The fifth edition of the Kyoorius Creative Awards is here. Entry for the awards will be open from March 21 to April 23 across 20 main categories and 280 sub-categories. Kyoorius Creative Awards has announced its advertising, digital and media juries.
The entries will be judged by four juries; two for advertising and one each for digital and media from May 14 to 16 in Mumbai.
Arun Iyer, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Lowe Lintas and Santosh Padhi, Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder, Taproot Denstu are jury chairpersons for advertising. Torie Henderson, CEO, South East Asia and India, Omnicom Media Group Asia Pacific is the jury chairperson for media and Kunal Jeswani, Chief Executive Officer, Ogilvy & Mather is the jury chairperson for Digital.
The confirmed Jurors so far are Bobby Pawar, Chief Creative Officer and Managing Director South Asia, Publicis Worldwide, India; Deepa Geethakrishnan, National Creative Director (HUL), Lowe Lintas; Juhi Kalia, Head of Creative Shop India and Global Brands APAC, Facebook; Kainaz Karmakar, Chief Creative Officer, Ogilvy Mumbai, Ogilvy & Mather; Kartik Iyer, CEO, Happy McGarryBowen; Kyoko Yonezawa, Creative Technologist, Dentsu Inc.; Neil Cooper, Group Creative Director, Publicis.Sapient; Pradyumna Chauhan, Creative Consultant; Preethi Mariappan, VP, Executive Creative Director Emerging Experiences, Publicis Sapient; Satbir Singh, Founder and Chief Creative Officer, Thinkstr; Sidharth Rao, CEO and Co-Founder, Dentsu Webchutney; Sumanto Chattopadhyay, Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Soho Square, Ogilvy Group, India; Swati Bhattacharya, Chief Creative Officer, FCB Ulka and Tista Sen, National Creative Director and Senior Vice-President, J Walter Thompson India.
The fifth edition of the Kyoorius Creative Awards will fortify its partnership with ‘The One Club For Creativity’. The jury chair for the awards is formed by leveraging One Club’s decades of expertise in the industry. The awards will also incorporate One Club’s high-integrity judging process and proprietary back-end voting technology platform to ensure credibility and fairness of the award.
Speaking about the fifth edition of the awards, Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder and CEO, Kyoorius, said, “The jurors at The Kyoorius Creative Awards, with their innate knowledge and experience, will contribute to this vision of acknowledging the finest original and innovative work. We look forward to hosting an insightful and rewarding event that honours the best in advertising.”
Among the many firsts globally, Kyoorius will continue with its tradition of hosting an ‘Open Jury Session,’ – the jury sessions will be open for the creative community and media professionals to attend and witness the session in process. Apart from making the entire process very transparent, the session will provide key takeaways and insights from the discussions and the entries displayed.
The Kyoorius Creative Awards night will be held on June 1 at The Dome, NSCI, Mumbai.