Award Categories

1. Best Eco-Loyalty Initiative

This category recognises the best marketing campaign that implemented eco-friendly measures in raising the awareness of green and sustainability issues, and rewarding customers for their environmental-friendly actions. It could involve innovative approaches within the loyalty programme, such as reducing carbon use, promoting reusable product/services, encouraging customers to adopt sustainable behaviour, etc.

Entries should demonstrate a genuine commitment to environmentally friendly measures, while also providing incentives for customers to engage in eco-conscious behaviours, with tangible results and measurable impact.

2. Best Short-Term Loyalty Initiative (NEW)

This category recognises the best short-term loyalty campaign that ran for a limited time (for example, a seasonal promotion, limited reward, etc) which strategically focused on attracting and winning back the client, increasing customer retention with returning visits through short-term incentives to boost long-term brand loyalty.

Entries should outline how the short-term campaign successfully improved customer loyalty and buying behaviour in the long run through a strategic customer value proposition.

3. Best AI-Powered Engagement Campaign (NEW)

This category recognises outstanding marketing campaigns that effectively utilised AI technology to engage and interact with the target audiences, driving meaningful engagement, and enhancing the customer experiences.
Entries should demonstrate their AI-powered solutions to analyse data, predict customer behaviour, and deliver personalised content at scale.

4. Best Engagement Campaign – Mass Audience

This category recognises the best engagement campaign that was designed for the mass public to drive engagement and achieve a specific marketing outcome.

Entries should illustrate how the campaign offered high levels of engagement with the mass audience in spreading the brand’s message, and how it left a lingering impact on the audience.

5. Best Engagement Campaign – Specific Audience

This category recognises the most successful execution of an engagement strategy designed for a specific audience (for example, age, gender, demographic) to achieve a specific marketing result.

Entries should demonstrate how the campaign offered high levels of engagement with the specific audience in promoting loyalty, and how it left a lingering impact on the audience.

6. Best Loyalty Campaign – Launch/Rebranding

This category recognises the best launch or rebrand of a loyalty programme or a loyalty programme designed to support the launch/rebranding of a product and/or service.

Entries should demonstrate the impact this launch/rebranding strategy had on retaining customers and growing the customer base(s).

7. Best Loyalty Programme – Fashion & Beauty

This category recognises the best loyalty programme designed to drive engagement and advocacy, specifically for a fashion and/or beauty brand.

Entries should illustrate how successful the campaign was in increasing customer engagement and building long-term relationships with customers, resulting in a positive business outcome.

8. Best Loyalty Programme – Finance & Insurance

This category recognises the best loyalty programme designed to drive engagement and advocacy, specifically for the financial and/or insurance industry.

Entries should illustrate how successful the campaign was in increasing customer engagement and building long-term relationships with customers, resulting in a positive business outcome.

9. Best Loyalty Programme – Food & Beverage

This category recognises the best loyalty programme designed to drive engagement and advocacy, specifically for a food and beverage product or service.

Entries should illustrate how successful the campaign was in increasing customer engagement and building long-term relationships with customers, resulting in a positive business outcome.

10. Best Loyalty Programme – Lifestyle & Entertainment (NEW)

This category recognises the best loyalty programme designed to drive engagement and advocacy within the lifestyle and entertainment service industry, such as amusement parks, lifestyle clubs, cinemas, fitness, etc.

Entries should illustrate how successful the campaign was in increasing customer engagement and building long-term relationships with customers, resulting in a positive business outcome.

11. Best Loyalty Programme – Travel & Hospitality (NEW)

This category recognises the best loyalty programme designed to drive engagement and advocacy within the travel and hospitality industry, such as airlines, hotel groups, online travel agents, ticketing platforms, etc.

Entries should illustrate how successful the campaign was in increasing customer engagement and building long-term relationships with customers, resulting in a positive business outcome.

12. Best Loyalty Programme – Retail

This category recognises the best loyalty programme designed to drive engagement and advocacy specifically for a retail brand. This could also apply to malls and shopping centres as well as stores with a presence in either the online and/or offline space.

