GroupM wins ‘Agency Network of the Year’ and Madison Media wins ‘Agency of the Year’ at inaugural Media Ace Awards

Dentsu Aegis Network's Ashish Bhasin wins Hallmark Award of the Year. Mindshare named Innovative Agency of the Year

by exchange4media Staff
Published: Jul 25, 2015 10:18 PM | 2 min read

GroupM wins ‘Agency Network of the Year’ and Madison Media wins ‘Agency of the Year’ at inaugural Media Ace Awards

At the first ever edition of exchange4media Group’s Media Ace Awards, GroupM has won Agency Network of the Year award, while Madison Media has been named Agency of the Year. Carat Media took home Runner Up award for Agency of the Year followed by second Runner Up Mindshare.

Mindshare also won the Innovative Agency of the Year Award. Runner Up in the same category was Lodestar UM.

Mindshare West won the Best Regional Office of the Year Award, the Runner Up for which was Mediabrands Bangalore.

WATConsult was named Boutique Agency of the Year and Runner Up Award was won by Isobar.

Ashish Bhasin of Dentsu Aegis Network won Hallmark Award of the Year. Milestone Brandcom’ s Nabendu Bhattacharyya was named Agency CEO of the year, while Runner Up was WATConsult’s Rajiv Dingra.

The exchange4media Group’s Media ACE Awards initiative is an attempt to recognize Indian media agencies for their work and contribution to the Indian media industry. In its inaugural year, the Media ACE Awards took the first step with media service brands. The award-winning work in this area demonstrated leadership and direction that has helped in moulding the nation’s media landscape. Geetu Verma, Executive Director- Food & Refreshments, Hindustan Unilever Limited, was the Jury Chair for the Awards this year.

You can view the complete list of winners below:

SPONSOR	CATEGORY	METAL	WINNERS
DishTV	Agency Network of the Year	Winner	GroupM India
CNN IBN	Agency of the Year	Winner	Madison Media
		Runner up	Carat Media
		2nd Runner up	Mindshare India
Surewaves	Innovative Agency of the Year	Winner	Mindshare India
Surewaves	Innovative Agency of the Year	Runner up	Lodestar UM
DishTV	Best Regional Office of the Year	Winner	Mindshare West
DishTV	Best Regional Office of the Year	Runner up	Mediabrands Bangalore
Radio City	Boutique Agency of the Year	Winner	WATConsult
Radio City	Boutique Agency of the Year	Runner up	Isobar
Radio City	Hallmark Award of the Year	Winner	Ashish Bhasin Dentsu Aegis Network
Surewaves	Agency CEO of the year	Winner	Nabendu Bhattacharyya Milestone Brandcom
Surewaves	Agency CEO of the year	Runner up	Rajiv Dingra WATConsult
DishTV	Business Head of the Year	Winner	Anita Kotwani Mindshare India
DishTV	Business Head of the Year	Runner up	Deepak Raj Netram Lodestar UM
History TV	Client Lead of the Year	Winner	Neha Agarwalla Initiative
History TV	Client Lead of the Year	Runner up	Shan Jain Mindshare India
DishTV	Rising Star of the Year	Winner	Yash Desai Maxus India
		Runner up (Tie)	Prarthana Parija Madison Media
		Runner up (Tie)	Reenav Y Modi Mindshare India