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  • Ad Club adds new categories for Creative Abbys 2016; calls for entries

    Ad Club adds new categories for Creative Abbys 2016; calls for entries

    MUMBAI: The Goa Fest Creative Abbys by the Advertising Club, which recognise the best in advertising and marketing, has added two new categories namely Special Abby (Gender Sensitive) and Young Abby. 

    Additionally, in the Print Craft, Computer Generated Imagery as a sub-category will be introduced, whereas in the Design vertical, new sub-categories of Typography Design and Best Integrated Design with two or more sub-categories will be introduced.

    The Advertising Club has called for entries for the Creative Abbys 2016 and the last date for entries is 23 February, 2016. Campaigns released between 1 January, 2015 to 15 February, 2016 will be adjudged by a jury. The entry forms for the awards can be downloaded on the Ad Club website starting 9 February.

    Awards Governing Council chairman Ramesh Narayan said, “This year’s Abby Awards will have three very significant improvements. Firstly to make the awards more in line with global practices, entries for almost all categories can be uploaded online. Secondly, to reinforce the idea that ‘what’s good, is good for the industry,’ there will be a special category for Gender Sensitive Advertising. Thirdly, to bring youth and the future onto centre-stage there will be a special Abby for entries received from copy and art teams under the age of 35 on the theme of how communication can help mitigate gender violence.”

    “These are all issues, which came up in our interaction with the creative fraternity and the media, and I am pleased to say we are responding with alacrity to industry and societal needs. The young winners of this new category would not only get an Abby but also be sent for the Cannes Lions festival this June, all expenses paid. This would give them a great exposure to international professionals and work,” he added. 

    Goa Fest chairman Nakul Chopra said, “I welcome these new developments. They are a part of our ongoing effort to keep evolving and improving. The online uploading of entries will pose a technological and financial challenge but we have decided that it is important enough to implement immediately.”

    Seconding Chopra’s point, Advertising Club president and Colors CEO Raj Nayak added, “To remain the gold standard of awards in India, we decided that technology, sensitive thinking and the future all needs to be addressed. I had said earlier that we could expect a lot this year, and it is beginning to show. The pre-eminent awards show in the country should show the way in every area.”

    “I am very happy that what was publicly requested on an AAAI platform (an award for gender sensitive advertising) just last year, is becoming a reality. We need to be in sync with what is being sought for. The award for young creatives is the industry’s way of nurturing young talent,” added AAAI president Dr. Ambi Parameswaran.

    The awards need to be uploaded online on the site on the site www.abbyawardsentries.com.

  • Srinivasan Swamy, Ramesh Narayan declared IAA Champions at IAA Inspire Awards

    Srinivasan Swamy, Ramesh Narayan declared IAA Champions at IAA Inspire Awards

    MUMBAI: The International Advertising Association has announced its 2015 IAA Inspire Awards winners and will be making presentations at the inaugural 2015 IAA Awards Gala Dinner, immediately following the Leadership Forum on 18 May at the InterContinental Hotel, Park Lane, London.
     
    The IAA Inspire Awards were created to celebrate IAA members who have:
     
    •Achieved leadership excellence and contributed their vision, ideas, efforts and services to the advancement of the International Advertising Association.

    •Contributed their professional expertise and inspired the marketing communications industry locally, regionally and globally.

    •And pays tribute to the lifetime achievements and services of leaders in the IAA and their contributions to the global marketing communications industry 

    The two Champions who have been recognized from India and will be honored in London are Srinivasan Swamy Chairman R K SWAMY BBDO and President, India Chapter IAA, and Ramesh Narayan, an industry veteran and Hall of Fame awardee at the IAA Leadership Award in 2014.

    Heather Leembruggen, Chairman of the IAA Inspire Awards commented, “This year the IAA is proud to initiate the IAA Inspire Awards to salute the leadership and vision of our members and their achievements on the world stage. Our global footprint in over 40 countries worldwide gives IAA members the scope and scale to make a significant contribution towards stimulating, enhancing and building the marketing communications industry worldwide.”
     
