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Advertising Reporters’ Resources for Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Reporting on advertising at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver?

We have 3 resources to help.

1. Images of Olympics Advertising

A crowdsourced collection of advertising around Vancouver, Olympic venues and streets on Flickr:

Advertising at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games

600+ photos from 60+ members in 1 week.

2. Official Olympic Brands Reports

A series of blog posts highlighting advertising of official Olympics partners at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.

For example, the Royal Bank of Canada’s Olympics advertising.

All these posts get collected in our Olympics advertising category.

Roughly 2 new posts / day, each highlighting a specific brand’s Olympic ads.

3. The Oly Awards

Since we’re in Vancouver we decide to celebrate the ads of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. So we invented the Oly Awards (Announcement of The Olys.)

The Oly Awards have 2 parts:

Anyone can enter a photo of an advertisement associated with the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. (Both official & official brands.) Entries get rated for best photos and brands. (See entries) In the 2nd week of the Games we’ll create a shortlist of finalists based on the submissions and voting. A group of judges will select winners from the shortlists.

We’ll award 2 prizes of original artwork from ...