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  • Tata Motors, Tree Design, White River Media win

    Indian entries shine at Montreux

    Indian companies won four Golds and nine Finalists at the 35th Golden Award of Montreux Switzerland Festival held recently..

    The Tata Motors in-house agency won teo Golds, “Ramadan 2024” in the Category Creative Use of Media and “ Hero Stories from Bangladesh” won Gold in the Category Digital/ InteractiveTree Design won Gold for “Tata Tea Premium Independence Day Packs” in the Category of Design.White Rivers Media won Gold for “Daughters of Piplantri” in Corporate Film“ category.

    Indian companies won nine Finalist Certificates which is notable as Montreux does not award Silvers and Bronzes only Finalists. Tata Motors won three Finalist Certificates for “Tata Ultra FE+ South Africa Launch Campaign” in the Categories Creative Use of Media, Design and in Digital /Interactive. “Tata Motors Ramadan 2023” won a Finalist Certificate in the Category Digital / Interactive.

    Tree Design won finalists for Toblerone Tiny’s Special Edition Range” and “Tata Tea Premium  Independence Day Tea Table Book” in Design category while“ “The Greatest Entertainers” won a Finalist in Direct Marketing. White Rivers Media won a Finalist in Digita/Interactive.

    Musemakers won a Finalist for “Singapore Tourism Board AR Postcards” in Digital /Interactive BETC Paris was crowned Agency of the Year for 2024, and Havas won theemerging Network of the Year.

    Said veteran advertising professional and part of the fest’s internal jury Ajay Chandwani “Montreux Festival has now become one of India’s more sought after award festival along with Cannes, One Show and D&AD as we are seeing more participation and recognition for Indian work. The last few years has witnessed some great Indian work winning at Montreux Festival.”

  • In Advertising, Media, Digital, Film and Events

    Montreux Switzerland Festival 2024 opens entries

    The Golden Award of Montreux has welcomed submissions from agencies, advertisers, media, digital, production, design and event companies worldwide, offering a platform for both national and international campaigns. Ass Montreux Festival has been a precursor to Cannes for 30 years now and is one of Europe’s premier advertising, media, digital, film and design festivals.

    Last year India secured five Gold Medals, with BC Web Wise triumphing in the Digital category, Tree Design in Design, Viacom18 Media and Leo Burnett excelling in Use of Media, and Cog Culture clinching two Golds, one in Design and another in Events.

    Ajay Chandwani, senior advertising professional and active member of the Abby Awards Governing Council is part of Montreux Festival 2024’ international jury.

    Details of the entry categories and 2024 entry form are at www.goldenaward.com

  • Results can be seen on www.goldenaward.com

    Montreux Festival 2022: India bags 4 Golds and 10 Finalists

    By Our Staff

     

    At the 33rd Golden Award of Montreux Festival, Indian companies won four Golds in the categories of Digital/Interactive, Direct Marketing and Design.

     

    BC WebWise bagged a Gold in the Digital category with the website for Vespa75 Bioscope. Blink Digital India was awarded Gold for ICICI Prudential Mutual “Quest2Invest”. In Direct Marketing, Cog Culture received a Gold for “Committed To Cure”‘ for Medharbour and Tree Design won Gold in the Design category for motion graphics on packaging for Tata Tea.

     

    Cog Culture won three Finalists for The Class of One, Osho Flexibles and Medharbour. HT Labs won two Finalists for OTT Play. Tree Design won two Finalists for PVR and one Finalist for Tata Tea. Blink Digital won two Finalists for ICICI Prudential Mutual and Amazon.

     

    Said Frank Bodin, President of Art Director Club, Switzerland: “Montreux is a place of world-class creativity,” “As a musician, you have to experience the Montreux Jazz Festival. As an advertiser, you have to have won a Golden Award of Montreux.”

     

    The Golden Award of Montreux only Golds, there is no Silver or Bronze – so the Finalist Certificate is also said to carry a lot of value.

