Young creatives in India looking to break into the industry or find a new job can now get tickets for The One Club for Creativity’s global Portfolio Night 2024, hosted once again in person and virtually by BBDO India, DDB Mudra Group, and TBWA\India. This is close on the heels of Portfolio Evening hosted by Miami Ad School last week.
Established in 2003, Portfolio Night 2024 will be held virtually on October 10, followed by an in-person version in Mumbai on October 11.
Notes a commuPortfolio Night has also become a crucial tool for agencies in recruiting top young talent, providing a platform for recognition from local industry peers, and giving agencies a place on the global stage as the ad world tunes in to this one-of-a-kind event.
Three Omnicom agencies – BBDO India, DDB Mundra Group and TBWA\India – will be co-hosts for The One Club for Creativity’s global in-person Portfolio Night 2022 in Mumbai on June 2. In addition, the agencies will co-host an online Pan-India Portfolio Night on June 1 for those outside of Mumbai.
Established in 2003, Portfolio Night has long been recognised as the world’s largest advertising portfolio review programme. This fast-paced evening of advice, networking and recruitment takes place in cities around the world on the same date to help the next generation of creative talent entering the industry.
Said Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club for Creativity: “Portfolio Night is a unique global event that serves as a high-visibility opportunity for agencies and creative directors to give back to the industry by guiding the earliest steps of future copywriters, art directors and technologists. We are very grateful to BBDO India, DDB Mundra Group and TBWA\India for working together to make this important global event possible in person in Mumbai and virtually for all of India.”
Given the uncertainty around the spread of COVID-19 in the United States, The One Club for Creativity announced all in-person Creative Week events will move online for 2020. The events were scheduled to take place in a number of New York venues from May 11-15.
The nonprofit organisation will replace the in-person One Show, ADC 99th Annual Awards and Young Ones Student Awards ceremonies with streaming events to announce Pencil and Cube winners to the global creative community. Online versions of awards ceremonies and other related content are being discussed, with details to follow in the coming weeks.
The changes to Creative Week will apply only to the 2020 edition, with all events and awards show ceremonies returning in 2021.
Kevin Swanepoel
Said Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club: “With so much uncertainty at the moment, the prudent step is for us to extend our stance of not putting people at risk. We switched from in-person to online judging last week, and this change with Creative Week is driven by the same abundance of caution for the well-being of the creative community,” adding: “The mission of The One Club is to support the global creative community. Investing in premium streaming content offers an exciting opportunity for us to reimagine what Creative Week can be, connect with the agency and brand worlds at large and celebrate the year’s best work on a global scale.”
“Award shows are an important gauge of industry trends and who is doing the best work,” Swanepoel said. “However, they should never be put before people’s health and safety.”
The One Club for Creativity and The 3% Movement, the advertising industry voice for gender equality and diversity overall, announced the 10 winners of their joint Next Creative Leaders global awards programme for 2018 at this year’s 3% Conference in Chicago.
Among this year’s winners is Gayatri Sriram, digital creative head at FCBUlka in New Delhi. Developed collaboratively by the organisations in 2015, Next Creative Leaders identifies and celebrates talented creative women who are making their mark with both great work and a workplace perspective on diversity that helps change the industry for the better. While most of the 2018 honorees currently work in the US, the programme has a strong global element with three winners located outside the US and half of this year’s winners originally from other countries.
