IAA set to launch awards for creative advertising - IndIAA Awards
Harish Manwani, COO, Unilever, will Chair an all-star jury of senior business leaders in Mumbai on September 2
BestMediaInfo Bureau | Mumbai | August 20, 2015
The India Chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA), in its Silver Jubilee year is launching the IndIAA awards “for real hard working creative advertising”.
Harish Manwani, Chief Operating Officer, Unilever and Non- Executive Chairman, Hindustan Unilever, will Chair an all-star jury of senior business leaders, including D Shivakumar, Chairman & CEO, PepsiCo India; Bhaskar Bhatt, MD, The Titan Company; Mayank Pareek, President - Passenger Vehicles Unit, Tata Motors; Sangeeta Pendurkar, MD, Kellogg India; Sanjeeb Chaudhari, Global CMO and Regional Head South Asia, Standard Chartered Bank; and B Sriram, MD, State Bank of India.
Harish Manwani
Said Harish Manwani from Singapore, “Creativity is critical to great advertising – advertising that ultimately helps to build successful brands. I am very glad that the India Chapter of the International Advertising Association (IAA), in its Silver Jubilee year, has decided to institute the IndIAA Awards to celebrate honest advertising that works hard in the market place. Effective advertising implies the existence of deep consumer insights, the rigor of a repeatable process between the client and agency and optimal level of media spends. Only then does a great creative idea get transformed into effective advertising. I look forward to Chairing the jury of the IndIAA Awards in Mumbai on September 2, 2015.”
Pradeep Guha
Pradeep Guha, Chairman, IndIAA Awards, said, “In its inaugural edition, advertising campaigns that were released between July 1, 2014 and June 30, 2015 will be honoured in multiple product and service categories. To qualify for the Award, the campaign should have film (TV or Digital) as one of its elements. In each product or service category, no more than an overall winner and a challenger brand (a newcomer) would be awarded. The awards ceremony would be in Mumbai in early October 2015. This is an initiative to reward truly creative advertising and I am confident it will win great respect for its objectives. There will be no entry fee.”
Srinivasan K Swamy
Srinivasan Swamy, President, IAA, added here, “At the IndIAA Awards event, you will see campaigns that have been watched and loved, and go on to impress our stellar jury, being awarded. Therefore, we will invite on stage all the co-creators of the campaign to accept the award. This will include the marketing team, the agency creative team, the media team and other agencies who contributed to the success of the campaign.” He further said, “Keeping with our ethos of 'what's good, is good for business', for the first time in the advertising industry, there will be a special award for gender sensitive advertising.”
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