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The Golden Drum Festival 2023 has wrapped up with the Golden Drum Awards Show, powered by Mastercard, held on 10 October. The Festival finally returned

The 2023’s edition of the Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE) Best of European Design and Advertising Awards is now open for entries. For the

The 2023 Gerety Awards jury have awarded 4 Grand Prix, 27 Gold, 69 Silver, 65 Bronze, with 159 entries remaining on the shortlist. The campaigns

Yesterday on August 23rd, the international jury awarded the best of the advertising competition BalticBest 2023. The most awards, including the most golds, went to

The works of BalticBest 2023 were evaluated today by an international jury live on air and the best ones were awarded with titles. See who

The live broadcast of the advertising competition BalticBest 2023 will take place already today, i.e. on August 23. Watch the live broadcast starting at 10:00

The grande finale of the BalticBest 2023 global advertising competition for small countries will take place already on August 23rd, when the international jury will

This year the BalticBest competition received 195 works from four countries – Croatia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. We will publish the shortlist and program on

The global advertising competition BalticBest 2023 for small countries will take place on August 23. In order for everyone to be able to submit their

An interview with Juuso Helander, Senior Creative at Wörks (Finland). What is the biggest challenge in your work today, what keeps you up at night?

An interview with Ugnius Mikšta, Creative Teams Lead, TRUTH (Lithuania). What is the biggest challenge in your work today, what keeps you up at night?

An interview with Anti Jürgenstein, Creative Director of Optimist Creative (Estonia). How do you see the importance of (international) advertising contests today? What do they

An interview with Reinis Traidas, Creative Director & Head of Content of Magic Agency (Latvia). What is the biggest challenge in your work today, what

An interview with Rokas Eltermanas, Executive Creative Director of Not Perfect Vilnius (Lithuania). What is the biggest challenge in your work today, what keeps you

An interview with Rasa Misiūnaitė, Head of Strategy of Milk (Lithuania). What is the biggest challenge in your work today, what keeps you up at

Interview with Nils Kajander, the Managing Director and Partner at BOND (Estonia). What is the biggest challenge in your work today, what keeps you up

Interview with Sandro Tsitskishvili, BalticBest jury member from Georgia. What is it like to be a freelancer? I have worked with almost all the brands

Deep White is a Latvian PR agency that has been in the TOP 10 of Baltic agency ranking. Hando Sinisalu interviewed the founder and CEO

Interview with BalticBest jury member Dina Dretvic, Strategic Planning Director of Imago Ogilvy (Croatia) How much do you use AI in your daily work? We

Interview with Zanete Eglite, Managing Director of the Latvian Art Directors Club (LADC) How competitive is Latvian advertising creativity on the global scene? Latvian creatives

BalticBest 2023 takes place online in the format of a live show.  All shortlisted works will be reviewed LIVE by the jury and the winners

Executive juries from around the world will join press titles to discuss the best work from this year’s Gerety Awards as the final deadline of

The Golden Drum Competition is officially open for submissions. Up until 21 August 2023, advertisers, agencies, media agencies and other marketing communications experts can submit

The Atomic Garden Vilnius, the only creativity and advertising school in the Baltics, is inviting everyone for an exclusive mini conference on February 9th, dedicated

The Gerety Awards reveal the full executive jury and announce March 3rd as the entry deadline. Co-Founder Lucía Ongay says: “Each year Gerety chooses new

The ten locations where the executive jury will be meeting are announced along with new categories for 2023. The locations for the 5th season of

For almost three decades, the Golden Drum festival has stood as one of the most visible crossroads of the creative, marketing, and advertising professional communities

The Epica Awards have just announced the shortlist of the 2022 competition. A jury of editors and senior reporters of marketing and communication publications selected

Effie UK, which recognises and celebrates the most effective marketing work of the year, has awarded a record eight Golds among the 15 winners of

The Golden Drum Festival 2022 has wrapped up with the Golden Drum Awards Show Powered by Mastercard held on 23 September in Rovinj, Croatia. The

In total the 2022 Gerety Awards jury have awarded 5 Grand Prix, 34 Gold, 58 Silver, 77 Bronze, with 139 entries remaining on the shortlist.

