Goafest 2015 promises to be richer & spectacular in its 10th year!

Once again one of the most awaited advertising, media and marketing festival is back and It’s time again for all the advertising, media and marketing professionals to head towards Goa for the premier advertising festival- Goafest. The event is scheduled to be held from April 9 – 11 at The Grand Hyatt, Bambolim. Celebrating the theme of 10th year, the committee is all geared up to deliberate-upon some new and innovative work by the stalwarts and the new entrants in the ad-world.

As it is the 10th year efforts are being made to make the event distinctive and grand. There will be innovations at the venue too and an interesting concept of 'Youth labs' is being added to the three day event.

Elaborating on the same, Nakul Chopra, Chairman of Goafest 2015 & Vice President of Advertising Agencies Association of India (AAAI) said, "We are working towards making the Goafest 2015 bigger and better year on year. We are also introducing for the first time ‘Youth Labs’ for young delegates. These Youth Labs will have a separate Creative Lab and Media Lab. The aim of these Youth Labs will be to provide a platform for youngsters to interact with stalwarts in the industry and get them to sharpen and hone their skills."

The Organizing Committee also released the first list of speakers for the Knowledge Seminars: Ted Lim- Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu Aegis Network Asia Pacific, Alan Moseley- President and Creative Officer, 180 Amsterdam, Neil Stewart- Head of Agency, APAC Region, Facebook, Guy Abrahams- Worldwide Strategic Marketing Officer, ZenithOptimedia and Devdutt Pattanik- Author & Mythologist. 

M.G. Parameswaran, President of AAAI said, “Though there will be a few minor tweaks to make Goafest 2015 a great event but the major ones include an interesting mix of speakers and Youth Labs. Our effort is to get the 2500 plus participants to listen and interact with the best the ad-world has to offer. As in the previous years, we will have stimulating Q&A sessions moderated by senior marketing professionals.”

Goafest 2015 will aim to widen the vision of marketers by giving them an opportunity to see all the work for the year entered at Goafest. This covers TV, Print, Outdoor and Ambient, Radio, Design, Direct, Digital & mobile, Integrated, Media; Listen to a dozen of the best global speakers on a variety of advertising subjects and Rub shoulders and exchange views with industry stalwarts.

For the 8th year that AAAI and The Advertising Club will come together to deliver Abbys, India’s definitive awards that celebrate creativity. Pratap Bose- President of The Advertising Club & Chairman of The Awards Governing Council (AGC), said, “The initiatives introduced last year were widely appreciated by all the stakeholders. We will continue to follow the stringent and now well accepted norms for Abbys. An exciting feature that we introduced this year is that the Campaigns that have been released till February 15, 2015, are now allowed to submit their entries at this year's Abbys.”

Continuing with the changes that were inducted in 2012 – there will be a Grand Prix for Film, Print, Radio, Outdoor, Design, Interactive Digital, Direct, Media and Integrated. This year too there will be a window of ten days before the final judging round. During this window, shortlisted entries will be available for the entire industry to review. However, Abbys once awarded will stay awarded.

The Award shows for various verticals will be held on the following evenings:

9th April, 2015- Media & Publisher Abby Awards

10th April, 2015- Design, Direct, Brand Activation & Promotion, Public Relations, Out of Home & Ambient Media, Print Craft, Branded Content & Entertainment & Broadcaster Abby Awards

11th April, 2015- Digital & Mobile, Radio, Radio Craft, Print, Film, Film Craft & Integrated Advertising Abby Awards

Goafest has been witnessing growing participation from clients with over 50 client organizations represented at Goafest last year. Marketing Wizards, an initiative under which young clients (members of Indian Society of Advertisers) delegates can avail of the special under 30 delegate fees as well free accommodation will continue this year. So will the special ‘Rest of South Asia’ awards. In total, Goafest 2014 recorded 1705 delegates from 245 different organizations.
 

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