Young Team

Now in its ninth year, Young Team of the Year hosted by The Newspaper Society seeks to find the best two junior creative teams in the UK. The free one day competition takes place annually at the London Art House in Islington.

This year, Young Team of the Year took place on Friday 8 April. Twenty-two teams were given a Mars brief by the London creative Agency AMV BBDO and had the day to come up with a campaign. Each team got to present their ideas to a panel of high profile Creative Director Judges, chaired by Stefan Jones, Managing Director of Big Al’s.

During the contest the teams filmed a viral explaining their strategies and ideas on the brief. Once the winners of Young Team of the Year were announced, the teams were then entered into The People’s Choice. The wider advertising community had the chance to view the presentations online from each of the participating teams and vote for their favourite pitch.

Julia Earthrowl and Poulami Chakraborty from Muirhoward were the winners of Young Team of the Year and went on to compete in the European final – Best YET (Best Young European Team) in Croatia. Not only were they crowned the best young team in Europe; they also won an all expenses paid jolly to the Cannes Lions Festival!