On Wednesday the international jury awarded the best works at the BalticBest 2022 advertising competition. This year most of the awards went to Lithuania. A

The live broadcast of the international advertising competition BalticBest 2022 will take place already today, i.e. on August 24. Watch the live broadcast starting at

The grande finale of the BalticBest 2022 global advertising competition for small countries will take place already on August 24, when the international jury will

This year, the BalticBest competition received 187 works from eight countries – Mauritius, Jamaica, Namibia, Croatia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. We will publish the

Interview with BalticBest 2022 jury member Gerður Huld Arinbjarnardóttir, who is the Founder/CEO at Blush (Iceland). Gerður is the youngest person in history who has

The global advertising competition BalticBest 2022 for small countries will take place on August 24. In order for everyone to be able to submit their

Latvia’s largest advertising agency NORD DDB, founded in 1995, changed its name to MAGIC. Expanding several strategic development directions, the B40 group of integrated communication

Interview with Balticbest jury member Gareth Pretorius, Creative Director of Circus Advertising (Mauritius). What makes Mauritius unique? The cultural mix of Mauritius is really unique,

Interview with the Balticbest jury member: Anna Celmina, Head of Strategy at Nord DDB Riga. Historically, ad agencies used to create ads and business consultants

The mission of Sacha Cosmetics was to develop a line of makeup that all Caribbean women could wear and genuinely look better versions of themselves.

Interview with Balticbest jury member Giorgi Avaliani (Holy Motors, Georgia). The Republic of Georgia has a branding problem: it’s often confused with the US state

Interview with Anti Jürgenstein, Partner at Optimist Group. Optimist just won the first-ever Cannes Lion (Bronze) for the Republic of Estonia. Has this award already

Irina Piiskoppel, who is the head of digital at the Estonian creative agency Tank said that only data-driven and sales-oriented communication will not get one

The Gerety Awards, the only creative prize to reward advertising campaigns that resonate most with a female audience, reveals the global shortlist along with the

It is our great honour and pleasure to welcome Jorg Riommi, Chief Creative Officer, Publicis Groupe Central and Eastern Europe as the newest member of

Baltic Best Head of Programme Hando Sinisalu interviewed Rolands Puhovs, who is the Managing Director of Latvian branding agency White Label and a jury member

Anxiety Meter can measure passers-by’s anxiety with their permission. One-third of passers-by interacted with the ad 817 % longer than the DOOH average. The ones

Magnus Lužkov, the head of the Optimist agency and a member of the jury of this year’s BalticBest, said that the importance of participating in

Mark Tungate is a British journalist and author based in Paris, he is also the Editorial Director of the Epica Awards. What has been the

Interview with the Lithuanian advertising legend Rimantas Stanevicius, who is one of the jury members of BalticBest 2022. Rimantas Stanevicius has been shaping the Lithuanian

Balticbest 2022 takes place online in the format of a live show on August 24th. All shortlisted works will be reviewed LIVE by the jury

The Gerety Awards has announced an extension of its deadline until April 15th and a new category for B2B. The new category will celebrate the

The Golden Drum entry system is officially open for submissions. Advertisers, agencies, and other marketing communications professionals can enter their work until 5 August 2022.

Golden Drum, the international festival of creativity, has suspended Russia and Belarus from submitting entries into this year’s competition and from having representatives in the

Golden Drum, International Festival of Creativity, is Rebuilding Connection with a strong desire to reunite, reconnect, and reignite creativity. The festival’s competition opening this March

The jury of Epica Awards is made-up of editors and senior reporters from more than 200 marketing and communications publications in more than 500 countries

At the Epica Awards, which grand final took place on December 9, two gold-winning agencies at this year’s BalticBest also won medals – Optimist Creative

One of the world’s most prestigious creative competitions, the Epica Awards announced today the shortlist of the 2021 competition. A jury of editors and senior

