Foote joins advertising awards council

Chief exective officer of Advertising and Marketing, Arnold J. Foote, has been admitted to the Silver Council of the New York-based body, Telly Awards.

Now in its 33rd year, the Telly Awards is the advertising industry’s answer to Hollywood’s academy awards and honours the very best film and video productions, groundbreaking online video content, and outstanding local, regional and cable television commercials and programmes across the globe.

The council comprises select professionals who have won a Silver Telly in the past.

In 2011 and 2012, Foote’s creative and technical work at Advertising and Marketing resulted in the firm winning 30 Telly Awards for television promotions, including four for its J. Wray and Nephew white overproof rum commercials.

As a council member, Foote will now be eligible to become a judge for the awards.

Foote, the incumbent president of the Advertising Agencies Association of Jamaica, has written, produced, directed and edited more than 95 per cent off Advertising and Marketing’s commercial productions over the past 25 years.

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