White Square, one of the largest international creativity festivals in Europe, which contests cover the entire spectrum of the communications, marketing, branding and creative industries, announced the winners of the festival 2023.
White Square, promoting creativity, highly values fresh ideas and people in the advertising and creative industry, shares the principles of socially responsible marketing, peacefulness and defends universal human values.
This year 759 entries from the representatives of communication, marketing, advertising, branding, digital and PR agencies of 35 countries all over the world took part in the contest program of the festival. As in previous years, the largest number of entries were in Creative Contest.
The high level of judging, professional competence and impartiality in the evaluation of entries are one of the strengths of White Square Festival. The entries of the festival were evaluated by 4 line-ups of international jury represented by experts from more than 40 countries with worldwide recognition in the advertising industry, numerous awards and experience in judging prestigious creativity festivals around the world. The evaluation of entries was held in two stages. In the first the jurors determined the festival longlist, and in the second – formed the shortlists and selected the winners of the festival and nominated entries for the festival's Grand Prix.
The Grand Prix of the festival was determined by Grand Jury, which included the chairmen of the four major line-ups:
Chairman of Creative & Branding Jury, Michelangelo Cianciosi, Founder and CEO, The Bunch, Italy
Chairman of Marketing & Digital Jury, Kestrel Lee, Creative Lead / ECD, Integrated Solutions, Dentsu China
Chairman of Craft Jury, Alex Teodorescu, Executive Producer, Saga Film, Romania
Chairman of Mass Media Jury, Krassimir Papazov, Editor-in-chief of RedLink, Bulgaria.
The international jury appreciated the overall level of the festival entries and noted the strong competition this year.
Jury members and the organizing committee of White Square 2023 express their gratitude to all the participants and congratulate the winners, which were highly evaluated at the festival, and hope these ideas will contribute to the development of the creative industry, will bring inspiration and help to change the world for the better.
