We had said we will announce the 2022 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year on December 16. But there’s a slight delay. We will announce it next Friday, December 23.
As our readers are aware, over the last few years, the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year has earned the reputation of being the most credible barometer of the highest performer(s) in the fields of advertising, media and marketing in India in a calendar year.
Realising that many award shows are held at the end of the year and hence there is a tendency to only recall and accord importance to those who make an impact in the latter part of the year. MxMIndia instituted a process where we reviewed people and entities through the year by having periodic reviews and compiling the various high performers at the end of June. We didn’t do that too often last year, but this we did.
Last year’s winner (2o21) of the accolade was The Wire. In 2020, it was the Independent Journalist. In 2019, it was Sidharth Rao for mainstreaming digital in creative advertising. In 2018, it was Piyush Pandey and in the previous year, it was Arnab Goswami for the launch of Republic TV. In 2016, we had Dentsu Aegis Network South Asia CEO Ashish Bhasin and for 2015 it was the BARC India core team of Punit Goenka, Shashi Sinha and Partho Dasgupta. That was the first year we gave away the award, virtually of course.
The award will be presented online (on MxMIndia) on Friday, December 16, 2022. 88 days. Wait for it.
It’s September 19, and 88 days to December 16, the day when we will announce the 2022 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year.
While we have done our long list, we wish to remind you that you too can suggest names to us for the coveted award. Nominations are welcome till Friday, December 2, 2022. Please send them directly to pradyuamanm [at] mxmindia.com. Your name and reasons, if any, will be kept confidential.
There are 11 names in our long list, and we hope to be able to take it up to 15 to then work on a shortlist.
As our readers are aware, over the last few years, the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year has earned the reputation of being the most credible barometer of the highest performer(s) in the fields of advertising, media and marketing in India in a calendar year.
Realising that many award shows are held at the end of the year and hence there is a tendency to only recall and accord importance to those who make an impact in the latter part of the year. MxMIndia instituted a process where we reviewed people and entities through the year by having periodic reviews and compiling the various high performers at the end of June. We didn’t do that too often last year, but this we did.
Last year’s winner (2o21) of the accolade was The Wire. In 2020, it was the Independent Journalist. In 2019, it was Sidharth Rao for mainstreaming digital in creative advertising. In 2018, it was Piyush Pandey and in the previous year, it was Arnab Goswami for the launch of Republic TV. In 2016, we had Dentsu Aegis Network South Asia CEO Ashish Bhasin and for 2015 it was the BARC India core team of Punit Goenka, Shashi Sinha and Partho Dasgupta. That was the first year we gave away the award, virtually of course.
As we said earlier, this year, the award will be presented online (on MxMIndia) on Friday, December 16, 2022. 88 days. Wait for it.
It’s August 3, and 135 days to December 16, the day when we will announce the 2022 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year.
So who do you think will it be? Will it be an entity like we had last year, or is there someone or a group of people who could win the award this year. We have a partial shortlist ready, but it’s still early days. We invite readers readers to send us their nominations or suggestions of names. Nominations are welcome till Friday, December 2, 2022. Please send them directly to pradyuamanm [at] mxmindia.com. Your name and reasons, if any, will be kept confidential.
As our readers are aware, over the last few years, the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year has earned the reputation of being the most credible barometer of the highest performer(s) in the fields of advertising, media and marketing in India in a calendar year.
Realising that many award shows are held at the end of the year and hence there is a tendency to only recall and accord importance to those who make an impact in the latter part of the year. MxMIndia instituted a process where we reviewed people and entities through the year by having periodic reviews and compiling the various high performers at the end of June. We didn’t do that too often last year, but this we did.
Last year’s winner of the accolade was The Wire. In 2020, it was the Independent Journalist. In 2019, it was Sidharth Rao for mainstreaming digital in creative advertising. In 2018, it was Piyush Pandey and in the previous year, it was Arnab Goswami for the launch of Republic TV. In 2016, we had Dentsu Aegis Network South Asia CEO Ashish Bhasin and for 2015 it was the BARC India core team of Punit Goenka, Shashi Sinha and Partho Dasgupta. That was the first year we gave away the award, virtually of course.
As we said earlier, this year, the award will be presented online (on MxMIndia) on Friday, December 16, 2022. Wait for it.
This is the season for awards. Awards for everything. In fact if award-givers have their way, they’ll soon have one for Best TV Editor in Koramangala, Udyog Vihar Phase V, Lower Parel, Park Street, Anna Salai, Banjara Hills…
Awards are big business. There’s serious money to be made there. Ask our friends in some of your other friendly publications and you’ll get the math.
