Confirmed jury include Bipin Chandran (the Editor, Entrepreneur Magazine);
Carlton D'silva (Creative Director, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment);
Karl Gomes (Co-Founder, AgencyDigi); Mahesh Murthy (Founder, Pinstorm Managing Partner, Seedfund ); Max Hegerman (President, Tribal DDBIndia);
Sajan Raj Kurup (Founder and Creative Chairman, Creativeland Asia) and
Vishal Parekh (Marketing Director, Kingston).
With an interesting list of Jury Members, WATBlog’s Chief Blogger Rajiv Dingra emphasizes on “Rewarding India's Digital Stalwarts” as the talking point of the Awards. He further instate," Having played a vital role as a catalyst and evangelist of Digital Medium via WATBlog – India’s leading Technology blog, we felt there was a need for recognition for top digital talent, hence the need of WAT Awards 2011 which will aim to recognize the best in the business of Digital Media.
The idea behind celebrating the success within the Indian digital media circle is to create an annual platform which celebrates the quality of successful work done by professionals in this industry. From agencies to campaigns done by them; from startups to entrepreneurs heading them - every essence of digital media will hence be rewarded at WATBlog’s first ever Awards i.e. WAT AWARDS 2011 – Rewarding India’s Digital Stalwarts.
WAT Awards 2011 will attract a varied demographic spread consisting of Digital Media & Social Media Stalwarts, CEO's, CXO's, Brand Managers, Strategists, Bloggers, Entrepreneurs, etc. Based on an aggressive marketing campaign and because of its uniqueness it is estimated that attendance for the awards night will be highly extensive, with at least a footfall of 300 people.
WAT Awards is proud to have Kingston Digital as a Gifting Partner; India Mart as an Online B2B Partner; Entrepreneur Magazine as a Magazine Partner; Indian Television and Audience Matters as their Online Media Partners, Sutra HR as Online Marketing Partner and Gripel as a Media Partner for the Awards.
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About WATBlog: WATBlog was launched on June 27th 2006, and since then WATBlog has written close to 4000+ post and have covered innumerable milestones in the process. WATBlog was awarded as India’s best blog of 2009 and is owned and managed by WATMedia Pvt. Ltd a digital media company that aims to connect the Web, Advertising & Technology (WAT) Industry in India. WATBlog showcases news, reviews, views and interviews around the Web, Advertising and Technology front. WATBlog hosts several interesting discussions and encourage readers to be vocal and takes their feedback, suggestions and analysis very seriously. WATBlog receives close to 1.5lacs unique visitors per month. It has recently been awarded the Best Blog of 2009 by Exchange4Media.
WATBlog has previously hosted WATBlog Wednesdays & WATBlog Panels pan India and plans to conduct many such events with the inception of WATSummit.
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About WAT Awards:
WAT Awards is an initiative taken by WATBlog to recognize & felicitate agencies & professionals who have achieved ground breaking work in the Indian digital space since its inception.
