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Newspaper publishers from 27 countries submitted their XMA projects on the topic of “cross-media advertising business”
Thursday 31. July 2008 - IFRA XMA Cross Media Awards 2008: Top-ranking international jury now determining the prize winners
IFRA was able to record a new number of participants in this years XMA Cross Media Awards: 56 different publishing houses from 27 countries submitted a total of 66 projects for this international competition (www.ifra.com/xma). The focus this year is on the cross-media advertising business, with prize winners in three categories: Cross-media campaigns for individual advertising customers, cross-media classified ads, and cross-media communities for special interest groups that serve as a platform for new advertiser target groups.
“Having looked through the projects now for the first time, we are absolutely enthusiastic about this years entries”, says Michael Heipel, project leader of the IFRA XMA Cross Media Awards and jury member. “The creativity applied at the publishing houses worldwide to avail of the possibilities of new media channels for advertisers is astounding. The connection of the print and online channels can now nearly be described as “traditional”. But many projects go much further and include mobile services, out-of-home media as well as audiovisual elements. Especially exciting are the projects that incorporate local and regional events and therefore highly emotional communication platforms for their customers.”
At present the projects are in the process of being evaluated by the international XMA Awards jury. The following criteria are being examined in the evaluation: basic idea, creativity and innovation, success of the projects, combined use of print and online as well as the incorporation of additional channels, such as mobile, out-of-home, events or TV/Radio.
The jury members for the IFRA XMA Cross Media Awards 2008 are:
– Annelies van den Belt, General Manager, Sup Fabrik, Russia;
– Theo Blanco, Senior Sales and Marketing Director, Upsala Nya Tidning, Sweden;
– Sven-Olof Bodenfors, Founder and Owner, Forsman & Bodenfors advertising agency, Sweden;
– Bob Cauthorn, CEO, City Tools, USA;
– Duncan Currall, CEO, South-West Media Group, United Kingdom;
– Jochen Dieckow, Business and New Media Research, IFRA, Germany;
– Fernando Gómez Carpentiero, CEO, Protec, Spain;
– Christina Gräf-Schlepütz, Managing Director, MPG Media Planning Group, Germany;
– Michael Heipel, Director of Exhibitions, IFRA, Germany;
– Klaus Kurz, Manager Business Development, Adobe Systems, Germany;
– Peter Ong, Consultant, Society for News Design, Australia;
– Dr. Dietmar Schantin, Director of Newsplex, IFRA, Germany;
– Volker Schütz, Chief Editor, Horizont, Germany;
– Cyrill Treptow, Partner, Information Architects Zürich, Switzerland.
The media convergence competition is being organised for the third time. All projects can be viewed on the IFRA website under www.ifra.com/xma and offer the possibility to learn from successful projects in other countries and to adapt good ideas. This years winning projects will be presented at IFRA Expo 2008 in Amsterdam in a special exhibition from 27 to 30 October (www.ifraexpo.com).
IFRA XMA Cross Media Awards 2008 are sponsored by Adobe and Protec and supported by Atex, Funkinform and Nstein. The official publication is IFRA Magazine, media partner is Horizont.