Oreamuno has been charged with globalizing and redefining the purpose of the ADC, and ushering it into a new era relevant to the ever-changing advertising, visual communications and creative industries. His companies, IHAVEANIDEA, Portfolio Night and the Tomorrow Awards, will be integrated into the fabric of the ADC.

“The industry should have high expectations for what we will change and accomplish in the coming months. The synergy of current ADC programs like the ADC Awards, ADC Young Guns, and the ADC Hall of Fame combined with Portfolio Night, IHAVEANIDEA and the Tomorrow Awards will result in a more active Club and more valuable membership for all current and future ADC members,” Oreamuno said. “My door is always open to ADC members,” he added.

Oreamuno brings more than ten years of experience in the advertising industry. A former Junior Art Director at Ogilvy Toronto, Oreamuno left Ogilvy to focus on building his advertising intellectual archive, IHAVEANIDEA (www.ihaveanidea.org) – now one of the most important advertising publications in the industry. During the decade-long run of IHAVEANIDEA, Oreamuno founded Portfolio Night (www.portfolionight.com), the world’s largest simultaneous advertising portfolio review and recruitment event, and a door through which many of the industry’s top talent entered the business. After many years of working for major award shows including the Clio Awards, D&AD and Andy Awards, Oreamuno launched the Tomorrow Awards (www.tomorrowawards.com), the first-ever international award show to abolish all categories, focus on truly forward-thinking work, and use an inclusive public judging system to help the industry embrace and understand change in advertising and communications. Named one of Marketing Magazine’s “Ones to Watch Under 30,” Oreamuno is known for traveling the world to network with international agencies and top industry leaders, and will aim to bring those connections to the ADC.

The Art Directors Club is one of the oldest of its kind in North America. Founded in 1920 by Louis Pedlar to hold advertising art to the same high standards as fine art, the ADC is a gathering place for leaders in visual communication and funds programs to Connect, Provoke and Elevate creative professionals around the world.

“We look at this as an alliance of sorts – while Ignacio is our youngest director ever, he’s been incredibly busy in the last decade,” said Art Directors Club President Benjamin Palmer, also Co-Founder and CEO of the Barbarian Group. “The properties he brings to the table will be crucial to the club in promoting our mission to a global audience.  We’re lucky to have him for his endless enthusiasm and worldwide network of the most amazing people working in the industry today, and his extraordinary ability to find young talent and nurture it.”

Oreamuno’s appointment is effective immediately. He will be based out of New York City and the ADC’s global headquarters office. For further information, please contact Director of IHAVEANIDEA Brianna Graves.

Founded in 1920, the Art Directors Club (www.adcglobal.org) is the premier organization for leaders in visual communication, boasting one of the most concentrated groups of creative talent in the world.  A not-for-profit membership organization, the ADC’s mission is to Connect creative professionals around the globe, while simultaneously Provoking and Elevating world-changing ideas.  The ADC provides a forum for creatives of all levels in Advertising, Design, Interactive Media and Communications to explore the direction of these rapidly converging industries.

IHAVEANIDEA (www.ihaveanidea.org) is the community of the international advertising industry, one of the oldest and longest running websites dedicated to advertising. Founded in 2001 by Ignacio Oreamuno, IHAVEANIDEA was conceived as an online intellectual archive for passionate advertising professionals to share their knowledge and experience, challenge the norms, and collectively push each other with the belief that such an exchange would benefit all within the advertising industry.

Portfolio Night (www.portfolionight.com) is an annual event where aspiring young advertising copywriters, art directors and designers meet with renowned advertising creative directors in a fast-paced evening of advice, networking and recruitment. In the ten years since its inception, Portfolio Night has grown to a global event, reaching creative hubs in nearly every continent in an evening where the best of the present meets the best of the years to come. Now in its milestone tenth year, Portfolio Night brings together thousands of young creatives, hundreds of creative directors and dozens of host agencies in cities around the world, along with key Global Partners, all in a “one night only” event across the planet.

