Mumbai,
April 11, 2006:
Rediffusion Team
Wins the AAAI-Cannes Young Creatives Contest
2006
Preeti Verma and Rajat
Dawar of Rediffusion DY&R Pvt Ltd, Gurgaon
were today adjudged the winners in the national
creative initiative taken by the Advertising
Agencies Association of India (AAAI) and
supported by THE TIMES GROUP.
The Advertising Association
of India is delighted to announce that for
the sixth consecutive year the AAAI has
been able to encourage young creative talent
in the country, through an initiative aimed
at nurturing and providing them with an
opportunity for international exposure.
It is also a matter of
pride that the Rediffusion DY&R team
that the AAAI has selected, through a contest
will be the official Indian team to take
part in the Young Creatives Contest 2006
at Cannes.
The winning team will be
flying off to the Cannes Advertising Festival
in June to be the official Indian representatives
and to compete with about forty-five teams
from all over the world in the prestigious
International Young Creatives Contest.
Supported by THE TIMES
GROUP, the AAAI organized the national leg
of this contest (AAAI-Cannes Young Creatives
Contest 2006), and invited entries on the
theme Prevent Female Foeticide
from AAAI member agencies and all INS accredited
advertising agencies.
Mr Vinod Nair – an
AAAI Executive Committee Member and currently
in charge of this initiative of the AAAI,
was the Convenor of the Jury. For the judging
process, Mr Prasoon Joshi, Regional Creative
Director South & South East Asia, McCann
Erickson (India) Pvt Ltd, Mr Ravi Deshpande,
Chief Creative Officer, Contract Advertising
(India) Pvt Ltd and Mr Bhupal Ramnathkar
of Executive Creative Director of Bates
Enterprise Pvt Ltd were invited as jury
members.
Out of the 207 entries
received from 46 advertising agencies, the
judges shortlisted nine and then unanimously
chose the winning team.
This initiative was advertised,
in the Times of India and Brand Equity,
courtesy THE TIMES GROUP, the Official Festival
Representatives of Cannes in India, who
have also kindly consented to bear all the
expenses of the wining teams' trip to Cannes.
Announcing the results (L to R) are
Mr Vinod Nair, Mr Bhupal Ramnathkar, Mr
Ravi Deshpande and Mr Prasoon Joshi.
Mr Vinod Nair - AAAI Executive
Committee Member
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Vinod Nair, CEO
Network Advertising Pvt Ltd, Network House,
G-7 MIDC, Andheri (East),
Mumbai - 400093, India. Tel: 28313073 /
9820041010.
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