But this is not to diss or poke fun at the others. It’s just to say how we are different.
Yes, it’s that day of the year when we announce the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year. Unlike other awards and presentations, this is done via MxMIndia, not through a physical/ phygital/ digital event. This ensures we aren’t dictated by the demands (and exigencies) of sponsors, and the constraints and budgets that we are put under thereby. So, it’s just an online announcement.
You know the winner from the headline and can always scroll down to read more, but suggest we get there steadily. Go pick up that chai or coffee or drink, and sit back and read. Enjoy the foreplay.
First, a quick look at how we are different from various other awards/title presentations:
It’s not based on a survey. It’s not based on any industry poll. It is based on a study conducted by us through the year. This makes the decision-making tougher, as we can’t pass the blame on to research. Or the collective view of the industry. Or of a jury. We take the credit and discredit.
Second, it’s an A&M industry study. Agreed CEOs of big clients are important, but we are looking at CMOs and not CEOs of well-marketed organisations. And we look at journalists, creative folk… almost every person in the A&M&E sector. We don’t look at politicians.
Third, we look at performance through the year, and do not base it on the highs of the last two quarters of a year which tend to influence any voting-based process at the yearend.
Fourth, it’s about performance in the year. The highs and highs achieved in this calendar year.
Fifth, we give you a clear reason why we have chosen the winner. And why we haven’t chosen some in our shortlist.
Sixth, we are as sincere and honest about the awards as one can get. A few years back there were suggestions that we should make it an on-ground event. But then that comes with its own set of issues (and compulsions). We even had one large media group expressing its interest six years back. But we think it could’ve influenced our decision-making.
Seventh, we do it with no intent of future favours. Revenues, we mean.
Eighth, we look at only positive developments. There was a fair amount of negativity and negative stuff happening, but we don’t touch that/them. It’s not the Newsmaker of the Year, it’s the Mediaperson of the Year….
So: the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year 2021 is an online presentation. It’s an accolade that’s for the truly well-deserving. And for the True Achiever of 2021 in the Indian Media, Advertising & Marketing arena.
With the backgrounders done, here’s how we went about our task.
We maintain an online notepad that records important developments of the year. We do it every month. It’s also a drill that ensures one can do recaps etc with ease. We review this every quarter. So March 31, June 30… etc. And we end on December 10.
We also asked our readers for their nominations, and we added these to arrive at a shortlist of five.
Ladies and Gentlemen, We have great pride in announcing that the 2021 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year Award is:
The Wire
So how did we arrive at our decision:
The Second Wave in March-June 2021 was horrible for all of us. Thankfully, advertising didn’t fall like last year. Newspapers were still circulating and the content engine on television didn’t exactly dry up.
So who were the people in our shortlist?
Sandeep Goyal: In advertising, there was a lot of business as usual stuff, but we thought Goyal’s acquisitio of Rediffusion was big. He’s an exceedingly prolific writer, and we really admire his energy and enthusiasm (he has Red Bull flowing through his veins!), but we aren’t sure if his strategy of bringing back the old warhorses to Rediff will help the cause. We hope it does, and if it does, look out for the announcement of the 2022 Mediaperson of the Year on December 16 next year.
Dainik Bhaskar. The campaign that the newspaper ran on the deaths given the Second Wave was huge. It required tremendous guts for a profit-making publication to execute an editorial offensive against the claims of the ruling BJP government. But it did, and the Bhaskar brothers – Sudhir, Girish and Pawan Agarwal, promoter-owners of Dainik Bhaskar – paid the price with some raids on its offices. So why hasn’t Dainik Bhaskar won the award? It’s a runner-up for sure, but we are looking at seeing more of the same in the run up to the all-important UP-UK elections next year.
OTT Platforms: It started with Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Hotstar grabbing the honours, but we also have Sony Liv and Zee5 doing a fair bit. Voot too is emerging as a potent player and did some interesting stuff like Bigg Boss OTT and is now looking at being a significant player in live sports. There’s MX Player and Alt Balaji and some of the regional entities. Look out for the streaming sisters, if we can call them that, next year. Yes, Dec 16, 2022.
We didn’t discuss or consider Punit Goenka, though he has had a significant presence this year. Especially with the Zee-Sony deal and the boardroom battles that the Zee promoters have been dragged into. He seems to be emerging out of it as a winner, but all eyes on the closure of the deals. Next year will be crucial for the new entity, so yet another confirmed entry for our long list.
