Who Came Out on Top at the 2016 Golden Drum Awards?

At the Golden Drum Grand Award Ceremony, the Best Piece and Best Practice Jury announced the winners of this year’s festival. In total 72 Silver Drums, 42 Golden Drums and 15 Grand Prix were presented to the best work that was entered this year. You can view all the winners on the Golden Drum website.

Agency Leo Burnett Beirut received the Good Cause Grand Prix Award for Kafa Legally Bride submitted to the Public Relations category.

With 169 points, McCann Worldgroup was awarded the Golden Net Award for the most successful agency network at the festival. With 109 points, the agency Publicis Romania/Publicis One was awarded the Golden Rose Award for the most successful agency.  Agency Voskhod from Russia won the Tartini Award for the most successful independent agency with 83 points. Ural Music Night received the Golden Drum Brand Grand Prix Award with 68 points.

In the category of special awards, in the Best Piece section the Golden Drum Adriatic Award went to agency Saatchi & Saatchi Macedonia/Publicis One for Sea Hero Quest. Silver Drum Adriatic Award went to agency Imago Ogilvy for Jana Wing of Love, while McCann Beograd received the Bronze Drum Adriatic Award for Lav Popcorn. 

In the Best Practice section, the Golden Drum Adriatic Award went to agency Saatchi & Saatchi Macedonia/Publicis One for Sea Hero Quest. The Silver Drum Adriatic Award went to McCann Beograd for Lav Popcorn, while Saatchi & Saatchi Belgrade/Publicis One received a Bronze Drum Adriatic Award for 'The most important call in your life'.

The Golden Watch award went to Vasilije Ćorluka, Executive Creative Director from Saatchi & Saatchi Macedonia/Publicis One Macedonia for the Sea Hero Quest campaign.

The Off Drum competition winners of the Ljubljana Poster Award are: 1st place winner is Tsvetan Aleksandrov for the entry Ljubljana is sport, 2nd place winners are Dijana Dimitrievska, Denica Bojarovska and Nino Ilievski for the entry BeTheBeat_mockup, and 3rd place winner is Dijana Dimitrievska for the entry We are one.