This year's regional media trends conference SEMPL will award the Media
Manager of 2015 and the Future Media Star of 2015 for the first time. The
purpose of the TOP SEMPL Awards is to reward individuals who have significantly
contributed to the development and reputation of the media industry, and
highlight their media achievements.
Ljubljana, September 3, 2015 – The Sempler Award
Competition for the best media strategies of the year in the Adriatic region,
held during the media trends conference SEMPL in Portorož, Slovenia, expands
into three new categories this year (best
use of mobile, best use of dataand best new media/media format).
Thus, at this year's SEMPL (26th and 27th of November, 2015) the winners of
nine Golden Sempler Awards and the main Grand Sempler Award will be revealed.
This is not the only novelty in the competition
programme, presented by the SEMPL organizers. Besides the categories mentioned
above, the two new TOP SEMPL Awards for the Media Manager of the Year and the
Future Media Star of the Year are introduced. In its first year they will be
awarded only to Slovenian candidates, but in the future the SEMPL organizers
intend to expand it to other countries in the Adriatic region, too.
“From the beginning of the Sempler Award Competition
in 2002, the number of awards has not changed significantly; within this period
we have only revised the categories. But media and communications industry has
gone through major changes in the last decade, in line with technology,
innovation and consumer behaviour. Consequently, we have been seeing a growing
number of outstanding media projects, which deserve to be rewarded, as well as
a number of exceptional individuals who contribute immensely to development and
progress of the media industry. Thus, we decided to add three new competition
categories and for the first time grant two special awards, TOP SEMPL Awards,
the first one for the media manager of 2015 and the second one for the future
media star of 2015,” explains Valerija Prevolšek, president of SEMPL and CEO of
Media Pool, which organises SEMPL for the 17th year.
For
whom are the TOP SEMPL awards intended?
TheMedia Manager of the Year award seeks
to recognise the media owner or media manager (CEO) who has made significant
contribution and long lasting impact on the media industry in his/her country
of origin or abroad.
The Future Media Star of the Year award
seeks to recognise a young individual who has only started his career in the
media industry, but has already made a lasting and significant contribution to it,
whether with his/her year-to-year contribution or with a single, outstanding project. Applications
can be submitted by the candidates themselves or by the 3rd party. This
category is open to all staff at media departments, media agencies, research or
media or media houses, under the age of 32 on the 31st of October 2015.
The
winners of both awards are selected by the organizer and a special jury
consisting of eminent individuals from the media industry or business.
"I believe that both awards will become
traditional and further contribute to the attractiveness, credibility and reputation
of the Sempler Award Competitions as well as the SEMPL conference," adds
Valerija Prevolšek.
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More information on the Sempler Award Competition is
available here.
About the Media Trends Conference (SEMPL)
SEMPL is
an internationally recognised training event presenting the current media
trends in the Adriatic region, and analysing regional and international best
practices. The SEMPL is intended for all those working in, with or for the
media, as well as all those shaping media trends, adhering to them and
integrating them in business. The conference is also featuring the competition
for Sempler Awards for outstanding media projects, at which the media
strategists, customers and media houses submit their best projects and compete
for nine Golden Sempler Awards and the Grand Sempler awarded to the best media
strategy of the year.
About the organisers
Since
1998, SEMPL is designed and organised by one of the largest media buyers in
Slovenia, Media Pool, founded by major
Slovenian advertising agencies with the purpose of monitoring the media market
and ensuring operational transparency. Media Pool is constantly concerned with
the development of the profession: in addition to the SEMPL, Media Pool is
regularly performing the Radiometrija, a survey on radio channels ratings, the
Mediaskop, a comprehensive overview of the Slovenian media market, as well as
many smaller projects.
Since
2011, Media Pool organizes the SEMPL in partnership with Medijski partner,
publisher of the trade magazine Marketing magazin,
first issued in 1981.
More information:
Simona Kruhar Gaberšček
Public Relations Manager, SEMPL17
E-mail: pr@sempl.si
Mobile: 00386 41 86 77 77
Webpage: www.sempl.si
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