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The Advertising Club to celebrate effective & pioneering campaign stories at “Effie India Awards 2020’
MUMBAI: The Advertising Club (TAC) India is all set to host the upcoming edition of the coveted COLORS Presents “EFFIEINDIA AWARDS 2020”. The awards that prides itself as being the gold standard in advertising and marketing will once again see the best in class brand stories and pioneering campaigns being celebrated by the industry. The awards have garnered significant industry patronage by receiving a phenomenal 862 entries – The highest ever garnered at the Effie’s in 19 years of its journey. In another feat, EFFIE’s have also achieved the unmatched industry representation with around 326 industry thought leaders and professionals being a part of the 10 Judging rounds held across three cities – Mumbai, Delhi and Bangalore. The EFFIE INDIA AWARDS 2020 is scheduled to be held on Friday 10th January, 2020 at 6.30pm at the Seaside lawns of Hotel Taj Lands End Besides the established categories, in the 19th edition of EFFIES the Advertising Club has also introduced interesting categories such as
● The Internal marketing Award
● The Disruptive Differentiators award
● Small Budgets –
o Small Budgets – Products
o Small Budgets – Service
Speaking about the EFFIE INDIA AWARDS 2020, Mitrajit Bhattacharya, Chairperson of EFFIE Committee said “With a record number of entries received, this year has been the best for Effie India in terms of participation. The Effie 2020 by adding new categories, bringing sharper definitions to existing categories, introducing new judging guidelines and having a separate jury for judging the coveted Grand Effie have helped evolve the highly coveted awards into an award with more structure and relevance, in lines with the Global Effie awards.
He further added “I would also like to thank all the jury members comprising senior members of clients, agency and planning heads for their time across Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru to judge the most effective marketing work of the year.”
Partho Dasgupta, President of The Advertising Club further added that “EFFIES undoubtedly is the most definitive and coveted Advertising & Marketing award of the country. Awarded to both the Agency and Client, it is the ultimate recognition and benchmark of effectiveness and efficiency that has added to the equity of the brand. I look forwards to seeing the category torchbearers and their work being celebrated at this prestigious awards event. “
While the list of finalist is put up on the Advertising Club’s website www.theadvertisingclub.net , questions such as – Who will win the coveted awards like the Grand effie, Client of The year, Agency of the year and more will get answered only on Friday 10th January, 2020 at 6.30pm at the Seaside lawns of Hotel Taj Lands End . The event will be followed by Cocktails and Dinner
The Awards will be presented by COLORS with the Category Sponsors being Aditya Birla Capital for the Integrated Advertising Campaign category and UFO Moviez India Limited for the category Media and Entertainment Companies.
The sale of donor passes has already begun and before it gets too late please contact The Adclub Secretariat at 23894091, 23813034 and 23810213.
MUMBAI: In India’s fast-moving payments race, Visa has just swiped in a new leader. The company has named Suresh Sethi as its India country head, marking a key leadership shift as it sharpens its focus on digital payments growth in the market. Sethi steps into the role following his recent exit from Protean eGov Technologies, where he served as chief executive officer. He succeeds Sandeep Ghosh, who has moved on after more than four years at Visa to pursue an external opportunity.
The appointment comes at a time when Visa is doubling down on its expansion strategy across India and the wider region, deepening partnerships and accelerating adoption in an increasingly competitive digital payments ecosystem.
Sethi brings with him a broad, cross-market perspective shaped by decades of experience across corporate banking, retail financial services, mobile money and large-scale government technology initiatives. He began his career at Citigroup, where he spent 14 years working across India, Africa, South America and the United States, focusing on transaction banking services within the corporate bank.
His appointment signals a blend of institutional experience and market familiarity qualities that could prove critical as Visa navigates a landscape where fintech innovation, regulatory evolution and consumer adoption are all accelerating at once.
As digital payments in India continue to scale rapidly, the leadership change underscores a simple reality, in a market where every tap, scan and swipe counts, who leads the charge can matter just as much as the technology itself.