     

    Results can be seen on www.goldenaward.com

     

  • You know this: the festival has been a precursor to Cannes for 30 years now

    Montreux entries close on April 10

    By Our Staff

     

    The 33rd edition of Golden award of Montreux Advertising Festival is scheduled this year at Montreux in end April 2021. Montreux Festival has been a precursor to Cannes for 30 years now and is one of Europe’s leading Advertising and Media Festivals.

     

    At last year’s Golden Award of Montreux Festival, Indian entries were successful despite tough international competition. Indian companies were awarded five gold medals. Viacom won two golds while MTV, Chrome pictures and Miami Ad School won one gold each. Viacom, MTV and Chrome Pictures also won finalist certificates.

     

    The Montreux Festival Talent Award has a contest for students and young professionals working on innovative projects in the field of advertising, e-contents and design. Miami Ad School Mumbai was awarded with a Gold and a Finalist.

     

    The Grand Prix of the Golden Award of Montreux was presented to Energy BBDO Chicago. Our own Ajay Chandwani is on the jury this year as well along with a galaxy of other global leading lights.

     

  • On the Jury from India is Ajay Chandwani, Director, Percept Ltd and Independent Strategic Brand Engagement Consultant

    Montreux Switzerland Festival 2021 entries open

    By Our Staff

     

    The 32nd edition of Golden award of Montreux Advertising Festival is scheduled this year at Montreux, Switzerland next month (April 2021).

    The Montreux International Jury for 2021 has been announced:

    Izabella Cabral, TBWA/Worldwide

    Eduardo Basque, Sao Paulo, Brazil,

    Jonathan Fussel , Energy BBDO Chicago

    Davide Boscacci,, Publicis Italy

    Diana Casadiego , Havas Spain,

    Luis Silva Dias FCB International,
    Olivier Teepe, Cloudfactory, The Netherlands,

    Marcelo Lourenço,Coming Soon Creativity, Portugal,

    Istvan Bracsok, White Rabbit, Hungary,

    Andreia Ribeiro, BBDO Portugal,

    Sergio Spaccavento, Conversion, Italy,

    Daniel de Hora, Creative Boutique, Brazil,

    On the Jury from India is Ajay Chandwani, Director, Percept Ltd and Independent Strategic Brand Engagement Consultant. .

    Last year, Indian companies and agencies won seven gold medals and 11 finalists at Montreux Festival 2020. Viacom 18 led the Indian charge with four Golds followed by one Gold  each for Sony Entertainment, Tonic Media Worldwide and Miami Design School.

    The Viacom 18 golds were for MTV in Best Use of Integrated Media, Colors TV Channel for Mobile App of Colors Premier League and Social Media campaign of Vidya, Ridhi Meghani for Social Media campaign for Big Boss 13.

    Sony Marathi won a Gold for subliminal advertising of KBC in Best Use of Television, Tonic Worldwide won a Gold for MTV in Direct Response in Digital Marketing while Miami Design School Talent entry for Spotify won a Gold in the Digital/Social category.

     

    Mathrubhumi Publishing won two Finalist Awards, Viacom 18 won 4 Finalist Awards, Sony Marathi won two Finalist Awards and Tonic Worldwide won two Finalist Awards. In the New Talent section, Miami Design School Mumbai won three Finalist Awards.

     

    Energy BBDO Chicago won the Most Creative Agency of 2020.

    Montreux Festival has been a precursor to Cannes for 30 years now and is one of Europe’s leading Advertising and Media Festivals. The Categories include Creative, Media, Design, TV/Cinema, Branded Content  Print, Direct, Digital, PR and Events. Details of the entry categories and 2021 form are also on goldenawardmontreux.com

     

  • On the jury from India is Ajay Chandwani, Director – Percept Ltd

    Entries for Montreux Switzerland Festival close on April 10

    By A Correspondent

     

    So while Cannes Lions 2020 has been put off as has our own Abby and Goafest, the 31st edition of the Montreux Advertising Festival is scheduled this year at Montreux on April 16, 2020. Now Montreux Festival has been a precursor to Cannes for 30 years and one of Europe’s leading Advertising and Media festivals. Judging this year will be entirely done using online voting. And the event will also happen virtually.

