Adwanted UK, The Media Leader’s parent company, and The Media Knowledge company is delighted to announce that broadcaster and writer Adrian Chiles will be hosting the final of Media Mind 2025.
Joining Adrian on stage will be scorer for the night Alex Gwilliam whose sparkly quizmaster’s jacket has become so familiar to this year’s competitors.
The final four agencies will battle it out at Odeon Luxe West End in Leicester Square on Tuesday 18th November for the right to be crowned Britain’s most knowledgeable media agency.
With 24 agencies from all of the networks and leading independents competing, Bicycle, Goodstuff, UM and Walk in Media saw off fierce competition to reach the first Media Mind finals since 1993.
Andrew Stephens Co-Founder of Goodstuff said “Media Mind has brought to life the knowledge and craft skills that are still at the heart of UK media agencies and are even more important in an age of AI and brilliantly it does so in a sociable and fun way”
Trophies will also be award to the winners of teams with the best score across the competitions ten categories.
Karen Stacey, CEO of DCM added “Media Mind is a brilliant vehicle for us to encourage our customers to engage with our research, case studies and latest films. Everyone loves a quiz and it’s the perfect vehicle to encourage learning and retention of key facts while socialising – which is also something our industry does so well”
CEO of Adwanted UK, Greg Grimmer said, “I have been proud to have been the Media Mind Champion which CIA (now Wavemaker/WPP media) won back in 1994. The resurrection of Media Mind for the 21st century has been fantastic and all credit to Simon and the team for bringing it to a new generation of media talent, we can’t wait to see who will triumph on 18th November.”
“Congratulations to all the agency teams that have taken part this year – the standard of knowledge has been outstanding. We would also like to thank ISBA, The Advertising Association and The IPA for their backing and all our category partners for helping set the questions for our competitors. Finally our network partners have added that vital sociable ingredient that combines a celebration of knowledge with lots of fun”.
Next year Media Mind is expanding to include media owner and client media teams. To snap up one of the few remaining slots message [email protected]
