurobest.com. Eurobest will take place 4-6 December in Lisbon, Portugal.

Music+Sound Awards last call for entries

With little time to go before the entry window closes for The Music+Sound Awards 2014, advertising professionals are invited to submit their work by midnight (GMT) on the 30th November 2013 and become part of a music and sound celebration, which offers this incredible wealth of talent their moment in the spotlight. In addition to awards for Best Original Composition, Best Sound Design and Best Sync, there will be three new advertising categories – Agency of the Year, Use of Production Music in Advertising and Best Brand and Band. Anyone who has worked in any capacity on a project they feel has been significantly enhanced by the music or sound is eligible to enter. 2014 follows on from the phenomenal success of previous years with, once again, the music and sound design industries coming together and giving their support to put on this event with sponsorship coming from heavyweights such as PRS for Music and Universal Music Publishing Group. The entry window closes on 30th November 2013 and entry details and competition rules can be found on the awards site. £5 from every entry will be donated to the Awards’ charity partner, Nordoff Robbins, to help support the incredible work they do.

AICE international board leaders announced

Craig Duncan, partner and executive producer of Cutters in Chicago, and Rachelle Madden, managing director of Poetica in New York, have been elected co-presidents of the International Board of Directors of AICE. The pair succeeds Clayton Hemmert, owner and editor at Crew Cuts in New York, whose two-year term expires at the end of 2013. Joining Duncan and Madden as officers of the Board are Bob Spector, editor at Beast Editorial in San Francisco, who will serve as vice president; Kristin Redman, executive producer at Hudson Editorial in Detroit, who will serve as secretary; and Ray Forzley, COO/CFO of Section Eight, Inc. in Toronto (parent company of Panic & Bob, Notch, axyz and Crush), who will serve as treasurer. For a full list of current AICE International Board members, as well as past presidents, click here. Both Duncan and Madden currently serve in leadership positions on the Board; Duncan is vice president and Madden is treasurer.  In announcing the election, AICE executive director Burke Moody noted that increasingly complex and vital issues are facing AICE members and the post production industry as a whole, ranging from challenging business practices to budgetary concerns to the ongoing challenges of file-based workflows.

Ogilvy Singapore launches new Centre for analytics and insight

A new marketing analytics centre which measures why certain brand campaigns are successful and others aren’t is to launch in Singapore. The Marketing Analytics Centre of Excellence will serve Southeast Asia and has been created by Ogilvy & Mather with the support of Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). Ogilvy & Mather already has one of the most well-respected analytics operations in the industry, serving clients like SingTel, SGX, IBM, Nestle and UPS. The new Centre will allow for greater capacity and capability for handling clients across the entire Ogilvy Group across the region.