If you don’t want to win an award, leave this site now.

Are you looking at the Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show,
ADC Awards, Red Dot, or any other global Advertising or Design Award?

Well, The Shortlist is the OOMPH you need, to win at them.
It is a Creative Review of your Award entry from the jurors that judge those exact awards. You will get just that 1% insight you need for your entry to stand out.

ZEE wants the South East Asian creative professionals to come under the global spotlight. So they’re sponsoring you, making your entry into The Shortlist ABSOLUTELY FREE.

And Kyoorius believes that a “High Chance” entry will win.
So we’ll contribute Rs. 50,000* towards the entry fee to every piece of work that is given that tag by The Shortlist.

Entries to The Shortlist are CLOSED
Deadline: 7 February 2024

THE INR 50,000 SHOT!

Yes, you read that right.

Kyoorius will provide a grant of INR 50,000* to every entry in The Shortlist that is deemed to have a “High Chance” of winning a global award by the audit process.

* The INR 50,000 will be given to the entrant only on valid proof of entering a global award, and can be used to either offset the entry fees, or towards developing the entry material.

The Background

Awards will always hold a special place in every advertising professional’s heart, be it a CCO or a junior copywriter. But as more great work is getting celebrated and competition is getting stiffer, it’s significantly more complicated to win. RoI, too, is playing a significant role for brands and businesses. So the entries need to be sharper and more calculated.

There are proven ways to win, and we at Kyoorius want to bring them to you. Presenting, ‘The Shortlist.’ It helps you celebrate creativity and bring home more awards at a lesser cost without compromises.

What is
The Shortlist?

The Shortlist will help agencies focus their energies on the ideas that are most likely to win. A panel of experts evaluates your entries and gives you vital feedback. This highly needed sense-check from award winners themselves is the game-changer.

The benefits of entering The Shortlist:

  1. Entries are evaluated by a consortium of the world’s leading experts and global award winners.

  2. Helps you find out if your work has a chance to be shortlisted at global award shows such as The One Show, D&AD, ADC Awards.

  3. The review will have tips to improve the case study or narrative, overall improving your chances of making it to the global stage.

  4. The review will help identify categories that is most suitable for your work.

  5. Validates in-house reviews.

  6. Rationalises entry costs by maximising your metal-winning chances.

In short, The Shortlist is a review that tells you if your entry is likely to win big at major global award shows and ways to improve if it needs more work.

The Shortlist is NOT an award.

Read FAQs to know how it works.

You’ve got nothing to lose

This year, Zee is sponsoring your entries.

Experts from around the world will review your entries.

They will even guide you on which categories your entry will most likely win.

You’ll get the best feedback you could possibly get for your ideas.

And you’ll maximise your chances of bringing home metals.

And it’s all free.

So Why The F*** Not?

Key Dates

ENTRIES OPEN
4 Dec 2023

ENTRIES CLOSE
7 Feb 2024

RESULTS BY
20 Feb 2024

Meet The Design Mentors

  • Alan Dye

    Co-founder & Creative Director,
    NB Studios

    Alan, boasts 30+ years in design, leading notable projects like Philharmonie Luxembourg, Pernod Ricard, and the V&A. A seasoned judge for international awards, he chaired Typographic Circle for nearly a decade, fostering design appreciation through curated talks.

  • Anthony Lopez

    Founder, Principal Designer & CEO,
    Lopez Design

    With a focus on dynamic branding that can adapt to change, Anthony collaborates with diverse domain experts, using cross-disciplinary methodologies, intensive knowledge building, and analysis to shape long-term strategies that address the complexities of physical and virtual media.

  • Sarang Kulkarni

    Type Designer & Co-founder,
    Ek Type

    Most Ek Type fonts are Open Source and available on Google Fonts. Sarang has designed the Modak, Gotu, Baloo (Devanagari), Anek (Gurmukhi) Typefaces for Ek Type. He is the 1st Indian selected members of an International organisation - Alliance Graphic International (AGI).

