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Mobius Awards
Mobius Awards is one of the world’s oldest independent international advertising competitions. It was established in 1971 in Chicago by J.W. Anderson. It has been under the leadership of Lee Gluckman Jr., a native Chicagoan, since 2001. The competition’s headquarters are now in Redondo Beach (Los Angeles area), California.

According to its official media releases, each year, the competition recognizes outstanding work in Television, Cinema-In-flight, Radio, Print, Book-Brochure, Outdoor, Packaging, Online, New Media, Mixed Media, Point-of-Purchase, Direct and Student. Entries traditionally come from professionals and students in more than 30 countries. Entries are judged throughout the world by international panels on effectiveness and creativity. Judges are not required to award first and second places and also may award more than one first and second place in a category.

Source of Name
Mobius takes its name from the Mobius strip, a strip of paper that when twisted once and joined at the ends presents a single edge and a single face reversing themselves and continuing indefinitely. Thus, the Mobius Statuette is a three-dimensional version of a mobius strip. Awards include the First Place Mobius, a Second Place Certificate for Outstanding Creativity and Student Certificates. Awards events in the early years were often held at the Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. Since 2001, events have been held at various Los Angeles venues, including the Directors Guild of America in Hollywood.

Background of chairman
Chairman Gluckman, a 1965 graduate of the Michigan State University, has spent his entire career in film and video production. He began in network television and educational television. In 1967, he founded Producers Group Ltd., in Chicago as a creative and production company with offices in Hollywood. The company's offices are now exclusively in Redondo Beach, Calif. Producers Group has an extensive credit list of productions numbering well over 375 shot worldwide, and Gluckman is an Emmy winner.. Since 1968, Gluckman has been the chief negotiator representing film and video producers nationally in labor contract negotiations with the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. From 1988 through 1991, Gluckman was Vice President USA of Intertrade Film Distributors, a worldwide theatrical, TV and home video distribution company based in Hollywood.

The competition
Mobius Awards has expanded its areas of competition as the advertising market expanded to include the internet and other high tech approaches to advertising. The competition begins officially each August and has an entry deadline of October. In 2008, Best of Show winners were from Germany, United States, Japan and The Netherlands. The competition’s website is http://www.mobiusawards.com/