Mumbai: After announcing the Master Jury for the Creative Category, the eminent ABBY Awards that recognizes and rewards excellence across Advertising, Marketing and Media has now announced the illustrious Jury Chairs for the Media, Broadcaster, Publisher, Branded Content & Entertainment, Specialist and Craft Categories. Chairing the jury for each of these categories are stalwarts and veterans who have played an instrumental role in leading the respective categories towards new echelons of growth.
The eminent Jury Chairs include stalwarts as below:
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JURY CHAIR “ABBY AWARDS 2018” |
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| Media | Sam Balsara, Chairman, Madison World |
| Public Relations | Madan Bahal, Managing Director, Adfactors PR |
| Direct | Raj Nair, CEO and Chief Creative Officer, Madison BMB |
| Design & Still Craft | Viral Pandya, Co-Founder, Chief Creative Officer, Out of the Box |
| Radio Craft | Ramanuj Shastry, Co-Founder & Director, Infectious |
| Broadcaster | Rohit Gupta, President, Network Sales And International Business, Sony Pictures Networks, India |
| Publisher | Pradeep Dwivedi, CEO, Sakal Media Group |
| Branded Content & Entertainment | Tarun Katial, CEO, BIG FM |
| Digital & Mobile and Digital Craft | Sidharth Rao, CEO & Co-Founder, Webchutney |
| Video Craft | Vinil Mathew, Director, Breathless Films |
Speaking about the announcement of Jury Chairman for the Media, Broadcaster, Publisher, Branded Content & Entertainment, Specialist and Craft Categories for the iconic ABBY’s 2018, Ajay Kakar, Chairman of the Awards Governing Council, said, “The guiding principle of ABBYs 2018 is that an award is as good as the jury that judges it. Having identified and announced the Master Jury for the Creative Abbys, we have extended the ‘Jury of Masters’ principle to all the other categories of ABBYs 2018. We are delighted to announce the Jury Chairs of the Media, Broadcaster, Publisher, Branded Content & Entertainment, Specialist and Craft Categories. Each of them is a celebrated and iconic veteran of their crafts. And the Jury members of each of these categories will also be celebrated names. Watch this space.”
All work released for the first time, between 1st February 2017 and 15th February 2018 will be eligible to enter the award show. The last date to receive entries will be 26th February, 2018. Presented by the Advertising Club and AAAI, the ABBYs 2018 will be a highlight at the leading advertising convention, Goafest, where once again the entire advertising and marketing fraternity is expected to come together in Goa, between 5th, April, 2018 and 7th April 2018, at The Grand Hyatt, Bambolim, North Goa.
