Excellent judging panel announced for The Connies

We are very excited to announce the judging panel for our Connected Consumer Awards, with experts including Graham Lovelace, Lesley Mackenzie and Digital TV Group’s Simon Gauntlett coming together to recognise and reward innovation in the sector.

The panel for MediaTel Group’s first ever Connected Consumer Awards (‘The Connies’), which will be held on 24 September, will also include Mark Cross, former communications planning director at COI, Nigel Walley, managing director of Decipher and Andrew Walmsley, digital pluralist.

Graham Lovelace, director at Lovelace Consulting, who will be chairing the event, said: “It’s a great pleasure to be chairing the esteemed panel judging The Connies, and good on MediaTel for coming up with the idea!

“Connected technologies are rapidly moving beyond the early adopter phase and with that comes the opportunity for brands to engage audiences in new and exciting ways across all devices and using a range of media.

“The Connies will recognise innovation in this nascent market, and celebrate promising early successes.”

This inaugural event will launch with seven categories including ‘Best Innovation’, ‘Best Research/Insight’ and ‘Most Connected Agency’.

Our judging panel will choose one winner per category with one of the winning nominations ultimately chosen as the overall awards grand prix winner.

The awards are open for entries now. The entry deadline is 24 August, winners will be announced at our awards ceremony on 24 September.

To enter or find out more, click here.