Awards Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/awards/ Advertising News and Know-How Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:25:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://www.adpulp.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-adpulp-logo-reddark-grey-32x32.png Awards Archives - Adpulp https://www.adpulp.com/category/awards/ 32 32 29582147 2025 Epica Awards Grand Prix Winners Announced https://www.adpulp.com/2025-epica-awards-grand-prix-winners-announced/ https://www.adpulp.com/2025-epica-awards-grand-prix-winners-announced/#respond Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:25:29 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=40594 European agencies and brands dominated the Epica Awards this year. In fact, there’s not a single North American, South American, Australian, African, or Asian winner among the eight Grand Prix designees. The jury decided to award two Grand Prix in a pair of closely-fought categories (Film and Responsibility). In Film, which continues to shine in […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/2025-epica-awards-grand-prix-winners-announced/feed/ 0 40594 You Don’t Watch The Oscars for the Commercials, But You Could https://www.adpulp.com/you-dont-watch-the-oscars-for-the-commercials-but-you-could/ Mon, 11 Mar 2024 22:33:16 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37946 Traditional advertising showcases are few and far between today, along with opportunities to appeal to a mass audience. Last night’s Academy Awards is one. According to Variety, the 2023 Oscars earned an audience of 18.75 million—more than double the most popular shows on TV (NCIS and FBI). The best “commercial” of the evening was “I’m […]

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]]> 37946 David Droga Is Always Making, Shaping, and Creating https://www.adpulp.com/david-droga-is-always-making-shaping-and-creating/ https://www.adpulp.com/david-droga-is-always-making-shaping-and-creating/#respond Thu, 22 Jun 2023 14:45:59 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37742 In this on-camera interview, CNBC’s Tania Bryer asks David Droga, founder of Droga5, CEO of Accenture Song, and the most awarded person in Cannes Lion history, what his secret ingredient is. Droga replies, “Not piss a lot of people off…No, I don’t know, I’ve always been restless and curious. I’ve been lucky that I’ve worked […]

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]]> https://www.adpulp.com/david-droga-is-always-making-shaping-and-creating/feed/ 0 37742 Leo Burnett Receives Four Grand Clios for their Gun Control Work https://www.adpulp.com/leo-burnett-receives-four-grand-clios-for-their-gun-control-work/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:19:09 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37534 Since 1963, nearly 193,000 children and teens have been killed with guns on American soil—more than four times the number of U.S. soldiers killed in action in the Vietnam, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq wars combined, according to Children’s Defense Fund. According to the gun control advocacy group Change The Ref, last year alone 3,044 […]

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]]> 37534 “Owning A Large Portion of the Best Talent” Is Pre-COVID Thinking https://www.adpulp.com/owning-a-large-portion-of-the-best-talent-is-pre-covid-thinking/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:06:40 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=37450 Like so many businesses, the agency business is a talent business from top to bottom. Nothing good happens without extraordinary efforts made by dedicated, gifted people working as one. Agency heads used to say the agency’s “best assets,” a.k.a. the talent, walk out the door and go down the elevator each evening. Of course, these […]

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]]> 37450 Ad Chatter, Season 2, Episode 7: Apple, Motel 6, Rory Sutherland, Cannes, and Cryptocurrency https://www.adpulp.com/ad-chatter-season-2-episode-7-apple-motel-6-rory-sutherland-cannes-and-cryptocurrency/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:43:48 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=36997 Ad Chatter, now in its second season, has “gone global” with the addition of London-based strategist Toby Donaldson in the recording booth. Toby adds a lot of value to the mix. He started writing articles for Adpulp last year and the site is stronger for his contributions. In this 40-minute episode Toby, Dan Goldgeier, and […]

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]]> 36997 The Clio Awards Continues to Invest in the Story of Creativity https://www.adpulp.com/the-clio-awards-continues-to-invest-in-the-story-of-creativity/ Sun, 28 Mar 2021 11:05:13 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=36562 The Clio Awards are well on their way to becoming a media company. First, they hire Tim Nudd to run Muse by Clio, a trade “mag” with a creative slant. Now, the legacy awards brand is launching a new podcast too. According to the Clio Awards, Tim Nudd has spent the last year recording conversations […]

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]]> 36562 From Cannes to Austin, The Festival Season Clicks Into an Unknown Future https://www.adpulp.com/from-cannes-to-austin-the-festival-season-clicks-into-an-unknown-future/ Wed, 17 Mar 2021 11:31:14 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=36550 Live events like concerts and trade shows do not translate well to online formats, a factor that has devastated many businesses in the sector since COVID-19 began to ravage and kill people last March. Cannes Is Not Exactly Roaring Like A Lion Cannes Lions’ London-based parent company Ascential issued its full-year 2020 financials this week, […]

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]]> 36550 Creativity, Uncaged https://www.adpulp.com/creativity-uncaged/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:09:02 +0000 https://www.adpulp.com/?p=36335 Advertising is a visual medium. This is truer today than ever before because people don’t read, they glance. And with a world full of glancers and screen addicts, the high bar for “breakthrough creative” is now sky-high. Fine art breaks through Detailed illustrations of mythical and phantasmagorical birds take center stage in these striking posters […]

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]]> 36335 I Hear Advertising Voices. Do You Hear Them Too? https://www.adpulp.com/i-hear-advertising-voices-do-you-hear-them-too/ Tue, 07 Apr 2020 03:46:53 +0000 https://adpulp.wpengine.com/?p=33038 The waves of change are here. Consequently, people are searching for their sea legs. Ad people are also painting pictures of dark and/or dreamy futures. Here’s one picture that is not pleasing to my senses… McKinney CEO Joe Maglio, writing in Ad Age, believes there’s a compelling need for trophies, no matter what: Many of […]

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