KIAF 2024 Announces International Jury Teams
The Kyiv International Advertising Festival has announced its 2024 jury teams, which include over 50 professionals from 20 countries across Europe, Asia, and America. The Jury Chairmen are seven leading professionals from the UK, Germany, France, South Korea, Finland, Poland and Ukraine.
In the 2024 contest program, there will be six international jury teams and one client jury team formed by advertisers. The KIAF jury members are leading experts in the global advertising industry across various disciplines and are one of the main assets of the festival.
Announced jury chairmen of KIAF 2024:
- Vince McSweeney, chief creative officer, McCann Central, UK
- Mariana Peluffo, global creative director, Publicis One Touch, Germany
- Jean Benaim, head of strategy and media creativity, Havas Media Network, France
- Bae Geumbyul, executive creative director, INNOCEAN, South Korea
- Juha-Matti Nieminen, executive producer, CEO, Directors Guild Helsinki, Finland
- Pablo Dominguez Agregan, group creative director, 180heartbeats + JUNG v. MATT, Poland
- Olena Plakhova, chief reputation and marketing officer, NOVA, group of companies (Nova Post), Ukraine
This is the 25th Kyiv International Advertising Festival, and for the first time since the full-scale invasion, it is accepting entries for a full contest program consisting of four blocks:
Creative Communications is focused on big creative ideas in different disciplines.
Craft/Technology is recognised for creative excellence and brilliant execution in some of the key segments of advertising and communication production process.
Social Goals Contests is rewarded and celebrated campaigns that use creative communications to make changes and positively impact the world.
Client's View is evaluated for industry projects and awards creativity, originality of communication solution with account of its results to solve business tasks.
Each block includes contests and categories that reflect key directions in advertising and the creative industry. In total, the program comprises 41 contests and 446 categories.
Judging will begin on May 6th. Following the jury's evaluations, finalists and winners (gold, silver, bronze) will be determined, along with the Best of Contest for each festival’s contest. GRAND PRIX awards will also be presented to the best works within the four main blocks of the festival (Creative Communications, Craft/Technology, Social Goals Contests, Client`s View). The winners' names will be announced at the award ceremony on May 31st.
Submissions are ongoing at creative-stories.com.ua until April 26th.
The General Partner of UCS 2024 is Nova Post. Delivering victories from Ukraine worldwide.
Don't miss the opportunity to showcase your work at the Kyiv International Advertising Festival 2024!