  • Viral Pandya

    Partner / Chief Culture Officer,
    COG Culture

    At present, he is a Partner and Chief Culture Officer at Cog Culture, creating cutting-edge work that intersects digital and design. The agency was chosen as the Design Specialist Agency of the Year and the Independent Agency of the Year at Goafest Abby 2023.

  • Yah Leng Yu

    Founding Partner & Creative Director,
    Foreign Policy Design Group

    She is a member of Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) and the first woman representative from Singapore. She also co-created the official museum store Gallery & Co at the National Gallery Singapore. Yah-Leng has been on The Tatler 300 List by Singapore Tatler 2017 through 2020.

Meet The Advertising Mentors

  • Aalap Desai

    CCO & Co-Founder,
    Tgthr

    Aalap Desai is Dentsu Creative West's former Chief Creative Officer and Dentsu Creative Experience India. He has won over 10 Cannes Lions and 42 shortlists over the years. He has been on the awarding jury for National awards like Kyoorious and international awards like Cannes Lions and Spikes Asia.

  • Bobby Pawar

    Ex-Chairman & CCO,
    Havas Group India

    Bobby Pawar is allergic to math, but his numbers aren’t half bad. He is a 2-time copywriter of the year. He’s among the most awarded creatives from India. He was Campaign Asia’s Creative Person of the Year (2011) for India and South Asia. In 2021, Bobby was awarded Creative Agency Leader of the Year at the IAA Leadership Awards 2021.

  • Eka Ruola

    CCO,
    Nitro

    Eka Ruola is the Chief Creative Officer and majority owner of Nitro Group, a creative hybrid agency located in Finland. Eka is also author of the book The New 4 P's of Marketing which was published by Alma Talent in April 2021.

  • Pallavi Chakravarti

    CCO & Co-founder,
    Fundamental

    Pallavi ventured into the brave new world of the Indies in March 2023. She has served on many juries over the years – at Cannes Lions, Dubai Lynx, New York Festival, Global Awards, Gerety Awards, Kyoorius Awards and the Abbys at Goafest, across categories like Film, Outdoor, Direct, Radio and Integrated Advertising.

  • Swati Bhattacharya

    CCO,
    FCB India

    She was awarded the Creative Professional of the Year by ET Now ‘Stars of the Industry’ Awards. She was the Jury chair at CLIO 2017 and Athena Awards. Under her leadership, FCB Ulka won 50 awards including 4 Cannes Lions, Clio gold, D& AD yellow pencil and a Spikes Grand Prix for #NoConditionsApply - Sindoor Khela this year.

ENTER

Entries to The Shortlist are CLOSED
Deadline: 7 February 2024

Success Stories

  • "The Shortlist is not for those who believe in luck. It's for those who like to be prepared, who yearn for constructive critique & who want to spend their award budgets as smartly as possible. Until the Shortlist existed, getting focused feedback from the industry's best minds on your potential award submissions was entirely dependent on your personal network & networking skills. Not anymore."

    PG Aditiya, CCO & Co-Founder, Talented

  • “The teams working on Code Name: Uri and The 8-Bit Journo by Vice Media knew the ideas had a good chance of performing well on the international award circuit. However, The Shortlist took our insights and pointers and made them much sharper. It helped us narrow down the categories to target, making our case studies more precise."

    Aalap Desai from Team Dentsu Webchutney

  • While 15 minutes without the internet feels like an eternity, 7 million Kashmiris lived in a blackout for more than 142 days. With the blackout, the people of Jammu & Kashmir found their lives brought to a screeching halt. Until VICE and Denstu Webchutney came together, to give updates to lakhs of Kashmiris through #The8BitJourno: The world’s first teletext SMS portal.

    A campaign by Dentsu Webchutney, which won 5 Lions, 11 Spikes and much more after being evaluated at The Shortlist.

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