MMA extends deadline for entries submissions to 2021 Smarties India Awards; announces Jury

MMA India has announced the extended deadline for entries submission to the Smarties Awards 2021. The new date is July 25, 2021. This is MMA’s tenth edition of Smarties India Awards, which is scheduled to be held virtually on September 24, 2021.

MMA has introduced a new category of ‘Contextual/Native Advertising’ where brands will be assessed on advertising on a website which allows them to fit into – and not disrupt – the audience experience. The ads follow the natural form and function of the user experience in which they are placed or are relevant to the page’s content. This also includes in-game, in-video, behavioural advertising, or native advertising.

To evaluate the campaigns across four key themes – media, marketing objectives, technology and creative – this year’s jury comprises 27 senior-level brand marketers led by jury chair Hemant Malik - Divisional Chief Executive - Foods at ITC Limited. Other jury members include prominent marketers and brand specialists. Few names such as:

• Meghna Apparao - Chief Business Officer, Licious
• Ajay Kakar – MMA India Board Member; CMO, Aditya Birla Capital Limited
• Moneka Khurana – MMA India Board Member; Country Head – India, MMA
• Sujit Ganguli – Head Corporate Brand and Communications Group, ICICI Bank Ltd
• Tarun Jha – Head of Marketing, Skoda Auto India
• Deepa Krishnan - Director – Marketing, Category, Loyalty and Digital, Tata Starbucks Pvt. Ltd.
• Rohit Dadwal - MMA India Board Member; Managing Director – APAC, MMA
• Roshni Das - MMA India Board Member; Director - Marketing, Intel India
• Girish Kalyanaraman - Vice President, Brand Operations, P&G India
• Sunil Suresh - CMO, Make My Trip

Here is the complete list of the jury.

The Smarties are the world’s only global mobile marketing awards programme honouring innovation, creativity and success, and MMA is calling for entries to Smarties 2021, encouraging agencies, brands, and marketers who have secured outstanding achievements across the mobile marketing ecosystem during the pandemic year.

Eligibility and deadline

To be eligible for the awards, campaigns need to be active in the marketplace between January 2020 through June 2021. The extended deadline for all entries is July 25, 2021.

More details about pricing information and entry submission for the 2021 Smarties India can be found in the official submission kit here.  

“This year's Smarties include 23 categories in which you can enter your work. It's not every day that you get the opportunity to compete with the finest ideas and sharpest minds in modern marketing in one spot. Because the entries will be assessed by high-level brand marketers and agency professionals, the Smarties Awards are really unique,” said Moneka Khurana, MMA India Board Member; Country Head – India, MMA. “This is also the platform to honour and recognise the industry's powerhouse of talent through the awards and the Forum.”

“Last year has been a seminal year for all of us. The difficult times have led to innovations and made us more creative. That is why I believe that this year, Smarties is going to have one of the finest entries. Smarties is the only platform where from a regional entry you are competing at a global level”, said Hemant Malik, Divisional Chief Executive - Foods, ITC Limited and Jury Chair at Smarties 2021.

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