Singapore biggest Asian winner at YoungGuns

Singapore - The 7^th Annual YoungGuns Advertising Awards 2007 saw Singapore as the biggest overall Asian winner with a total of five Bullets awarded, followed closely by Japan.

Only four Asian countries won at the Awards but Singapore outperformed Japan, India and Thailand. Ogilvy Singapore won a Bronze for the FHM campaign 'Bikini, Lingerie, Kinky' for Art Direction, as well as under the consumer magazine campaigns category. Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore won a Bronze for Thai SPCA's 'Couch, Walkies, Sticks' also under the same category.

The fourth Bullet was taken by BBH Asia Pacific in Singapore which won a Bronze for Unilever's ‘Axe Vice Virtual Stalker'. Lastly, Publicis/Fallon achieved a Bronze for ‘Nike Stadium' under the content and engagement category.

Singapore, Japan and Thailand made it to the top 20 of the Young Creatives Ranking with Dentsu's Takeshi Tsunoda in 8^th place and Ogilvy Singapore's Adrian Chan in 18^th. YGAward 2007 Agency of the Year Award had Dentsu winning 3^rd position and Leo Burnett Bangkok winning 4^th. Ogilvy Singapore was in 14^th place.

Under the YGAward & Kinetic Singapore 2007 Creative Brief category, the winners of the globalcurrent.org creative brief were Kiran Bhanushali and Sandip Vane from Mudra Communications, India.