Effie Worldwide launches Effie Asia-Pacific

The APAC initiative will be in partnership with the Confederation of Asian Advertising Agencies Association (C4As)

BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | August 1, 2013

Effie Worldwide, as part of its global expansion, has announced the launch of the Effie Asia-Pacific programme, in partnership with the Confederation of Asian Advertising Agencies Association (C4As).  Effie Worldwide is known globally as a leading champion of marketing effectiveness. This was announced by Mary Lee Keane, President of Effie Worldwide.

Effie Worldwide's signature initiative, the Effie Awards, is recognised throughout the industry as the global standard of marketing effectiveness excellence. With the addition of the regional Asia-Pacific Effie programme, Effie Worldwide's international network now expands to 40 national programmes and four regional programmes.

"Given rate of changes in media, technology, consumer behaviour, and even business models, there's never been a more demanding or exciting time to be focused on delivering effectiveness in marketing," said Carl Johnson, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Effie Worldwide and Co-Founder of Anomaly. "The C4As is the ideal partner to make global marketers better and stronger through Effie APAC."

The Effie APAC programme, organised by the C4As and managed by Tenasia Group, will recognise effective work that has run in the Asia-Pacific region. The C4As is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the marketing communications industry and has experience collaborating with organisations in many different countries throughout the region, including North, South and Southeast Asia.

"The Effie Awards is the world's most established and recognised award competition for marketing effectiveness and we are certainly delighted to partner Effie Worldwide in organising the Asia-Pacific programme,” said Anthony Kang, Chair of C4As.

Effie Worldwide's long-term partners in the region include key programmes recognising the most effective work in many countries throughout the APAC region. A full list of Effie programmes worldwide can be seen at www.effie.org. A pilot APAC Effies was previously awarded in 2008 in partnership with Effie Singapore partner, IAS.

Finalists and winners in all Effie programmes in the Asia-Pacific region will be included in the Effie Effectiveness Index (http://www.effieindex.com), which identifies and ranks the marketing communication industry's most effective agencies, marketers and brands by analysing finalist and winner data from worldwide Effie competitions.

"Asia-Pacific is a key subject on every global marketer's mind, along with the ever-important subject of effectiveness," said Daryl Lee, Global Chief Executive Officer, UM and member of the Board of Directors, Effie Worldwide. "Effie is now more than ever, the global authority on marketing effectiveness."

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