OGILVY INDIA WINS YAHOO! BIG IDEA CHAIR 2012
“The Date Fillum” campaign for Kraft Foods India emerges as the grand winner in digital –
– 19 winners selected from amongst 376 entries, across 8 categories –
Yahoo! India, announced the winners of the Yahoo! Big Idea Chair Awards, 2012. The flagship Big Idea Chair was awarded to Ogilvy India for producing the most innovative and creative digital campaign “The Date Fillum” for the 5-Star brand from Kraft Foods India. 19 winners were chosen from a whopping list of 376 entries across 8 categories.
The Big Idea Chair Award recognizes and honors outstanding work in the online creative and media community celebrating creativity, innovation, and excellence. Entries for this prestigious annual award are invited from advertising and media agencies across India. This year, a panel of 16 eminent jury members comprising industry experts from marketing, brand and advertising, selected three outstanding campaigns in each of the 8 categories: Best Use of Display Advertising, Best Online Video Advertising, Best Use of Social Media, Best Use of Technology, Best Use of Mobile Advertising, Best Use of Search, Digital 360, and the flagship Big Idea Chair Award. Introduced to India in 2010, Yahoo! Big Idea Chair Award has grown from strength to strength, with increasing number of entries and categories. This year’s award witnessed an unprecedented 376 entries from 73 agencies for 128 brands, which is more than double the entries received in the first year.
Abhijit Avasthi, National Creative Director, Ogilvy India, said “Winning the Yahoo! Big Idea Chair is indeed special as it awards excellence in an emerging and important medium. Ogilvy has dominated TV and print advertising, so it is great to see we have tremendous talent in digital as well. Our win today is a sure eye-opener for folks who have thought Ogilvy as only a TV-ad agency.”
In other categories, Interactive Avenues walked away with the Gold for Mahindra and Mahindra’s ‘Spark the Rise campaign’ in the Digital 360 category; while Maxus India walked away with the Gold award for the Best use of Technology for its campaign ‘Light powered media for light powered watch,’ created for Titan Industries. Ogilvy India won the Gold award for the Best use of Online Video for its campaign ‘DataFillum’ created for Kraft India; and Innocean Worldwide India bagged Gold for the Best use of Social Media for its campaign ‘Catch the Buzz- Live Reporting of Auto Expo’ created for Hyundai Motor India.
Complete list of winners for Yahoo! Big Idea Chair 2012
| Category | Position | Advertiser | Campaign | Agency |
| Big Idea Chair (Flagship Award) | Kraft Foods India (5-Star) | The DateFillum | Ogilvy India | |
| Digital 360 | Gold | Mahindra & Mahindra | Spark The Rise | Interactive Avenues |
| Silver | Bharti AirtelLimited
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Har FriendZaroori HaiYaar | Madison CommunicationsPvt Ltd | |
| Bronze | Kraft Foods India | Date Fillum | Ogilvy, India | |
| Best use of Technology | Gold | Titan Industries | Light powered media for light powered watch. | Maxus India |
| Silver | Nokia India PvtLtd | The Times of India becomes LIVE TV | Maxus India | |
| Bronze | Titan Industries Limited | The Curious case of Missing Diamonds | Maxus | |
| Best use of Online Video | Gold | Kraft Foods India | Date Fillum | Ogilvy, India |
| Silver | Asian Paints Royale | The Wall takes it All | Contract Advertising | |
| Bronze | UTV Motion Pictures | The Flavour ofBarfi – |
Media2win India Pvt. Ltd., The Glitch, Disney UTV Studio's Digital Team | |
| Best use of Social Media | Gold | Hyundai Motor India | “Catch theBuzzâ€- Live Reporting of Auto Expo on Social Media | InnoceanWorldwide India |
| Silver | Johnson & Johnson | Johnson’s Baby Bedtime Stories | LBi | |
| Bronze | Shoppers Stop | Shoppers StopTweetstore | Contract Advertising | |
| Best use of Search | Silver | Bookmyshow | Houseful | Interactive Avenues |
| Bronze | Cleartrip | Dynamic Remarketing | Resultrix | |
| Best use of Mobile Advertising | Silver | Platinum Guild India Pvt Ltd | The First Ever PersonalizedJewelleryShowroom. | Maxus India |
| Bronze | Nokia India PvtLtd | Nokia Net Ka Guru | Maxus India | |
| Best use of Display Advertising | Silver | Pernod Ricard | Royal Stag IPL Innovation | Maxus |
| Bronze | Slice – PepsiCo India Holding PvtLtd | Slice – Seduction in a Bottle | Mindshare |
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About Big Idea Chair Awards
Yahoo! Big Idea Chair Awards is a global initiative from Yahoo! recognizing outstanding work in the online creative and media community, celebrating the power of creativity, innovation and imagination. Introduced in India in 2010, this industry award has recognized breakthrough digital innovations from advertising agencies for their India work on brands across creative, media, digital and social executions.
For more information regarding Big Idea Chair, visit https://bigideachair.in/
