AWARD awards postponed to create Australian festival of advertising

Tim Burrowes

April 15, 2010 3:50

In a move that will see no AWARD awards take place during 2010, The Communications Council is to launch a festival of advertising creativity which will also take in the APG Battle of Big Thinking and the new Director of the Year along with other new events.

The festival will take place early next year.

Anthony Freedman, chairman of the Communications Council said: “Through the bundling of our already successful events, combined with the introduction of new ideas, the festival will aim to appeal to a wider audience in Australia and the broader Asia Pacific Region.”

And AWARD chairman Richard Maddocks said: “Creativity and the power of great ideas is the engine room of our industry and it has always been our objective to grow the importance of the award night within the communications industry.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.