The One Club for Creativity has unveiled the finalists entries from 32 countries and regions for the global ADC 102nd Annual Awards.
All finalists entries, as selected by this year’s jury, will win a Gold, Silver or Bronze Cube or Merit. All winners will be announced on Wednesday, May 17, at Teremoinal 5 during Creative Week in New York.
Squarespace New York tops the list with 23 finalists entries, including 11 for “The Singularity,” and seven for “The Singularity BTS.” Rethink in Toronto, Montréal and Vancouver, has 20 finalists entries, including five each for IKEA’s “The Troll”, and Penguin Random House’s “The Unburnable Book”.
DDB Chicago has 16 entries on the finalists list, including 13 for “Chillboards” on behalf of Coors Light. With 15 is McCann New York, including four each for SAS’ “The Batting Lab” and Mastercard’s “Touch Card.”
Rounding out the top five is Spotify In-house New York with 14 finalists, including six of “Wrapped On Platform Experience,” and four for “Wrapped Design.”
Other agencies scoring high on the ADC 102nd Annual Awards finalists list are Serviceplan Germany Munich and FCB New York with 13 each, Klick Health Toronto with 11, Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Francisco and R/GA US with 10 each, and three agencies–Area 23 New York, INNOCEAN Berlin, and Performance Art Toronto–with nine each.
A total of 782 entries from 32 countries and regions are finalists this year. The top five countries for finalists entries are the U.S. with 367, Canada and Germany with 75 each, mainland China with 74, and Japan with 38.
The complete ADC 102nd Annual Awards finalists list is available here.
SMPTE elects board officers, regional governors
SMPTE®,the home of media professionals, technologists, and engineers, has revealed the board officers and regional governors who will serve terms beginning in January 2025.
Three new officers--Richard Welsh as SMPTE president, Eric Gsell as SMPTE executive VP, and Polly Hickling as SMPTE Education VP--have been elected for a two-year term from Jan. 1, 2025, to Dec. 31, 2026. One SMPTE officer, Lisa Hobbs, will be continuing her service as SMPTE secretary and treasurer for another two-year term. Additionally, Raymond Yeung will be stepping into the role of standards VP on Jan. 1, 2025.
“SMPTE’s membership has spoken,” said SMPTE interim executive director Sally-Ann D’Amato. “These officers have been tasked with an important responsibility, one each of them is prepared to tackle head-on. These next two years are looking bright for SMPTE!”
In addition to the officers, 10 regional governors were elected by the Society to serve two-year 2025-2026 terms.
These include the following regional governors, re-elected to continue their service:
Asia-Pacific Region Governor
Tony Ngai, Society of Motion Imaging Ltd.
EMEA - Central & South America Region Governor
Fernando Bittencourt, FB Consultant
United Kingdom Region Governor
Chris Johns, Sky UK.
USA - Central Region Governor
William T. Hayes, Consultant
USA - Eastern Region Governor
Dover Jeanne Mundt, Riedel Communications
USA - Western Region Governor
Jeffrey F. Way, Open Drives
Also elected were four newcomers to the SMPTE Board:
Canada Region Governor
Jonathan Jobin, Grass Valley
USA - Hollywood Region Governor
Allan Schollnick, Voxx... Read More