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20th Golden Drum: Save the Dates
Get ready to enter your creative works and solutions in the Golden Drum Competition that attracts the best creative agencies, advertisers, clients, design, digital and production houses from 37 countries of New Europe.
More20th Golden Drum: 9-11 October 2013
Get ready to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Golden Drum International Advertising Festival:
9-11 October 2013
Grand Hotel Bernardin, Portorož - Piran, Slovenia
The Online registration system will open in June/July 2013!
19th Golden Drum report 2012
The Golden Drum report 2012 has just been published! This year 333 entrants from 26 countries registered 1438 entries in the 19th Golden Drum Festival competition.
MoreMay the Drum Be With You!
After 4 days of interesting lectures, New Agenda Sessions, Creative Academies and Creative Labs, crazy parties and good vibrations, 19th Golden Drum has ended. We want to thank each and every Drummer for coming and making it so special! For photos please visit our Photo Gallery..
MoreAnd the first winners are...
Atmosphere at the Golden Drum Festival today was vibrant with Drummers checking this year's Multi channel shortlists, listening to interesting Creative academies by Independent agencies, TBWA, Grey Group and attending workshops and screenings. During Happy Hours Drummers enjoyed the pleasant mingling on the terrace and tried not to miss the meeting with president and members of Single channel jury. Of course many pictures in our photo gallery prove what a great time they had.
MoreSecond day!
On the second day of the Golden Drum Festival the stage hosted the first New Agenda Session, Creative Academies by DDB, Y&R and Wieden+Kennedy and other interesting lecturers, speakers and creative professionals. The first Single Channel shortlisted entries in groups A-N and in group Q are announced in our Showcase and tomorrow morning, finalists in groups R-W will be revealed.
More19th Golden Drum Festival has started!
Today the 19th Golden Drum has started drumming, inviting more than 50 interesting speakers from creative industry and beyond to share their ideas with Drummers who came to the beautiful Slovenian seaside town Portorož. After the initial screenings of Golden Drum 2012 Entries and live presentations of group Q finalists competing for Golden Watch Award, Lenja Faraguna Papp, International consultant/speaker/coach, Radio Advertising Bureau Slovenia and Adrian Botan, VP Creative Excellence for McCann Erickson CEE, Creative Partner of Bucharest office, Romania took the stage, along with five top class speakers at the The Great Ads Seminar.
Last boarding call
Dear Drummers! We hope you have all your bags already packed and that you are as anxious as the next Drummer to finally meet old friends and make new ones in Portorož, Slovenia next Tuesday, when the 19th Golden Drum Festival starts. For a full program please check the Program Schedule to mark down which panels, lectures, workshops and parties you just can’t afford to miss.
And to get you in a party mood, here is a line-up of parties which await you in Portorož...
One week left...
Only one week separates us from time when 19th Golden Drum will come to Portorož town. Adrian Botan, VP Creative Excellence for McCann Erickson CEE, Creative Partner of Bucharest office, Romania will address you his opening speech: InGenius Loci, while Christophe Stoll, Co-founder, precious, Germany will invite you to the second New Agenda Session: 2nd screen: Living in a multiscreen world.
MoreTalk about New Media...
Today we invite you to learn about two Creative Academies and one Media Lab at this year's Golden Drum where it will all be about new media, transparency, innovation and credibility. Leo Burnett, Ogilvy and Ipsos Adria will take the stage to share valuable insights on these subjects...
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