Agency of the Year 2018: Shortlists announced

Shortlists for the South Asia leg of the 2018 Agency of the Year Awards have been announced. The winners will be announced in Mumbai on 4 December 2018.

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This list of shortlisters, along with details of the judges for the South Asia Agency of the Year Awards, can also be found on the AOY awards website. 

India Creative Agency of the Year

• BBDO India
• BBH India
• Grey
• McCann Worldgroup India
• Ogilvy India
• TBWA\India
• The Social Street

Pakistan Creative Agency of the Year

• BBDO Pakistan
• Ogilvy Pakistan
• Orientm McCann
• Prestige Communications (Pvt.) Ltd.
• Spectrum Communications (Pvt) Ltd.

Rest of South Asia Creative Agency of the Year

• BBDO Lanka Pvt. Limited
• Leo Burnett Sri Lanka
• MullenLowe Sri Lanka
• TBWA\SRI LANKA

India Digital Agency of the Year

• Dentsu Webchutney
• Digitas India
• Interactive Avenues
• Isobar India
• Mindshare India
• Sparkt
• WATConsult

Pakistan Digital Agency of the Year

• Digitz
• GroupM Pakistan
• Ogilvy Pakistan
• OMD Pakistan
• PHD Pakistan

Rest of South Asia Digital Agency of the Year

• Magnito Digital Ltd.
• Mindshare Bangladesh
• Mindshare Sri Lanka
• Neo@Ogilvy Sri Lanka
• Wavemaker Bangladesh

India Media Agency of the Year

• dentsu X India
• Havas Media Group India
• Initiative India
• Lodestar UM
• Mediacom Communications Pvt Ltd
• Mindshare India
• OMD India
• PHD India 

Pakistan Media Agency of the Year

• Brainchild Communications (Pvt) Limited
• GroupM
• Mindshare Pakistan
• OMD Pakistan
• PHD Pakistan

Rest of South Asia Media Agency of the Year

• Dentsu Grant Pvt Ltd
• Mindshare Bangladesh
• Mindshare Sri Lanka
• Ogilvy Media Group Sri Lanka
• Wavemaker Bangladesh

South Asia Independent Agency of the Year

• Famous Innovations
• Fulcro
• Social Kinnect Private Limited
• The Social Street
• The Womb

South Asia PR Agency of the Year

• Adfactors PR
• Edelman India
• Genesis Burson-Marsteller
• MSL India
• Value 360 Communications

South Asia Experiential Marketing Agency of the Year

• Activemedia
• The Social Street

South Asia Integrated Marketing Agency of the Year

• Dentsu Webchutney
• iProspect India
• Mindshare India
• Ogilvy India
• The Social Street

South Asia Specialist Agency of the Year 

• iProspect India
• Kinetic
• McCann Health India
• Mindshare India
• The Social Street

South Asia Mobile Marketing Agency of the Year 

• iProspect India
• Isobar Mobile
• Mindshare India
• Sparkt

South Asia Social Media Agency of the Year 

• Dentsu Webchutney
• iProspect India
• Isobar Social
• Mindshare India
• Sparkt

South Asia Brand of the Year

• Carvaan 
• Horlicks
• Kissan
• Lifebuoy
• Star Plus
• The Coca Cola Export Corporation
• Vodafone

South Asia Best Culture

• AvianWE (India)
• Isobar India
• Mindshare India
• Social Kinnect Private Limited

South Asia Boutique Agency of the Year

NO AWARD 

PEOPLE CATEGORIES 

South Asia Account Person of the Year

• McCann Worldgroup India - Alok lall
• The Womb - Dhaval Jadwani
• Isobar India - Gopa Kumar
• Ogilvy India - Hirol A Gandhi
• Mindshare India - Ruchir Bajoria

South Asia Agency Head of the Year

• Havas Media Group India - Anita Nayyar
• Dentsu Aegis Network - Ashish Bhasin
• Mindshare India - Prasanth Kumar
• McCann Worldgroup India - Prasoon Joshi
• Isobar India - Shamsuddin Jasani 

South Asia Creative Person of the Year

• BBDO Pakistan - Ali Rez
• Isobar India - Anish Varghese
• Ogilvy India - Azazul Haque
• The Social Street - Deepak Singh
• McCann Worldgroup India - Kapil Batra

South Asia Channel/Engagement Planner of the Year

• Ogilvy India - Apeksha Somaiya
• Mindshare India - Deepa Kharidaha
• GroupM Media India Private Limited (Mindshare) - Himanshu Jha
• Mindshare - Nithya Ravi
• Mindshare India - Puja Chauhan
• Mindshare India - Sunny Rangwani

South Asia Corporate Communications Person/Team of the Year

• Dentsu Aegis Network Corporate Communications - Dentsu Aegis Network India
• Havas Media Group India - Havas Media Group India’s Corporate Communications Team
• Isobar India - Rucha Bhalekar

South Asia New Business Development Team of the Year

• Social Kinnect Private Limited - Business Development Team
• Famous Innovations - Famously Hybrid
• Havas Media Group India - Havas Media Group India’s New Business Development Team
• Ogilvy India - Ogilvy India New Business Development Team
• Brainchild Communications (Pvt) Limited in affiliation with Starcom Worldwide - The Dream Team (Farhan Khan, Fatima Hyder, Usman Ahmed Qayam, Usman Chaudhry, Urooj Hussain, Faisal Sheikh, Hussain Naqvi, Muhammad Zaidi, Saud Umar Khan, Saadi Ghouse, Fizzah Shahid, Sumbul Ateeq, Eisha Salim, Rubab Rizvi) 

South Asia Strategic/Brand Planner of the Year

• Ogilvy India - Anirban Roy
• Mindshare India - Averill Sequeira
• Mindshare India - Deep Singh
• McCann Worldgroup India - Jitender Dabas
• Leo Burnett Sri Lanka - Murtaza A Tajbhoy 

South Asia Talent Management Person/Team of the Year

• Dentsu Aegis Network - Dentsu Aegis Network
• FCB India - Savita Mathai & Team

India Young Achiever of the Year

• FCB India - Adith Mili Francis Fernandes
• Mindshare India - Ankita Israney
• Mindshare India - Bhaumik Vyas
• Mindshare India - Disha Baral
• Isobar India - Esha Tiwari
• Mindshare India - Iti Kaul
• Famous Innovations - Mithila Saraf
• Ogilvy India - Priyanka Joshi
• Isobar India - Swati Viswanathan

REST OF South Asia Young Achiever of the Year

• m/SIX Pakistan - Farrukh Rao
• Mindshare Pakistan - Mustafa Sabir
• Mindshare - Sanober Ali
• Dentsu Grant Pvt Ltd - Tara Weerasinghe
• Mindshare Pakistan - Wardia Ather

South Asia Marketer of the Year

To be announced.