The Advertising Association of India is delighted to announce that for the fifth
consecutive year the AAAI has been able to spur an initiative aimed at nurturing young creative talent and providing them with an opportunity for international exposure.

It is also a matter of pride that the team that the AAAI selects through a contest will be the official Indian team to take part in the Young Creative Contest at Cannes.

The AAAI had noticed that in the past our Young Creatives seemed to falter when it came to converting their 'print' idea to an 'internet execution'. To overcome this the AAAI -- in association with THE TIMES GROUP -- has decided to send a three- person team (instead of the earlier two-person team) so that the official Indian team that will take part in the Young Creative Contest at Cannes soon, would now have specialists in art, copy as well as web-design.

This initiative is being advertised, 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.

The theme of this year’s contest is Tsunami Aid Relief.

All that the participants have to do is to create an ad on Tsunami Aid Relief (25 cm height x 16 cm width), in English, along with an online version (Internet banner of width 468 pixels, height 60 pixels) of the same.

Entries may be sent by courier (not by email), to AAAI, latest by 5.00 p.m. on Monday 18th April, 2005.