"Advertiser:in of the Year" 2024: Voting is over
Andrea Bison, Jan Kempter, and Gabriel Mauron were nominated by the community and the expert jury for the title of «Advertiser of the Year» 2024. The online voting has ended.
The most important facts in brief:
- The nominees for "Advertiser of the Year" 2024 are
- The subscribers of the Advertisingweek.ch/m&k-newsletter and the "Advertiser of the Year" jury each have a 50 percent share in determining who will be named "Advertiser of the Year" in 2023.
- The online election starts on Monday, February 26, 2024 and ends on March 1, 2024 at 23:59. Anyone who has been eligible to take part in the online voting since January 19, 2024 at the latest for the free m&k advertisingweek.ch newsletter and receives the newsletter during this period.
- For each newsletter subscriber a Vote counted. Forwarding your own newsletter to other people does not work either: Each voter must have subscribed to the newsletter with his or her own e-mail address.
- The Award Night will take place on March 26, 2024 at Razzia Zurich.
In December 2023, the community of m&k advertisingweek.ch called on various industry heads to nominate themselves as "Advertiser of the Year" 2024. Based on this list, the expert jury in an exciting discussion three high-caliber personalities: Andrea BisonCo-CEO, CCO and Partner at Thjnk Zurich, Jan KempterCreative Director at Wirz, and Gabriel Mauron, Chief Creative Officer of Havas Switzerland are entering the race for the coveted title of "Advertiser:in of the Year" in 2024.
Together with Alexander Jaggy Andrea Bison founded the agency Thjnk Zurich seven years ago. Before that, she worked in Hamburg at Jung von Matt, Springer & Jacoby, Kempertrautmann and Thjnk for clients such as Bild, Mercedes-Benz, Audi and McDonald's. The mother of three has been nominated as "Advertiser:in of the Year" for the fourth time and lives with her family in Zurich.
Since 2021 Jan Kempter Creative Director at Wirz. Before that, the Graubünden native worked as a copywriter at Jung von Matt Limmat and Publicis Zurich before being promoted to Creative Director in 2018. His career in advertising began more by chance with a copywriting competition for toothpaste. In 2023, he led the multi-award-winning campaign for Migros beer.
The Geneva-born Gabriel Mauron joined Havas Switzerland in 2014, where he has been Chief Creative Officer and a member of the Executive Board since April 2023. Over the course of his career, he has worked for agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, M&C Saatchi and Leo Burnett. In addition to his role as a creative, he also works as a photographer for reports such as "Homes on hold". Mauron is the only ADC member in French-speaking Switzerland. He lives in Geneva, is married and the father of two teenage daughters.
In we introduce you to the three nominees in more detail. The official voting starts on Monday, February 26.
Voting starts on February 26
The final winner of "Advertiser:in of the Year" 2024 will be decided by voting as usual. The jury has 50 percent voting rights, the other 50 percent will be determined in the familiar newsletter voting. Anyone who subscribes to the free newsletter from m&k Werbewoche.ch with their own e-mail address and has registered by January 19, 2024 is eligible to participate. Only those votes that fulfill this requirement will be counted. If you vote more than once, only the most recent vote will be counted. The newsletter election will run from Monday, February 26 until Friday, March 1, 2024 at midnight.
Award night at the Zurich Razzia
Since 2021, the "Advertiser:in of the Year" award has once again been held as an independent event. After being held twice on the high seas on board the MS Wadin, the m&k advertisingweek.ch in Zurich's Seefeld district and will select the "Advertiser of the Year" on March 26, 2024 as part of an award night at the Razzia restaurant.
