Awards

BBDO and Lowe Roche win Bronze Lions at Cannes
Skittles’ “Touch the Untouchable” and O.B.’s “Personal Apology” take home the first Canadian hardware in Promo and PR, respectively.

Canada picks up 30 shortlist mentions
Canada brought in eight Media shortlist mentions among a roster of Mobile, Press and Outdoor nominations that has Leo Burnett in the lead with six chances at Lions.

Lowe Roche, Leo Burnett and BBDO on Cannes shortlists
The agencies nabbed nominations for work for O.B. Tampons, Ikea and Skittles in the PR and Promo categories.

CASSIES accepting entries for 2013 awards
The awards, which are based on business effectiveness, will be handed out Jan. 28, 2013 in Toronto.

Leo Burnett picks up two Bronze Pencils
The agency also took home two Merits, while Doug & Serge, TBWA/Toronto, Hard Citizen and Saatchi & Saatchi also nabbed awards of Merit.

Cannes Lions gets record entries for 2012
Canada has 1,050 entries in the running for the festival, an increase of 252 from last year.

One Show Entertainment award finalists announced
Leo Burnett grabbed the most nominations of the five Canadian agencies in the running this year.

Canadian agencies bring home OBIE Awards
Leo Burnett, Zulu Alpha Kilo and Agency59 all won at last night’s OOH awards show.

Canadian Young Lions and Young Marketers announced
See which industry up-and-comers are headed to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity to compete against teams from around the world.

Call for entries: Media Agency of the Year
The competition for top media agency in the country has begun, with the first round of submissions due May 18.

Predicting the Cannes Lions winners
Lauren Richards, Taxi’s Steve Mykolyn and Juniper Park’s Alan Madill weigh in on Canada’s best work from the past year.

MediaCom named Festival of Media Network of the Year
The agency took home the title at the Festival of Media Global Awards 2012 last night.

BBDO picks up eight CLIO nods
DDB, Lowe Roche and Cundari are among the other Canadian nominees for the 2012 awards.

Canadian agencies bring home Internationalist Awards
All the Canadian projects nominated at the awards brought home a prize at last night’s event.

Canadian media agencies earn nods at Internationalist Awards
PHD Canada and Starcom MediaVest Group both have two nominations, with MediaCom Canada picking up one nod at the fourth annual awards.