By A Correspondent
Kyoorius announced the media jury for the Kyoorius Creative Awards. The awards are held in association with D&AD. Mike Florence, Head of Planning, PHD Media will head the jury in the 3rd edition of the Awards. Mike combines a mix of creativity & rigour and oversees planning output across all his clients, including Sainsbury’s and Warner Bros.
Under the Media Awards, the jury comprises of
- Mike Florence, Head of Planning, PHD Media
- Steven Kalifowitz, Senior Manager, Brand Strategy, Twitter, APAC
- Kartik Sharma, Managing Director, Maxus
- Stephen Li, CEO, OMD
- Swati Bhattacharya, CCO, FCB Ulka
- Pat Law, Founder, Goodstuphx
- Shripad Kulkarni, Managing Director, India, Vizeum (A Dentsu Aegis Network Company)
The Media and the Digital Jury session will take place from 5th – 7th May 2016 and the Advertising jury session will take place from 4th – 7thMay 2016. The jury sessions will be open to the industry people to watch, learn, check and benefit from the discussions and display of entries. Like every year, the awards will uphold the zero-tolerance policy towards scam ads.
Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder and CEO of Kyoorius, said ‘Kyoorius Creative Awards are now considered the most prestigious competition in India and this has been built on the caliber of the judges and the transparent and unbiased judging process. Media is, in many ways, the future of the communication industry and is slowly becoming the home for marketing innovation. Media agencies definitely need to reinvent themselves to become integrators and devise innovative & effective solutions for Brands. Given this scenario Kyoorius has included Media Awards as part of the Kyoorius Creative Awards. We have been lucky to have such a stellar jury list and without doubt the selected jury members bring utmost professionalism, objectivity and integrity to the Kyoorius judging process.’
Kyoorius Creative Awards will call for entries across a total of 15 categories and 135 sub-categories this year.