The Tomorrow Awards (www.tomorrowawards.com) is an international advertising award show dedicated to discovering, showcasing and awarding advertising creativity that pushes new technological boundaries. Unique to the industry, The Tomorrow Awards is the first-ever international award show to abolish all categories as it seeks to educate the industry about new technologies and creative possibilities through an inclusive public judging system.

Contest participants will choose from seven brands and one free-for-all brief to create ads for, including: Kellogg’s Vector, Rocawear, McDonald’s Europe, FOX Canada’s Family Guy and Glee, EMI/Capitol records band Graffiti6, and Weekly World News. With briefs and assets in hand, competitors will be asked to design the most engaging, boundary-breaking video-enabled rich media overlay ad that best executes the brand’s overall vision. The contest is open to all creative minds around the world and consists of three rounds beginning with the first round entry deadline on April 20^th, 2012, and first round finalists to be announced on May 4^th, 2012.

A panel of judges that includes representatives from Casale Media, the brands, IHAVEANIDEA/The Tomorrow Awards and creative minds will vote on the top eight ads that will run live on Casale Media’s ad network, MediaNet, from May 28^th, 2012 – June 25^th, 2012. Online voting will be open to the public and will count toward the final panel decision. The eight finalists will have their ads assembled by Casale Media, executed and run in market according to the brand’s brief, in addition to receiving a cash prize. The grand prize winner will be announced on July 2^nd, 2012.

“This competition gives the best creative minds around the world an opportunity to showcase their innovative skills and talents by making these top brands’ campaigns come to life in new ways,” said Julia Casale-Amorim, CMO, Casale Media. “Our goal with the Casale Media VOS platform was to develop an easy-to-use technology that could truly showcase the power that video advertising has to evoke an emotional response from viewers. With this competition, we look forward to seeing truly innovative and creative campaigns that push the boundaries of online video advertising.”

VOS is Casale Media’s video overlay solution that powers IAB standard ad units with rich interactive functionality and video-ready capabilities. It enables easily scalable, targeted and fully customized video and rich media ads to be created and run in-market for the price of standard display. VOS removes the guesswork and complexity from interactive video and rich media by consolidating all technical assembly, hosting, delivery, and media required into a single, cost-efficient platform.

For more details about The Engagement Directive: A Tomorrow Throwdown, or to enter the competition, please visit http://engagementdirective.com/.

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About Casale Media

Since 2003, Casale Media has been redefining the standard for online media quality, ad delivery management and media optimization technologies with premium services that generate measurable success for all stakeholders in media and marketing. CasaleX, the industry’s first premium exchange with real-time bidding, is a highly controlled, brand-safe media marketplace that provides publishers with maximum control and advertisers with exclusively high quality inventory.

The company’s premium advertising network, MediaNet, is used by eight of the top 10 U.S. online display advertisers and reaches nearly 70 percent of the U.S. online audience across more than 3,000 actively monitored properties. One of the leading independent digital media companies, Casale Media is guided by its dedication to needs-based development and quality-focused culture. More information is available at www.casalemedia.com.

About IHAVEANIDEA & The Tomorrow Awards

IHAVEANIDEA is the community for the international advertising industry, one of the oldest and longest running websites dedicated to advertising. Founded in 2001 by Ignacio Oreamuno, IHAVEANIDEA was conceived as an online resource for passionate advertising professionals to share their knowledge and experience, challenge the norms and collectively push each other, with the belief that such an exchange would benefit all within the advertising industry.

The Tomorrow Awards is the first international advertising award show dedicated to discovering, showcasing and awarding advertising creativity that pushes new technological boundaries. In contrast to other industry award shows, The Tomorrow Awards is uniquely category-neutral and seeks to educate the industry about new technologies and creative possibilities by including the entire industry in the judging process. Learn more at www.tomorrowawards.com.

