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  • A nationwide Brand Identity Design Contest

    Ad Club Bangalore Launches ‘LogoJam’

    The Ad Club Bangalore has launched LogoJam, a logo revamp challenge event designed to crowdsource a fresh, vibrant brand identity. Designers from across India are invited to craft a new brand identity that reflects The Ad Club’s commitment to “creativity, community, and the cutting-edge future of advertising”. The contest will run from July 8 to 19, 2024 and the winner will receive a monetary reward of INR 50,000.

    “We are in the process of re-visioning the role of Advertising Club Bangalore and our aim with LogoJam is to be collaborative and inclusive in our approach to set the new identity of Ad Club Bangalore,” said Laeeq Ali, President of The Ad Club Bangalore. “The new identity should symbolize Ad Club Bangalore’s core values of innovation, collaboration, leadership, and excellence. It will capture the spirit and future-forward approach of this community-focused, non-profit organisation. From events like the Inspiration Room series to a vibrant member network, the club is committed to fostering a thriving community of advertising professionals,”

    Winners of the “LogoJam” challenge will not only receive a monetary reward of INR 50,000 but will also gain significant exposure through a publication feature in The Ad Club platforms, offering unparalleled recognition and potential future collaborations with The Ad Club and its members.

    “As Ad Club Bangalore evolves, we believe our visual identity too should evolve. I am excited to lead this initiative to find the new identity that will be a beacon of our commitment to lead the advertising industry into a new era,” added Nigel Mathew, a member of the executive committee.

  • Stark Communications, V-ROK, Mindshare India and Social Beat triumph

    Big Bang Awards 2021 held

    By Our Staff

     

    Tthe Big Bang Awards 2021 for Excellence in Creative, Media, Digital and Marketing held by the Advertising Club Bangalore were held in Bengaluru on April 8.

     

    The Ayaz Peerbhoy Award for the Creative Agency of the year went to Stark Communications. V-ROK Communications Network was the Healthcare Agency of the year. Mindshare India was named the Media Agency of the Year and Social Beat was the Digital Agency of the Year.

     

    Amongst clients, Viatris was the client of the year in the creative category, Hindustan Lever was the media client of the year, Netflix the digital client of the year, Columbia Pacific Communities, Marketer of the year.

     

    Sharan Pillai won the newly constituted Arvind Kumar Award for Young Media Professional of the year. The Young Art Director of the year was won by Arun Gopidas.

     

     

    Said Laeeq Ali, President, The Advertising Club Bangalore: “We received over 400 entries this year from agencies and clients across the country and decided to wait till April so we could kick-start our activities for the year with an offline event in Bengaluru on the 8th of April.”

     

    Added Malavika Harita, Chairperson of Big Bang Awards: “I have been involved with the Big Bang Awards for the last 20 years. This year we saw a lot of emerging creative, media and digital agencies with innovative and exciting ideas. Adding a category for marketing excellence rounded off the entire gamut of marketing activities covered.

     

  • Ad Club Bangalore comments on Tanishq ad

    By A Correspondent

     

    Interestingly, the Bengaluru-headquartered Tanishq is not a member of the Advertising Club, Bangalore. But the Club supports them.

     

    The following is the statement on the ad issue:

     

    “The Advertising Club Bangalore strongly condemns the threatening and targeting of Tanishq and its employees in regard to their latest advertisement on the new jewellery line.

     

    We stand together by the team at Tanishq and against such aggression.”

  • Arvind Kumar had been spearheading the operations of The Advertising Club Bangalore since 2007 and was also Group Advisor, Marudam Group of Companies since 13 years

    Arvind Kumar, seasoned mediaperson & Ad Club Blr exec director, passes away

    By A Correspondent

     

    Arvind Kumar
    Arvind Kumar

    Arvind Kumar, seasoned mediaperson and Executive Director, The Advertising Club Bangalore, passed away earlier today (September 25) in Bengaluru reportedly after a massive heart attack.

     

    Arvind Kumar had been spearheading the operations of The Advertising Club Bangalore since 2007 and was also Group Advisor, Marudam Group of Companies since 13 years.

