MUMBAI: Kyoorius today announced the advertising jury for the 3rd edition of the Kyoorius Creative Awards, held in association with D&AD. Mr. R. Balki, Group Chairman, MullenLowe Lintas Group and a prominent writer and director of the two successful Bollywood films ‘Cheeni Kum’ and ‘Paa’ will be the foreman of this jury. His latest project ‘Ki and Ka’, releases on Friday, 1st April 2016. The Jury session will be held from 4th – 7th May 2016.
Kyoorius Creative Awards 2016, previously known as the Kyoorius Digital and Advertising Awards includes The Media Awards this year. Hence the Kyoorius Creative Awards will have three juries i.e. Advertising, Media and Digital.
Kyoorius will call for entries across a total of 15 categories and 135 sub-categories this year. Like every year, the awards will uphold the zero-tolerance policy for scam ads.
Kyoorius introduced the concept of Open Jury, the jury sessions that are open to the industry people to watch, learn, check and benefit from the discussions and display of entries.
The eminent jury for the Kyoorius Creative awards 2016 comprise
Jury Foreman: Mr. R. Balki, Group Chairman, Mullen Lowe Lintas Group
Agnello Dias, Co-Founder, Taproot
Nima Namchu, Chief Commercial Officer, Havas Worldwide
Tista Sen, National Creative Director, J. Walter Thompson
Ajay Gahlaut, Executive Creative Director, Ogilvy
Scott McClelland, Executive Creative Director Asia-Pacific, Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH)
Daniel Comar, Regional Executive Creative Director, Geometry Global
Scott Dungate, Creative Director, Wieden+Kennedy (W&K)
Troy Lim, Executive Creative Director, Publicis
Rajesh Kejriwal, Founder and CEO of Kyoorius, said, ‘Kyoorius is the foremost award show that discovers and celebrates all WORK THAT WORKS! We firmly believe that every great work must be awarded without discriminating into Gold, Silver or Bronze. Given that only about 3% win a blue elephant and one or two works win a black elephant, I am sure that winning a Kyoorius elephant will be the pinnacle of one’s career. Together with D&AD, we meticulously select top creative talent – international and national – to be included in the jury panel. The juries are selected on the basis of their ability to recognise work that typify game-changing works in creative communications. I am deeply honoured to have R. Balki as the chair (foreman) of the advertising jury this year together with some of the best minds in the industry.’
The Kyoorius Creative Awards 2016 will be held on 3rd June 2016, Dome @ NSCI, Worli- Mumbai. The awards show is expecting over 1500 professionals including CEO’s, Marketing Directors, Brand Managers, Creative and Media gurus, etc.