Abbys One Show Awards 2024 Adds Jon Austin, Kate Stanners As Jury Chairs

Jon Austin, co-founder of Supermassive, Sydney Australia, and Kate Stanners, chairwoman and global chief creative officer, Saatchi & Saatchi have been appointed as jury chair of branded content and entertainment category and jury chair of film cinema digital OTT (above 1 min duration) category respectively, at The 'Abby One Show Awards 2024'.

Austin is a creative leader whose work has been recognised at every major advertising awards show in the world for PR, entertainment, social and influencer, music, media, and audio. Before co-founding Supermassive, he was the ECD of Host Havas Australia. With over 15 years of work experience, Austin has helped numerous ambitious and iconic brands achieve amazing things.

Austin's modern contributions to the tourism industry are significant. He launched a world-first gamified model of ecotourism, that has been praised by global policymakers as a tourism game-changer. He also created a global brand platform for Tourism Fiji that brought new levels of authenticity and visitors to the islands. A writer of two Gold Albums, Austin has also helped get a five-year overdue release date from George RR Martin for Winds of Winter.

Stanners, on the other hand, has been at Saatchi & Saatchi for 18 years. By harnessing the unreasonable power of creativity, she has driven the agency’s spirit of 'Nothing Is Impossible' to deliver impossible outcomes and revolutionise brands’ businesses.

Based at Saatchi & Saatchi’s London headquarters, Stanners oversees Saatchi & Saatchi’s creative output, the creative talent of the network, and global clients that include Visa, UBS, Beiersdorf, and Deutsche Telekom to name a few. Before Saatchi, she was a founding partner of the groundbreaking agency, St Lukes in 1995 – famous for its revolutionary working practices, as well as progressive work.

Recognised as one of AdAge’s ‘Women to Watch’, she also sits on the customer experience council of the V&A museum and was honoured to be made president of D&AD in 2019. She is a member of WACL, an association for the most influential women in the UK communications industry.