CRAIG DAVIS TO CHAIR CLIO PRINT/POSTER/INNOVATION/INTEGRATED

NEW YORK – The 48th annual Clio Awards has announced the line up of industry leaders, including Aussie expat Craig Davis, who will serve as Executive Jury Chairs to head its seven awards categories for 2007.
The 2007 Executive Jury Chairs for each category include:
• Content & Contact – Andrew Keller, vice president/creative director, Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Miami, FL, and Boulder, CO, USA.
• Television/Cinema – John Hegarty, chairman & worldwide creative director, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, London, UK.
• Print/Poster/Innovation/Integrated – Craig Davis, chief creative officer worldwide, JWT, London, UK.
• Interactive – Mauricio Mazzariol, interactive creative director, DDB Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• Design – Peet Pienaar, creative director, Daddy Buy Me a Pony, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Radio – Mark Gross, senior vice president/group creative director, DDB Worldwide,
Chicago, IL, USA.
• Television/Cinema Technique – Daniel Kleinman, director, Rattling Stick Productions, London, UK.
“Clio recognizes the best and most innovative work that leads the industry, so it is critical that we utilize jury chairs and members who know the new dynamics of the marketplace and understand how awards judging criteria must evolve in order to remain relevant,” said Ami Brophy, executive director, Clio Awards. “These 2007 Executive Jury Chairs are perfectly suited for the challenge because they are industry leaders whose highly awarded work is recognized to be at the vanguard of their respective fields.”
In other Clio Awards news, the online entry system for the 2007 awards program is now open to accept submissions at www.clioentries.com. Awards will be announced and presented at the Clio Festival, May 9-12, 2007, in Miami’s South Beach.
One highlight of the annual Clio Awards and Festival is the Content & Contact (C&C) category, which recognizes breakout work at the crossroads of creative and media. Established four years ago as the industry’s first awards category to address this rapidly-changing new ad environment, the C&C category examines advertising that engages in open, co-created conversations with today’s empowered consumers and utilizes new ways to entertain and inform. These executions reach well beyond TV and print ads to embrace an array of new contact points, including but not limited to gaming, branded entertainment, advertiser-commissioned consumer generated content and mobile marketing. The C&C jury, to be announced shortly, will consist of leading practitioners from the fields of both media and creative.

Deadline for entry submissions is as follows:
• January 15, 2007 – Entries first appearing between January 1, 2006 and December 31,
2006, all mediums except Content & Contact, Design, Interactive, Television: Technique and Student entries.
• February 1, 2007 – Final deadline, entries first appearing between January 1, 2006, and February 1, 2007 for Content & Contact, Design, Interactive, Television: Technique and Student Interactive.
• March 1, 2007 – Final deadline, entries appearing during the First Quarter of 2007
(January 1, 2007-March 31, 2007). All mediums except Content & Contact, Interactive,
Television Technique and Student Interactive. Final deadline for all Student Television, Print Poster, Billboard, Design, Innovative and Integrated entries.
For additional information, please visit www.clioawards.com.