‘Team YouTube’ winners JWT’s Dobbie and Crispin Porter’s Wolak to compete at Cannes

Tim Burrowes

June 2, 2010 8:15

The Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival and YouTube have awarded JWT Manchester’s Andrew Dobbie and Crispin Porter + Bogusky Colorado’s Rachel Wolak as the winners of the viral ad competition to promote WaterAid.

The duo will compete as ‘Team YouTube’ at this year’s Young Lions Film competition in Cannes.

WaterAid, which works to bring safe water and sanitation to the world’s poorest communities, is the 2010 competition’s charity partner.

It unveiled a brief on May 14 for young creatives across the world to create a short ad of up to one minute and upload it onto YouTube to promote its “Don’t Let it Drop” campaign.

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.