     

    Before that he was Senior Vice President he started as the All-India head of sales and marketing of the channels. He was launched four channels under the Alpha brand for Zee and also headed the Zee – Asianet jv Dakshin Media as its Director and headed and launched Asianet Bharati in Tamil and Asianet Kaveri in Kannada before he started his own enterprise at Barterbiz. Earlier he spent many years with the Times of India group and Eenadu.

     

    Notes a communique from The Advertising Club Bangalore: “He has been the pillar of The Advertising Club Bangalore and part of the Managing Committee since 1985. He has served as the Secretary, Vice President as well as President of the Club for 3 terms. He was currently associated with the The Ad Club Bangalore as its Executive Director overseeing all the activities of the Club, continuously exploring new programs, initiatives and ways in which to create a world class platform. He will be remembered, not only for his great humour and child-like curiosity, serving the advertising community of Bangalore selflessly for decades, but also as a hugely respected and outstanding human being, who everyone loved and is devasted to see leave.”

     

    RIP, Arvind.

     

     

  • The event received over 400 entries from 40 agencies and 9 clients

    Mindshare, Unilever & Akanksha max Big Bang Awards

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Advertising Club Bangalore’s Big Bang Awards held its 24th edition on Friday in Bengaluru. The event received over 400 entries from 40 agencies and nine clients, spread over 12 cities in India.

     

    Mindshare India won the maximum of 18 Gold, 13 Silver and 4 Bronze Awards, totaling 35 awards. Hindustan Unilever Limited was declared client of The Year. Akanksha Advertising won the Healthcare Agency of The Year.

     

    Said Laeeq Ali, President, The Advertising Club Bangalore: “As the Advertising Industry continues to grow, more and more new opportunities and newer challenges seem to be emerging. Our theme this year ‘Breaking The Rules’ focused on recognizing the digital creative content that broke conventional rules in order to capture the new age consumer. Over the last two decades, Bangalore has emerged as the key advertising hub of South India and has become home to several international and national agencies. Apart from this, several home-grown agencies have also made a mark, making Bangalore the No. 2 city for advertising talent after Mumbai.”

     

    Added Malavika Harita, Chairperson of Big Bang Awards: “I have been involved with the Big Bang Awards for the last 20 years. This year we saw a lot of emerging creative and digital agencies and some of the ideas were quite innovative and exciting and we are hoping that next year we can expand our reach and scope even further.”

     

    Said Arvind Kumar, Executive Director, The Advertising Club Bangalore:  “With the success of this event, we feel this format of Two Big Bang Awards for excellence, one focused on Creative and the second on Media & Wellness, has come to stay. We will endeavour to scale up the shows next year.”

     

     

  • While Times Network bagged the  Client of the Year Award, Stark was Agency of the Year

    Times Network & Stark Communications bag top honours at Big Bang Awards 2019

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Bangalore Ad Club’s Big Bang Awards 2019 held its 24th edition in Bengaluru last Friday.. Stark Communications won the maximum Gold and Silver awards totaling to eight, while Times Network won two Gold, four Silver and three Bronze and was declared the Client of The Year. Presto Advertising from Chennai won the maximum of Bronze totaling to seven awards this year. The event received entries from 73 agencies and seven clients, spread over 13 cities in India.

     

    The jury panel had over 20 leading professionals including Harish Bijoor, Sundar Madakshira, Chetan Asher, Ashok Lallla, etc. to judge the entries. Celebrated adfilm-maker Prasoon Pandey and Sachin Sharma, Director Sales, TikTok were also present at the event as chief guests to discuss/debate the future of advertising industry

     

    Said Laeeq Ali, President, The Advertising Club Bangalore: “As the Advertising Industry continues to grow, more and more new opportunities and newer challenges seems to be emerging. Our theme this year Breaking The Rules focused on recognizing the digital creative content that broke the conventional rules in order to capture the new age consumer,

     

    Added Malvika Harita, Chairperson of Big Bang Awards:, I have been involved with Big Bang Awards for the last 20 years. This year we saw a lot of emerging digital agencies and everything was quite exciting and we are hoping that Big Bang 2, coming up next, is even more exciting.”

     

     

  • The overall theme for the year is rallying around the thought of ‘For The Love of Advertising’

    Big Bang Awards to now focus on Advertising and Media & Wellness

    By A Correspondent

     

    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 Executive Committee is headed by three time Past President R T Kumar, Managing Director of Oysters Advertising

    Ad Club Bangalore announces new mancom

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Advertising Club Bangalore has announced a new Managing Committee and list of office bearers ahead of the Big Bang Awards 2018. The Executive Committee is headed by three time Past President R T Kumar, Managing Director of Oysters Advertising.

     

    The new office bearers are Laeeq Ali, Director of Origami Creative who is named Vice President to take over as President of the Ad Club in 2019. Malavika Harita, CEO of Saatchi Focus continues as the Treasurer and Chair Person of the Big Bang Awards Committee. Akshar Peerbhoy, Director & CEO of MAA Communications and Southern Regional representative of AAAI, will be the Secretary with Navin Nair, a PR professional, as Joint Secretary.

     

    Akshar Peerbhoy heads the Good Practices vertical of the club while the Programmes vertical is headed by Kishankumar Shyamalan, Managing Partner, Wavemaker. The Knowledge vertical is headed by Maya Chandra, a film-maker and founder of Maya, Bengaluru as Tina Manuskhani Garg, Founder and CEO of Pink Lemonade, heads the Image and Membership Management vertical and Arunava Seal, Chief & Creative Director of Bleu, the Sports vertical.

     

    The other eminent members of the committee include Dilip Ashoka, Head of McCann, Bengaluru; Bindusara Ramachandra, a digital education professional from Unwebd.com; Ganga Ganapathi Pooviah, Vice President, Epsilon Bangalore; Sonia Serrao, Global Media Lead, Tata Global Beverages and Sneha Walke, Vice President South – Exchange4Media Group. Sanchayeeta Verma, Sr Vice President, Wavemaker Bangalore and Immediate Past President of Ad Club Bangalore continues as an active ex-officio member of the Executive Committee.

     

     

  • The annual awards for excellence in communication and media will be held on for September 19 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Bengaluru

    Ad Club Blr to hold Big Bang Awards on Sept 19

    By A Correspondent

     

    The Advertising Club Bangalore has announced that this year’s edition of the Big Bang Awards will be held on September 19, 2014 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel, Bengaluru.

     

    The Club received a record number of 956 entries this year from various cities including Mumbai and Delhi NCR. Speaking on this, Malavika Harita, President, Advertising Club Bangalore said:  “We have received good number of entries almost across all categories. Digital advertising entries are on the rise, in keeping with the general trend in advertising”.

     

    Said Arvind Kumar, Executive Director of the Ad Club: “A unique thing that is being added to the awards night this year, is a panel discussion on the topic ‘Online Killed the Offline Star – True or False’ with the panelists likely to be Colors CEO Raj Nayak, Puneetha Arumugam from Google India with media serial entrepreneur Annurag Batra as moderator.

     

    “The Ad Club roped in close to 40 judges, who are judging the Big Bang entries this year, and each entry is being judged by a group of three judges, who are experts in their field of communication, to ensure there is fairness in the judging process,” Mr Kumar added.

     

    Those interested in getting entry invites to the event can call Mr Manjunath at Ad Club Office on 080-2361 4888 or +9199005 42055

     

     

     

  • Bags 'PR Agency of the Year' at the Ad Club Bangalore's annual awards

    Aim High bags 20 awards at Big Bang Awards

    By A Correspondent

     

    Communications firm Aim High Consulting has won 20 awards including the ‘PR Agency of the Year’ at the Advertising Club Bangalore’s Big Bang Awards 2013 held in Bengaluru last Friday.

     

    Aim High’s winning campaigns span across segments such as Healthcare, Corporate Communications, Financial Communications and Internal Communications, notes a communique adding: “The awards recognised work done for a host of PR and Advertising clients – a mix of start-ups and mid size companies – including, Flipkart, 3M India, Manjushree Technopack, Nanjappa Life Care, Right Horizons, Helion Advisors, Ola Cabs, CommonFloor.com, EduSports and scripbox.”

     

    Speaking about the awards, N Ravi Shankar, CEO, Aim High Consulting, said, “Winning 20 awards at Big Bang 2013, spread across Public Relations and Internal Communications, is a great endorsement of the consulting approach we bring to these practices.”

     

    Note: the information here is unverified and is based on a press release sent by Aim High. The Advertising Club Bangalore has not invited MxMIndia for the event or disseminated its awardee list to us.