Mindshare takes home top prize with 'Network of the Year' honours

Mindshare, the global media agency network, stole the show at the annual Festival of Media Asia Awards picking up 5 awards including the grand prix title Network of the Year.

Mindshare India led the winners, picking up 3 awards: Best Event / Experiential Campaign, for an innovative campaign for Hindustan Unilever's ketchup brand Kissan; The Effectiveness Award, for a campaign for PepsiCo drinks brand Slice; and as a partner for Best Contribution to a Campaign by a Media Owner, for a campaign with MTV for Unilever brand Axe. Mindshare Malaysia added to the haul picking up the Best In- Store Activation award for work for Nesvita Omega Plus.

The combined efforts of the Mindshare agency offices across Asia Pacific brought Mindshare the top award of the night, Network of the Year.

Speaking about the wins Ashutosh Srivastava, Mindshare APAC Chairmansaid,"I'm delighted to see that our offices continue to set the standard in this region and lead at every major industry awards.

This is terrific recognition of our teams, and our clients, who encourage and work with us to help create and deliver market-leading work on such scale.

It again demonstrates the strength and depth of Mindshare's network across this region, which we have built along with GroupM over the years."

Mindshare was also highly commended in the Best Social Media Strategy and Best Use of Content categories as well as supporting Ogilvy & Mather who won the Best Targeted Campaign category for work for IBM.

You can see all the winning campaigns here: http://www.festivalofmedia.com/asia/awards/short list-and-winners-2013

Wolfgang Footwear, a popular local shoe brand concluded its seasonal promotion with a price draw being held on February 20 at the Wolfgang factory premises in the presence of Inland Revenue official Mr. Tennekoon. The first prize of two return air tickets to Bangkok was won by AjithTilakarathne of Mirigama. He bought his Wolfgang Original Napa Shoes from Leather Point, Liberty Plaza, Colombo 3. He is seen here with Imran Jabeer and RizwanSaleem of Wolfgang Footwear. The second prize, a Samsung Galaxy Mobile Phone, was won by S. K. V. Nishantha of Hokandara and the third prize, a weekend for two at Club Bentota, by R. Ratnayaka of Thalangama.