How it works

We have assembled a jury of creatives from around the world who will judge user-submitted entries and crown an "Ad of Da Month."

Sure, there are other blogs and forums to see the work being done across the globe, but no one else is picking a winner. So, send in your stuff. There's a chance that your ego may suffer a crushing blow on a global scale. Then again, there are a number of CDs on our jury. So, who knows? Maybe one of your ads will get you a job in Sydney or Dubai or Capetown or even good old Budapest.

The featured work is judged by our jury who would vote for the best ad every month.

Jury

Adeline Tan
Head of Creative Talent , Asia Pacific

Beguiled by the legendary ad campaigns of the 90’s, I entered advertising in 1996 after university. 2 years and a handful of modestly successful campaigns later, I established a commercial photography business which put me elbow to elbow with some of the brightest creative talent in the advertising community. In 2003 armed with my little black book, I plunged Manolos-first into headhunting, in under 4 years placing close to 150 top creatives, including some of the most decorated and high profile ECDs in Asia.

In the summer of 2007, I joined the Talent Business as Head of Creative Talent, responsible for the company's creative practice across Asia Pacific. I have a soft spot for black animals, a penchant for haute horology, and a curious obsession with macabre movies.

The Talent Business (www.thetalentbusiness.com)
Email: adeline.tan@thetalentbusiness.com

		Gary Du Toit Senior Writer, TAXI Toronto Gary was born in Zimbabwe, grew up in Botswana and has lived most of his life in South Africa - but is a citizen of Australia. When people ask him where he's from, he says: "When a man and a lady love each other very much they give each other a special kind of hug…" He is a Capricorn, which means he's "patient", "responsible" and "conscientious", although he'd rather be "rich", "fluent in Klingon" and "deadly with ninja stars". In South Africa, he worked at TBWA Hunt Lascaris and Net#work BBDO before deciding to move to Canada to join Taxi Toronto. He won two silvers at this year's Clios has been in D&AD six of the last seven years.

		Icaro Doria Saatchi & Saatchi, New York Despite the fact that Icaro is only 27 years old, he’s been in this business for ten years. Icaro was born in Brazil where he received a communication degree and worked on major accounts. After four years of working in Brazil, he joined Leo Burnett Lisbon for one year where he worked on McDonald’s, Kellogg’s and Fiat and than joined FCB Lisbon for another year and a half. In 2005, he was invited to return to Brazil and join FCB as a senior copywriter, where he went on to work on Bristol, SC Johnson, Fiat and Kaiser Beer. In that same year he created the fifth-most-awarded campaign of the year according to the Gunn Report and was invited to join Saatchi & Saatchi New York, where he now works on JCPenney, Tide, Crest, Folgers, Stuffit Deluxe and Total brands. Icaro have won several awards, including 6 Cannes Lions, the Gran Prix on the Eurobest, the Gran Prix on the FIAP and also the Gran Prix on the Art Directors Club of Europe.

		Jamie Mietz The Jupiter Drawing Room, Cape Town I started my career in JHB in 1995. My fastest growth creatively was at TBWA Hunt Lascaris, where I was inspired by people like Tony Granger, Erik Vervoegen, Sue Anderson and John Hunt. For a change in scenery I decided to go to Dubai for a couple of years where I managed to win the regions first Cannes Gold. I¹m now in Cape Town working with Jono at The Jupiter Drawing Room, where I've worked on clients like Hyundai, The One Club NY and Gabriel shocks.

		Jonathan Commerford The Jupiter Drawing Room, Cape Town I started out at a small Cape Town agency called King James where I was lucky enough to get work on big international brands like Levi's, MINI and Johnnie Walker. After picking up a couple of awards and watching the agency double and almost triple in size in just a few years, I moved on to the Jupiter Drawing Room, where I currently work with Jamie.

		Jaime Mandelbaum & Emiliano Trierveiler TBWA Berlin Collectively lived and worked in 4 countries, freelanced for 4 continents, got 8 cannes shortlists, 6 campaigns on Archive, 2 spots on Shots, merit at the Art Directors Club NY, 6 statues of the Czech Art Directors Show, represented twice different countries in Cannes Young Creatives, selected among the 12 Clio future gold in 2005. Also able to curse in 11 different languages.

		Luissandro Del Gobbo JWT Paris I graduated in literature, and I got a clarinet diploma. So I started late with advertising as a freelance. Then I was hired in JWT Milan and lived there from 1999 to 2003. There I also met my actual art director, Giovanni Settesoldi. In 2003 we moved together to D'Adda, Lorenzini, Vigorelli, BBDO and stayed there till early 2005. Since then we moved to JWT Paris, and so far it's good to be here.

		Erik Heisholt Creative/Partner, 2008scandinavia, Oslo One of the most awarded scandinavian creative directors and creatives ever, including the Grand Prix in Cannes Lions (2002 - Oslo Piercing Studio - Outdoor), Grand Prix at Eurobest (2001 - Scandinavian Airlines - Outdoor) and a bunch of Lions, Golds, Silvers, Bronzes from every award show worth mentioning. Erik was the Executive Creative Director at Leo Burnett Oslo, before starting up his own little hot shop, Shnel & Melnychuck, and starting up the communication collective 2008scandinavia together with his old Chief Creative Officer from the Burnett days, Øistein Borge. Erik has judged The New York Festivals, London Advertising Awards, Eurobest (twice), D&AD (twice), and Clio Awards.

