MUMBAI: The third Olive Crown Awards will be presented in March 2013 in Mumbai and 9X Media will continue to align itself with the property as the principal sponsor.

The Olive Crown Awards are for creative excellence in communicating sustainability – communication that projected advertisers’ activities in any area that saved energy, contributed to a cleaner environment or positioned them as custodians of Brand Earth. Advertising appearing in the calendar year 2012 would be eligible to enter. Entries will be invited form 1 January and there would be no entry fee.

The awards were launched at the Goa Fest in 2011, had been scaled up and held in Mumbai in March 2012. International Advertising Association (IAA) president Srinivasan Swamy said, “There has been widespread acceptance for these awards. Corporate see the green message as a key differentiator in a competitive environment. I am pleased to confirm that 9X Media would be our principal sponsor once again. This is a measure of the success of this award and the commitment of the sponsor.”

9X Media CEO Pradeep Guha said, “The Olive Crown awards are not just a salute to creativity in the green space, they are a measure of the advertising industry’s seriousness to get the green message on top of the strategic agenda. We are happy with the way the awards were conducted last year, and our association with Olive Crown mirrors our own commitment to the social space.”