OVERVIEW 2009
New Dates Announced – the Festival of Media will be taking place from 18-20 April 2010 in Valencia, Spain.
This year’s Festival of Media bought together almost 600 attendees from around the globe to examine issues at the forefront of the media and communications industry. The Festival, running from Sunday 19th April – Wednesday 22nd April, provided delegates with access to insights from top level speakers covering the theme ‘An Industry in Transition’. From creativity to recession strategies and from innovation to thoughts of the world’s media network CEOs – the 2009 agenda covered a whole array of topical and current issues facing the industry today. The delegation was made up of the world’s advertisers, media agency networks, content developers and media owners from 36 countries.
2009 also saw the launch of the inaugural Festival of Media Awards (FMAs), a global awards programme for the media industry designed to reflect the radical changes taking place in the communications business. 29 categories were available to enter with a further 6 at the discretion of the judges and over 650 entries were submitted in total. The winners and highly commended entries were chosen by the judges at the Festival of Media and announced at the Awards Gala Dinner on 21st April. Click here to see the winners
Browse this site for an overview of the Festival of Media 2009.
History
The Festival of Media was launched in 2007 in Venice, as the world’s first global festival of media creativity. In its first year, it attracted over 450 of the international media advertising community’s most senior directors and was welcomed as an important new addition to the media business calendar. The second Festival in 2008 doubled in size – with over 850 delegates attending – and established the event as a must attend occasion.
