ADFEST: IT LOOKS LIKE A LONG NIGHT
AdFest is still finalising the program of events for the three day festival but already alarm bells are starting to ring about the final presentation night among some delegates that CB Asia has spoken to. At last year’s AdFest the final awards show started at 7.30pm and didn’t finish until well after midnight. By the time the night’s top prizes were handed out more than half the audience had already left (including the Agency of the Year winners!) and had packed the bars in the Royal Cliff Hotel.
This year’s final awards night looks like being a long night too based on the program as it currently stands on the AdFest website. In addition to speeches, dinner and a bit of entertainment awards will be handed out in eight categories – Film Lotus, Outdoor Lotus, Cyber Lotus, 360 Lotus, Innova Lotus, Lotus Roots (new this year), Special Awards and CB Asia’s personal favourite, the Radio Lotus.
With AdFest reverting back to a three-day format it’s a difficult task to fit in the growing list of categories, but hopefully the organisers have taken some of last year’s criticism on board and found ways to streamline the Saturday presentation night.
AdFest runs from March 19th through to March 21st. See you there.
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I went to AdFest last year and I’ll be staying in Sydney this year. It was a very disappointing experience and lacked excitement and atmosphere. The award night was a shocker. Save your money for Cannes.
Yes, it was a bloody long night!
6.26 You sound like a lot of fun! Hope you will be able to afford the airfare to Nice! Good to know Adfest will be short of at least one boring tosser!
I’m all for a bit of fun 9.48 but I also want value for money. Were you even there last year? Did you sit right through to the end of the awards? I doubt it.
Sorry but the appeal of the Pattaya sleaze doesn’t work on me the same way it seems to obviously work on you.
Champagne on the Carton terrace anyone?
Should decent clean cut creatives be going to pattaya anyway. It’s not like this is Mad Men or anything.
Well I heard the Spikes are being held at Orchard Towers this september.
The day one presentations look gripping!
The Cup winners?? Hope that’s the F.A. Cup.
AdFest has done something right. It’s probably a balls up but there are at least 4 art directors on the Radio jury (5 if you include Mr. Hegarty) so it’s going to have to be very bloody funny to get through as most of us art directors hate f#@*&$! radio
People who go to Adfest and expect it to be like Cannes are idiots. Yes it’s a bit disorganised and everything runs late, but it’s fucking Thailand! It’s probably the friendliest festival around and there aren’t any cigar-smoking, chino-wearing wankers taking themselves too seriously.
Adfest is just about having a little fun with colleagues and ex-colleages, women and ex-women. 😉
“there aren’t any cigar-smoking, chino-wearing wankers taking themselves too seriously.”
Hey, I resemble that comment!!!!