Campaign “Taxi Drama” agency McCann Beograd won a Gold Award at the Golden Drum Festival, held in the Slovenian town of Portoroz. In addition to these awards, agency network McCann for Central and Eastern Europe, which McCann Beograd is part of, for the second year in a row was named the Best Agency network in this part of Europe.
“After McCann Belgrade was declared the Most successful agency in the region this year, this award for the Agency network confirms the quality of the work of all McCann agencies that operate within of McCann CEE. I’m proud that McCann Beograd and McCann Tirana contributed to this success by winning awards at Golden Drum Festival. Our vision is to be the preferred communications partner in the region and, aside from the best services, to be agency whose campaign are recognize by creativity.” said Srdjan Saper founder of I&F McCann Grupa.
The “Taxi drama“ campaign, which McCann Beograd implemented for Yugoslav Drama Theatre (JDP) won the Golden Drum award in the category of Film (TV, cinema and online) and the Silver Drum in the Direct campaign category, but also reached the finals of the PR category. In addition to the award for the “Taxi Drama” McCann Beograd with innovative and fun outdoor ad “Pillar Workout” entered the finals in the category Outdoor. McCann Tirana, which also operates as part of I&F McCann Grupa, is the first Albanian agency that won an award at this festival, winning the Silver Drum in the Events category for their „Respect the living, too“ campaign, created to raise awareness for road safety.
“We are proud of the success of the campaign „Taxi Drama“. Storytelling is the backbone of what we do in our daily work, and when we succeed to touch audiences and awaken emotions, then it is a complete success. At the present time we have two extremes: on the one hand budget constraints and a market dynamism and uncertainty, and on the other side are the innumerable opportunities through the creative use of media and new technologies. Together they make a good time and the climate for creativity. “ said Olivera Perkovic, Managing Director of the agency McCann Beograd.
The Golden Drum festival in Portorož is one of the most important festivals in the region which traditionally attracts some of the best global agencies. This year marks its 21st anniversary; it’s organized by the Slovenian chamber of advertising. 30 agency networks and 291 agencies from 24 countries participate in the festival, collectively they entered a total of 1220 works.
You can watch the three winning “Drama in the Taxi” videos on the following links:
Taxi Drama – Tenser than Shakespeare:
Drama u taksiju – Dostojevski na beogradskim ulicama:
Drama u taksiju – Venecijanska osveta na srpski način:
Pobedničku kampanju „Poštujmo i žive“ možete pogledati na linku:
