Days after notifying the date and venue for The ABBY One Show Awards 2024, Jon Austin, Co-founder, Supermassive, and Kate Stanners, Chairwoman and Global Chief Creative Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi have been appointed as Jury Chairs for the categories of Branded Content & Entertainment as well as Film Cinema Digital OTT (above 1 min duration), respectively.
The ABBY One Show Awards is scheduled to take place at the Goafest’s usual location- Grand Hyatt in Bambolim (Goa) for a span of three days starting May 29, this year.
About these ABBY One Show Awards 2024’s Jury Chairs
Having co-founded Supermassive, Austin is a creative leader whose work has been recognized at every major advertising awards show in the world for PR, entertainment, social and influencer, music, media, and audio.
Prior to setting up Supermassive, he was the Executive Creative Director at Host Havas, Australia.
That being said, with over 15 years of work experience, he has helped numerous ambitious and iconic brands achieve amazing things.
In fact, with a background in commercial music, which saw him playing on stages around the world, Austin’s passion for popular culture has helped him accrue far more interesting accolades than the usual industry fare.
His creations- a true crime podcast for the AFP, and a Christmas carol charted at #1, with the carol still being taught in NZ schools.
Moreover, his modern contributions to the tourism industry comprising the launch of world’s first gamified model of ecotourism have been praised by global policymakers as a game-changer.
On the other hand, Stanners has been at Saatchi & Saatchi for 18 years now and has been pivotal in transforming the agency. By harnessing the unreasonable power of creativity, she has driven the agency’s spirit of ‘Nothing Is Impossible’ to deliver impossible outcomes and revolutionize clients’ businesses.
Based at Saatchi & Saatchi’s London headquarters, she oversees the agency’s creative output, creative talent of the network, and global clients that include Visa, UBS, Beiersdorf, and Deutsche Telekom to name a few.
Prior to joining Saatchi & Saatchi, Stanners was a Founding Partner at St Lukes from 1995 to 2003, an agency which was famous for its revolutionary working practices and progressive work.
Sitting on the customer experience council of the V&A museum, she was honored to be made President of D&AD in 2019.
Apart from this, she is also a member of WACL, an association for the most influential women in the UK Communications industry.
