Bangalore-based Stirred Creatives has been chosen as ‘agency of the year’ at the Pepper Creative Awards, the annual creative competition held here recently by The Advertising Club Cochin and the Pepper Creative Awards Trust. The selection was made on the basis of maximum points received on all categories of the competition. The competition, which was open for ad agencies from South India, received around 1,000 entries from 88 agencies vying for the honours in 65 competition categories. “Our endeavour is to make the creative award competition of the Cochin Ad Club as a globally benchmarked premium event every year,” Oommen Kurian, Chairman of the trust, said in a statement. “We hope the legend of Pepper and the creative spirit of the present would jell well to create a niche for Cochin in the global creative space.”