(TORONTO, March 10,2008) – ihaveanidea, Advertising’s Intellectual Archive, and The 49th Annual Clio Awards and Festival, the world’s most recognized global awards competition for advertising, design and interactive, is now accepting applications from around the world for the 2008 Clio Future Gold | Young Creatives Program, whose mission is to elevate and inspire up-and-coming talent in the advertising industry.

A total of 12 talented young copywriters and art directors under the age of 30 will be selected to attend the 2008 Clio Festival, May 14-17 in South Beach, where they will be paired into six teams and engage in a 24-hour creative challenge. All work will be judged by a panel of world-renowned 2008 Clio Awards jury members and later presented to the client before an audience of Clio Festival delegates. The winning team will be awarded on stage at the Clio Awards Gala on the evening of May 16 at the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater.

“Clio is committed to encouraging and rewarding the best young creatives,” said Tony Gulisano, managing director, Clio Awards. “This annual challenge provides the focal point to inspire, showcase and celebrate these emerging talents.”

Finalists in recent years have included young creatives from agencies such as JWT Singapore; DDB Sydney; FHV BBDO, Amstelveen, the Netherlands; Leo Burnett Kiev, Ukraine; Rediffusion DYR, Mumbai, India; FCB Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saatchi & Saatchi New York, and others.

How it works

Qualified applicants 30 years of age or younger can visit www.ihaveanidea.org/futuregold for complete program details and guidelines, download the recommendation form to be completed by their creative director, and digitally upload a portfolio of work. Deadline for application submission is April 1, 2008, application fee is $150.

A team of experienced creatives will review all materials and select 12 applicants who represent the best talent from across the globe (two participants from each of six regions). Finalists will be notified by the Clio Awards on April 11, 2008, and arrangements made for them to receive complimentary Clio Passports granting admission to all festival events, as well as three nights of hotel accommodation.


The 2008 Clio Future Gold | Young Creatives Program schedule is as follows:

April 1 Deadline for all application submissions.
April 11 Judges determine 12 finalists, notification immediately thereafter.
May 13 Finalists arrive at the Clio Festival in South Beach.
May 14 Future Gold breakfast, teams pair up, initial program debriefing and distribution
of creative brief.
May 15 First round presentation to Clio jury members and client, feedback given, three
put of six teams selected to move to the final round.
May 16 Finalists presentation to client and Clio Festival delegates, winners selected and
announced at this session. Awards presented on stage that evening at the Clio
Festival Awards Gala.

Technology for the Clio Future Gold | Young Creatives Program is provided by Rackspace IT Hosting and Limelight Networks.

The Clio Awards is the world’s most recognized awards competition for advertising, design and interactive. For nearly five decades, the Clio Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and rewards creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the Clio Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. To this day, Clio’s iconic statute is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry’s creative accomplishments.

Tony Gulisano, a 26-year veteran of Clio, leads the organization as managing director. The Clio Awards, part of Nielsen Business Media, is owned by the Nielsen Company. For more information about the 49th Annual Clio Awards and Festival, please visit www.clioawards.com.


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About ihaveanidea

ihaveanidea is Advertising's Intellectual Archive. It is a project with the mission of serving the advertising industry as a centre of self-analysis, intellectual growth and communications portal.

The foundations of the project are based on the idea that disseminating and sharing creative knowledge will benefit all in the industry.

Thousands of creatives from around the world visit the project each month.

ihaveanidea was founded and created by Ignacio Oreamuno, a former art director from Ogilvy& Mather. Several creatives help make the project a reality.

ihaveanidea is sponsored by The Clio Awards , the globe’s most recognized international advertising awards competition; Black Bag, North America’s creative talent attraction consultancy – with practice areas in talent attraction consulting, creative recruitment and strategic career planning and coaching; Future Marketing, which celebrates a wide range of non-traditional marketing and advertising techniques, Human Locator, an interactive visual system developed by Freeset and designed expressly for advertising; Adweek which has the inside stories on: creativity, client/agency relationships, successful global advertising strategies; Beam.TV, a global distribution network that specializes in the immediate digital delivery of advertising across different platforms and countries; Technicolor, the most powerful post-production house for the commercial market; Fuel Industries, North America's leader in advergame development; Eloda an independent third party provider of TV advertising occurrence verification services and VCU Adcenter, a two-year graduate program providing an intensive, real-world education for future advertising leaders in Richmond, Virginia.

For further information, please contact:
Mimi Martinoski
Communications Director
ihaveanidea
Tel: 416.827.0537
mimi@ihaveanidea.org