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The Monkeys Sydney, part of Accenture Song named Individual Agency of the Year The Monkeys, part of Accenture Song named Agency Network of the YearRevolver named Production Company of the Year The winners of the 45th annual AWARD Awards were announced tonight at the Gold Pencil Award Party, held as part of This Way Up at [...]
Sarah Cassell from Perth has been named AWARD School’s national top student for 2024. The announcement was made at The Gold Pencil Award Party, held at This Way Up at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art, which celebrates the year’s best creative work and brightest new talent. Sarah was nominated ahead of more than 200 students [...]
On day two of virtual winner announcements for the 45th AWARD Awards, Bronze winners were announced across four more categories - Strategy, Media, Advertising and Film & Entertainment. Work that picked up at least Silver with the potential to win Gold was also announced. View the full list of categories announced today here. If you [...]
At an exclusive black-tie ceremony held in Sydney last night, three of Australia's most celebrated creative leaders—Anna Fawcett, Scott Nowell, and Justin Drape—were inducted into the AWARD Hall of Fame. As the 22nd inductees, they join the ranks of advertising legends, an honour announced at a gala dinner during AWARD’s signature creative festival, This Way [...]
On day one of the virtual winner announcements for the 45th AWARD Awards, Bronze winners were announced across four categories - Design, Innovation, Craft and Purpose. Work that picked up at least Silver with the potential to win Gold was also announced. View the full list of categories announced today here. If you’re a finalist [...]
AWARD has announced a new addition to the lineup for This Way Up: an AI-focused workshop fostering creative collaboration and the development of ideas between creatives and media strategists. Presented by Nine, the interactive session Live Experimentation with AI: Going Deep, Getting Weird, Pushing the Limits, will be held on Wednesday, August 14 at Sydney’s [...]
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors (AWARD) has announced the state finalists vying to become AWARD School’s prestigious national top student in 2024. Brooke Wiggins from New South Wales; Jess Gough from Victoria; Harrison Coates from Queensland; Albert Hopkins from South Australia; Sarah Cassell from Western Australia; and Dominique Powe, who topped AWARD School’s online [...]
The 45th AWARD Awards winners will be announced virtually and in person next month at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art as part of This Way Up, Australia's advertising festival of creativity. On Tuesday 13 August and Wednesday 14 August, AWARD will host two virtual events to announce this year’s Bronze winners and showcase the campaigns [...]
Advertising Council Australia and AWARD have today announced Nine as a major sponsor for next month’s This Way Up festival, to be held from August 13-15 at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art. Nine will curate and create daily content live from This Way Up and a spin-off series of its popular Talking Media podcast hosted [...]
Following its debut in 2023, AWARD Uni returns to This Way Up, AWARD’s signature creative festival, next month with a new lineup of mentors and a revamped curriculum designed to enhance the performance of mid-weight creatives. The six-session program, developed by industry heavyweight Julian Schreiber and a team of respected CCOs and ECDs, aims to [...]
Contagious, the creative intelligence powerhouse, is set to host its highly anticipated presentation ‘Cannes Lions Deconstructed’ at This Way Up, AWARD’s signature creative festival, in Sydney next month. The session promises to be the ultimate guide to award-winning advertising, drawing on expert insights from 2024's International Festival of Creativity. In spending a week in the [...]
Full festival program of speaker sessions, workshops, creative courses, parties, award shows and more released today Global and locally acclaimed creatives including Liz Taylor (Ogilvy Global CCO), Damon Stapleton (The Monkeys Aotearoa Co-Founder & CCO) and Australia’s brightest ad and marketing gurus round out speaker lineup for ‘Oz’s only pure-play festival of creativity AWARD has [...]
Scott Nowell and Justin Drape, Co-Founders of The Monkeys, and Anna Fawcett, Executive Producer at Filmgraphics, will be inducted into the prestigious AWARD Hall of Fame at a black-tie event in Sydney next month as part of This Way Up, Australia’s advertising festival of creativity. The AWARD Hall of Fame honours outstanding members of Australia’s [...]
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors (AWARD) has today announced the lineup of international ‘Super Jurors’ who will select the national top student for AWARD School 2024. This year’s Super Jury includes an exceptional group of ECDs, agency leaders, CCOs and strategists who follow in the steps of global ad industry leaders in choosing the [...]
The Australasian Writers and Art Directors (AWARD) has today announced that This Way Up, Australia’s only pure-play creative festival, will return to Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art from 13-15 August. Rallying innovators, critical thinkers and emerging talent across three days of prestigious events, ‘creativity’s breeding ground for worthwhile opinions’ will challenge every attendee to play [...]
Finalists for the 45th AWARD Awards, APAC’s most prestigious creative awards program, have been announced today. A full list of finalists can be accessed here. By category, entrants with the most finalist entries include: Advertising - VML Australia with 15; The Monkeys Australia, part of Accenture Song with 13; DDB Group Australia with 12; DDB [...]
This Way Up, AWARD’s signature creative festival, will kick off in Melbourne in 2024, with AWARD today announcing the launch of This Way Up Southern Sessions. The new event series will give Melbourne’s creative community access to inspirational talks by world-class speakers, bringing all the insights of This Way Up, Australia’s only pure-play creative festival, [...]
*AWARDS TO BE PRESENTED AT THIS WAY UP FESTIVAL OF CREATIVITY, 13-15 AUGUST, SYDNEY.* The Australasian Writers and Art Directors (AWARD) has announced that Liz Taylor, acclaimed Global Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy, will head up this year’s AWARD Awards as jury president. Liz has been recognised as one of the industry’s most progressive creative [...]
Entries for the are now open. APAC’s most prestigious creative awards program recognises creative excellence across advertising, design, craft, film, entertainment, strategy and more, spotlighting the past year’s outstanding campaigns and creative talent. This year, three new categories have been added to the program’s – Creative Leader/Leadership Team of the Year, Creative Director of the [...]
Advertising Council Australia has announced Mandie van der Merwe as the new Chair of the Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association (AWARD). Saatchi & Saatchi’s incoming joint CCO takes over from M&C Saatchi CCO, Cam Blackley, who steps down later this month after four years leading AWARD. van der Merwe brings a wealth of experience [...]