Organizations join forces to help advertising industry overcome difficult talent-placement challenges

Toronto, May 5, 2011—In an exciting move to optimize the pairing of top creative talent with major international brands and agencies, Toronto-based creative staffing and workforce management firm Creative Niche (www.creativeniche.ca) and ihaveanidea (www.ihaveanidea.org)—the world’s longest-running and most extensive online community dedicated to advertising professionals—are announcing a dynamic new global talent recruitment partnership.

As part of the agreement, ihaveanidea will open its network of tens of thousands of creative professionals and promote Creative Niche to its global network of agency contacts around the world. Creative Niche will then use this wealth of contacts to help fill creative positions globally.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for our company to grow its global presence, while helping advertising firms of all sizes satisfy their needs for top creative talent,” says Creative Niche CEO Mandy Gilbert. “This partnership has transformed Creative Niche into a worldwide force on the creative staffing and recruitment front and opens up a vast array of possibilities for us to expand our reach as a company.”

As ihaveanidea.org founder Ignacio Oreamuno explains, the partnership was born of a desire to solve a growing problem faced by the advertising industry—the inability to recruit top creative talent with diverse, often technology-focused, skill sets.

“There’s a talent crisis going on because the people the advertising agencies need are very difficult to find,” Oreamuno says. “They need people that understand social media, but also understand traditional advertising. Through this partnership, we’re going to comb all of our networks to solve that problem and create what will be the powerhouse of creative recruitment.”

Understanding that the high-speed nature of Internet-based communications continues to interconnect companies from around the world ever faster, Gilbert and Oreamuno also understood the need to provide firms with access to talent from outside of traditional markets. “Agencies are telling us they want professionals from different regions to maximize the scope of the creative ideas they bring to the table,” Gilbert says. “This partnership allows us to tap into top talent pools stretching across the world’s most dynamic creative talent communities.”

Creative Niche will also be an active participant in ihaveanidea’s flagship Portfolio Night events and semi-annual Tomorrow Awards, which honour the best and brightest new minds the advertising industry has to offer.

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About Creative Niche

Creative Niche is a Toronto-based creative recruitment and workforce management firm founded by entrepreneur and recruitment-industry expert Mandy Gilbert in 2002. The firm connects leading companies with top talent to create the most unique, inspired work possible, while creating a positive experience for all of its associates.

Creative Niche’s core services include temporary, contract and permanent staffing for a wide variety of marketing-communications, digital, advertising and creative positions across industries, as well as contract workforce management. The firm works with multinational advertising, digital and PR agencies throughout Canada, as well as large public and private organizations such as Sid Lee, Draft FCB, Sapient Nitro, Taxi, TD Bank, KPMG, RBC Dexia, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and McMillan. Creative Niche is currently expanding its operations in Europe and the U.S.

About ihaveanidea

ihaveanidea is “the community of the international advertising industry,” one of the oldest and longest-running websites dedicated to advertising. Founded in 2001 by Ignacio Oreamuno, ihaveanidea was initially conceived as an online resource for people within the advertising industry to share their knowledge and experiences, with the belief that such an exchange could benefit all within the industry. Over the years, ihaveanidea has grown in scale and scope, and has formed a significant offline presence as well, most notably with “Pick Me”, a bestselling book based on ihaveanidea’s popular “Ask Jancy” column, and Portfolio Night, an annual globe-spanning event where thousands of esteemed creative directors and aspiring creatives meet for advice, mentorship, recruitment and camaraderie.

Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, ihaveanidea maintains an “informal but informed” tone that has made it a favorite of like-minded decision -makers and an essential “go-to” for young people just beginning their advertising careers.

ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night is the largest simultaneous advertising portfolio review ever held in the world, featuring a uniquely designed portfolio review process in a “speed-dating” setting. The event helps students and aspiring young creatives around the world break into the ad industry, and involves the top creative directors in each participating city.

