Rising Star Awards 2022: Omnicom Media Group's Zoya Kazi is Rising Star of the Year

The awards gala at The Oberoi, Gurugram, witnessed a housefull audience of over 250 people cheering for the winners, accompanied by the sounds of trumpets, and creating an Emvies-like atmosphere in Delhi

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Rising Star Awards 2022: Omnicom Media Group's Zoya Kazi is Rising Star of the Year

Zoya Kazi of Omnicom Media Group picked up the much-coveted Rising Star of the Year title at BestMediaInfo Rising Star Awards 2022 held at The Oberoi, Gurugram on Wednesday.

Kazi received the shining High Chair trophy for the launch of the Skoda Kushaq campaign “Choose what really matters" from the industry stalwarts WPP Country Manager CVL Srinivas, Dabur’s Head of Media Rajiv Dubey, Starcom COO Niti Kumar, India Today Group’s Vivek Malhotra and Tarun Nigam, in the presence of an electrifying audience.

Kazi also picked up three High Chair trophies in Automobile, Rising Star for Best Strategy - TV and Rising Star for Best Strategy - Integrated categories.

The other big winners at the second edition of the Rising Star Awards were Yadhu J Menon and Aniket Saha of Initiative Media who picked up two High Chair trophies each.

The 2022 edition of BestMediaInfo Rising Star Awards was supported by Viacom18 as Title Sponsor, powered by India Today and Good News Today, Associate Sponsor Manorama Online and Radio Partner 93.5 Red FM. 

Hosted by Red FM’s drama queen RJ Swati, the awards gala saw the who’s who of the industry coming together and cheering for the leaders of tomorrow.

With every award announcement, a housefull audience cheered, accompanied by the sounds of trumpet, creating an Emvies-like atmosphere in Delhi.

PHOTO ALBUM HERE.

The jury who made the BestMediaInfo Rising Star Awards the most trusted awards in the industry are: 

1. Amaresh Jena, Executive Vice-President and Head - Marketing & Digital, Exide Life Insurance

2. Anita Nayyar, Chief Operating Officer, Media and Communications, Patanjali Ayurved

3. Ankit Desai, Head, Media and Digital Marketing, Marico

4. Archana Aggarwal, Vice-President, Media, Airtel

5. Atit Mehta, Head of Marketing, BYJU’s

6. Deepak Gulati, Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer, Bridgestone 

7. Jaikishin Chhaproo, Head Media and PR, ITC

8. Joy Chatterjee, Associate Vice-President, Sales & Marketing, Mankind Pharma

9. Krishnarao S Buddha, Senior Category Head, Parle Products

10. Maithreyi Jagannathan, Vice-President, Healthcare, P&G Indonesia

11. Priyanka Khaneja Gandhi, Associate Director - Integrated Marketing Communication & E-commerce Marketing, Colgate Palmolive

12. Raj Joshi, Head - Brand and Integrated solutions, Onsurity

13. Rajiv Dubey, Head of Media, Dabur

14. Shashank Srivastava, Executive Director, Maruti Suzuki

15. Smita Murarka, Chief Marketing Officer, Duroflex

16. Varun Ganjoo, Co-Founder and Marketing Director, Baazi Games

17. Vinay Joshi, Marketing Manager - Indian Sub-Continent & Maldives, Brown-Forman

Here’s a complete list of the winners:

Automobile

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Zoya Kazi

High Chair

Omnicom Media Group

Skoda Kushaq

The launch of Škoda Kushaq campaign “Choose what really matters”

Alankrit Sharma

Finalist 1

Omnicom Media Group

Royal Enfield

RE Hunter 350 launch campaign

Shiv Acharjee

Finalist 2

Interactive Avenues

Honda Amaze

Honda new Amaze launch campaign

Utsav Juneja

Finalist 3

Zenith

Hero MotoCorp Pleasure XTEC

Pleasure XTEC - Ladki chala rahi hai

Banking, Finance, Insurance, Fintech

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Salman Jaferi

Finalist 1

DDB MudraMax

Infosys

ORM on filing of form GSTR-9/9C

Consumer Durables (White Goods, appliances, mobiles)

