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30 Under 30 People’s Choice Award Early Leaders Revealed

David Hovenden
Published on: 13th February 2026 at 12:43 PM
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It’s the race that stops the advertising nation and in an all-new twist, this year B&T’s 30 Under 30 Awards, presented by Vevo, People’s Choice Award is cheat free.

While the hotly contested award was once the domain of the technically savvy, bot-wrangling beauties of adland, this year we’ve added the cunning plan of making voters put their email address in before they vote.

Granted it’s no two-factor authentication level of security, but it appears to be hitting that glorious middle ground of ease of use, while not being wildly open to rorting.

With just one day under the belt, more than 2500 individuals have cast a vote and mercifully for us, not 2499 of them are from the one person. In fact, not one of the top 10 have so far breached three figures. In other words, it’s absolutely anyone’s race without us having to weed out the cheats.

So join in the good, clean fun and get voting now!

So get your mum, get your dad, get your mates and collegeaus to all rally around you and get voting for you.

And with no further ado, here’s the early leaders:

  1. Katie Dorman, Infinity Squared
  2. Amber Knight, Monks
  3. Freya English-Tait, News Corp Australia
  4. Bethan Mellor, Razorfish
  5. Alvin Zhong, Saatchi & Saatchi Australia
  6. Mayah Nathan, Seven Network
  7. Izzy Dobles, Are Media
  8. Jess Illidge, Southern Cross Austereo
  9. Katrina Salvador, Samsung Ads
  10. Clare Cannons, PHD Media
  11. Gemma Micallef, News Corp Australia
  12. Madeleine Baillie, News Xtend
  13. Angus McLeod, Atomic 212
  14. Leah Moriarty, Mindshare
  15. Eddie Clebsch, PHD

And if you’re still excited about winning, why not enter the Cairns Hatchlings presented by Yahoo? Remember all finalists get the full VIP treatment and get flow to Cairns, free entry to the event and accommodation to boot. So what have you got to lose?

 

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David Hovenden is one of the co-founders of The Misfits Media Company and is B&T's editor-in-chief. He has been writing about advertising, marketing and media for more than 15 years. At the same time, he has also written for B&T's sister publication Travel Weekly on all matters travel related. Through this publication he can claim to have stepped foot on every continent in the world (now claimed to be eight, if you accept NZ is its own continent). He has also covered the business of law when he was editor-in-chief and publisher of Lawyer Weekly. Human Resources when he worked for that eponymously named title and a plethora of business and technology publications including, but not limited to PC Week, Australian Personal Computer, Web Week, Internet World, Factory Equipment News, Architecture Today and Building Product News. In his spare time David enjoys fishing, kayaking, fine dining and spending time with his family.

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