“Each year this event not only gets bigger but better thanks to the dedication and support of our Global Sponsors. Portfolio Night’s massive scope and undeniable impact on young creatives around the world, and the industry as a whole for that matter, is due to companies like Adobe, Corbis and Ogilvy & Mather. Year after year, they understand the significance and reverberating effects that an event like Portfolio Night continues to have on our business and its collective ethos. And for that, I sincerely salute you all.” says Ignacio Oreamuno, President, ihaveanidea.
Portfolio Night proudly introduces Adobe as the newest PN8 Global Sponsor. In addition to their global sponsorship, Adobe representatives will be present at many of the events around the world connecting with young creatives and educating them on how they can further integrate Adobe’s revolutionary creative tools into their portfolios and future careers.

Corbis (www.corbisimages.com), a leading visual and media provider for the creative community, returns to Portfolio Night 8 as a Global Partner for the fourth year in a row. In addition to sponsoring the event worldwide, Corbis will again be providing their hugely successful Hi-Res Image Offer to juniors who are registered to attend the event. Juniors will have up to 30 hi-res images for free from Corbis’ premium Blink, Ivy, Crush and Bettmann collections for use in their Portfolio Night portfolios. Registrants are encouraged to check their local PN 8 city page for the full terms and conditions. Corbis will also facilitate onsite support at many of the events around the world to help students network with the world’s leading advertising professionals.

Portfolio Night 8 also welcomes back Ogilvy & Mather as global agency partner for the second year in a row. In addition, Ogilvy will again be hosting the event in a record breaking 22 cities this year. Ogilvy & Mather, one of the world’s most innovative and creative marketing communications companies in the world, provides a comprehensive range of integrated marketing services including: advertising; public relations and public affairs; brand and identity; shopper and retail marketing; healthcare communications; direct, digital, promotion and relationship marketing and digital production. The agency has 450 offices in 120 countries.

Students enrolled in advertising programs, recent graduates, and up-and-coming creatives will have the opportunity to spend valuable face-to-face time with their city’s most prestigious creative directors. Young creatives are encouraged to attend this event in one of the participating cities and have the opportunity to speak with three or more world-class creative directors.

Cost to participate is priced locally in participating cities around the world. All aspiring creatives or juniors with an advertising portfolio must buy a ticket and register online at www.portfolionight.com.  Tickets will go on sale globally March 22 2010.

About Portfolio Night
Started in 2002, Portfolio Night (www.portfolionight.com) is ihaveanidea’s annual event, where advertising’s top creative talents come together to review the portfolios of students, juniors and creative hopefuls in an exciting and engaging environment. For eager up-and-comers, Portfolio Night is an incredible opportunity to meet with the industry’s most acclaimed creative directors and have their work critiqued, gain advice – and possibly a job. For agency creative directors, Portfolio Night represents a chance to give back to the advertising community, and to meet or recruit the most talented young people trying to enter the business. Since its inception, Portfolio Night has always been held on one evening, simultaneously in all cities. This year, Portfolio Night 7 will be held on Thursday, May 20th, 2010, around the world.

(TORONTO/MONTREAL, May 20th 2009) ihaveanidea, Advertising’s Intellectual Archive, proudly announces Ogilvy & Mather as Global Agency Partner of Portfolio Night 7 and host of Portfolio Night 7 in New York City on June 16^th 2009.  

ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night is the largest simultaneous advertising portfolio review ever held in the world, featuring a uniquely designed portfolio review process in a “speed-dating” setting. The event helps students and aspiring young creatives around the world break into the ad industry and involves the top creative directors in each participating city.

”We want to reassert our leadership that Ogilvy is the place for the best and brightest young minds of our day to thrive in,” said Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Creative Director for Ogilvy & Mather. “Supporting Portfolio Night is a clear demonstration that we are putting creativity at the center of everything that we do.”

 Ogilvy & Mather, one of the world’s most awarded creative agencies, is partnering with ihaveanidea to bring Portfolio Night 7 to many of the agency’s offices around the world. Participating Ogilvy & Mather offices hosting a Portfolio Night event include New York, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Melbourne, Tunis, Beirut, Dubai, and co-hosts with six other agencies in Singapore. Additionally, creative directors from Ogilvy’s other operations (not hosting events) will be taking part in Portfolio Night events held in their respective cities.

