J.Walter Thompson Hong Kong wins the Best of the Best creative award for a wacky, animated campaign for Kit Kat at the Kam Fan awards. The campaign also strikes gold in the food/confectio-nary (television), sound craft and animation craft categories.
5 years ago
TBWA will have completed construction of its Asia-Pacific network by the end of the year, according to regional chairman Keith Smith. He said: "In two and a half years, we have gone from nothing to one of the top 10 networks in Asia-Pacific."
10 years ago
Compaq computers launches a multimedia corporate campaign throughout the region to stress the brand's superior performance and quality. The TVC, developed by Euro RSCG Ball Partnership, shows a dog running down a beach and leaping into the air to catch a frisbee, as a voiceover declares, "If he was a computer, he'd be a Compaq."
15 years ago
A TVC created by Saatchi & Saatchi Compton, Singapore, for client DHL Worldwide Express, becomes one of the first three commercials to be broadcast during a regular Russian television programme. The advert is seen by an estimated 180 million viewers throughout the USSR, East Germany, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.