    Faris Abouhamad, IAA Chairman and World President stated, “Our IAA Champion Inspire Awards recognize those with longer, distinguished service to the association and the industry as demonstrated by those receiving the awards.”  

    Srinivasan Swamy said, “These awards are a validation of the active and meaningful role the India Chapter of the IAA has been playing as the leading industry association of its kind in the country. Ramesh and I will accept these awards on behalf of the entire team at the India Chapter.”

  • Industry gears up for 3rd IAA Leadership awards

    Industry gears up for 3rd IAA Leadership awards

    MUMBAI: The International Advertising Association’s (IAA) India chapter will be holding the third edition of the IAA Leadership awards. The awards celebrate and recognize various individuals from across the fields of marketing, advertising and media, bringing them to one common platform.

     

    The awards will be held on 18 April, 2015 at the Grand Hyatt in Mumbai.

     

    For the third year running, the IAA India chapter will honour women and men in the marketing, advertising and media community for their outstanding performance, innovation and creativity in delivering path breaking marketing initiatives. Twelve categories have been hand-picked based on exhaustive quantitative and qualitative parameters.

     

    This year, shortlisted individuals will undergo even sharper scrutiny by a jury comprising industry stalwarts namely Sunil Alagh (SKA Advisors), Sangeeta Pendurkar (Kelloggs), Kaushik Roy (Reliance), Neeraj Roy (Hungama), CVL Srinivas (GroupM), Gayatri Yadav (Star India), Ramesh Narayan, Raj Nayak (Colors), and Srinivasan K Swamy (IAA India Chapter president). The overall process is validated by Ernst & Young.

     

    Swamy said, “The high admiration that the IAA Leadership Awards has earned from the community in the past two years fuels our enthusiasm to return with our third edition with a bang. We are gearing up to applaud the efforts of those marketers and professionals whose hard work has borne fruition in the past year.”

     

    To add authenticity to the awards and maintain transparency in judging the campaigns, IAA has further streamlined the process, to determine the winners. For shortlisting the nominees, IAA along with its knowledge partner analysed the media spends and market presence of brands between 1 January and 31 December, 2014.

     

    The shortlisted nominees across categories were examined closely by the expert panel of jury members who looked at market share data, growth and other qualitative aspects to pick the winners in each category.

  • Ramesh Narayan inducted into IAA Hall of Fame

    Ramesh Narayan inducted into IAA Hall of Fame

    MUMBAI: On 1st. March 2014, at a glittering ceremony in Mumbai to award marketers, media leaders and advertising achievers, the International Advertising Association (IAA) inducted Ramesh Narayan into its Hall of Fame.

     

    This is the highest honor given to a recipient by the IAA.

     

    Kaushik Roy, President Marketing Reliance Industries Ltd. read out the citation where the achievements of Ramesh Narayan were listed. These included the leadership role he played in associations like the Advertising Club, the Advertising Agencies Association of India, Asian Federation of Advertising Associations and the International Advertising Association. It commended him for being an influential force in establishing and nurturing creative awards in the country and for being a dominant factor behind the conduct of the AdAsia 2003 in Jaipur and AdAsia 2011 in New Delhi. It also recalled the decisive role he has played in the Audit Bureau of Circulations and the National Readership Survey and mentioned his thought leadership which helped institure the IAA’s flagship projets Lighting a Billion Lives, IAA Olive Crown Awards and the IAA leadership Awards. Finally, it referred to his journalistic achievements and to his social bent of mind.

     

    Ramesh Narayan said he was humbled to receive this great honor. Saying that the industry needed heroes to inspire the younger generation, he accepted the award on behalf “of those unsung heroes whose little contributions have made a big impact” on the industry.

     

    Srinivasan Swamy President IAA said “I am delighted that this award could be conferred on Ramesh in my term as President.”

     

    The IAA is a unique partnership of marketers, advertising agencies and the media with a robust presence in 77 countries across the globe.