“I’m thrilled to have Ogilvy & Mather join us as our Global Agency Partner of Portfolio Night 7. Coincidentally, Ogilvy gave me my very first job in the ad business. In fact, I had just started at Ogilvy Toronto as an art director when we created Portfolio Night. To have them deeply involved in a global event that helps thousands of other young creatives get their start, it means the world to me, personally and professionally.” says Ignacio Oreamuno, president, ihaveanidea. 

The other global partner of Portfolio Night 7 is Corbis. In addition to sponsoring the event worldwide, Corbis will provide global digital imagery for the event web-casts as well as provide onsite support to help students network with the world’s leading advertising professionals. 

Students enrolled in advertising programs, recent graduates, and up-and-coming creatives will have the opportunity to spend valuable face-to-face time with their city’s most prestigious creative directors. Young creatives are encouraged to attend this event in one of the participating cities and  have the opportunity to speak with three or more world-class creative directors.

Cost to participate is $35 in North America and is priced locally in other participating cities around the world. All aspiring creatives or juniors with an advertising portfolio must register online at  www.portfolionight.com  

About Portfolio Night
Started in 2002, Portfolio Night (www.portfolionight.com) is ihaveanidea’s annual event, where advertising’s top creative talents come together to review the portfolios of students, juniors and creative hopefuls in an exciting and engaging environment. For eager up-and-comers, Portfolio Night is an incredible opportunity to meet with the industry’s most acclaimed creative directors and have their work critiqued, gain advice – and possibly a job. For agency creative directors, Portfolio Night represents a chance to give back to the advertising community, and to meet or recruit the most talented young people trying to enter the business. Since its inception, Portfolio Night has always been held on one evening, simultaneously in all cities. This year, Portfolio Night 7 will be held on Thursday, June 11, 2009, around the world.

About ihaveanidea 
ihaveanidea (www.ihaveanidea.org) is “Advertising’s Intellectual Archive.” Created by Ignacio Oreamuno, a former art director, and operating virtually from Montreal and Toronto, Canada, its mission is to serve the international advertising industry as a centre of self-analysis and intellectual growth. Based on the concept that disseminating and sharing creative knowledge will benefit everyone in advertising, www.ihaveanidea.org is visited by hundreds of thousands.

About Ogilvy & Mather 

Ogilvy & Mather (ogilvy.com), a subsidiary of WPP (NASDAQ: WPPGY), is one of the largest marketing communications networks in the world, with 495 offices in 120 countries, specializing in advertising, relationship and interactive marketing, public relations, sales promotion and related services. 

Portfolio Night 7 is scheduled for June 11, 2009 and will unite the world’s leading advertising agency creative directors with up-and-coming creatives in an anticipated 20 cities globally. At this event, students and aspiring young designers have the opportunity to showcase their talent and have their portfolios critiqued by some of the top creative directors in each participating city.

ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 7 is the largest simultaneous advertising portfolio review ever held, featuring a uniquely designed review process in a “speed-dating setting”. Students enrolled in advertising programs, recent graduates, and young creatives will benefit from valuable face-to-face time with three or more world-class creatives during the event.

“Portfolio Night is the only global event of its kind aimed at identifying and cultivating aspiring designers and providing them with a fun environment to present their work and connect with industry leaders,” said Ivan Purdie, Senior Vice President, Sales & Service, Corbis. “Despite the tough economic climate, Corbis is proud to continue to partner with ihaveanidea on this valuable event to nurture the next generation of creatives.”

“When the ad industry faces changes, like the ones we’re undergoing right now, agencies have no option but to react. Portfolio Night’s role in the industry is to predict where the industry is going and help it adapt. New talent enters the business through the doors of Portfolio Night and without the help of Corbis we simply would not be able to carry out this event.” says Ignacio Oreamuno, President, ihaveanidea.

