The Ad Club Bangalore has announced the launche of the Inspiration Room, a new initiative designed to inspire and educate the advertising and marketing community. This series of thought leadership programmes will offer a wide range of formats fostering a dynamic exchange of ideas.
Said Laeeq Ali, Founder of Origami Creative and President of Ad Club Bangalore: “We are very excited to launch the Inspiration Room series. This initiative is conceived to be a series of high-quality masterclasses, talk shows, discussions and workshops, where creative professionals will get to hear from the experts and interact with the best.”
The first programme in the Inspiration Room series was a roundtable discussion focusing on Generative AI.
Bengaluru-based The Advertising Club Bangalore is back with its flagship event – The Big Bang Awards. It will be held on January 19, 2024.
Speaking about the occasion, Laeeq Ali, President of The Advertising Club Bangalore, said: “We are very happy with the overwhelming response from agencies for this year’s edition of the Big Bang Awards, which recognises the outstanding work that shapes our industry. While the advertising industry has faced challenges in recent years, it has also proven its resilience and adaptability at every turn. These awards are a tribute to the creative minds, strategic geniuses, and innovators who relentlessly push the boundaries of advertising. Join us for an evening of celebration, learning, and forging connections that will shape the future of advertising.”
Added Malavika Harita, Chairperson of Big Bang Awards: “This year we’ve chosen ‘Find the Balance’ as our theme – a challenge that resonates across every facet of life. We are not only excited to bring to fore the exceptional work submitted by agencies, but also to the inspiring voices offering their invaluable perspectives on navigating these ever-changing landscapes.”
The Ad Club Bangalore is putting together a series of programmes to engage with the advertising, media and marketing fraternity this festive season.
The three-week series starts on Dec 4 and will be held on Friday evenings through December. It will feature events like Open Mic Comedy, a fun quiz, Singing with a Twist and many other fun activities that make it mandatory for the participant to leave their home-office for a while and just let their hair down.
The BB Utsav is presented in partnership with Facebook and is open to all from the media, marketing and advertising community as long as they are members of The Ad Club Bangalore. The Club had recently announced that membership benefits for all who enrolled from June 2020 will be valid for a two-year a period through June 2022.
Speaking on the BB Utsav, Laeeq Ali, President of The Ad Club Bangalore and Co-Founder – Origami Creative said: “We want to celebrate Big Bang differently this year. Considering the overall pandemic situation as well as the stress which the industry is going through, we have decided to call off the regular Big Bang Awards and the whole focus starting with Big Bang Utsav will be to celebrate as well as elevate the people. While the Big Bang Utsav is purely focused on fun and building the camaraderie within the advertising, media and marketing fraternity at large, we also plan to roll out a series of upskilling initiatives which will help the fraternity starting early next year.”
Added Kishankumar Shyamalan, Head of the Big Bang Utsav 2020 and Chief Growth Officer – Wavemaker: “It is a very stressed environment out there currently and we wanted this program to come like a breath of fresh air. We have a series of programmes spread over three weeks which will not just be fun, but also a refreshing break. I urge the entire advertising, media and marketing community to come, encourage your team members to join us and make this event a very memorable one.”
Along with the programmes, the Ad Club Bangalore is also inviting nominations for the Arvind Kumar Memorial Award for the most Enterprising Professional of the year in the age group of 25-40 years. Judged by an eminent jury, the winner will be announced on the last Friday of the series. Nominations are open from November 27, onwards and can be submitted on https://bigbangawards.com .
The Advertising Club Bangalore has now split the Big Bang Awards into two parts to bring more focus and have key takeaways for the fraternity at large.
Big Bang Awards I event which is scheduled for September 20 and is exclusively for creative work. The entries are open online and the last date for entries has been extended to August 15, 2019.
Big Bang Awards II is devoted to media and wellness and will be held on November 15. Both the events will be held in Bengaluru.
Said Malavika Harita, Chairperson of The Big Bang Awards Committee: “This year we re-examined all the award categories to give the communication for specialised verticals like automotive, realty, consumer goods, social impact, their due. Digital communication is a part of every category. We have also rationalised the number of categories based on market trends. We have expert judges from all over the country and abroad and are very proud of the fact that for the last seven years our entire process from entry submission to judging is online ensuring a fair, impartial process.”
