{"id":127380,"date":"2020-01-07T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/?p=127380"},"modified":"2020-01-07T13:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T12:22:33","slug":"finalists-announced-for-the-creative-shootout-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/blog\/finalists-announced-for-the-creative-shootout-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Finalists announced for The Creative Shootout 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Eight agencies have made it through to the live final of <a href=\"https:\/\/creativeshootout.com\/\">The Creative Shootout<\/a> 2020 on Thursday 23 January, which will be held at Picturehouse Central.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The eight finalists were chosen by a high-profile judging panel after they had all submitted their 60-second content. The finalists will take to the stage to show off their creative clout for a cause that needs bold solutions: homelessness. This year The Creative Shootout\u2019s charity of the year is Crisis, who will provide the all-important brief on the day, which the agencies will use to create their 10-minute live pitch in the hopes of taking home the top prize.<\/p>\n<p>The eight PR and marketing agencies who have made the final cover a range of disciplines:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alpaca Communications<\/strong> \u2013 PR agency<\/li>\n<li><strong>Epoch Design<\/strong> \u2013 Design consultancy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fever<\/strong> \u2013 PR, social and influencer agency<\/li>\n<li><strong>FleishmanHillard Fishburn<\/strong> \u2013 Communications agency<\/li>\n<li><strong>Grayling<\/strong> \u2013 Integrated communications agency<\/li>\n<li><strong>Haygarth<\/strong> \u2013 Brand engagement agency<\/li>\n<li><strong>TracyLocke<\/strong> \u2013 Advertising agency<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wavemaker<\/strong> \u2013 Media agency<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To enter The Creative Shootout, these agencies had to submit a 60-second piece of content to demonstrate their creativity. \u00a0The entry format was open and not restricted to a specific type of content.<\/p>\n<p>Creative Shootout founder Johnny Pitt said: \u2018With entries ranging from ads to vinyl records, to films and bespoke board games, the entry creativity was jaw-dropping this year. The Shootout exists to showcase the extraordinary talent and thinking in our industry, whilst giving back &#8211; and year five looks set to be a blockbuster of a live final.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>At the live final, the finalists will draw straws to determine the running order with each agency having just 10 minutes to pitch their idea to the judges and a live audience of 350. The winning agency is crowned on stage and will get to work with Crisis to see their idea come to life, aided by a \u00a310,000 prize fund \u2013 as last year\u2019s winner Wire did with A Plastic Planet.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Downie, director of policy &amp; external affairs at Crisis said: \u2018Ending homelessness will require brave people and brave thinking. The Creative Shootout is about just that, and everyone at Crisis is looking forward to seeing what happens in January.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Vuelio is proud to sponsor The Creative Shootout for the third year in a row and we are looking forward to seeing the creative ideas from all the finalists.<\/p>\n<p>The 2020 judging panel includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Victoria Buchanan, executive creative director, Tribal Worldwide<\/li>\n<li>Kate Davies, head of brand, Guardian News and Media<\/li>\n<li>Matt Downie, MBE, director of policy and external affairs, Crisis<\/li>\n<li>Nils Leonard, founder, Uncommon Creative Studio<\/li>\n<li>Elspeth Lynn, executive creative director, Geometry<\/li>\n<li>Johnny Pitt, founder, The Creative Shootout<\/li>\n<li>Laurent Simon, chief creative officer, VMLY&amp;R<\/li>\n<li>Gary Wheeldon, co-founder, Talker Tailor Trouble Maker<\/li>\n<li>Ann Wixley, executive creative director, Wavemaker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Want to attend the live final?<\/strong> Get in touch <a href=\"https:\/\/creativeshootout.com\/tickets\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight agencies have made it through to the live final of The Creative Shootout 2020 on Thursday 23 January, which will be held at Picturehouse Central.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":127381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7365,7272,1109],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127380"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127383,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127380\/revisions\/127383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vuelio.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}