BalticBest 2021 will take place on August 25, when the international jury will evaluate the works live. Today, the shortlisted works have been revealed. SHORTLIST

This year, the BalticBest 2021 competition received 212 works from eight countries – Mauritius, Jamaica, Cyprus, Croatia, Georgia, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. We will publish

BalticBest producer conducted an interview with Cannes Young Lions Digital Competition 2021 winners – graphic designer Klemen Vodopivec and copywriter Lucija Lepšina from Agencija 101

Olga Peresild, one of the jury members of BalticBest 2021 and the CEO of MediaCom Estonia, said whether the works submitted to the competition can

The global advertising competition BalticBest 2021 for small countries will take place on August 25. In order for everyone to be able to submit their

The final of the international competition for small countries BalticBest 2021 will take place on August 25, and the deadline for submitting works is August

The first time I read it from the Lonely Planet was about five years ago. I immediately wanted to see it, but could not find

Balticbest producer talked to three Lithuania-based creative directors to spot the main trends in the Lithuanian advertising scene this summer. Brand collaboration Mantas Velykis, Executive

Balticbest welcomes Suriname, which is the smallest country in South America, a former Dutch colony, and considered a culturally Caribbean country. Suriname is the only

  Why startups are rarely using ad agencies and build their in-house marketing teams instead? The issue with agencies is that they are slower than

The 15th Creative Excellence Festival ADWARDS Awards in Riga, Latvia received 253 works, most of them in the category “Printing Art and Design”, and a

Eka has been in advertising for more than 15 years. Her first job was in advertising, she has been in account, planning, and creative departments.

The success of Publicis Latvia in Cannes has raised some interesting and unexpected issues in Riga. For those who have not noticed: The Grand Prix

We are delighted to welcome a new jury member of BalticBest from Mauritius – Vincent Montocchio, who is the Managing Director of Circus Advertising &

BalticBest producer Hando Sinisalu travels to small (BalticBest) countries this summer and meets interesting people and visits innovative businesses. The first travel report is from

We are delighted to announce that BalticBest competition is open for entries. This year, BalticBest is using AdForum platform for entries and judging. The aim

It was a special year for Cannes Lions this time, with the awards honouring work from 2020 and 2021 after last year’s event was cancelled.

We encourage agencies from micro- countries (with a population under 1 million) to compete at Balticbest 2021. We rarely see work from really small countries

921 entries from 25 countries competed this year at White Square Festival in Minsk, Belarus. Two Grand Prix’s were awarded at White Square and they

All shortlisted works will be reviewed live by the jury and the winners will be announced right before the end of each session. Since the

Three Baltic advertising gurus and the last year’s BalticBest winners said that the current time favors the bold ideas it is important to react quickly

Balticbest 2021 will open for entries on June 1st. We have asked three Baltic advertising gurus, last year BalticBest Gold winners, to share their views

BALTICBEST, a marketing and advertising competition for small countries, will continue in 2021 in an online format. The live judging will be on air on

& The Network, a new global creative agency network opens for business this week despite tough times for the creative industry. The newly created network

On October 2, the Baltic Brand award ceremony welcomed the strongest and most popular brands in the Baltics, which have also withstood the challenges posed

Baltic Agency Ranking is traditionally announced within the framework of the Balticbest competition and will be published on September 9, 2020. Baltic Agency Ranking takes

Today, marketing and creative competition Balticbest 2020 is being broadcasted live in Tallinn. The second judging session has just ended and the winners were announced.

