Ad Club Bangalore announces Big Bang Awards 2011

The agencies that were in the forefront in this year's awards were Stark Communications, Maxus and Tanishq.

Stark Communications won the Big Bang Award for the Ad agency of the year. The agency won a total of five Golds for its work on Malayalam Manorma, Radio Mango and Karnataka Tourism.

Maxus India bagged a total of seven Golds for its clients Vodafone, Nokia India, Kerala Tourism and Perfetti van Melle and was also awarded Media Agency of the Year.

Big Bang Award for Client of the Year went to Tanishq from Titan Industries. It also won was the Ayaz Peerbhoy Multimedia Campaign of the Year for a creative agency.

The Ad Club Media Campaign of the Year was bagged by Mindshare for its work on HUL. The Young Achiever Award of the Year went to Vishal K Vinekar of JWT India. Jaison Antony of Stark Communications bagged the Art Director of the Year Award, while Nikhil Narayanan from Mudra Communications and Seetha Jayakumar from Stark Communications shared the Copy Writer of the Year Award.

Commenting on the awards given, Prateek Srivastava, President, The Advertising Club, Bangalore said, "I would like to congratulate the winners of the Big Bang 2011. The competition was keenly contested, and I am extremely happy with the results, all of who were most deserving."

A total of 960 entries were received across 74 categories in this year. The jury involved 24 senior industry personnel, representing creative, account management, digital, media, PR, healthcare as well as clients. This year, three new categories have been included ' Mobiles, PR and Healthcare.

Entries were received from large, medium and small sized creative agencies, media agencies, digital agencies, radio stations, event companies, film production houses and healthcare agencies.

The Big Bang Awards were instituted over 20 years ago, bringing together agencies across the country to share their creative campaigns and network with creative geniuses