Gerety Awards 2025 Jury Insights from South Africa

Gerety Awards 2025 Jury Insights from South Africa

Apr. 30, 2025

Join some of this year's South African Jury members from the MEA Executive Jury on Friday, June 6th as they discuss trends and favourite campaigns from the 2025 Gerety Awards.

As well as defining the Gerety 2025 global shortlist, the Middle East & Africa  jury session will choose the MEA agency and production company of the year.

Entrants should submit a 5-minute reel of up to 3 pieces of work from the past 12 months into the MEA Agency of the year or Production company of the year category.

Agency / Production Company of the Year - By Country

The executive jury sessions each choose the agency and production company of the year from their country.

Agency and Production company of the year by country will be chosen from the entrants of this category. (Entrants should submit a 5-minute reel of up to 3 pieces of work)

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There are 15 locations for the jury sessions this year: New York, Toronto, London, Paris, Central & Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, Düsseldorf, Madrid, Milan, LATAM, Melbourne, MEA, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and São Paulo. In total more than 250 judges from 50 countries will join the 2025 Gerety Awards. 

Just like in previous year’s post judging Gerety organizes jury insight panels with the leading trade press titles from around the world so that a few judges from each jury group can discuss their favourite works and trends. 

The South Africa Jury Insight panel is moderated by Danette Breitenbach, Marketing and Media Editor at Bizcommunity.com, the panel includes:

Linda Kachingwe-Sisya, Executive Head of Marketing and Communications, Africa and International - RMB and FNB

Koo Govender, CEO, Publicis Groupe Africa

RSVP for 

  • The Jury Insights here.
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