While consistent quality of work is something one expects from all media entities of some standing, The Wire has emerged as a clear winner given the series of exposes it carried as part of what’s been called the ‘Pegasus Project’. What’s noteworthy is that The Wire was chosen over various publications like The Indian Express which has been part of similar collaborative efforts in the past.
Here’s a Wikipedia reference on the Pegasus Project: In 2020, a list of over 50,000 phone numbers believed to belong to individuals identified as “people of interest” by clients of the Israeli cyberarms firm NSO Group was leaked to Amnesty International and Forbidden Stories, a media nonprofit organisation based in Paris, France. This information was passed along to 17 media organisations under the umbrella name “The Pegasus Project”. Over several months, over 80 journalists from The Guardian (United Kingdom), Le Monde and Radio France (France), Die Zeit, Süddeutsche Zeitung, WDR and NDR (Germany), The Washington Post and Frontline (United States), Haaretz (Israel), Aristegui Noticias and Proceso (Mexico), Knack and Le Soir (Belgium), The Wire (India), Daraj (Syria), Direkt36 (Hungary) and OCCRP investigated the spying abuses.
The Wire co-founders Siddharth Varadarjan, Sidharth Bhatia and M K Venu. Source: TheWire.in handle on Facebook
The Wire, founded in May 2015, has emerged as the go-to destination for news and current affairs, as our Consulting Editor Ranjona Banerji put it. It indeed has. It’s our default page for news and views concerning India. Yes, many/most of them don’t look kindly at the BJP government, but credible news entities almost always are that. Anti-Establishment, not for the sake of it and not necessarily of only the central government, but across all powers in office. It also has an interesting social and cultural component, even if it may (mercifully) shy away from the details of the Katrina Kaif-Vicky Kaushal shaadi.
The Wire was founded by senior journalists and editors Siddharth Varadarjan, Sidharth Bhatia and M K Venu. Its success shows the clear emergence of the digital media, and an indicator to the biggies in the business that you don’t need to be a legacy player to be a winner.
Our hearty congratulations to The Wire and we are certain the team will continue relentlessly in its pursuit of excellence in journalism. We of course hope it doesn’t have to do any more of such exposes. But that’s wishful thinking.
Once again: the 2021 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year: The Wire!
Yes, just three days to go for the 2021 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year award.
At cost of repeating ourselves, this is how are we different:
1. No jury. So no influencing, no lobbying. No accommodation of one person this year, and another the next
2. No sponsor. No pressure from anyone on who the award should go to
3. No event. So no pressure of having a chief guest, sponsors for the event, and hence the pulls and pressures on ensuring that the winner is a “saleable” name
4. Planned through the year. We ensure that those who do well in the end of the year don’t have an unfair advantage as they are top-of-mind
5. Democratic, albeit partially. We invite nominations from the world, but the decision is ours
Our winners so far:
2020: The Independent Journalist
2019: Sidharth Rao
2018: Piyush Pandey
2017: Arnab Goswami
2016: Ashish Bhasin
2015: Punit Goenka, Shashi Sinha, Partho Dasgupta for BARC India
So who will it be this year?
It’s Tuesday today. Wednesday, Thursday and then D-Day. Friday, December 17, 2021.
We’ll announce the name by 12noon that day.
No events. No drama. No tamasha.
An honest award for a deserving Mediaperson of the Year.
This is awards season. From politics, business and films to many, many, many awards in the A&M world. Not just in A&M, in PR communications, content… everything.
But amongst all of this, there’s the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year award.
And how are we different:
1. No jury. So no influencing, no lobbying. No accommodation of one person this year, and another the next
2. No sponsor. No pressure from anyone on who the award should go to
3. No event. So no pressure of having a chief guest, sponsors for the event, and hence the pulls and pressures on ensuring that the winner is a “saleable” name
4. Planning through the year. We ensure that those who do well in the end of the year don’t have an unfair advantage as they are top-of-mind
5. Democratic, albeit partially. We invite nominations from the world, but the decision is ours
Our winners so far:
2020: The Independent Journalist
2019: Sidharth Rao
2018: Piyush Pandey
2017: Arnab Goswami
2016: Ashish Bhasin
2015: Punit Goenka, Shashi Sinha, Partho Dasgupta for BARC India
So who will it be this year?
There are a few people who are in our shortlist.