Portfolio Night 7 will see hundreds of industry professionals mentoring aspiring creatives in cities like Amsterdam, Bangkok, Barcelona, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Hamburg, Johannesburg, Lisbon, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, Miami, Montreal, Mumbai, New York, Paris, Quebec City, Sao Paulo, San Francisco, Santiago, Shanghai, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Vancouver.

All aspiring creatives or juniors with an advertising portfolio must register online at ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 7 website.
The cost to participate varies by region and can be found on the website.

Corbis is proud to currently be the only global partner for Portfolio Night 7. In addition to sponsoring the event worldwide, Corbis will provide global digital imagery for the event web-casts as well as provide onsite support to help students network with the world’s leading advertising professionals.

Portfolio Night 7 hosts include Leo Burnett in Lisbon, David & Goliath in Los Angeles, PJA Advertising in San Francisco, SOCOM in Quebec City, Complot in Barcelona, Sid Lee in Montreal and Amsterdam, Gertrude in Chicago, ADCI in Milan. Portfolio Night 7 Media Partner is Leurzer’s Archive.

About Corbis

Corbis is a leading visual media provider for the creative community, licensing the widest array of award-winning contemporary, historical and entertainment photography as well as extensive collections of acclaimed illustration and footage. Its imagery is seen everyday around the world in advertising, media, publishing and corporate communications. Corbis is headquartered in Seattle with 15 offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia that serve more than 50 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.corbis.com

About Portfolio Night

Started in 2002, Portfolio Night 7 is ihaveanidea’s annual event, where advertising’s top creative talents come together to review the portfolios of students, juniors and creative hopefuls in an exciting and engaging environment. For eager up-and-comers, Portfolio Night 7 is an incredible opportunity to meet with the industry’s most acclaimed creative directors and have their work critiqued, gain advice – and possibly a job. For agency creative directors, Portfolio Night 7 represents a chance to give back to the advertising community, and to meet or recruit the most talented young people trying to enter the business. Since its inception, Portfolio Night has always been held on one evening, simultaneously in all cities. This year, Portfolio Night 7 will be held on Thursday, June 11, 2009, in approx 20 cities and 15 countries around the world.

ihaveanidea will kick off the North American tour of the D&AD Awards 2008 Screening on October 21st in Montreal and will also be hosting screenings in Chicago, New York, Toronto, San Francisco, Miami and Los Angeles. The screening will feature the best international advertising and design work that was showcased at the D&AD Awards 2008 Ceremony, held earlier this year in London, England.

“This is the first time that work from D&AD has been shown in North America on this scale. We hope that people come along and are inspired by the best advertising and design in the world. Our award, the Yellow Pencil, recognizes advertising and design that sets new creative standards. It’s all been judged by top creatives from across the industry – now it’s the audiences’ turn to decide what they think,” says Holly Hall, D&AD Awards Director.

The D&AD Awards 2008 Screening promises the year’s avant garde in creative work from around the world and will feature the best in integrated, television, radio, print, interactive, ambient, graphic design, packaging and illustration and many more.

“Bringing the D&AD Awards 2008 Screening to North America is very important to ihaveanidea because they are the most prestigious awards show on the planet. By screening the D&AD Awards 2008 winners we also hope to squash the perception that winning at D&AD is an unattainable endeavor and instead galvanize North Americans into realizing that we as a Continent are contributing and being recognized by this most illustrious awards show more often than we think. It’s also a big excuse to get together as a community, have a good time and celebrate some of the best ads from around the world,” says Ignacio Oreamuno, President, ihaveanidea.

The D&AD Awards 2008 Screening premieres in North America on October 21st in Montreal. Screenings will also be taking place in Chicago on October 23rd, New York on October 27th, Toronto on October 28th, San Francisco on October 30, Miami on November 5th and Los Angeles on November 6th. Dates, locations and ticket info can be found here.

