GroupM bags ‘Network of The Year’ honour at e4m Media Ace Awards 2024

The eighth edition of e4m Media Ace Awards was held at a star-studded ceremony in Mumbai on Monday, November 11. At the dazzling awards night, GroupM, WPP's media investment group and a leading media investment company, took home the ‘Network of The Year’ honour. The award ceremony was graced by industry luminaries, though-leaders and experts from the advertising and marketing ecosystem.

On winning the prestigious honour, Prasanth Kumar, CEO - South Asia at GroupM, said, "This is for the team. We are quite blessed that we have many winners within our house but it is also inspiring to see many winners coming up on stage. Multiple new faces, multiple new agencies, it’s great to see new talent, everybody is inspiring each other. Thank you e4m and the jury, on behalf of everyone at GroupM”.

The e4m Media Ace awards recognises and honours the outstanding work, creativity and innovation by media agencies in India and celebrate their people for their work and their contribution to the advertising industry. The media agencies and its professionals are the driving force behind the evolving media ecosystem. The awards are given to individual leaders and agencies who have exhibited leadership and direction that has helped mould the media landscape in the country.

The winners were selected by a revered jury across three categories – Agencies, Specialist Agencies and People. This year, the Jury was chaired by Sanjiv Mehta, Executive Chairman at L Catterton India and Former CEO of Hindustan Unilever.

Apart from GroupM, the key winners include Wavemaker that bagged the ‘Media Agency of the Year’ honour, Interactive Avenues took home the ‘Network Digital Agency of the Year’ title; LS Digital took home the ‘Non-Network Digital Agency of the Year’ award. The ‘Independent Agency of the Year’ award was given to Madison Media; Mindshare was awarded the ‘Content Marketing Agency of the Year- Large’ honour while Havas Play and Schbang were the runners-up.