     

    Veteran adperson and Director-Percept Ltd Ajay Chandwani is on the jury this year as well, and other than him are the following global stars:  Jonathan Fussel, Energy BBDO Chicago; Diana Casadiego, Havas Spain; Gary Du Toit, BBDO NY; Davide Boscacci, Publicis Italy; Izabella Cabral, TBWA/Worldwide; Eduardo Basque, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Luis Silva Dias, FCB International; Olivier Teepe, Cloudfactory, The Netherlands; Marcelo Lourenço, Coming Soon Creativity, Portugal; Istvan Bracsok, White Rabbit, Hungary; Andreia Ribeiro, BBDO Portugal; Sergio Spaccavento, Conversion, Italy; Daniel de Hora, Creative Boutique, Brazil: Fred Aramis, TBWA\Worldwide, New York.

     

     

  • Jagran Prakashan won two Gold medals, while Viacom18, Sony Pictures Network, Tree Design and Tonic Worldwide were awarded one Gold medal each

    Jagran, others win big at Montreux

    By A Correspondent

     

    At the recently conducted 30th Golden Award of Montreux Switzerland Festival, Indian agencies won six gold medals across the categories of Media, Design, TV/Cinema and Events.

     

    Of the winners, Jagran Prakashan won two Gold medals, while Viacom18, Sony Pictures Network, Tree Design and Tonic Worldwide were awarded one Gold medal each.

     

    Jagran Prakashan won in the media category for their work on “Cleaning Mindsets before Cleaning India’’ and “The Conspiracy of Silence’’. Viacom18 won for “India’s Got Talent’’ in the events category. In the TV Cinema category, Sony Pictures Network won Gold for “My Second Country – The 2018 FIFA World Cup’’ while Tonic Worldwide’s entry for MTV titled  “Woofer’’ also won Gold. Tree Design won Gold for “Love Knows No Boundaries’’ for Cadbury’s Mondelez Silk Packaging in the category of design.

     

    Also, Republic TV was awarded with two Finalist awards while Viacom18 and Jagran Prakashan won three Finalist awards each. Mathrubhumi Publication, Tree Design and Ignite Media each won a finalist award too.

     

     

  • Montreux Festival is a precursor to Cannes as it happens in April and every year many Cannes aspirants test their work at Montreux

    HUL/PHD, Colors & Jagran lead Indian charge of 5 Golds at Montreux Festival

    By A Correspondent

    The road to Cannes, it is said, starts from Montreux. Montreux Festival is a precursor to Cannes as it happens in April and every year many Cannes aspirants test their work at Montreux. Several Montreux winners in the past have gone on to win at Cannes.

    Indian companies and creative agencies struck five golds and sixteen finalists at the Golden Award Montreux Festival this year in Switzerland.

    PHD won a Gold and five finalists for HUL brands while Viacom 18 won a Gold and three Finalists. Jagran Prakashan did well with a Gold and 3 Finalists. Tree Design and  Mathrubhumi won a Gold and Finalist each. Other Indian winners were Living Foods channel (two finalists) and Dainik Bhaskar Publication-one finalist award.

    The Montreux Festival Switzerland Jury: From left: Ajay Chandwani Percept India and Brand Engagement Consultant; Barbara Aparo fashion.tv Vienna; Mark Chalmers Virtue,Vice London; Milka Pogliani Italy ,Harry Betke, Festival Organizer Austria, Christian Orth, Merck Frankfurt; Olivier Teepe Cloudfactory Amsterdam; Jorg Borgwardt Norman Vale, New York; Petra Staudenmaier, Global Marketing Director, Lindt Chocolate

    BBDO New York, BETC Paris and Heimat Berling Germany were the most awarded agencies with six Gold medals each at the Montreux Festival 2017. BBDO’s Golds were for Snickers, AT&T, Lowe’s, Sandy Hook. BETC were awarded for their creations for Evian, Canal+, Air France, Addict Aide, Leroy Merlin. Heimat received Golds for their work for Hornbach, FDP and Otto.

