AKQA Announces 2009 Future Lions Winners

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - - Global Mega Brands Support MOFILM 'Make an Ad' Competition for the London Film Festival MOFILM, a pioneer of User Generated Content (UGC), has announced it is to be a Main Sponsor of The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival taking place from 14-29 October 2009. Following the success of the MOFILM Cannes Lions User Generated Content (UGC) competition with Spike Lee, MOFILM is launching its second online competition with some of the world's biggest brands including AT&T, Best Buy, Campbell's, Hewlett Packard, McDonald's, Nokia, PepsiCo (Pepsi Max) and Unilever (OMO).

June 28th, 2009 TOKYO - - UNIQLO decides to make and sell official T-shirts from 2010 onwards UNIQLO has been responsible for the creation and sale of official T-shirts for the 2009 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, one of the world's top three advertising fests. Ten short-listed designs have been made into commercial products.

June 23rd, 2009 NEW YORK - - "Kit Kat Mail" Campaign Takes Home Top International Advertising Honor JWT Tokyo has been awarded the Media Grand Prix at this year's Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, the world's premiere showcase for excellence in advertising. The prestigious honor recognizes JWT Tokyo for "Kit Kat Mail," a campaign developed for the Nestle Kit Kat brand.

June 22nd, 2009 NEW YORK and CANNES, France - Honey Bee Campaign Among the Industry's Most Honoured The Cannes Lions (www.canneslions.com) International Advertising Festival, the largest and highly respected global awards program, honoured Ketchum and the Häagen-Dazs brand with a Cannes PR Lions award for their Häagen-Dazs loves Honey Bees(R) (www.helpthehoneybees.com/) campaign in the Corporate Responsibility and Environmental Issues category. It was one of only 18 PR Lions given from a field of 431 international entries in the very first year that public relations was featured at the festival.

June 3rd, 2009 LONDON - PR Part of Cannes Lions for the First Time in its 55 Year History - Biz Stone, Co-founder of Twitter Will Lead Hill & Knowlton's Seminar in the First 'Official Cannes Lions Tweet-Up' tinyurl.com/HK-Cannes - Members of H&K Global Management Team to Judge Awards in the PR Lions Category - H&K are Sponsors of Mofilm User-generated Content Competition - Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, www.twitter.com will lead Hill & Knowlton's seminar in the first ever 'Official Cannes Lions Tweet-Up' at this year's festival. H&K is the only PR agency to secure a seminar slot during the week-long programme of events, and Biz Stone will lead the session taking place on Monday 22nd June at 4pm.

May 31st, 2009 LOS ANGELES - Since June 2008, aspiring singers, songwriters, filmmakers, comedians, and photographers joined together in the YOBI.tv community, all in the hopes of sharing their talent and winning the grand prize. The competition, which attracted thousands of entries from 36 countries, was divided into four categories: YOBIFilm; YOBISing; YOBILaugh; YOBIPics.

April 14th, 2009 ATHENS - TOTAL yoghurt and FAGE the biggest dairy industry in Greece, are delighted to announce the winners of the "Mamma Mia the Movie" competition: www.totalmammamia.com/ Last summer TOTAL yoghurt & Mamma Mia! the Movie invited you to take part in the exciting competition that took place across a selection of European countries including the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Denmark. To view the Multimedia News Release, please click: (www.prnewswire.com/mnr/fage/33584/) The competition was based around a "mystery" that participants had to solve.

April 8th, 2009 HAMBURG, Germany - Europe's Top Podcasts Receive Accolades - With Photo Choosing from ten participating countries across Europe and over 750 nominations, a panel of judges awarded the inaugural European Podcast Award (www.european-podcast-award.eu/.)to five winners from Germany, England and Spain. The award seeks to promote audio podcasters across Europe and encourage the continuation of first-rate achievement in the burgeoning field.

April 6th, 2009 GUILDFORD, England - The University of Surrey is proud to confer the honorary degree of Doctor of the University to Jonny Wilkinson for services to the sports industry. The award was made on Friday, 03 April at Guildford Cathedral.

March 30th, 2009 NEW YORK - Digital Agency Adds Senior Manager to Executive Team AKQA, the leading independent digital marketing agency, has announced that Jim Rossman will join AKQA as its President & Chief Operating Officer. Rossman is currently the Chief Operating officer at Digitas, the Publicis Groupe direct and digital marketing unit.

August 24th, 2009 National Geographic announces photography contestWASHINGTON — Are you proud of your vacation photos, nature pictures or other images from your travels? Consider entering the 2009 National Geographic International Photography Contest. There are three categories — people, places and nature — and you can enter a total of six photographs.

August 23rd, 2009 At least 200 sea lions found dead on Chilean coastSANTIAGO, Chile — At least 200 sea lions have been found dead along Chile's northern coast. Local television stations Channels 7 and 13 are showing images of the dead and dying mammals on the rocks and in the sea near Iquique.

August 18th, 2009 LONDON - Conservationists have warned that lions may become extinct in Kenya within the next 20 years unless urgent action is taken to save them. Kenya is annually losing an average of 100 of its 2,000 lions due to growing human settlements, increasing farming, climate change and disease, according to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).

May 2nd, 2009 Lions hire Jeremiah Washburn as assistant OL coachALLEN PARK, Mich. — The Detroit Lions have hired Jeremiah Washburn as assistant offensive line coach.

April 25th, 2009 QB Stafford picked first by LionsNEW YORK — Georgia quarterback Matthew Stafford has been selected first overall in the NFL draft by the Detroit Lions. The junior already has agreed to a six-year deal with $41.7 million in guarantees and a maximum value of $78 million, even though he is not expected to start as a rookie.

May 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell has adopted two lion cubs. The singer has adopted the pair of rare white lions, a boy and a girl, and has named them Rudi and Aphrodite.

May 1st, 2009 Lions make Sheldon White VP of pro personnelALLEN PARK, Mich. — Sheldon White has been promoted to vice president of pro personnel by the Detroit Lions.

April 25th, 2009 AP source: Lions and Stafford agree on 6-year dealDETROIT — Matthew Stafford and the Detroit Lions agreed on a six-year deal Friday night, a person familiar with talks told The Associated Press. The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because there hadn't been an announcement, said the Lions will pay Stafford $41.7 million in guarantees and as much as $78 million.

May 1st, 2009 Lions release Fisher, Henson, sign WR Demir BoldinALLEN PARK, Mich. — The Detroit Lions have released defensive back Travis Fisher and quarterback Drew Henson and signed wide receiver Demir Boldin.

March 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) is pleased to announce the four winners of its online video contest, "My Culture + Your Culture =?".