AD STARS has unveiled this year’s finalists selected from a total of 21,530 entries – up from 18,063 entries last year. The festival recruited 210 online judges from 62 countries who selected just 1,799 finalists.
“It’s hard to believe how quickly our awards show has grown since we first launched in 2008. We received over 21,500 entries to the AD STARS Awards, which shows our mandate of being a global awards show that is free to enter and committed to ‘creativity for good’ is resonating with creative communities around the world. I’m especially proud of the diversity of entries and judges we have attracted this year,” says Eui Ja Lee, Co-chair of the AD STARS Executive Committee.
AD STARS is the only global festival that is free-to-enter and offers a US$10,000 cash prize for Grand Prix of the Year winners. With entries from 40 countries, AD STARS received the highest number of submissions from Japan, followed by Thailand, Korea, Australia, Philippines, China and New Zealand.
Agencies with 10 or more finalists include:
BMF (Australia ) 10 finalists
BWM Dentsu (Australia) 10 finalists
McCann Melbourne (Australia) 52 finalists
Ogilvy Melbourne (Australia) 11 finalists
Artplan (Brazil)
Cheil (China)
J. Walter Thompson Shanghai (China) 12 finalists
Publicis (China)
Cheil (Hong Kong) 21 finalists
Ogilvy & Mather Group (Hong Kong) 13 finalists
Hakuhodo (Indonesia) 10 finalists
Daiko Advertising Inc. (Japan) 22 finalists
Dentsu Inc. (Japan)
Hakuhodo Inc. / Kettle (Japan) 49 finalists
Ogilvy & Mather (Japan) 68 finalists
SIX INC (Japan) 14 finalists
TBWA Hakuhodo (Japan) 36 finalists
Tohokushinsha Film Corporation (Japan) 20 finalists
Tokyu Agency Inc. (Japan) 15 finalists
Cheil Worldwide (Republic of Korea) 32 finalists
Innocean Worldwide (Republic of Korea) 42 finalists
Innored (Republic of Korea) 17 finalists
Serviceplan (Republic of Korea) 21 finalists
Leo Burnett (Malaysia)
Colenso BBDO (New Zealand) 36 finalists
Wunderman (Peru)
BBDO Guerrero (Philippines)
McCann Worldgroup (Philippines) 12 finalists
Publicis JimenezBasic (Philippines) 11 finalists
TBWA Santiago Mangada Puno (Philippines) 43 finalists
BBH Asia Pacific (Singapore)
MullenLowe (Singapore) 25 finalists
Leo Burnett (Taiwan)
BBDO Bangkok (Thailand) 61 finalists
CJ WORX (Thailand)
GREY (Thailand)
Ogilvy Group (Thailand) 55 finalists
TBWA (Thailand) 30 finalists
BBDO (Pakistan)
Over 30 final judges will soon meet in Busan, South Korea on 22-23rd August to decide this year’s winners, which will be announced in a gala ceremony on Saturday 26th August.
AD STARS is now offering a 10% discount on early bird ticket sales to attend the 10th AD STARS festival, which runs from 24th to 26th August in Busan, South Korea.
With eight different registration packages to choose from, delegates can choose to attend both AD STARS 2017 and AD tech 2017, or purchase individual tickets to either conference, which take place concurrently at BEXCO Exhibition Centre. One-day passes and tickets to this year’s awards gala on Saturday 26th August are also available.
Purchase tickets to AD STARS 2017 via www.adstars.org.
AD STARS 2017 JUDGES BY COUNTRY
July 17, 2017
AD STARS will welcome over 30 judges representing 20 countries, who will fly to Busan, South Korea in August to judge the 2017 AD STARS Awards from 21st - 23rd August.
This year’s judges are:
CHINA
Jody Xiong, Founder & Chief Creative Officer at The Nine
Steven Marolho, General Manager at Moving Picture Company
Yi Shen, Chairman at WMTAD Advertising Group
Krystie Koh, Managing Partner, Operation & Production Director at TSLA China (The Secret Little Agency China)
Yuxin Cao, Baidu Search Cmopany Marketing Department Business Ecosystem Deputy Manager at Baidu
Yan (Cindy) Chen, Partner & Chief Strategy Officer at Focus Media Group
HONG KONG
Esther Wong, Executive Creative Director at TBWA Hong Kong
TAIWAN
I-Fei Chang, Chief Creative Officer at J. Walter Thompson in Taiwan
JAPAN
Peter Grasse, Executive Producer at Dictionary Films Tokyo
Masashi Ariizumi, Creative Director & Senior Communication Director at ADK Tokyo
Morihiro Harano, Creative Director & Founder at Mori Inc
MALAYSIA
Rajay Singh, Film Director & Co-Founder at Directors Think Tank Malaysia & Singapore
THAILAND
Suthisak Sucharittanonta, Chairman & Chief Creative Officer at BBDO Bangkok (Executive Judge)
SOUTH KOREA
Wain Choi, Chief Creative Officer at Cheil Worldwide (Executive Judge)
Soo-Jin Kim, Creative Director at Daehong Communications
Kiyoung Kim, Executive Creative Director at Innocean Worldwide
Julie Kang, CEO & Managing Partner at Serviceplan Korea
Seowon Park, Chief Creative Officer at ORICOM
AUSTRALIA
Adrian Bosich, Managing Partner at AIRBAG
NEW ZEALAND
Tom Paine, Executive Creative Director at Y&R New Zealand
UNITED STATES
Anselmo Ramos, Chief Creative Officer & Founder at DAVID the Agency (Executive Judge)
Eric Springer, Executive Creative Director at Innocean Worldwide
CANADA
Helen Pak, Chief Creative Officer at Grey Group Canada (Executive Judge)
ARGENTINA
Maximiliano Maddalena, Vice President & Executive Creative Director South Latin at Ogilvy & Mather
AUSTRIA
Marco Antonio Do Nascimento, Creative Director at Demner, Merlicek & Bergmann in Austria
CZECH REPUBLIC
Pavel Fuksa, Head of Design at Pavel Fuksa Design
GERMANY
Doerte Spengler-Ahrens, Managing Director Creation at Jung von Matt/SAGA GmbH
BELGIUM
Rindert Dalstra, Digital Strategic Director at TBWA
UNITED KINGDOM
Adrian Botan, Global Executive Creative Director, McCann Worldgroup
Matthew Leem, Business Director at Ogilvy & Mather
SOUTH AFRICA
Liam Wielopolski, Chief Creative Officer at DDB South Africa
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