SINGAPORE, Aug 26, 2015 - (ACN Newswire) - The Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity has announced that Unilever have been named the 2015 Advertiser of the Year. The award recognises clients that continuously distinguish themselves by inspiring innovative brand marketing.
Over the last five years Unilever have taken an impressive 41 Spikes for their brand advertising across the Asia Pacific region. Amongst these are 11 Gold trophies and three Grands Prix which were awarded to 'The Day I Visited my Son' in Film Craft, 'Radio Prank' in Radio and 'Where What you Grow is What you Eat' in the Media category.
Terry Savage, Chairman, Lions Festivals said that Unilever is a brand that refuses to stand still, adding that "they consistently strive to create marketing that is innovative and creatively bold. At Spikes Asia, the juries only award outstanding creativity, so the fact that they have scooped so many accolades is a huge credit to the quality of their marketing in the region."
Unilever is one of the world's leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan (USLP) commits to decoupling growth from environmental impact, helping more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well-being and enhancing the livelihoods of millions of people by 2020.
Rahul Welde, Unilever, VP Media, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Turkey and Russia, will be present to receive the honour which will be awarded during the Spikes Asia Awards Ceremony on Friday 11 September. About the award Rahul said, "We are very pleased to be recognised as The Advertiser of the Year at Spikes Asia 2015. This award is a great testimony to the efforts of our brand teams and agency partners in pushing boundaries in creativity and innovation. We are thankful for their dedication and commitment in breaking new ground in advertising and communication across Asia."
Spikes Asia takes place in Singapore and runs from 9-11 September. Delegate registration is open and anyone wishing to attend the Festival and Awards can register via www.spikes.asia.
About Spikes Asia
The Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity celebrates and inspires Asia-Pacific creativity in advertising. This year's festival takes place at Suntec City, Singapore, 9-11 September 2015.
Building on 28 years of the illustrious Spikes Awards, the Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity is the result of a collaboration between the Lions Festivals, organisers of Cannes Lions, Lions Health, Lions Innovation, Dubai Lynx, AMES and Eurobest, and Haymarket, publishers of Campaign Asia Pacific. The Festival provides the region's growing creative and advertising industry with a platform to network and exchange ideas, bringing together some of the finest creative thinkers from across the region and around the world.
Spikes Asia, attended by over 1,800 delegates in 2014, offers an inspirational programme of seminars, tech talks and forums, focusing on creativity and learning, exhibitions of creative work from Asia-Pacific, networking events in the evening and the Spikes Asia award show.
The Awards, judged by leading international and regional creatives, honour the best creative work in the categories of Film, Print, Outdoor, Radio, Digital, Integrated, Direct, Promo & Activation, Media, Print Craft, Film Craft, Design, Mobile, PR, Branded Content & Entertainment, Healthcare and Innovation. For more infomation, please visit www.spikes.asia.
Source: Spikes Asia
Contact:
Camilla Lambert Press & PR Manager Spikes Asia Festival of Creativity camillal@lionsfestivals.com +44 20 3033 4000 http://www.spikes.asia
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