The 17th edition of Pepper Creative Awards, the most reputed and sought after creative awards in South India, was held at a glittering function at Crowne Plaza Kochi on 8th December Mohammad Khan, the living legend in the field of advertising and founder of India’s 3 iconic advertising agencies such as Rediffusion, Contract and Enterprise, was the chief guest at the award ceremony. Raj Nair, former CEO and CCO, Madison BMB represented the jury panel.
This year we have organized a fire side chat by the living legend Mohammed Khan and one of our jury members Raj Nair. This session was exclusively for the young talents in advertising and students from various advertising and mass communication colleges. The 2-hour chat session with Q&A from the audience was well appreciated by the participants.
MYO Brand Solutions
Wunderman Thompson India
DDB Mudra Group
Famous Innovations
Sideways
Gozoop Group
Ogilvy West
Enormous
BLKJ Havas
Bang In The Middle
Madison BMB
Wavemaker India
To all our jury, participants, sponsors, partners, associates and supporters for making PEPPER AWARDS 2023 a great success.
Pepper Awards 2023 function was held at Cochin and winners were honoured at a grand gala function on 8TH December at Crowne Plaza Hotel, Kochi.
More than 500 entries were received from Agencies, Media houses, Production Houses, Photographers etc from across South India. An amazing line up of 12 eminent jury from Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore judged the entries. One online round of judging and one physical round judging were done at Miami Ad School Mumbai to select the winners. The total number of awards including both Kerala and Open categories was 140 excluding the special awards.
Bangalore based Freeflow Creative Services got the Agency of the Year award, Chennai based Mind Your Language took home the Best of Tamil Nadu title and Trivandrum based Stark Communications bagged the Best of Kerala title. Advertiser of the year award was presented to Malayala Manorama Group.
17th edition of pepper had a special category called Young Pepper . This is to encourage and inspire young creative talents below 30 years age group to showcase their ideas. The subject shortlisted for this contest was "CLIMATE CHANGE". Bangalore based Freeflow Ideas bagged this award.