12 Indian shortlists at Media magazine's Agency of the Year Awards

India has 12 shortlists at Media magazine's Agency of the Year awards 2009.

In the category Account / Business Development Person of the Year, three individuals from Ogilvy & Mather India have been shortlisted, namely, Deepika Tiwari, Kapil Arora and Navin Talreja.

In the category Media Planner / Buyer of the Year, Mamatha Morvankar of OMD India has been shortlisted.

Ogilvy & Mather's Piyush Pandey, Mudra Group's Madhukar Kamath and OMD's Jasmin Sohrabji  been been shortlisted in the Agency Head of the Year - National category.

In the Office of the Year - India and the Subcontinent, India has four shortlists. JWT's Mumbai office, Maxus India's Delhi office, Ogilvy & Mather's Mumbai office and Publicis Communications India have been shortlisted in this category.

BBDO India has made it to the shortlist in the Mid-Sized Agency of the Year category.

The awards will be announced in St. Regis Singapore on December 9.

BBH, JWT, McCann Worldgroup Hong Kong, Ogilvy and Publicis will compete for the top creative agency accolade, while the contest for media agency of the year will be between Carat, Mindshare, OMD, PHD and ZenithOptimedia.

Other categories include digital agency of the year, specialist agency of the year and creative of the year.

A panel of ten judges made up of client marketers and Media’s senior editorial staff will deliberate over a total of 14 categories. An additional two categories – brand of the year and client marketer of the year – will be decided by Media’s editorial team. Network of the year will be presented to the agency network with the highest aggregated scores across selected categories.