The Misfits Media Company, official Australian representative of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, has announced the winners and runners up from this year’s Young Lions competition after a cracking digital awards ceremony on Thursday afternoon.
The four winning teams across marketing, digital, film and media categories of this year’s Young Lions Competition were chosen out of 20 finalist teams who completed the second round of the competition in late August. Four runners up teams were also announced.
For the second round of the competition, the idea was to replicate the competition that takes place in France at the Cannes Lions Festival.
Young Lions Australia teamed up with charity partner, VICHealth, to deliver a brief, with the teams then having just 24 hours (and 48 hours for Film finalists) to come up with their responses.
They then presented their response the following day to a panel of judges in just 10 minutes with 10 minutes allocated to questions from the jury.
The judges were absolutely blown away with the calibre of the responses. Sadly, however, as with competitions, not everyone can win. And in this case, there were only four winning teams.
So without further ado, here are the amazing winners and runners up of the 2020 Snapchat Young Lions Australia Competition. Congratulations to all finalists as well.
And, a hearty thanks to sponsors of the event: Snapchat, The Real Media Collective, The Trade Desk, Unilever, Stocksy, and Creative Products Enterprises.
Marketing – Winner
Annabel Brusasco, IAG Marketing Specialist
Brittany Riordan, IAG Marketing Consultant
Marketing – Runner Up
Cindy Tan, Capital Labs Growth Marketing Manager
Shernese Chee, Commonwealth Bank of Australia Marketing Manager
Digital – Winner
Rubini Gunaratnam, M&C Saatchi Copywriter
Jardin Anderson, Freelance Art Director
Digital – Runner Up
Julian Hartley, BWM Dentsu Copywriter
Rob Gordon, BWM Dentsu Art Director
Film – Winner
Jack Elliott, Wunderman Thompson Creative
Lachlan Newham, Wunderman Thompson Creative
Film – Runner Up
Lizzie Wood, The Monkeys Copywriter
Joe Harris, The Monkeys Strategist
Media – Winner
Summer Treseder, Initiative Partnerships Associate
John Ryan, Initiative Partnerships Associate
Media – Runner Up
Lily Nielsen, Wavemaker Senior Digital and Social Manager
Amanda Thomsen, Wavemaker Senior Performance Executive
And of course, a massive thanks to our sponsors!