Speaking about the awards, Arvind Kumar, Executive Director, Ad Club Bangalore, said: “The decision to split the awards in to two events was prompted by the fact that Creative & Media have emerged as the two pillars of our industry and healthcare is a fast growing segment. We believe that two separate events will give the two core aspects of our business, the right focus”.
The 23rd edition of the Big Bang Awards by Ad Club Bangalore, brought to fore the rising talent poll in advertising industry. Mindshare bagged four out of the top nine most coveted awards while The Social Street bagged the ‘Creative Agency of the Year’ award.
The Big Bang Awards for Excellence in Communication and Media were given away in a grand function on Friday September 28 in Bengaluru.
Said Hemant Mallik, Chief Executive, ITC Foods, in his keynote: “The advertising agencies have a bigger responsibility now, in the internet era. The challenges posed by social media can undo a great ad campaign. The agencies have to learn to respond to such challenges, quickly and aggressively.â€
Added Malavika Harita, Chairperson – Big Bang Awards Committee: “We have made every effort to recognise talent and acknowledge it. The fact that the jury had a tough task at hand was evident from several new faces amongst the winners. Keeping in line with the #For the Love Of Advertising, the participants displayed it’s not merely a profession but a creative platform.â€
Hindustan Lever Limited won the Client of the Year Award, winning across several categories.
The Advertising Club, Bangalore’s Big Bang Awards will be held this year on Friday, September 15.
“The response we received this year is very good and we are gearing up for putting up a great event for our prestigious annual award night., said Sanchayeeta Verma, President of Ad Club Bangalore. “The Big Bang Awards, is unique as it is fully online from its entry to judging stage. This enables both, people from across cities to participate and judges from across the country and APAC to evaluate the entries, Verma further added.
Malavika Harita, former President and Chairperson of The Big Bang Awards Committee, said We have put together a jury of over 50 eminent people drawn from Creative, Media, PR, Marketing, Advertising, Research and Healthcare, to judge the entries received this year. We have been conducting the Big Bang Awards for over 20 years now, without ever courting a controversy. The Big Bang Awards 2017 is presented by Colors Viacom18 and powered by The Times of India and Vijay Karnataka. Red FM is the Radio Partner.
Mindshare recently bagged three leading awards in a row recently – Ad Club Bangalore’s Big Bang Awards, DIGIES 2016 & MADDIES 2016.
Prasanth Kumar
Commenting on the wins, Prasanth Kumar, CEO Mindshare South Asia said, “It’s definitely been great last 10 days to have three additional and prestigious accomplishments. These awards are the celebration of some great work across platforms and especially in digital and mobile media. We understand that these recognitions are judged and recognized by jury members comprising marketers across categories. This motivates and helps us to do more disruptive and bring in incremental value to all our clients businesses. The fact that our work continue to get recognized across years and platforms clearly inspires us. We are thankful to all our clients and partners to push, support and encourage us to keep doing the best.”
​Prasanth Kumar, CEO, Mindshare South Asia and team winning the Media Agency of the Year award of the Advertising Club Bangalore
By A Correspondent
Ad Club Bangalore successfully concluded the 21st edition of its annual awards – Big Bang Awards for excellence in communication and media on September 23, 2016 at Jayamahal Palace, Bangalore. This year, the event wasn’t just confined to awards night but was conceptualised in a manner to encourage the ideology of Connected India, which was the theme of the event. The evening commenced with Nihaal Kashinath (Founder, IOT Bangalore), S Anand (Chief Executive Officer, Gramener) and Arunabh Kumar (Founder & CEO, The Viral Fever & TVF Media Labs) sharing their opinion and views as guest speakers on Internet of Things, Connected Data, and Connected Content respectively.
The programme hosted some leading names of the communication and media industry and was a showcase of the impressive and outstanding work of organizations in this sector. Stark Communications was named Creative Agency of the Year. Mindshare and Maxus were the biggest winners of the night bagging awards for Media, Digital, and Social Media Agencies of the year, respectively. Saatchi and Saatchi Health won the Healthcare Agency of the Year. Tata Sky won the Client of the Year Award winning across several categories.