We received 26 nominations for 12 people and two organisations in response to our call for nominations on October 13.
It’s October 13, and 65 days to December 17, the day when we will announce the 2021 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year.
So who do you think will it be? Will it be a group of people like we had last year, or is there someone or a group of people who could win the award this year. We have a partial shortlist ready, but its still early days. We invite readers readers to send us their nominations or suggestions of names. Nominations are welcome till Friday, December 3, 2021. Please send them directly to pradyuamanm [at] mxmindia.com. Your name and reasons, if any, will be kept confidential.
As our readers are aware, over the last few years, the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year has earned the reputation of being the most credible barometer of the highest performer(s) in the fields of advertising, media and marketing in India in a calendar year.
Realising that many award shows are held at the end of the year and hence there is a tendency to only recall and accord importance to those who make an impact in the latter part of the year. MxMIndia instituted a process where we reviewed people and entities through the year by having periodic reviews and compiling the various high performers at the end of June. We didn’t do that too often last year, but this we did.
Last year’s winner of the accolade was the Independent Journalist. In 2019, it was Sidharth Rao for mainstreaming digital in creative advertising. In 2018, it was Piyush Pandey and in the previous year, it was Arnab Goswami for the launch of Republic TV. In 2016, we had Dentsu Aegis Network South Asia CEO Ashish Bhasin and for 2015 it was the BARC India core team of Punit Goenka, Shashi Sinha and Partho Dasgupta. That was the first year we gave away the award, virtually of course.
As we said earlier, this year, the award will be presented online (on MxMIndia) on Friday, December 17, 2021. Wait for it.
Greetings! It’s that time of the year when we announce the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year. Unlike various other awards and presentations, this is done via MxMIndia, not through an event. This ensure we aren’t dictated by the demands (and exigencies) of sponsors and the constraints that venues and budgets put us under. So, it’s just an online announcement.
First, a quick look at how we are different from various other awards/title presentations:
It’s not based on a survey. It’s not based on any industry poll. It is based on a study conducted by us through the year. This makes the decision-making tougher, as we can’t pass the blame on to research. Or the collective view of the industry. Or of a jury.
Second, it’s an A&M industry study. Agreed CEOs of big clients are important, but we are looking at CMOs and not CEOs of well-marketed organisations. And we look at journalists, creative folk… almost every person in the A&M&E sector. We don’t look at politicians, else you know who would be a permanent Mediaperson of the Year 😉
Third, we look at performance through the year, and do not base it on the highs of the last two quarters of a year which tend to influence any voting-based process at the yearend.
Fourth, it’s about performance in the year. The highs and highs achieved in this calendar year.
Fifth, we give you a clear reason why we have chosen the winner
Sixth, we are as sincere and honest about the awards as one can get. A few years back there were suggestions that we should make it an on-ground event. But then that comes with its own set of issues (and compulsions). We even had one large media group expressing its interest five years back. But we think it could’ve influenced our decision-making.
Seventh, we do it with no intent of future favours. That currying favour with anyone will help us in any way. Revenues especially.
So: the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year 2020 is an online presentation. It’s an accolade that’s for the truly well-deserving. And for the True Achiever of 2020 in the Indian Media, Advertising & Marketing arena.
With the backgrounders done, here’s how we went about our task.
We maintain an online notebook that records important developments of the year. It’s also a drill that ensures one can do recaps etc with ease.
For the Mediaperson of the Year, one reviews names, quarter-wise. This ensures the choice of the winner doesn’t suffer from the recency factor.
We looked at various names. We don’t miss the achievements of the various media biggies as they went on consolidating operations.
We had also asked our readers for their nominations, and we added these to arrive at a shortlist of five.
Ladies and Gentlemen, We have great pride in announcing that the 2019 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year Award is:
The Independent Journalist
So how did we arrive at our decision:
If the year 2019 was horrible for the media, advertising and marketing ecosystem, 2020 was terrible. It could’ve almost wiped us out. Only the Burre Din happened, and they still have’t gone away.
The Covid-19-led pandemic has had a terrible impact on the state of the economy and hence the business of media. Profits are down, losses are up, work has reduced or has vanished and the bottomlines have been severely impacted.
We looked at every part of the sector and did think there were some high performers.
But we were looking at positive attributes so we couldn’t have selected Arnab Goswami, even though he achieved much success with Republic Bharat this year. We had Barkha Dutt doing a splendid show with her crisscross of the country, but that’s one expects from journalists of her calibre.
