The 17th edition of Pepper Creative Awards, given in the field of advertising, was held at a glittering function at Crowne Plaza on Friday. Mohammad Khan, a legendary figure in the field of advertising and founder of advertising companies such as Rediffusion, Contract and Enterprise, was the chief guest at the award ceremony.
The Malayala Manorama Group won the ‘Advertiser of the year’ award. Bangalore-based Free Flow Creative Service was bestowed with the Agency of the Year Award at the function.
Thiruvananthapuram-based Stark Communications bagged the award for the best agency in Kerala. Chennai-based Mind Your Language won the Best of Tamil Nadu award, and Free Flow Creative Service bagged the newly introduced Young Pepper Award.
Prominent agencies from Kerala such as Organic BPC, Push 360, Team One, Red Earth , PlainSpeak and Hammer were among the other awardees.
The jury of the award included Deepa Geethakrishnan, Founder of MYO Brands Solutions; Priya Shivakumar, Senior National Creative Director, Wunderman Thompson India; Harshada Menon, Group Creative Director, DDB Mudra Group; Raj Kamble, Founder and CCO, Famous Innovations; Prathap Suthan, Co-founder and CCO, Bang In The Middle: Abhijit Avasthi, Founder, Sideways; Raj Nair, former CEO and CCO, Madison BMB; Burzin Mehta, Chief Creative Officer, Gozoop Group; George Kovoor, CCO Wavemaker India; Joji Jacob, Creative Partner & Co-founder, BLKJ Havas , Singapore; Ashish Khazanchi, Managing Partner, Enormous and Anurag Agnihotri, Managing Partner (Creative), Ogilvy West.
The Pepper Creative Award is the most reputed award in the field of advertising in South India and the second-largest award in India.
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