Mark Cuban, Entrepreneur and Chairman of HDNet to Accept Honorary CLIO Award Live at the 50th Anniversary Festival and CLIO Announces Complete Jury for Emerging Media Awards

Mark Cuban, Entrepreneur and Chairman of HDNet to Accept Honorary CLIO Award Live at the 50th Anniversary Festival and CLIO Announces Complete Jury for Emerging Media Awards

- Submission deadline for entries is Friday, March 13 -

NEW YORK, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The CLIO Awards, one of the world's most prestigious international advertising and design competitions honoring creative excellence and innovation in the industry, today announced that Mark Cuban, chairman of HDNet will accept an Honorary CLIO Award at the 50th Anniversary CLIO Awards at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, May 12 - 14.

Mark Cuban, chairman and co-founder of HDNet, investor, internet entrepreneur, and owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, will accept his Honorary CLIO Award during the Emerging Media Awards on Wednesday, May 13th. Cuban is being recognized as a digital media thought leader who helped pave the way for the industry by launching and investing in many successful online ventures and cutting-edge technologies. He will be joining Barry Manilow and Matthew Weiner, creator and executive producer of AMC's MAD MEN, who are also receiving honorary awards for their distinguished contributions to the advertising industry (previously announced).

Cuban is the chairman of HDNet, which he co-founded in 2001, a general interest television channel in the United States and Canada broadcasting exclusively in high-definition format and available via cable and satellite television. In 1995 Cuban co-founded Broadcast.com, the leading provider of multimedia and streaming on the Internet and sold it to Yahoo! in 1999.

"2009 is truly an exciting year for the CLIO Awards. In addition to celebrating five decades of creative excellence in the advertising industry -- this year, for our milestone 50th Anniversary, we're honoring industry pioneers who have, and continue to shape the landscape with their ground-breaking ideas," said Karl Vontz, director of events. "This is why we are thrilled to recognize Mark Cuban during the Emerging Media Awards with an Honorary CLIO, for his undeniable dedication to and passion for the medium."

CLIO Emerging Media Juries

The CLIO juries are comprised of creative individuals from around the world who demonstrate a strategic and profound understanding of the rapidly evolving industry. The Emerging Media Awards will recognize Content & Contact, Innovative Media, Interactive, and Integrated mediums.

   The 2009 CLIO Awards Interactive Jury is as follows:   --  Nick Law (Executive Chairman), Chief Creative Officer, North America,       R/GA, New York   --  Jeff Benjamin, Interactive Executive Creative Director, Crispin Porter       + Bogusky, Boulder/Miami   --  Jorge Calleja, Creative Director, W+K Amsterdam   --  Javier Cami, Chief Executive Officer, e-volution, Buenos Aires   --  Pete Case, Creative Director, gloo, Cape Town   --  Mike Geiger, Chief Digital Officer, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, San       Francisco   --  Timm Hanebeck, Creative Director, Jung von Matt/Alster, Hamburg   --  Rei Inamoto, Co-Chief Creative Officer, AKQA, San Francisco   --  Jean Lin, Global Chief Strategy Officer/Founder of WWWins, Beijing   --  Benjamin Palmer, Co-Founder and CEO, The Barbarian Group, New York   --  Fernanda Romano, Creative Director, JWT London   --  Andy Sandoz, Creative Partner, Work Club, London   --  Geoff Teehan, Partner, Teehan + Lax, Toronto    The 2009 CLIO Awards Content & Contact Jury is as follows:   --  Rob Reilly (Executive Chairman), Partner & Co-Executive Creative       Director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Boulder/Miami   --  Mark D'Arcy, Chief Creative Officer, Time Warner, New York   --  Stuart Outhwaite, Creative, Mother, London   --  Ted Royer, Executive Creative Director, Droga5, New York   --  Satoshi Takamatsu, Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Ground, Tokyo    The 2009 CLIO Awards Print/Innovative/Integrated Jury is as follows:   --  Marcello Serpa (Executive Chairman), Partner & General Creative       Director, AlmapBBDO, Sao Paulo   --  Yuri Alvarado, Executive Vice President/Chief Creative Officer,       Draftfcb Mexico, Mexico City   --  Jay Benjamin, Executive Creative Director, Leo Burnett Sydney   --  Katrien Bottez, Creative Director, Duval Guillaume Brussels   --  Israel Diaz, Senior Vice President & Creative Director/Managing       Partner, Leo Burnett Canada, Toronto   --  Hwa Ean Huang, Deputy Chairman & Executive Creative Director, McCann       Worldgroup Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur   --  Ivan Johnson, Executive Creative Director, Network BBDO, Cape Town   --  Delle Krause, Creative Chairman, Ogilvy Frankfurt   --  Jacob Nelson, Creative Director, Forsman & Bodenfors, Stockholm   --  Tian It Ng, Executive Creative Director, Lowe China, Shanghai   --  Victor Ng, Executive Creative Director, Euro RSCG Singapore   --  Grant Parker, Head of Art, DDB London   --  Matt Reinhard, Executive Creative Director, DDB West, Los Angeles   --  Mariano Serkin, General Creative Director, Del Campo Nazca Saatchi &       Saatchi, Buenos Aires   --  Erik Vervroegen, Creative Director, Paris, France   

The final entry submission deadline for all advertising, design and interactive work appearing between January 1, 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 is Friday, March 13. The final entry submission deadline for the Strategic Communications/Public Relations category for all work appearing between January 1, 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 is Friday, April 10.

For more information about the 50th Anniversary CLIO Awards or to register online for the festival, please visit www.clioawards.com.

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The CLIO Awards is one of the world's most recognized awards competition for advertising, design and interactive. Celebrating its 50th Anniversary in 2009, the CLIO Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the CLIO Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. To this day, CLIO's iconic statute is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry's creative accomplishments. The CLIO Awards are produced by Nielsen Business Media, a part of The Nielsen Company, a global information and media company.

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