Sponsors to date of the D&AD Awards 2008 Screening include Black Bag in New York and Toronto, David&Goliath in Los Angeles, Zulu Films and Boris Beer in Montreal & Leo Burnett and BBDO Energy in Chicago and Steam Whistle Pilsner in Toronto.

The program finalists are:

Copywriters:
• David Orlic, Garbergs, Stockholm, Sweden
• Edson Shundi Oda, DM9 DDB, São Paulo, Brazil
• Colleen Harlan, R/GA, New York, USA
• Rajat Dawar, Rediffusion DYR, Mumbai, India
• Tim Cairns, DDB Sydney, Australia
• Keshavan Radhakrishnan, Team Y&R, Dubai, UAE

Art Directors:
• Yona Hummels, FVH BBDO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Danilo Boer, AlmapBBDO, São Paulo, Brazil
• Amanda Clelland, Droga5, New York, USA
• Shakoon Khosla, TBWA\India, New Delhi, India
• Eron Broughton, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney, Australia
• Annie Klintworth, Lowe Bull, Cape Town, South Africa

These talented young copywriters and art directors will attend the upcoming Clio Festival, where they will be paired into six teams and asked to respond to a creative brief from client sponsor Yahoo! within 24 hours. All work will be judged by a panel of world-renowned 2008 Clio Awards jury members and later presented to Yahoo! 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.

The Clio Future Gold | Young Creatives Program is coordinated by the Clio Awards, in conjunction with ihaveanidea. Technology for the program is provided by Rackspace IT Hosting and Limelight Networks.

The 49th Annual Clio Awards will be presented during the 2008 Clio Festival, May 14-17 at the Gansevoort South Hotel in South Beach. Delegates made up of advertising and design creatives from around the world will attend an array of exciting events, including the Festival Opening Cocktail Party, the annual Lifetime Achievement Award Dinner Gala (this year honoring Marcello Serpa, partner and general creative director, AlmapBBDO, São Paulo, Brazil), The Saatchi & Saatchi Hero Show featuring provocative artist Ralph Steadman, daytime sessions featuring creative leaders from around the world, TV/Cinema/Digital, Print, Radio and Interactive Shortlist areas with technology provided by Rackspace IT Hosting and Limelight Networks, evening parties and two Awards Galas announcing 2008 winners, Advertiser of the Year and Agency/Network/Production Company of the Year at the Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater.

About Clio Awards

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 reward 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 Clio Awards.

SEATTLE and MONTREAL (April 24, 2008) – Corbis, a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals, and ihaveanidea, Advertising’s Intellectual Archive, today announced Corbis’ return as Global Partner of Portfolio Night 6, the largest simultaneous advertising portfolio review ever held in the world.

The event, which will be held on May 8th, brings together the world’s top advertising agency creative directors with up-and-coming creatives in an estimated 25 cities to critique work and build relationships with highly respected industry leaders from their area.

As part of this year’s event, ihaveanidea and Corbis are launching the “ihaveanidea & Corbis Educational Program.” This program provides all juniors and students around the world who will be attending the event with exclusive free access up to 25 select hi-res images imagery within Corbis’ collections to further improve their portfolios before and after the event. All juniors and students purchasing a ticket to Portfolio Night 6 in their city will automatically receive this special offer. For full details please click here.

“This event is about identifying and nurturing the next generation of creative talent and providing these aspiring professionals with the skills, resources and social network to succeed,” said Ivan Purdie, Senior Vice President, Sales & Service, Corbis. “Corbis is proud to be part of a fun event that supports creatives on their road to success.”

ihaveanidea’s Portfolio Night 6 is the largest simultaneous advertising portfolio review ever held, featuring a uniquely designed portfolio review process in a “speed-dating” setting. The event helps students and aspiring young creatives break into the ad industry and showcase their talent to the top creative directors in each participating city.