Commenting on the awards programme, Sanchayeeta Verma, President Ad Club Bangalore and Managing Partner, Maxus, South India & South Asia, said, “We had unprecedented interest and participation in Big Bang Awards this year and the effort was to have a meaningful and enriching event for our media, creative and marketing fraternity. I am happy that we were able to do so. Also, we had really interesting and spirited work which truly epitomised Connected India. Our heartiest congratulations to all the winners.â€
This year Big Bang awards were presented under four major categories – Creative, Media (Including Data & Tech), Digital, and Health. The awards assessment involved an online jury selection process. On the panel, 56 senior advertising, marketing, media, PR and digital industry experts and thought leaders were deployed by Ad Club. “We are the only Indian Ad Club using a sophisticated online jury process. Every jury member scores independently based on the facts presented in the entry form. No jury member knows who else is in his group and the identity of the entrant,†explained Arvind Kumar, Executive Director of The Ad Club Bangalore.
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Client of the Year
Tata Sky
Media Agency of the Year
(Covers Digital, Mobile and Traditional Media)
The Advertising Club, Bangalore has elected Sanchayeeta Verma, Managing Partner, Maxus South India & South Asia, as President of the Club. Verma has taken over the mantle from Malavika Harita of Saatchi & Saatchi Focus Network.
Speaking about her plans for the Club, Verma said, “Bengaluru has a perfect balance of seasoned thought-leaders with an increasing number of dynamic, young and fresh talent which I would like to capitalise through our new initiatives at the club. We are gearing up for our biggest annual award night – The Big Bang awards which recognizes the creative excellence in media and communications. We also plan to introduce events which will go beyond work into play and collaborate all our members. Some of the initiatives in the pipeline are incentivizing Ad Club members to bring in some leading rock bands for members-only nights and a gaming event to bring out the gamer in every one of us.â€
Commenting on the appointment, Arvind Kumar, Executive Director, Ad Club Bangalore said: “The Ad Club will benefit from the vast experience and exposure Sanchayeeta has in her role as Managing Partner of South India and South Asia for Maxus Group. Her enthusiasm and energy to increase the Ad Club activities and enhance its image and make it more contemporary, will help in making Bangalore Ad Club into a very active body in South.â€
The Ad Club Bangalore holds a variety of events right from Sports tournaments to Advertising and Creative Quiz, panel discussions amongst others to engage a larger audience at the Club.
Ad Club Bangalore hosted the Big Bang Awards 2014 for excellence in communication and media last week at The Ritz Carlton, Bengaluru. As many as 956 entries were submitted across 75 categories spanning creative, media, digital, social media, mobile, healthcare and PR. Apart from these, clients and young professionals also participated for the coveted heads.
Saatchi & Saatchi Focus Network was named Creative Agency of the Year. Maxus was the biggest winner of the night bagging awards for Media, Digital, and Social Media Agency of the year. Saatchi & Saatchi Health & Wellness was the Healthcare Agency of the Year and Aim High Consulting was the PR Agency of the Year. Infosys was awarded the Client of the Year winning across several categories.
The event also featured a book release of Pavan Padaki’s Brand Vinci, a definitive book on the various facets of branding.
The Advertising Club Bangalore has announced the 2013 edition of the Big Bang Awards. The Ad Club has drawn up grand plans for Big Bang Awards 2013, slated for September 20, 2013 at Jayamahal Palace, Bengaluru.
The Big Bang Awards were constituted over 25 years ago and in keeping with global trends, the awards are going fully online this year. The Bangalore Ad Club has tied up with Global Best Awards, US to make the awards online from this year. “As many ad agencies and creative hot shops across the country have expressed interest in taking part in the Big Bang Awards, going online would help in reaching out to them more effectively,” said Malavika Harita, President of the Ad Club, Bangalore.
“The Bangalore Ad Club has also decided to make Big Bang more competitive. To this end, entries have been invited from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Sri Lanka. This is a small but significant step towards taking the awards international,” said Arvind Kumar, Executive Director, The Ad Club Bangalore.
Those wishing to participate can log on to www.bigbangawards.com for details. Entries are accepted till August 12, 2013
The 23rd edition of the Big Bang Awards by Ad Club Bangalore, brought to fore the rising talent poll in advertising industry. Mindshare bagged four out of the top nine most coveted awards while The Social Street bagged the ‘Creative Agency of the Year’ award.
