Med Ad News has announced the finalists for the 35th Annual Manny Awards, which recognize and celebrate the best in pharmaceutical and healthcare advertising, and has named its 2024 Industry Person of the Year. The Manny Awards gala takes place on April 25, 2024 at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers in New York City.

With a passion to continually push the creative envelope, this year’s MedAdvocate jury are bringing their international, award-winning experience to the 2024 Manny Awards. This unbiased panel of industry experts will report to the Manny Award judging table during the finalist voting session, which will be held on Thursday, March 7 in New York City.

2024 Manny Awards

Leading pharmaceutical business and marketing publication Med Ad News has announced the MedAdvocate jury for the 2024 Manny Awards. The MedAdvocates are an unbiased panel of creative experts that analyzes the exceptional components of each finalist creative award campaign under consideration for a Manny Award.

Manny Awards, fearlessness

How creatives can partner with their clients, the pharmaceutical companies, and encourage them to be fearless when it comes to building the inspiration for communicating and advertising.

Concentric Life, Manny Awards

How do you inspire teams to keep learning? In healthcare and wellness, how can we apply learnings from one initiative to another?

Michael Austin, KC Dickerson, ConcentricLife

A discussion about the buzz around artificial intelligence in the healthcare advertising space and why humans will always have the leg up when it comes to creativity.

Michael Sanzen, Francesca Harris and Jeff Perino

In an industry with very narrow parameters, there’s still always an opportunity to be creative.

Jennifer Brekke, Robin Shapiro, 2023 Manny Awards

ConcentricLife Co-founder and President Jennifer Brekke and TBWA\WorldHealth CEO Robin Shapiro share the experiences that helped them reach the leadership roles that they are in today, the importance of relationships, and setting boundaries in your career and in being a working parent.

Michael Austin, Jessica Daponte, Concentric Life

How can we bring a spirit of invention to our everyday work and ensure that we are on the cutting edge of industry innovation?

Med Ad Studio, Wellness

At the 34th Annual Manny Awards, SMEs discussed the growing role of the wellness industry and how it fits into the larger healthcare and pharma space.