We also had Rajdeep Sardesai in our shortlist, for doing a consistently good job through the year. Neutral, unbiased journalism, asking the uncomfortable questions to all and doing well with the Covid-19 coverage since March. But that’s what one would expect from an editor like Sardesai.
In advertising and the rest of the media, there were a few bright sparks in the year, but no one truly deserving of this accolade.
The one category of media professional which truly deserve to receive accolades is the Independent Journalists. Journalists who have moved out of the big newspapers and channels and did some super work as independents – bloggers, small websites or using platforms like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to post about things. There are some who aren’t professional journalists, but are doing better than full-time trained journalists.
We consulted our columnist, senior journalist and Consulting Editor Ranjona Banerji to share a few names of people she follows and her list matched ours. To name a few: Rema Nagarajan, Anoo Bhooyan, Vidya Krishnan, Suchitra Vijayan, Saahil Meghani and Saahil Murli Menghani. Then there are others like Polis Project, Live Law, Bar and Bench and Diet Sabya some of which may not be one-person operations, but they could be classified as Independents.
There have been independents in the past as well: The Wire, Scroll, then there is Alt News, Boomlive and various others not promoted by mainstream media entities but we named The Independent Journalist as the 2020 Mediaperson of the Year because of the nature of work done by the Independents this year.
Kudos to all the super-achiever independents.Truly deserving winners of the 2020 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year title.
It’s November 3. The 308th day of 2020, and there are just 58 days left in 2020. And more importantly 45 days to December 18, the day when we are scheduled to announce the 2020 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year.
So who do you think will it be? Will there be anyone at all? We have a part-shortlist readers and invite readers to send us their nominations or suggestions of names. Nominations are welcome till December 1, 2020. Please send them directly to pradyuamanm [at] mxmindia.com. Your name and reasons, if any, will be kept confidential.
As our readers are aware, over the last few years, the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year has earned the reputation of being the most credible barometer of the highest performer(s) in the fields of advertising, media and marketing in India in a calendar year.
Realising that many award shows are held at the end of the year and hence there is a tendency to only recall and accord importance to those who make an impact in the latter part of the year. MxMIndia instituted a process where we reviewed people and entities through the year by having periodic reviews and compiling the various high performers at the end of June. We did that many times in 2019. This year, we must confess, we haven’d done any reviews. But we’ve been doing it, and have had two sessions on it already.
Last year’s winner of the accolade was Sidharth Rao on his rise and rise in the Indian creative world. For mainstreaming digital. In 2018, it was Piyush Pandey and in the previous year, it was Arnab Goswami for the launch of Republic TV. In 2016, we had Dentsu Aegis Network South Asia CEO Ashish Bhasin and for 2015 it was the BARC India core team of Punit Goenka, Shashi Sinha and Partho Dasgupta.
As we said earlier, this year, the award will be presented online (on MxMIndia) on Friday, December 18, 2020. Wait for it.
Greetings! It’s D-Day all over again. December 20, 2010. The day when we said we would announce the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year 2019. Unlike various other awards and presentations, this is done via MxMIndia, not through an event. So we aren’t dictated by the demands (and exigencies) of sponsors and the constraints that venues and budgets put us under. We like to compare it with the Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Just an online announcement. We are sure you will join us in the celebration of who our 2019 Mediaperson of the Year is.
First a quick look at how we are different from various other awards/title presentations:
First, it’s not based on a survey. It’s not based on any industry poll. It is based on a study conducted by us through the year. This makes the decision-making tougher, as we can’t pass the blame on to research. Or the collective view of the industry. Or of a jury.
Second, it’s an A&M industry study. Agreed CEOs of big clients are important, but we are looking at CMOs and not CEOs of well-marketed organisations.
Third, we look at performance through the year, and do not base it on the highs of the last two quarters of a year which tend to influence any voting-based process at the yearend.
Fourth, it’s about performance in the year. The highs and highs achieved in this calendar year.
Fifth, we give you a clear reason why we have chosen the winner
Sixth, we are as sincere and honest about the awards as one can get. A few years back there were suggestions that we should make it an on-ground event. But then that comes with its own set of issues (and compulsions). We even had one large media group expressing its interest four years back. But we think it could’ve influenced our decision-making.
So: the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year 2019 is an online presentation. It’s an accolade that’s for the truly well-deserving. And for the True Achiever of 2019 in the Indian Media, Advertising & Marketing arena.
With the backgrounders done, here’s how we went about our task.
