David Lubars to Serve as Chief Judge for the 2007 Radio-Mercury Awards
New York, New York – February 08, 2007 -- David Lubars, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer of BBDO North America, will serve as Chief Judge for the 2007 Radio-Mercury Awards, Radio’s richest creative competition.
The Radio-Mercury Awards recognize and reward excellence in Radio creative with $170,000 in cash prizes, including the coveted $100,000 Grand Prize. Winners will be announced on June 7, 2007.
“Radio continues to be an important advertising medium. And the Mercury Awards are one of the few industry competitions willing to put their money where their mouth is to encourage and celebrate excellence,” said Lubars. “I look forward to hearing the best that our industry has to offer.”
As Chairman and Chief Creative Officer for BBDO North America, Lubars has been instrumental in the agency’s resurgence and in establishing it as an overall dominant creative force within the advertising industry. In 2006, BBDO was named “agency of the year” by all of the leading advertising trade publications.
In 26 years of experience, Lubars has garnered every major creative award in the world several times over, including the $100,000 Radio-Mercury Awards Grand Prize for Ortho Fire Ant Killer in 1997, when he led the creative team at BBDO West. BBDO New York has also won Radio-Mercury Awards in 1992 and 2003.
“We are extremely pleased that David will lend his expertise by serving as Chief Judge of this year’s Radio-Mercury Awards,” commented Jeff Haley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Radio Advertising Bureau (RAB) and Co-Chairman of the Radio Creative Fund (RCF). “Great Radio creative requires outstanding talent. The Radio-Mercury Awards are a way to encourage, recognize, and reward the creative practice of Radio commercial writing and producing.”
Entry deadline is Friday, March 12th. The late deadline is March 19th.
The Radio-Mercury Awards were established in 1992 to encourage and reward the development of effective and creative Radio commercials. Approximately 15,000 commercials have competed for nearly $2.7 million in prizes. The Radio Creative Fund (RCF), a non-profit corporation funded by the Radio industry, governs the Radio-Mercury Awards.
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