The shortlists for Spikes Asia 2014 have begun to emerge. India has triumphed in Outdoor with fifteen of just fifty entries in shortlist.

McCann Worldgroup Mumbai has done particularly well, with eight shortlist positions for Premier kitchen tissue roll and another three for Big Babol bubble gum. Grey Worldwide Mumbai has four shortlists for Duracell batteries and JWT India has three for Godrej security solutions.

Only two Australian entries were selected. Both are by Arnold Furnace Sydney for Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey for Forman-Brown.

The 379 shortlisted entries in Print were more evenly spread across the Asian Pacific countries. India achieved an admirable 48 shortlist positions nonetheless.

Australia has twelve:

Whybin\TBWA Melbourne has three for Nissan GT-R

DDB Sydney has three for Volkswagen Genuine Accessories

Leo Burnett Sydney has three for Samsung S-Bend.

Ogilvy Melbourne has one for the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

Meerkats Perth has one Lottery West/RSL

Filmgraphics Entertainment has one for its own ad featuring David Denneen