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04/11/2025

Lotus Awards is calling for entries and on the hunt for Five Fabulous new directors! For more, visit: AdFest.com

23/10/2025

🚀 Spikes Asia 2026 Awards are now open for submissions! This year introduces the brand-new Creative B2B Award, celebrating groundbreaking creativity and effectiveness in business marketing. The festival will also bring back a week of creativity, networking, and learning.

📅 Deadline: 29 January 2026

🔗 Read more: https://www.adjournal.org/post/spikes-asia-opens-for-2026-awards-submissions-with-the-launch-of-creative-b2b-award

Spikes Asia will also bring back a week celebrating creativity, networking and learning23 October 2025 - Spikes Asia, APAC’s most prestigious and sought-after award for creativity and marketing effectiveness, has today announced that the 2026 Awards are open for submissions. This year sees a serie...

07/10/2025

✨ Big news for Mongolia! ✨ On October 15, HBO Max officially launches in 14 new Asia-Pacific markets – including Mongolia. 🎉

From Harry Potter and House of the Dragon to The Last of Us, Superman, and the upcoming Minecraft Movie, HBO Max is your new home for the world’s most iconic stories. 🌍💫

👉 Don’t miss it: https://t.ly/Oylbo

08/08/2025

✨ From Singapore to Ulaanbaatar, from Mongolia’s first WPP-owned agency to the founder of WHYZE, Bilguun Munkhjargal has shaped campaigns that blend clarity, meaning, and soul.

🎯 In 2025, he represented Mongolia on the juries of Spikes Asia & Mad Stars, proving that our ideas can stand on the world stage. His mission? To connect Mongolian creativity with global opportunities.

💬 “The idea is still king. Even with AI disruption, the flame and soul of the idea are alive.”

📖 Read the full interview at: https://www.adjournal.org/post/bilguun-munkhjargal-creativity-is-clarity-meaning-and-soul

07/08/2025

✨ Meet Sabina Reingold, the force behind Jolbors Creative Communications Festival. What started in Kyrgyzstan is now Central Asia’s leading creative platform. This year, Jolbors opens its doors to the world, and Mongolia is invited. 🇲🇳✨

📍This year, Jolbors will be hosted in Tashkent.
🗓️ Festival: Sept 27–28 | Deadline: Sept 4

📚 Also launching: Jolbors Education, a new initiative to grow the next generation of world-class creatives.

🧠 “My wish? That in 5 years, the global industry will look to Central Asia not just for talent, but for leadership.”

🔗 Read the full interview via Adjournal Asia: https://www.adjournal.org/post/from-21-year-old-dreamer-to-regional-visionary-sabina-reingold-and-the-rise-of-jolbors-festival

28/07/2025

Tashkent Advertising Festival, Uzbekistan’s flagship creative event that’s becoming a powerful platform for the region’s marketing, media, and advertising talents.

Read more on Adjournal Asia (www.adjournal.org)

18/07/2025

As Asia’s creative influence rises on the global stage, MAD STARS 부산국제마케팅광고제 is redefining what creative excellence means. By championing local insight, inclusive storytelling, and purpose-driven innovation.

In this exclusive Creative Nomads interview, Hwanjin Choi shares the vision behind MAD STARS, the importance of cultural diversity in creativity, and why “True creativity begins with local insight.”

MAD STARS 2025 will be held from August 27–29 in Busan, South Korea.

Read the full interview:
https://www.adjournal.org/post/riseofasiasvoice-inside-madstars

In this Creative Nomads interview, we speak with Mr. Hwanjin Choi, Chairperson of MAD STARS, about how the festival is challenging traditional Western-centric norms, embracing AI and sustainable design, and creating new opportunities for emerging talents across Asia and beyond. From its mission to s...

18/07/2025

As Asia’s creative influence rises on the global stage, MAD STARS 부산국제마케팅광고제 is redefining what creative excellence means. By championing local insight, inclusive storytelling, and purpose-driven innovation.

In this exclusive Creative Nomads interview, Hwanjin Choi shares the vision behind MAD STARS, the importance of cultural diversity in creativity, and why “True creativity begins with local insight.”

MAD STARS 2025 will be held from August 27–29 in Busan, South Korea.

Read the full interview:
https://www.adjournal.org/post/riseofasiasvoice-inside-madstars

Rise of Asia’s Voice: Inside MAD STARS with Chairperson Hwanjin Choi

08/07/2025

Kazakhstan’s most awarded agency, GForce Grey, has been rewriting creative history. In 2024, they won Kazakhstan’s first-ever Gold Lion from Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, followed by a Silver and Bronze Lion in 2025 — putting the country on the global creative map.

series, we spoke with Eugene Gavrilchenko, Creative Director of GForce Grey, about what it really takes to break through on the world stage. Evgeny shares raw lessons on creative risks, cultural storytelling, and why the journey matters more than the trophy.

Read the full interview: https://www.adjournal.org/post/beyond-the-lion

08/07/2025

Kazakhstan’s most awarded agency, Grey, has been rewriting creative history. In 2024, they won Kazakhstan’s first-ever Gold Lion from Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, followed by a Silver and Bronze Lion in 2025 — putting the country on the global creative map.

series, we spoke with Eugene Gavrilchenko, Creative Director of GForce Grey, about what it really takes to break through on the world stage. Evgeny shares raw lessons on creative risks, cultural storytelling, and why the journey matters more than the trophy.

In this exclusive Creative Nomads interview with Adjournal Asia, Creative Director Evgeny Gavrilchenko opens up about the creative risks, personal reflections, his favorite campaigns from Asia and beyond, and the bold storytelling that put Central Asia’s creative voice on the global stage.Kazakhst...

19/06/2025

Илүү тодруулбал, бүтээлч салбар үргэлж хурдтай хувьсан өөрчлөгдөж байдаг тул цаг үетэйгээ хөл нийлүүлэн алхах шаардлагатай. Тиймээс бидний ажил өдөр бүр өөр байдаг. Энэ бол манай салбарт ажиллаж буй олон мянган залуусын өөрсдийн ажилдаа дурлах хамгийн том шалтгаан болов уу.

Өөр нэгэн бэрхшээлтэй тал бол Монгол Улсад бүтээлч салбар хэт хямд үнэлгээтэй. Заримдаа харилцагч бага зардлаар, нэг хүний цалингаар бүхэл бүтэн баг авч ажиллуулж, уран бүтээл хийлгэх сонирхолтой байдаг. Ингэснээр тухайн баг богино хугацааны үр дүнд төвлөрч, чанаргүй бүтээл, төсөл хийх гол шалтгаан болж байна.

Цаашид манай салбарын талентууд, компаниуд өндөр үнэлгээтэй төсөл авч, олон улсын хэмжээнд бүтээл гаргахын тулд төр, хувийн хэвшлийн хамтын ажиллагаа чухал болохыг энэ ташрамд онцлох нь зүйтэй болов уу.

Энэ удаагийн зочин бол KMG Creative Group-ийн Гүйцэтгэх захирал Т.Энхбаясгалан. Түүний хувьд...