Google’s Global Premier Partner Awards, 2017 held in Mumbai

Google India organized its Global Premier Partner Awards, 2017 in Mumbai on Thursday. It has revealed India winners for the 2017 Premier Partner Awards. The awards aim to recognize Indian advertising agencies and digital marketing firms, for their innovation and excellence in digital. Five advertising agencies have been selected as winners from India, and they will now go on to compete at the APAC level. The shortlisted APAC agencies will then compete at the global finals being held in New York on September 28, 2017. The five winners and their winning campaigns are: ‘Interactive Avenues’ wins the Search Innovation Award for leveraging Search to communicate Sprite's message. ‘Social Beat Digital Marketing LLP’ has won the Display Innovation Award for its brand building and lead generation campaign for Casa Grande. ‘Dentsu Aegis Network India’ wins the Mobile Innovation Award for its aggressive digital marketing campaign for Pepperfry.com. ‘Sokrati’ bagged the Shopping Innovation Award for its innovative campaign for Pipa Bellaand. ‘O3M Directional Marketing’ won the Growing Businesses Online Award for Johnson Lifts.   On the sidelines of the Premier Partner Awards 2017 felicitation ceremony, Google hosted a Knowledge session that was themed ‘Innovation First, Change the Game’. The theme refers to the mindset and thinking required today to disrupt in a hyper-competitive, uncertain and demanding digital environment. Google’s Rajan Anandan, Vice President - India and Southeast Asia, Google, spoke about the digital opportunity and ecosystem in 2020 and the initiatives by the company to grow and fuel this ecosystem. Some of the external speakers at the event were Erik Qualman, Motivational Speaker & #1 bestselling author and Rama Bijapurkar, Marketing Guru, who brought to light the trends that are shaping our digital future and brand strategies needed to win in this evolving world. Erik Qualman, Author, Entrepreneur and Motivational Speaker also spoke with Realty Plus’ editor Sapna Srivastava about the digital leadership. Watch full video: [video width="848" height="480" mp4="http://realtyplusmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/VID-20170810-WA0002.mp4"][/video]