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Faraz Sayed

High Chair

Carat

Intel

Launching the Intel 12th gen gaming laptop

Trishala Gupta

Finalist 1

Carat

Intel

Intel TV campaign with Whisper Media

E-Commerce

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Dhaya Menon

High Chair

Interactive Avenues

Amazon

Enabling Amazon to break e-commerce barriers in small town India

Anjali Rakheja

Finalist 1

Interactive Avenues

Urban Company

Urban Company AC servicing

Arvind Kumar

Finalist 2

Interactive Avenues

Royal Enfield

Royal Enfield Apparel Always-on campaign

Fashion & Lifestyle

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Neha Kumari

High Chair

Interactive Avenues

Tanishq

Tanishq festive activation 2021

Christy Kuruvilla

Finalist 1

Interactive Avenues

Tanishq

Enabling ‘Mia by Tanishq’ to own the moment of cultural gifting

FMCG and Retail

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Mayank Khaneja

High Chair

Zenith

Nestle

AskNestle - Building relevance with personalised communication

Hemang Palicha

Finalist 1

Interactive Avenues

Johnson’s Baby

Powering precision targeting of moms at scale for Johnson’s Baby

Neel Desai

Finalist 2

SRV Media

Baazar Kolkata

Brand awareness and engagement campaign for Baazar Kolkata

Yoshita Panwar

Finalist 3

DDB MudraMax

TTK Prestige

Festive campaign for TTK Prestige

Healthcare & Pharma

Entrant

Award

Agency/Company

Brand

Campaign

Surbhi Johri

High Chair

Starcom Worldwide

Pharmeasy

Driving growth for Pharmeasy and build imagery of thought leader in the category

Media & Entertainment

Entrant

Award

Agency/Company

Brand

Campaign

Yadhu J Menon

Rising Star

Initiative Media

Amazon Prime Video

Chhorri radio campaign

Asmita

Finalist 1

Rusk Media

Playground on Amazon Mini TV

Playground social media campaign

Aniket Saha

Finalist 2

Initiative Media

Amazon India

To welcome the next wave of online shoppers to the Amazon platform

Himanshu Chaudhary

Finalist 3

Initiative Media

Amazon Prime Video

The Boys S3

Raveesh Mehndiratta

Finalist 4

Times Network

Times Now Navbharat

Times Now Navbharat brand campaign and Watch & Win campaign

Travel & Hospitality

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Urvashi Chaudhari

Rising Star

Zenith

Singapore Tourism Board

Chhota Bheem - Adventures in Singapore

Neha Nohria

Finalist 1

Zenith

Singapore Tourism Board

Singapore Edit Festival X LBB

Education

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Dhaval Rabadiya

Finalist 1

SRV Media

Parul University

Integrated marketing campaign for Parul University

Shubham Sharma

Finalist 2

Efficacy Worldwide

Kidzee

Re-branding and building consideration for Kidzee

Telecommunication & IT

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Ronak Jain

High Chair

Performics India

Airtel

Launch of Airtel Prepaid on digital

Ajay Kapoor

Finalist 1

Zenith

Lenovo

Lenovo pursue the new campaign

Aditya Pandit

Finalist 2

Carat

Intel

One Intel campaign

Special categories

Rising Star for Best Strategy - Print

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Aniket Saha

High Chair

Initiative Media

Amazon India

To welcome the next wave of online shoppers to the Amazon platform

Rising Star for Best Strategy - TV

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Zoya Kazi

High Chair

Omnicom Media Group

Skoda India

The launch of Škoda Kushaq campaign “Choose what really matters”

Rising Star for Best Strategy - Digital (Programmatic)

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Ankit Kishore

High Chair

Carat

H&M

H&M IPL hack

Ankush Arvind Bhandarkar

Finalist 2

Zoo Media

Manyavar

Leveraging AI-Based video recognition technology to enhance video view rate on YouTube

Rising Star for Best Strategy - Digital (Social Media)

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Asmita

High Chair

Rusk Media

Playground on Amazon MiniTV

Playground social media campaign

Neha Nohria

Finalist 1

Zenith

Singapore Tourism board

Singapore Edit Festival X LBB

Rakesh Kumar Gupta

Finalist 2

Performics.Resultrix

Harley-Davidson

Generate sales for Harley-Davidson

Rising Star for Best Strategy - Integrated

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Zoya Kazi

High Chair

Omnicom Media Group

Skoda India

The massive launch of Šokda Kushaq campaign “Choose what really matters”

Himanshu Chaudhary

Finalist 1

Initiative Media

Amazon Prime Video

The Boys S3

Urvashi Chaudhari

Finalist 2

Zenith

Singapore Tourism Board

Chhota Bheem - Adventures in Singapore

Alankrit Sharma

Finalist 3

Omnicom Media Group

Royal Enfield

RE Hunter 350 launch Campaign

Rising Star for Best Strategy - Audio

Entrant

Award

Agency

Brand

Campaign

Yadhu J Menon

High Chair

Initiative Media

Amazon Prime Video

Chhorri radio campaign

Rising Star Of The Year

Entrant

Agency

Brand

Campaign

 

Zoya Kazi

Omnicom Media Group

Skoda Kushaq

The launch of Škoda Kushaq campaign “Choose what really matters”

 

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