Marketing is excited to announce our 2016 Media Innovation Awards jury, who will meet in late September to determine the bronze, silver and gold winners of this year’s awards program. (Remember, there’s still time to apply! Our call for entries wraps up this Friday, September 9.)
Our 2016 co-chairs, Eva Salem of Canadian Tire and Nicolas Marin of OMD Montreal, have selected the following individuals to serve on this year’s jury:
- Jeff Berry, Touché!
- Kevin Johnson, Mediacom
- Lesley Tavel, Media Experts
- Scott Stewart, Maxus Global
- Melanie Johnston, DDB Canada
- Agatha Wronecka, Taxi
- Carl Pichette, McDonald’s Canada
- Andrea Hunt, Weston Foods
- Patrick Jutras, La Presse (as of September 12)
- Jeff Marchand, Rogers Media
- Jake Norman, Facebook
During the 2016 Marketing Awards, we calculated that between online judging, in-person evaluations, photoshoots and interviews, our 25 jury members and four co-chairs devoted approximately 350 billable hours to our awards show. If they weren’t volunteers, we would have owed them something in the neighbourhood of $70,000 total for helping us give out our gold M trophies to deserving agencies and brands. These aren’t just any marketers, either – they’re often Cannes Lions-winning, agency-leading individuals who elevate our awards show by the very nature of their involvement.
The same can be said of our Media Innovation Awards jury, which consistently features media agency presidents, award-winning planners and strategists, and those leading the marketing efforts of major Canadian brands. Year after year our juries have consistently been filled with industry leaders and game-changers, which gave rise to our 2016 MIAs theme.
This year’s jury members and winners of the Media Innovation Awards will be known as The Media Master Class – the cream of the crop in media and marketing strategy in Canada. As we do every year, we’ll be looking to our jury members to select work they feel represents the best in Canadian media innovation in 2016. But, we’ll also be looking to draw even more insight from our jury members than we have in years past, creating content that will demonstrate their views on this year’s winning work, and asking for their opinions on the current state of the Canadian media industry.
Keep an eye out for our new visual theme, which we’ve hinted at below, for insights from the 2016 MIAs jury and co-chairs across our website, social feeds, print product, and of course during our awards gala on November 17. (Tickets go on sale after our call for entries wraps!)
If you haven’t already, make sure to get your 2016 Media Innovation Awards entries ready for our September 9 deadline – this is the final extension! We’re looking forward to seeing what amazing work you did this past year and celebrating it in November.
For any awards inquiries including applications, deadlines and galas, you can always email me at Kate.Wilkinson@rci.rogers.com.