We maintain an online notebook that records important developments of the year. It’s also a drill that ensures one can do recaps etc with ease.
For the Mediaperson of the Year, one reviews names, quarter-wise. This ensures the choice of the winner doesn’t suffer from the recency factor.
We looked at various names. We couldn’t miss the achievements of the various media biggies as they went on consolidating operations.
We had also asked our readers for their nominations, and we added these to the come to a shortlist of five.
Ladies and Gentlemen, We have great pride in announcing that the 2019 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year Award is:
Sidharth Rao
CEO and Co-Founder, Dentsu Webchutney
Sidharth Rao
He was all of 19 when he started a digital agency called Webchutney. He was its co-founder and CEO. Six years back (in 2013), the agency was acquired by the Dentsu Aegis Network and hasn’t looked back ever since.
Dentsu Webchutney was the most-awarded Indian agency at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2019. And has won numerous awards – at the Goafest Abby, at the Kyoorius Awards and almost everywhere else. The year also saw the release of Rao’s book ‘How I Almost Blew It’
Rao is also an angel investor, was the co-founder of Network Play, which became one of the largest brand ad network in less than three years and was later acquired by European media conglomerate Bertelsmann AG.
So how did we arrive at our decision:
The year 2019 has been pretty horrible for the media, advertising and marketing ecosystem. Achche Din didn’t happen. In fact the line that’s used is: Burre din kab jaayenge.
This state of the economy has had a huge impact on the business of media. Profits are down, work has reduced and the bottomlines have been severely impacted.
So we looked at all the small, medium-sized and large companies that did very well in the year. While there has been a fair amount of great work done despite all the odds, we didn’t find an individual’s achievement striking enough for being a ‘Person of the Year’. There is of course the argument that the very ability to navigate and profit in a tough year is by itself an achievement.
We couldn’t agree more. So to the media and advertising industry and all the professionals who are part of it: kudos. You are all super-achievers.
But in all of this, we found Sidharth Rao’s achievements stand out. Digital has been growing over the years, but one of the reasons why it hasn’t grown enough so far is because it’s always been compartmentalised and hence never considered as mainstream advertising.
Rao’s achievements of the year have changed that. And will do that forever. He’s not your pinstriped suitwallah adperson. He’s not a turtle neck T-shirt wallah techie. He belongs to the breed of industryfolk who have done things quietly and have done it over the years.
A truly deserving winner of the 2019 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year title.
Yes, the day is drawing closer. Just eight months to go for the 2019 MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year award. The selection process has been done. We have had five rounds of shortlisting and now are waiting to see if a new star emerges over the next few days.
As MxMIndia readers are aware, over the last few years, the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year has earned the reputation of being one of the more credible barometers of the highest performer(s) in the fields of advertising, media and marketing in a calendar year.
Last year’s winner of the accolade was Piyush Pandey on his rise and rise in the global creative world. In 2017, it was Arnab Goswami for the launch of Republic TV. In 2016, we had Dentsu Aegis Network South Asia CEO Ashish Bhasin and for 2015 it was the BARC India core team of Punit Goenka, Shashi Sinha and Partho Dasgupta.
Any guesses on who it will be this year? Wait for it. 10.20am. Friday, December 20, 2019
Less than 50 days to go for the most prestigious award for an advertising/ media professional in the country. Forty-three days to December 20. We have had three rounds of shortlisting already, and now the final one will happen later this month (November).
It’s a tough selection this year, is all that we can say. There are many, many achievers, but there are a few who stand tall. And one of them will be the 2019 MxM Mediaperson of the Year.
As industry persons are aware, over the last few years, the MxMIndia Mediaperson of the Year has earned the reputation of being one of the more credible barometers of the highest performer(s) in the fields of advertising, media and marketing in a calendar year. The quarterly assessment ensures that we don’t miss out on a super achiever of the first quarter.
Last year’s winner of the accolade was Piyush Pandey on his rise and rise in the global creative world. In 2017, it was Arnab Goswami for the launch of Republic TV. In 2016, we had Dentsu Aegis Network South Asia CEO Ashish Bhasin and for 2015 it was the BARC India core team of Punit Goenka, Shashi Sinha and Partho Dasgupta.
So who do you think will it be this year?
Having said that, we have a few days before the final selection, so if you’d like us to consider any name, write to us at editor [at] mxmindia.com or even call or whatsapp the editor – Pradyuman Maheshwari, if you have our coordinates.
