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Young Lions Competition

     
     




Registration is now open for the Nigeria qualifying competition for Young Lions Competition in Film, Media, Print, Cyber and Marketer categories which will take place during the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France from 17 – 23 June, 2012.

The Young Lions Print Competition

The challenge of the Young Lions Print competition is to produce a print ad within 24 hours with each participating country represented by one creative team consisting of one copywriter and one art director.  .  Participants must be born on or after June 23, 1984.

 

The Young Lions Cyber Competition

The Young Lions Cyber Competition provides the opportunity for the new breed of cyber creatives to compete against each other. The internet has added new advertising options for today’s advertisers and the Young Lions Cyber Competition is an ideal opportunity for the best of the world’s young cyber creatives to showcase their talents. A series of training sessions will be handled in Cannes by Apple, Adobe and Getty Images. The brief will be presented by the client who must be a charity or public service organization, whose identity is kept secret until the briefing begins when their name, objectives, strategies and target audience are revealed by a senior member of the charity. Participants must be born on or after June 23, 1984.

 

Young Lions Media Competition

The Young Lions Media Competition challenges the brightest professional minds to demonstrate their strategic thinking and innovative approaches to solving an important marketing challenge to drive critical business success. Each team, made up of two participants, will be required to develop a media plan from a supplied brief for a charity organization within 24 hours and present in 5 minutes to a media jury, using specified software. Participants must be born on or after June 23, 1984.

 

Young Lions Film Competition

The Young Lions Film Competition seeks to discover the creative geniuses of the future. Teams of two young creatives will receive a brief from a selected charity to produce a 30-second commercial filmed completely with a mobile phone and edited within 72 hours.   Participants must be born on or after June 23, 1984.

 

Young Lions Marketer Competition

The goal of the Nigeria event is to select a team of two young marketers aged 30 years or under   who will represent Nigeria at the international finals in France.   The Young Lions Marketer Competition will require each team to have strong knowledge of their organization’s products and brand objectives. Each team will have 24 hours to tackle the brief and will be required to give a 5-minute presentation to the jury using Apple’s Keynote software (PowerPoint will be allowed in Nigeria). A maximum of 8 slides will be allowed (title slide optional – must form part of the 8 slides). The jury will have a maximum of 5 minutes to ask questions immediately after the presentation.


How to Enter

Completed forms should be returned as directed on the form along with payment of N50, 000 participation fee per team. The participants will be invited to the briefing session with the client before embarking on the project.


2012 Jury members to be announced soon

Film/Cyber Jury President 2011
Colin Morris
Executive Creative Director LTC/JWT

Film/Cyber Jury Members 2011
Chima Okenimpke
Creative Director
Insight Grey


Ebere Bieni
Creative Director
Verdant Zeal

Jide Akande
Creative Director
TBWA\CONCEPT

Jideobi Okonkwo (past winner)
Art Director
DDB Lagos

Anthony Ekun
Creative Director
SO&U Saatchi & Saatchi

Chamberlin Ukenedo
Creative Director
Novelpotta Y&R


Media Jury President 2011
Tolu Ogunkoya
Managing Director
mediaReach OMD

Media Jury Members 2011
Tony Udenze
Managing Director
Capital Media

Jayne Okoronkwo
General Manager
Media Integra

Wole Benson
Managing Director
Cerebral Consult

Ada Adheke
Group Media Director
Initiative Media






    



Young Lions Competition 2011 Registration Pack.

Registration is now open for the Nigeria qualifying competition for 2012 Young Lions Competition in Film, Print, Media, Cyber and Marketer categories.  

Register your teams for the Young Lions Competition. Download registration pack here.

Download YLC Registration Pack 2012.pdf