    This year, the Golden Award of Montreux received more than 3,400 entries from 38 countries. Results are on goldenawardmontreux.com. As is their tradition, Golden Award Montreux Festival only awards Golds and Finalists with no Silvers and Bronzes.

     

    The  Montreux  International Jury  for 2017 this year included. Carolyn Davis BBDO New York; Olivier Teepe Cloudfactory Amsterdam; Ajay Chandwani Percept India and Brand Engagement Consultant; Davide Boscacci Leo Burnett Turin; Mark Chalmers Virtue,Vice London; Conor Brady Critical Mass New York; Jérôme Gonfond Les Gaulois Paris; Philippe Pinel Romance Agency Paris; Jim Hilson AMV BBDO London; Frank Bodin Havas Worldwide Switzerland; Jorg Borgwardt Norman Vale New York; Barbara Aparo fashion.tv Vienna; Christian Orth Merck Frankfurt; Lothaire Burg ARTE TV, France and Milka Pogliani Consultant Italy .

    HUL and PHD won a Gold in Best Use of Mobile for their work “Kheloge toh jeetoge” ,Colors program “ Shakti Ek Astitva” won a Gold in Best Use of Integrated Media, Tree Design’s Print ad for The Heritage School won a Gold in the Non-Profit Category, Jagran Prakashan won a Gold in the Best Use of Print Media for “A newspaper invests in the future of the country” while Mathrubhumi won a Gold for their Corporate Film “Yatra”.

    Finalist winners of PHD/HUL were for Sunlight, Baby Dove, Rin Career Academy, Online campaign Readyforlife and “Kheloge toh jeetoge” in Digital/Interactive,Direct Marketing and Mixed Media categories.

    Colors won three Finalists in Humor (IIFA 2016) Special Effects (Naagin Season 2), Campaign (Big Boss Season 10). Jagran Publication won three Finalist Awards in Direct Marketing and Media Promotion for Young Editor, Crowdsourcing and Jagran Film Festival.

    Living Foods won two Finalist Awards in Posters and TV Promotion Categories. Dainik Bhaskar won a Finalist in Events category, Tree Design’s brochure for PVR Cinemas won a Finalist and Mathrubhumi’s film Aarogyamasika won a Finalist in Corporate Image category.

    Commenting on the success of Indian companies, Ajay Chandwani Director Percept and Brand Engagement Consultant who was on the International Jury at Montreux said: ” India has been steadily climbing up on the international festival performance in the last few years. Montreux Festival Switzerland has been witnessing a significant rise in participation from India and this year’s haul of 5 Golds and 16 Finalists is India’s best performance yet. It’s also heartening to note the Golds and Finalists from India were in varied Categories like Digital, Mobile, Direct, Design, Print and Film. It is now a matter of time when India will create its own culture of advertising like Brazil, Japan or Thailand.”

  • Mr Bhasin is also a speaker at Agency Jeopardy at Montreux, Switzerland

    Ashish Bhasin on Festival of Media Global Jury 2013

    By A Correspondent

     

    Ashish Bhasin, Chairman India & CEO South East Asia – Aegis Media, will be a part of the Final Jury Panel at the Festival of Media Global 2013 in Montreux, Switzerland. The final jury deliberations are slated to happen on April 27 and 28.

     

    In addition, Mr Bhasin will also be a speaker at the Agency Jeopardy event at the Festival of Media Global 2013, to be held on April 29. Mr Bhasin said, “I look forward to being a member of the final jury at the Festival of Media Global this year. It is a great opportunity for me to see the best of the media work globally and to interact with some of the best minds in our profession. I also look forward to speaking at the Agency Jeopardy event. I am sure it will be a great experience for me and a good representation for India in this global forum”.

     

    Mr Bhasin, who is also the Secretary and Executive Committee member of AAAI, on the Board of Governors of the Media Research Users Council, serves on the managing committee of the Readership Studies Council of India and Co-chairs the AAAI-IBF committee amongst other industry bodies. In the past he has served and chaired several national and international juries, including Cannes Lions 2007 Direct Jury and Dubai Lynx 2008 Direct & Interactive juries.