Kyoorius Announces Winners At The Kyoorius Creative Awards 2024

27th May 2024, Mumbai: Kyoorius announced the winners of the 2024 Kyoorius Creative Awards, presented by ZEE, today at a grand awards night held at Mumbai’s Jio World Convention Centre amidst an audience of more than 1450 professionals from India’s marketing communications industry, the highest ever in its history.

Image 2

No entry was conferred the super-exclusive, highly-coveted Black Elephant award that recognizes work deemed to be the Best Of Show, though there were two contenders – “Motorola Deep Connect” for Motorola India by Dentsu Creative and “Megh Santoor” for Hindustan Unilever’s Brooke Bond Taj Mahal by Ogilvy India. For the first time ever, they were awarded Baby Black Elephants.

Kyoorius also commemorated Bharat Ratna, and former Indian cricket captain, Sachin Tendulkar, with the Master of Creativity award. The honour celebrates cricket’s first true megabrand and a global icon, whose endorsements, brand associations and continued work in sports marketing paved the way for not just cricketers, but most Indian athletes. Instituted in 2018, the Master of Creativity award recognizes a stalwart who has continuously contributed to making the marketing and communication industry more creative in whatever they do.

Kyoorius received over 3600 entries from over 280 entrants to the awards this year, the highest ever in history. Only 1060 entries made it to the First List after the first round of online judging.

The eleventh edition of the awards will also be remembered for the GiveBack initiative. For every entry that did not make it into the First List (i.e. beyond the First Round of judging) at the 2024 Kyoorius Creative Awards, Kyoorius is giving back 50% of the entry fee to the entrant.

Post the in-person jury session, 282 entries emerged as winners of the Baby Elephant (In-Book winners). Out of these 282 Baby Elephant winners, 89 entries were awarded Blue Elephants across disciplines. 7 entries were awarded Purple Elephants as part of the Zee Equality Awards.

Awards By Kyoorius do not follow a hierarchical structure – there are no golds, silvers or bronze medals. Instead, only the work that deserves recognition wins an Elephant.

The eleventh edition of the awards will also be remembered for the GiveBack initiative. For every entry that did not make it into the First List (i.e. beyond the First Round of judging) at the 2024 Kyoorius Creative Awards, Kyoorius is giving back 50% of the entry fee to the entrant.

“My heartfelt congratulations to all the winners this year. GiveBack was not just a campaign idea for us – it was a way to recognise the pain points when it comes to award shows. We’ve already started the process and entrants are receiving their GiveBack money. We took this initiative to make the Kyoorius Creative Awards more accessible to smaller agencies and have recorded the highest number of entries this year. While there was no Black Elephant winner this year, we have two Baby Black Elephant winners to celebrate,” said Rajesh Kejriwal, founder and CEO, Kyoorius.

“I am pleased to recognize and applaud the immense creative potential of the industry, and further encourage innovation by extending our support to the Kyoorius Creative Awards year on year. At ZEE, we are humbled to play a small role in nurturing the creative quotient through the ‘GiveBack’ initiative, and we stay committed towards supporting the advertising fraternity and celebrating memorable brands and campaigns. I would like to extend my heartiest congratulations to all the participants, wishing them continued success and an abundant creative spirit to create more such enthralling campaigns in the future.” – Mr. Punit Goenka, MD & CEO, ZEE Entertainment Enterprises Ltd.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *