Campaign Big Awards 2009
If you were there on October 22, 2008 you know this is the BIG one for UK creative advertising. What a night!
Every media channel across all product sectors, celebrated on a massive, wide, wide, wide screen, showcasing the winning work and crediting the praiseworthy winning agencies at the same time. Formidable challenge, executed brilliantly.
Campaign said goodbye to all their well respected, individual creative awards of the past in a big, big way and replaced them successfully with a bang.
For 2009 the aim is again to bring together the best work across all media and all product categories: everything from TV to DM, radio to press and poster to digital. Celebrating single executions across product sectors, feting integrated campaigns and, new for 2009, celebrating multiple execution campaigns by media channel.
Again, we'll ask some of our industry's most illustrious talent to judge each of the categories. And there will still be one almighty party to celebrate the winners. Some things we'll never change. In every other respect, though, these awards live up to their name:
Campaign Big Awards.
Further information, highlighting the call for entries 'window' along with the rules and categories and criteria will be available on this website shortly.
What key industry figures think
Nigel Bogle, the Campaign Big Awards' chairman of judges and group chairman at Bartle Bogle Hegarty:
"I believe that uniting different disciplines within a single scheme reflects much more accurately the reality of today's communication landscape and the Big Awards will become a key reference point for the whole of UK creativity."
Donald Gunn, ad industry guru and creator of The Gunn Report:
"Campaign Big Awards are good news. Advertising folks all around the world are highly interested in the work from the UK and awarding it by product categories, which includes all the media, and is a fresh and useful way to look at it. The timing is intelligent, too. It should bring in a whole lot of new work that breaks after the summer awards season's deadlines."