Today, Balticbest 2020 made histor and was broadcasted live online. A total of three evaluation sessions took place during the day, during which the jury

Today, the shortlist of the marketing and advertising competition Balticbest 2020 was announced. The winners of the competition will be announced on August 26. SEE

The winners will be announced at the end of each category voting and all gold and Grand Prix of the Balticbest 2020 competition will be

Hayk Simonyan, Founder/CEO of Doping Creative Agency (Armenia) told that they never make compromises, because everything they do is based on research. Tell us about

WHAT’S UP: Giorgi Avaliani, Co-Founder of Holy Motors (Georgia) talks about Georgian advertising industry and how important it is to build a brand from the

The winners will be announced on 26 August during a live broadcast. The winners will be announced at the end of each category voting and

This year, Balticbest has a total of 21 categories, including a separate category for Marketing at the Time of Pandemic. Entries can be submitted until

WHAT’S UP? Andris Rubins, Managing Partner at Nord DDB Riga, gave his advice to people who would like to work in the field of advertising.

WHAT’S UP? Igor Kalaba, who is the Client Service Director at Aquarius spoke about the situation of advertising industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina. What is

AgeCom has companies in different countries and different industry sectors. Read small interview with Andris Blaka, Shereholder of AgeCom How has Covid-19 influenced your business?

We have asked Balticbest jury members to recommend reading, music from their native country and something to watch – for your inspiration. See the recommendations

We have asked Balticbest jury members to recommend reading, music from their native country and something to watch – for your inspiration. See the recommendations

WHATS UP? Björn Jónsson, who is Creative Director and Partner at Pipar\TBWA and also one of the Balticbest 2020 jury members, spoke about Icelandic advertising

Interview with Richard Agius, Creative Director of TBWA Malta. How did the pandemic influence your business in Malta? We were quite lucky to have a

WHATS UP? Davor Bruketa from BRUKETA&ŽINIĆ&GREY – a Croatian agency which has won over 450 awards for advertising and design, including a gold award for

We have asked Balticbest jury members to recommend marketing reading, music from their native country and something to watch – for your inspiration. See the

WHATS UP? Oliver Lomp from Tabasco – one of the TOP 12 Baltic agencies in 2019 – said that this spring was like a time

We have asked Balticbest jury members to recommend reading, music from their native country and something to watch – for your inspiration. See the recommendations

We have asked Balticbest jury members to recommend marketing reading, music from their native country and something to watch – for your inspiration. See the

Before Balticbest, we ask from the agency leaders: WHAT’S UP? Nils Kajander from BOND Creative Agency – which has studios in Tallinn, Helsinki, London, Dubai

Vaidas Matulaitis is a Lithuanian marketer living in Estonia. He is the founding partner of marketing agency Stereo and Member of the Board at World

Interview with Mantas Velykis, who is the Executive Creative Director at CLINIC 212 Creative Group. You just changed your job – from the Creative Director

We have asked Balticbest jury members to recommend marketing reading, music from their native country and something to watch – for your inspiration. See the

We have asked Balticbest jury members to recommend marketing reading, music from their native country and something to watch – for your inspiration. See the

We have asked Balticbest jury members to recommend marketing reading, music from their native country and something to watch – for your inspiration. See the

Before Balticbest, we ask from the agency leaders: WHAT’S UP? Rimantas Stanevicius from Lithuanian agency MILK said that they need clients from abroad. “Before the

Balticbest 2020 has three different juries, five members in each. But who are these 15 people, who have an outstanding professional experience in the field

Balticbest, a marketing and advertising competition for small European countries, is now open for entries! The 7th edition of Balticbest is unlike the previous ones

Balticbest 2020 takes place online in the format of a live show. Jury will vote live and the winners will be announced right before the

At the end of summer 2020, the advertising industry will be reborn. After one of the deepest crises of our time, we are facing a

According to Eka Ruola, CEO of the Finnish agency Hasan & Partners, the most important are people, and in that regard, B2B and B2C marketing

You probably agree that it is not wise to stop marketing right now – but how do you convince your customer? Would lowering the service

Four experienced agency executives from the Baltic region who have been through the good times and the bad times share their tips and tricks on

Traditional Baltic Agency Rating will be revealed on August 30th during the Balticbest 2019 Gala. The ranking is based on the winnings of various local

The Baltic Agency of the Year 2018 will be announced on August 31 during the Balticbest ceremony in Tallinn Film Museum. Photo: In previous years,