Senior marketers from Mars and Benefit Cosmetics are among the judges being announced today for the Effective Innovation category in the 2020 WARC Awards scheme, a global search for next-generation marketing effectiveness.
The Effective Innovation category, one of four in the WARC Awards scheme, recognises innovative thinking that has transformed a business to deliver tangible results. Entry is free and papers submitted as effectiveness case studies are welcomed from any market or discipline. More information and details about how to enter can be found on the WARC Awards site.
The judging panel of industry experts is chaired by Jane Wakely, Lead Chief Marketing Officer, Mars & Mars Pet Nutrition. From the client side, she is joined by Sarah Harbon, General Manager, Benefit Cosmetics, the LVMH subsidiary.
From the agency side, judges include: David Balko, Chief Client Officer at Tribal Worldwide London, Christophe Castagnera, Head of Connected Experiences EMEA at Imagination, Federica Bowman, Managing Director at FirmDecisions, Alan Davies, Head of Client Business Transformation at WPP, Kunal Guha, Senior Vice President, Product, APAC and Managing Director, Central Asia at Essence, Fergus Hay, CEO and Partner at Leagas Delaney London, Woei Hern Chan, Executive Creative Director at Ensemble IPG Mediabrands, Prue Jones, Design and Creative Director at Fjord Melbourne, Mitesh M Motwani, Vice President, Analytics at Omnicom, Stéphane Maguet, Director of Innovation at We Are Social, Majbritt Rijs, Managing Director & Board Director at The Numbers Lab @ Firefish, Ahmad Salim, Group Business Director at Colenso BBDO, Marek Wrobel, Head of Media Futures at Havas Media Group and Kara Yang, Managing Director, TBWA\Media Arts Lab Shanghai.
Full details of all the judges can be seen on the WARC Awards site.
In addition to the Grand Prix, which will win $7,000, judges will also grant three $1,000 Special Awards: the Channel Innovation Award, for the best example of an innovative use of media; the Category Innovation Award, for the best example of a brand defying category norms or creating a new category; and the Partnership Award, for the best collaboration that helped a brand rethink a solution to a business challenge.
The deadline for entries is 12 February 2020.
Sourced from WARC
