LOLA MullenLowe Sweeps El Ojo Festival

LOLA MullenLowe, the creative hub agency of the MullenLowe Group in Spain, has had a record breaking year at El Ojo de Iberoamerica Festival that wrapped up in Buenos Aires on November 4th. El Ojo (The Eye) is the leading advertising festival for the Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets and has been for 18 years.

Francisco “Pancho” Cassis, Executive Creative Director of LOLA MullenLowe in Madrid, was named Best Creative Director in Spain while the agency won Best overall in Spain. In addition, Líbero Magazine was named Best Marketer in Spain after taking home a Grand Prix, three gold, four silver and six bronze statues with LOLA MullenLowe.

The 43 awards won at this year´s festival for LOLA MullenLowe, included work from nine different clients that include Magnum, Cornetto, and Scrabble, and twelve different campaigns, making it an unprecedented success for the agency and clients.

MullenLowe SSP3 Colombia also took home five awards including one gold for their “Chocó to Dance” campaign which aims to raise funds for advanced education in exchange for dance lessons from the people from one of Colombia's poorest regions. Ponce MullenLowe Argentina won two bronze and two silver for Unilever's Axe and Argentina Telecom while Brazil won silver in design for Tres Corações. Ginkgo MullenLowe Uruguay and LOLA MullenLowe also collaborated on a campaign for Pilsen Soul that took home silver.

Franciso Samper, President of MullenLowe Group Latin America says, "Once again LOLA MullenLowe has exceeded all expectations with their marvelous performance at El Ojo. As Jury President in three of the festival´s categories, I had the opportunity to review all the gold winning work from the show. Beyond the numerical calculations of the Festival, I don´t think I´m wrong in saying that no other agency won such a large amount of awards with such diverse and spectacular work. 43 awards and 12 shortlists! I am extremely proud to be part of a network with an agency like LOLA that is always raising the bar in world-class creativity. All of us in the MullenLowe Group should watch and learn from them.”

Have a look our Grand Prix and Gold winners:

Líbero Magazine – Football Memories FM

Chocó to Dance – JPGC Foundation

Magnum Double – Be True To You Pleasure

Cornetto – Commitment Rings

Nomad – Road to Tokyo

To see all the full winners list click here