Comments on: Dubai Lynx launches investigation into FP7 Doha’s winning work

By: anubis

anubis — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:35:28 +0000

To be continued…

By: jay

jay — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:49:23 +0000

sorry, forgot to add. You dont need stolen ads to inspire you. You can look at international showreels and see originals to inspire you. There is something called honesty.Does it even exist in advertising, and in this region? fp7 did not push anything,other than their own bank balance. if it exists in the region and culture, it will manifest itself. If not, then do not claim creativity that is non existent in the region.

By: jay

jay — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:45:25 +0000

i swear, only in advertising you will see people with such low morals. Are you guys for real? Do you work only for awards, and give back your salary to your company? You work for money, hope for awards, and if your work is good, some day you will get it. And this scandal is not going to ruin anyone other than those involved. Idiots like the ones thinking this will ruin them are exactly the people who did this. Cmon, this is advertising, it is prostituted art. if you really want to be creative, go do real art, not commercial art. Of course, for that you need to know how. And you wont get your salary.

By: Journalist and advertising copywriter in Abu Dhabi, near Dubai, UAE

Journalist and advertising copywriter in Abu Dhabi, near Dubai, UAE — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:40:33 +0000

[...] 1. Campaign ME blogs about the investigation [...]

By: LeeMoh

LeeMoh — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:18:00 +0000

I admit I feel very jealous that an agency in a dead end called Qatar achieves all this while my agency in Dubai ignores Lynx as if it’s irrelevant to its business.

But I don’t wish FP7 gets punished because I believe they did marvelous jobs. I don’t care if it’s ghost or not and I don’t think we can do something as claver even if it is ghost.

Wake up people. If we want Lynx to investigate every single entry then we are going to crush in a surprising amount of dirty laundry. And this will not pleasurable to anyone.

By: Moey

Moey — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:40:33 +0000

Nasty.

By: Some serious soul searching is required « Campaign Magazine Middle East

Some serious soul searching is required « Campaign Magazine Middle East — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:30:35 +0000

[...] is genuine cause for concern surrounding some of the winners at this year’s Lynx and an investigation is fully justified, but there are aspects of the fallout that remind me of the worst traits of the [...]

By: dubailynx rise

dubailynx rise — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:02:27 +0000

Media people (campaign, communicate, mediaweekme, tom roy) why don’t you ask Mr. Steve Lane what he is doing about the others now!!!!

way to go Jhon Doh or shall i say Jhon Dubai now!!! now you ruined everyone else in advertising. but are you aware that you are ruining everyone and the whole industry EVEN YOUR OWN AGENCY NOW. but at the end that what it is, as i said before it is not FP7 only but because they are on the top, we all wanted to hunt them down. or shall i say drag them down?

but what does lynx have to say about this now. what about the other agencies or they just wanted to Crucify FP7 Doha to save the water of their face and think people would be satisfied when justice prevail and we hunt down FP7 Doha. they are mistaken if this is the message they want to deliver to the region, what has been applied on FP7 has to be applied to everyone now. same exact measures. then we would sit silent. we are good boys!

By: Samsung ‘Jesus’ ads removed from Lynx website « Campaign Magazine Middle East

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:10:45 +0000

[...] Doha’s Samsung work is currently under investigation by the Dubai Lynx, as is its work for clients Higeen Mouthwash and Nissan. FP7 is also undertaking [...]

By: Fernando

Fernando — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:00:23 +0000

The reason for so much anger and frustration:

Let’s say about 80 agencies enter Lynx, so that’s 80 creative directors and their teams competing against each other.

But

79 creative directors do the following:
They work with their clients, they fight with their clients, they compromise with their clients, They try to raise the standard of advertising in this region. Out of frustration and to keep their teams inspired, they do some proactive work.

1 creative director does the following:
He doesn’t work with clients, he’s obsessed with awards. All his work is proactive and he does a mountain of this stuff.

So, 79 creative directors are trying to improve the standard of creativity in the region and win awards while one is just trying to win awards.

The reality of any award show is that while the majority of entries are real there will always be some brilliant proactive work. That’s okay because everyone does it and for good reason. But, when one creative director enters over 200 proactive ads and wins agency of the year. It’s not okay and for good reason.