This year hundreds of industry professionals will mentor aspiring creatives in Amsterdam, Auckland, Barcelona, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Chile, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Los Angeles, London, Melbourne, Milan, Miami, Montreal, New York, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto, Vancouver and Quebec. Students enrolled in advertising programs, recent graduates, and young creatives will have the opportunity to spend valuable face-to-face time with three or more world-class creative directors during the event.

“Every year we set the bar higher for Portfolio Night and every year Global Partners like Corbis step up to the challenge. This year, we’re especially pleased to be launching the ‘ihaveanidea and Corbis Educational Program’ as this is an invaluable resource to all the aspiring juniors and students out there, something that helps them make their books that much better and brings them one step closer to getting their first job,” said Ignacio Oreamuno, President of ihaveanidea.

All aspiring creatives or juniors with an advertising portfolio must register online at ihaveanidea’s, Portfolio Night 6 website.
Cost to participate varies by region and can be found on the website.

Global Partners of the Portfolio Night 6 are Corbis, DDB Worldwide, Black Bag and VCU Brandcenter. Portfolio Night 6 Hosts include DDB Worldwide, 180 Advertising, BOXX 3G Interactive, PJA Advertising, JWT in London and Milan, Inbrax Consultores in Chile, Butler Shine Stern & Partners, Circulo de Creativos Argentinos, Complot Barcelona and La Societe des Communicateurs de Quebec. Local Sponsors include The Art Directors Club as the venue in New York City and Black Turtle Media in New York. In addition to sponsoring the event, Corbis will provide global digital imagery for the events web-cast as well as provide staff on-site to help students network with the world’s leading advertising professionals.

About Corbis

Corbis is a creative resource for advertising, marketing and media professionals worldwide, helping to bring creative work to life with the highest quality photography, footage and rights services. Corbis offers a preeminent collection of more than 100 million creative, entertainment and historic images, a comprehensive footage library, the world’s deepest rights and clearances expertise, a roster of elite assignment photographers and an award winning media management solution. Headquartered in Seattle, Corbis serves more than 50 countries worldwide. For more information, visit www.corbis.com.

About Portfolio Night

Started in 2002, Portfolio Night is ihaveanidea’s annual event, where advertising’s top creative talents come together to review the portfolios of students, juniors and creative hopefuls in an exciting and engaging environment. For eager up-and-comers, Portfolio Night is an incredible opportunity to meet with the industry’s most acclaimed creative directors and have their work critiqued, gain advice – and possibly a job. For agency creative directors, Portfolio Night represents a chance to give back to the advertising community, and to meet or recruit the most talented young people trying to enter the business. Since its inception, Portfolio Night has always been held on one evening, simultaneously in all cities. This year, Portfolio Night will be held on Thursday, May 8th, 2008, in 23 cities and 15 countries around the world.

In support of ihaveanidea’s mission to globally promote and nurture the advertising industry, D&AD will be part of ihaveanidea’s events and educational initiatives for the coming year.

“We’ve been big fans of our friends across the pond for a while now so we are very excited to have D&AD on board as an on-going global partner. We look forward to showcasing to North America and the rest of the world all the amazing work and effort they put into maintaining the standard for excellence not only when it comes to making ads but for the industry as a whole.” says Ignacio Oreamuno, President, ihaveanidea.

UK-based and not-for-profit, D&AD represents the international design, advertising and creative communities. With its iconic Yellow Pencil award, D&AD sets industry standards and celebrates creative excellence. It educates and inspires the next generation through its student award and education programmes.

“Over the last few years we’ve been making more and more of our content available to anyone with a passion for creativity. Aside from The Annual, we post our lectures online, and our first D&AD Awards exhibition in Japan opened this month,’ said Dara Lynch, Acting D&AD Chief Executive. “We are looking forward to working with ihaveanidea to continue to inspire creatives and students globally.”

About D&AD

D&AD is a not-for-profit organisation that represents the international design, advertising and creative communities. More than any other organisation, D&AD sets industry standards, educates and inspires the next generation and promotes the importance of creativity, innovation and ideas within the business community. Visit D&AD for further information.