The winners for 2018 are:
Nedal Ahmed, copywriter, Droga5, New York, NY, USA
Lama Bawadi, copywriter, Leo Burnett, Beirut, Lebanon
Maddy Kramer, art director, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, NY, USA
Julie Matheny, associate creative director, Droga5, New York, NY, USA
Mietta McFarlane, copywriter, Droga5, New York, NY, USA (originally from Sydney, Australia)
Krystle Mullin, associate creative director, RPA, Santa Monica, CA, USA (originally from Toronto, ON, Canada)
Evelina Rönnung, art director, Forsman & Bodenfors, Stockholm, Sweden
Jessica Shriftman, art director, Wieden+Kennedy, New York, NY, USA
Gayatri Sriram, digital creative head, FCBUlka, New Delhi, India
Lizzie Wilson, associate creative director, McCann New York, NY, USA
Said Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club: “The One Club for Creativity has a long-standing commitment to providing programming that helps solve the industry’s diversity problem as opposed to just talking about it. We created our own Inclusion and Diversity Department nearly a decade ago, and are proud to support programs like Next Creative Leaders that identify, elevate and give voice to those who are making a real difference. They are the ones who are opening the door and inspiring the next generation of women who follow in their footsteps.â€
Whyness and The One Club for Creativity announced May 23, 2018 as the date for Portfolio Night 14 (http://www.portfolionight.com/14/) to be held at the Mumbai campus of ecoleintuit.lab
As always, Portfolio Night is a fast-paced evening of advice, networking and recruitment that takes place in maycities across the globe on the same date to help the next generation of creative talent entering the industry. The programme enables some of the best creative directors to meet and mentor the leaders of the future in industry hubs around the world. The programme also includes Portfolio Night All-Stars, where the young creative with the best portfolio from each city will be flown to New York later this year, all expenses paid, to work as a team on a creative assignment for a major global brand.
In Mumbai, Whyness will organise and lead Portfolio Night working closely alongside The One Club for Creativity’s Portfolio Night global team. Speaking about this collaboration, Ravi Deshpande, Founder and Chairman, Whyness and ecoleintuit.lab said: “The creative industry is right in the eye of a storm that’s changing the very definition of creativity, and the onus of spotting potential talent, and nurturing it is upon us. This needs to be done with care, as old rules are now redundant. This is something I believe in deeply, through our unique ecosystem of Whyness and ecoleintuit.lab as well as at a personal level. So the opportunity seemed like a natural extension to take Portfolio Night in Mumbai to its fullest potential.â€
“Portfolio Night is a unique global event that serves as a high-visibility opportunity for agencies and creative directors to give back to the industry by guiding the earliest steps of future copywriters, art directors and technologists,†said Kevin Swanepoel, Chief Executive Officer, The One Club.  “The benefits also run both ways: Portfolio Night has become a crucial tool for agencies in recruiting top young talent, provides agencies with recognition from local industry peers and gives them a place on the global stage as the ad world tunes in to this one-of-a-kind event.â€
Tickets for young creatives interested in attending Portfolio Night 14 will be available in April. For more information about Portfolio Night 14, please visit http://www.portfolionight.com/14/.
Kyoorius Group announced it has formed a partnership with The One Club for Creativity, a leading global non-profit organisation behind The One Show, ADC Annual Awards and other programming, to serve as the club’s official representative in India. It may be recalled that Kyoorius had tied up with D&AD, a relationship it phased out from last year.
Under the agreement, The One Club will also contribute to the composition of the jury for future editions of Kyoorius Creative Awards, as well as provide the club’s judging process and proprietary back-end voting technology platform.
In this new partnership, Kyoorius will work closely with agencies, media and the creative community in India to support and promote the club’s awards programmes including The One Show, ADC Annual Awards, Creative Week, Young Guns, Young Ones student awards, One Screen Short Film Festival, Creative Hall of Fame and others.
In addition to these awards and recognition initiatives, The One Club for Creativity also gives back to the creative community through nearly 20 programmes throughout the year representing its four pillars: Education, Inclusion & Diversity, Professional Development and Gender Equality. Programming includes Creative Boot Camps and Portfolio Nights for young creatives, Creative Leaders Retreats for senior creatives, Executive Creative Summits for agency founders/CCO/managing partners and more. Kyoorius will work with agencies throughout India to sponsor local versions of these and other One Club programming starting in 2018.
“India is a very important market for the global advertising industry, and for The One Club in particular,†said Kevin Swanepoel, CEO, The One Club for Creativity. “There is tremendous work coming from agencies here, and we look forward to working with the Kyoorius team to help recognize and promote the country’s creative community.â€
“Since 2006, Kyoorius has been at the forefront of connecting the creative community in India through programmes that inform, inspire and stimulate,†added Rajesh Kejriwal, founder and CEO, Kyoorius Group. “We are very excited to serve as the official representative of The One Club for Creativity in India because their recognition, education and professional development programmes are the perfect fit for our mission to support and promote creatives in India.â€
