The jury

The people deciding the standard.

Invited practitioners and marketers with direct experience across South India's advertising, brand, media, design, digital and communications industry. Every juror signs the confidentiality and conflict-of-interest declarations before seeing an entry.

Jury sign in

Devargh Mukherjee

Senior Creative Manager, Zepto

Bengaluru

Over eight years in advertising and brand building, now senior creative manager at Zepto. He has worked on more than 30 national campaigns and written over 70 ad films for leading Indian brands, with the work recognised on national and international platforms. He has also mentored more than 500 aspiring creatives across institutions and learning platforms.

Nikhil Narayanan

Head of Creative Strategy, AirAsia MOVE

Bengaluru

Nearly two decades across advertising, branding and creative strategy, now leading creative strategy at AirAsia MOVE. He has worked with Apple, 3M, Lenovo, Accenture, Titan, Britannia, TVS, Dell, ITC and TCS, across copywriting, brand management, content, employer branding and social. A writer by instinct, and a Manchester United supporter of more than twenty-five years.

The undertaking

What a juror commits to.

Confidentiality on everything they read, for as long as it matters.
A declared conflict on any entry they are connected to, before they open it.
An independent first score, recorded before they can see what anyone else thought.
A conflicted juror is removed from that entry entirely: they cannot read it, cannot score it, and do not count toward the minimum number of jurors it needs.
Being listed on this page never means a juror judged every category.

Invited juror? Sign in to the jury portal. There is no public sign-up: jury accounts are created from an invitation, and the invitation sets your password once. You can sign in and out as often as you need after that.