GoaFest 2007: MindShare steals the show with 10 metals; JWT follows
MindShare took the biggest slice of the cake for the evening with 10 Awards followed closely by JWT with six metals. Other winning agencies include Madison Media, Starcom, Initiative, Maxus, Lodestar Universal, OMS, TME, Contract and Rediffusion DY&R.

The first day of the GoaFest 2007 culminated with the Media Awards. Srinivasan Swamy, President, AAAI said at the event, “In spite of two big creative agencies not participating for various reasons, all the media agencies have participated for the media awards.” In the first media awards itself, GoaFest 2007 authorities claim to have received close to 300 entries from all the media agencies.
The Media Awards comprised of seventeen categories, of which sixteen categories had winners. The only category in which the entries did not merit any metals was in ‘Best Use of Radio Men and Women’. MindShare emerged the leader with 10 metals including 3 Gold’s, 5 Silver’s and 2 Bronze’s. JWT followed closely behind with six metals and also won 2 Gold’s.
Interestingly, ‘Best use of TV’ category had the maximum number of entries with 42. It also had one of the nominations, Idea Ringtone integration in serials from Lintas Media Insight, receiving an Honorary Mention from the jury. Sunsilk Gang of Girls was the notable nominee with the highest number of metals to its credit with two Gold and one Silver in ‘Best Use of Internet’, ‘Young Adults’ and ‘Best Use of Mixed Media’ categories respectively.
In all, there were seven Gold metals awarded through the night. In the ‘Best use of Outdoor’ category, JWT earned it for Reliance ADAG Life Insurance. ‘Weights’, Slim Zone from Contract also won Gold in the ‘All Adults’ category. In the ‘Best Use of Stunts’ category, Rediffusion DY&R won it for Pee to See campaign of Dr Reddy’s. MindShare won two other Gold metals for Wheel Smart Shrimati and Welcome to Axeland in the ‘Best Use of TV’ and ‘Best use of Mixed Media’ categories respectively.
Speaking on the media awards, Arvind Sharma, Chairman, GoaFest Committee praised the agencies for their increased co-operation to the fest. Commenting on the judging process, Sam Balsara, Chairman, Media Awards Committee remarked, “It was a wonderful transparent process with jury participation from all the media agencies.”
He added, “The unique thing that we followed was a very participative and collaborative approach. First we listed 13 media agencies and then we listed every unit of the agencies which counted to be 22. We spilt them in teams of two and had a head for each team, who then went through these awards.”
As is the case with most media awards, MindShare took the cake. Vikram Sakhuja, COO, GroupM, South Asia said that any occasion that recognises and media excellence is welcome. I liked the participative nature of judging of GoaFest.” Commenting on the increased participation of creative agencies, he said, “I think the entire line between media and creative is blurring somewhere with more clients looking at channel planning. Even as the transformation of the idea into the conventional TV media and print will be from the media agency, the creation can come from anywhere.”
Colvyn Harris agreed and added, “I am happy we won the way we did because we are going beyond the 30 second TVC and are thinking more on the lines of communications solutions and that is the future.”
Starcom MediaVest Group’s CEO, South Asia, Ravi Kiran commented on the overall awards, stating, “I’m happy we have won and I don’t mean to be critical but like most things, even these media awards can improve. Some aspects about the structure and the kinds of entries accepted were surprising. When I saw the nomination, I could in fact see several pieces of work which could be called spam, and that’s surprising because you don’t see spam in media awards.”
“We need to see the works that have impacted the people. It was very curious to see creative agencies also pitching for media awards. In fact, I was happy to see that. I guess a day will come where the media agencies will pitch in creative awards,” he said.
Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Honorary
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Entry |
Agency |
Entry |
Agency |
Entry |
Agency |
Entry |
Agency |
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1 | Vertical |
Start Your Story: Kids Program from Microsoft | Lodestar | ||||||
2 | Outdoor |
Lifeline
Reliance |
JWT |
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Hand
Cuff Indian Railways |
JWT |
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3 | Newspaper |
Reliance ADA Group - Masthead in colour | Optimum Media Solutions | ||||||
4 | Magazines |
Rip-off | JWT | Mirror Mirror |
The Media
Edge |
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Pulse Polio Day | JWT | ||||||||
5 | Radio |
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6 | Cinema |
Lage
Raho Munna Bhai |
Starcom
Mediavest Group |
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Deferred
Live' Cinema Advertising |
MindShare |
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7 | Internet |
Sunsilk Gang
of Girls |
MindShare |
Diabetes
Test on Your Mobile |
MindShare |
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Agent
Network Western Union |
Starcom
Mediavest Group |
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8 | Ambient |
Shade Card |
Madison |
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9 | Stunts |
Pee to See
- Dr Reddy's |
Rediffusion
DY&R |
Floating Girl
New Zealand International |
Contract |
Sandwich 1
Peta India |
Rediffusion
DY&R |
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10 | Events |
Dew
Dares Rural India |
MindShare |
Breakthrough
Media Solutions |
Madison |
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Getting
'Real' with Dew |
MindShare |
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11 | Men |
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12 | Woman |
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13 | All
Adults |
Weights |
Contract |
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14 | Youth |
Colgate Spreads
Smiles |
The Media
Edge |
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15 | Young
Adults |
Sunsilk Gang
of Girls |
JWT |
Weights |
Contract |
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16 | Probono |
PSP One 'Condom
Bindas Bol' |
Initiative |
Tent-Card |
Everest Brand
Solutions |
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17 | Sponsorship |
Wheel
Smart Shrimati |
MindShare |
Hutch Pune
Marathon |
Maxus |
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Breakthrough
Media Solutions |
Madison |
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18 | TV |
Wheel Smart
Shrimati |
MindShare |
PSP One 'Condom
Bindas Bol' |
Initiative |
Impression
Jama de |
Lodestar
Universal |
Idea Ringtone
Integration |
Lintas Media
- Insight |
Pepsi
Ooh Ha |
MindShare |
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19 | Mixed
Media |
Welcome to
Axeland |
MindShare |
Sunsilk Gang
Of Girls |
MindShare /JWT |
a | Joint
Awards |
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E4M Our strategy is to target younger audiences through Sports: Rajiv Dubey, Dabur
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Swapan Seth's new book 'COOL' is out
The book is a reflection of the author's 'eclectic taste across categories'
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The book is a reflection of the author's "eclectic taste across categories: from boltholes to exotic hideaways."
COOL has been published by Simon & Schuster India and is available on Amazon.
Seth is an ad veteran with a long and illustrious career in the industry. He became the youngest-ever Creative Director at Clarion at age 24. He was VP at 26 at Trikaya Grey. Two years later, he started his agency Equus.
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Disney Star signs 9 sponsors for Asia Cup PAK
Charged by Thums Up, Nerolac Paint+, Amazon Pay, Jindal Panther, My11Circle, MRF, Samsung Galaxy Z Flip5, Wild Stone and Thums Up come on board
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According to industry sources, the associate sponsorship on Star Sports has been priced at Rs 19.66 crore, whereas for the ‘powered by’ sponsorship on Disney+ Hotstar, the broadcaster is seeking Rs 18 crore.
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