WARC Media Awards 2018 Announces Effective Channel Integration Jury

WARC, the global authority on advertising and media effectiveness, has named the judging panel of the Effective Channel Integration category for its Media Awards 2018, an international awards scheme that rewards communications planning which has made a positive impact on business results.

Now in its third year, this case study competition examines the insight, strategy and analytics that power effective media investment.

The Effective Channel Integration jury will look for how sophisticated communications architecture helped boost campaign effectiveness.

The jury of 12, made up of senior industry executives from both the client-side and agency-side, will be chaired by Laurent Aliphat, Head of Media, Renault, where he oversees the team responsible for the Global Media coordination, including strategy, budget, digital, data and transformation.

The Channel Integration judges are:

Laurent Aliphat, Head of Media, Renault - Chair of the judging panel

Bridget Angear, Joint Chief Strategy Officer, AMV BBDO

Amy Armstrong, US CEO, Initiative

Qaiser Bachani, Director, Media, APAC, GSK Consumer Healthcare

Youmna Borghol, Head of Data, Choueiri Group

Carrie Drinkwater, SVP Director, Investment Activation, MullenLowe MediaHub US

Emily Fairhead-Keen, Group Strategy Director, MEC

Gustavo Franco, Digital Manager, Santa Clara

Gianluca Toccafondi, Marketing & Communication Manager, IKEA

Lisa Winn, former Marketing Director, Coca-Cola South Pacific

Martin Woolley, CEO, The Specialist Works

Paul Woolmington, CEO, Canvas Worldwide

Full biographies are available here

 

Commenting on the Effective Channel Integration jury panel, WARC's Lucy Aitken, Managing Editor, Case Studies, says: "We welcome our esteemed jury who will be searching for highly original ideas that use a clear mix of channels, bringing new interpretations to the idea of effective integration."

The WARC Media Awards are free to enter and are discipline-neutral and channel-agnostic. Papers submitted as effectiveness case studies are welcomed from any territory and communications discipline.

The winners of the Grands Prix and Special Awards across all four categories of WARC's Media Awards - Effective Channel Integration, Effective Use of Tech, Best Use of Data, and Effective Use of Partnerships & Sponsorships - will share a prize fund of $40,000.

The Special Awards in the Effective Channel Integration category will be awarded for:

-         Path-to-Purchase Award: How a campaign built an effective integration model around shopper or path-to-purchase insight

 -         Effective Cross-Channel Measurement Award: For a campaign that most accurately measured the effectiveness of different communication channels and the halo effect that they achieved together

 -         The POE Award: How a strategy successfully linked paid, owned and earned media

The closing date for entries is 19 September 2018. More information and details about how to enter can be found here.