		Richard Selbourne ECD, DDB Sydney Richard Selbourne wrote his first ad for Volkswagen at Doyle Dane Bernbach in 1986. He moved to Collett Dickenson Pearce in 1988 where he wrote ads for Barclaycard, Benson and Hedges and the Bahamas Tourist Board. He moved to Euro RSCG in 1993 where he wrote ads for Peugeot, Avirex Jackets and Abbey National. In 1995, he formed the Selbourne and Belcham Creative Independent and wrote ads for anyone who was willing to pay for them. In 2000, he joined Leo Burnett, where he wrote ads for McDonald’s, P & O Cruises, Kellogg’s and Fiat. In 2005, he flew out to DDB Sydney to be a Creative Director. Over twenty years, Richard’s career has brought him money, fast cars, expensive clothes and exotic holidays. Yes, he’s advertised them all.

		Jackie Hathiramani Creative Director – JWT, New York Ask Jackie what's the relationship between his first career in accounting and advertising, and he'll tell you they're very similar. It's all about finding the loopholes. Jackie has worked in India, Singapore, Australia and USA for the last fifteen odd years. And won over five hundred awards in his career, including many One Show pencils, Clio statuettes, Print, Poster, TV Lions and the much coveted Cannes Cyber Grand Prix in 2005. In the last two years, Jackie has been an agent of change at JWT, New York and led the creative work on Cadbury Adams on brands like Halls, Halls Defense, Trident Chewing Gum, Bubblicious, Swedish Fish, Sour Patch Kids and Stride. When he's not mentoring young talent in his spare time, Jackie loves perfecting his culinary skills and dreams of building an award-winning prefab home somewhere on the Pacific Coast Hwy.

Want to be a jury member?

We know our jury members are busy creatives, so we would be bringing in fresh faces every 6 months as the old one retire. Please mail your CV to us and we would get back to you.

Meet the team

		Dalbir Singh, Founder and site daddy One amongst three advertising creative brothers, I first scribbled logos as a trainee art director at JWT, Calcutta. Thereafter, I moved to the Gulf and then to JWT, HongKong. I added to my frequent fliers miles with stints at Y&R, Budapest and then at Russell & Herder, Minneapolis. Wanderlust struck again and I moved to Africa as Executive Creative Director with Y&R, Casablanca. I moonlighted for DDB, Nairobi and was adequately compensated with a Kenyan Safari. I'm currently back in my favourite city, Budapest with Ogilvy. Having worked across the world, I worked on all sorts of products and can say "I'm busy" in several languages.

		András Szántó: VP Operations Andras is a young and innocent interactive project manager with a creative past and future. He met Dalbir (see above) at Ogilvy - while working as an account - and thanks to him he got involved in various creative projects. After O&M he joined Leo Burnett Hungary as a stand-alone copywriter working on one of the biggest clients of the agency: Philip Morris. Simultaneously, he started his own mini-agency working on interactive projects. These years meant a lot of experience which he is using right now, working as a consultant/creative for Carnation, one of the biggest online creative agencies in Hungary. He is always looking forward to jump into the most various projects and is ready to take part in the world. To find out more check out: http://www.last.fm/user/moses001 or http://del.icio.us/mozes.

		Attila Györffy: Creative Web Designer Attila Györffy is a young web designer who lives in Budapest, Hungary. At the age 15 influenced by the web and so recognizing the possibilities, he decided to make his own fate as a multi functional programmer in the future, so he started to learn and study. After working at a huge online creative agency (Carnation) he decided to start his own business and founded eclips3.media (ECLM). Nowadays he is working as a freelancer web designer and programmer. He is crazy about finding always the newest technologies and options to raise the bar in the internet’s possibilities. Other informations can be found on his personal website.

		Daniel Demmel: idea distiller and layout blacksmith Being always amazed by how entertaining advertising can be if done properly, I decided during my teenage years that I want to somehow take part in making them. After getting a taste at competitions I found myself working at (Carnation, Ogilvy) and for (Leo Burnett, Kirowski) quite a few agencies before even leaving college. Right after graduating I kickstarted eclips3.media jointly with a few friends, to be able to work at our own terms and without compromises. But feeling the need to know the world more than being able to in Budapest, I ended up in London, doing future designs for Sony and Sony Ericsson at a small but successful studio called UsTwo. At the same time, being half-Europe away doesn't mean I stopped keeping an eye on projects running at home.

		Lőrinc Sonnevend: System Administrator and Hosting Master Started using the Internet in 1992 at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences (now Corvinus) on a huge IBM 3911 mainframe. The web was without colors back then, all letter, no www, just gopher :P Five years later started his own web design company (called Webforce) and began developing websites for huge companies like Hewlett Packard Hungary, Synergon, Datanet and Állami Nyomda. 15 years in the business gives Lőrinc a wide knowledge of almost all popular operating systems, server applications, languages and web technologies. His responsibilities are monitoring the servers and applications providing the backbone of the site and looking for new technologies to improve speed, reliability and accessibility.