Thx Patrick

Thx Patrick

Yes, always look at the bright side… Though Kuwait didn’t really do well among the winning countries, but at least we made it to be shortlisted:) hopefully next time will do better.

“Farrukh” a friend of ads2blog site who is settled in Dubai, was invited to the award and made a personal interesting [coverage] for this night…

Here’s another source, a [detailed list] of all winning ads across all categories.

Update 23.03.07: Dubai Lynx Winners By Country via farrukh.wordpress.com

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Yep, Kuwait did it and been short listed with 12 entries at the [Dubai Lynx Awards] out of 1679 entries submitted.

Short listed agencies/ads for TV

• Bates Pangulf - Gulf Cup/Ahli Bank of Kuwait
• JWT - Supermarket/MTC Vodafone
• JWT - Pool/Conbipel
• JWT - Laundry/Conbipel
• Paragon - Pencil/Kuwait Oil Co.

Short listed agencies/ads for PRINT

• Horizon FCB - Cast/Ontime Watch Shop
• JWT - Pool/Conbipel
• Bates Pangulf - Evita/The Gaucho Grill
• El Boutique Creative Group - Anatomy of a Cozmo Bowler/Cozmo Ent.
• Paragon - Ramadan Kareem/Cafe Supreme
• JWT - Laundry/Conbipel
• Impact BBDO - Barcode/Alghanim Electronics

Short listed agencies/ads for Outdoor

•  JWT - Laundry/Conbipel

WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED TOMORROW, SO CROSS YOUR FINGERS GENTELMEN AND THE BEST OF LUCK!

Ok advertisers, if some of you have some doubts reaching Cannes Lions 2007, i totally understand (though Kuwait did it & won the Lion 3-4 years back).. BUT don’t miss Dubai Lynx!! It’s one of the good events in the region.. Yalla, go for it and LET KUWAIT ADVERT AGENCIES ROCK THEIR WORLD !!!

Starting 1st of Feb, All Advertising Agencies around the world started submitting their best creative work for the 54th Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival “17-23 June” in all Entry sections:

• Film
• Press
• Outdoor
• Direct
• Media
• Cyber
• Radio
• Promo
• Titanium
• Integrated Campaigns

Yep, the action has started… And if any of you Advertisers (and by this i mean Q8 advertisers) are interested to hit the Lion this year, u can start checking rules, fees and how to enter section first, than complete the entry form online.

GOODLUCK EVERYBODY !! :)

Well just came back home from the Award night and to tell you the truth am pretty much impressed.

The arrangements of the whole event was faaaaaaar better than last year. Decent location (Courtyard), warm female greeters showing you the way in to your seat, good stage set up, better presenter (lebanese presenter Karen, definitely you saw her in some of the LBC entertainment programs) and a full course seated dinner . I might sound poetic discribing the whole situation but man, YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WE WENT THROUGH LAST YEAR!!:))

Anyway, there were some mix-ups here and there when annoucing the winners names.. showing their work… but the weirdest thing was that some of the product categories were missing like telecom !?! Again i say, it was better than last year. Guess the reason behind this drastic change goes back to last year KREA award that teased them in a way, and if this was the case… guess Mission Accomplished :)

Event rate: 5/10

update 31.01.07: just knew few minutes back that the reason behind not including Telecom and Campaigns in the category list yesterday is that they had no entries but MTC-Vodafone in both, and they believed that it’s not ETHICAL to announce it just with one nominee and eventually one winner.. R THEY DAMN CRAZY ?!?!?!?!?! man, they need to watch some international awards before they do such events… not even international, let them start gradually with the regional ones first.

This is the invitaion card i received today to attend this annual event of KAAA. It’s a “not bad” kind of event they do over here in Kuwait, inviting all Advertising Agencies from the GCC to participate in an Ad Award Ceremony. Though i still don’t understand why the whole GCC but anyway, guess it’s better than nothing. Here’s last year winners list to check “link”

“I hope this year would be more organized than Last year coz in some places it was a total mix up especially when calling the winning agencies on stage to receive their awards..”

update: invitation card designed by PARAGON

update II 31.01.07: there’s a mistake in the body copy. Look @ the middle line, there’s a repetition for the word “i3lanee” :)