The Creative Shootout has this week announced the finalists set to take part in its live final on Thursday 26 January at Picturehouse Central in London.

Now its sixth year, the award offers agencies a brand new client alongside a £10,000 prize and £50,000 media spend with The Guardian newspaper.

The following agencies have been selected to take part in the live event following an initial entry stage: Bottle, Grayling, Lewis, Mischief, Raw, Red, Frank, Stand and Stir.

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With only four hours to work on a brief given to them by the Creative Shootout’s selected client, food poverty charity FoodCycle, the nine teams of four will only have an 8-minute slot in which to convince both the audience and the judges that their campaign idea is the best.

“The creativity and personalisation of the entries this year was special, and perhaps more so given the year that 2022 has been,” Creative Shootout founder, Johnny Pitt said.

“The Creative Shootout exists to showcase the extraordinary talent and thinking in our industry, while giving back each year to a cause that really matters. The Live Final Show looks set to be a blockbuster.”