Entries should illustrate how successful the campaign was in attracting new customers and increasing customer engagement, resulting in a positive business outcome.

13. Best Membership Programme

This category recognises the best loyalty programme that used membership to generate commercial benefits, as well as offering value to the consumer and enhancing customer loyalty.

Entries should demonstrate how the programme cultivated and enhanced loyalty and engagement, as well as how it communicated with its members.

14. Best Partnership Loyalty Campaign

This category recognises the best loyalty campaign led by two organisations that formed a successful partnership in order to generate a cohesive outcome and drive loyalty for both brands. Partnerships can be in the form of card-linked offers, redemptions, discounts, and entitlements.

Entries should demonstrate how the partnership campaign specifically benefited both companies/brands to reach a mutual benefit and deliver strong business returns.

15. Best Omni-Channel Strategy

This category recognises the most effective omni-channel strategy in driving customer engagement and loyalty across different touch-points.

Entries should illustrate how a brand utilised the strategy to understand customers better, and developed customer-centric marketing tools to support customer-centricity, customer satisfaction, and loyalty.

16. Best Acquisition Strategy

This category recognises the most effective acquisition strategy that helped to grow and gain new customers, or widen the customer base of a loyalty programme.

Entrants should demonstrate how the strategy leveraged data and creative marketing tactics to acquire new customers, resulting in a growth of the client base or positive business outcomes

17. Best CRM Strategy

This category recognises the best CRM strategy which has proven to be successful in generating repeat customers, enhancing customer retention, and developing a customer base.

Entries should demonstrate how the CRM strategy was developed and implemented, which successfully built loyalty, helped to retain business, and enhanced the customer proposition.

18. Best Customer Engagement Strategy (NEW)

This category recognises customer engagement strategies that effectively cultivated strong relationships, fostered loyalty, and drove valuable interactions. It celebrates innovative approaches to engaging customers across various touch-points, channels, and experiences.

Entries should demonstrate an understanding of customer needs by employing personalised communication, and leveraging technology to deliver exceptional engagement outcomes.

19. Best CX/UX Strategy

This category recognises the best CX/UX strategy which offered a seamless and intuitive experience to satisfy customers’ growing expectations in a customer-centric approach.

Entries should demonstrate how the strategy was developed with the customer in mind, making sure it was easy for the target audience to interact with the brand, or how it increased customer engagement.

20. Best Social Media Strategy

This category recognises the best social media strategy that built strong ties and a recurring or ongoing connection with consumers.

Entries should illustrate how the strategy was deployed over social media channels and how effective the strategy was in enhancing customer acquisition and providing communications with prompt and innovative engagements.

21. Best Use of Contests/Promotions

This category recognises brands that used contests or promotions to engage with its audiences to form a lasting consumer experience while driving a core marketing objective.

Entries should demonstrate how the contests or promotions led to an effective call to action and improved customer engagement.

22. Best Use of Corporate Social Responsibility

This category recognises brands that effectively integrate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives into their loyalty and engagement strategies.

Entries should demonstrate how the CSR efforts contribute to building brand loyalty and enhancing the brand’s image as a socially responsible organisation, as well as generating positive outcomes for society/the cause.

23. Best Use of Customer Data Analytics

This category recognises the best utilised data analytics and consumer insights to better understand and engage with targeted customer groups to drive loyalty.

Entries should demonstrate how market research, data analytics, and performance measurements helped in offering customers a better proposition to shape the loyalty strategy, deepen customer relationships, drive retention, and create tailored experiences.

24. Best Use of Experiential Marketing

This category recognises the best use of a hands-on experience to take the target audience inside a brand to stimulate interest and enhance engagement for a brand.

Entries should demonstrate interaction and engagement with their audience which enhanced brand identification, perception and advocacy. Creativity and the strategy behind the experiential programme or campaign are also important.

25. Best Use of Gamification
This category recognises brands that have used games to engage with their audiences to form a lasting consumer experience, while driving a core marketing objective. It includes the use of mobile and online games, leader boards, badges, points and challenges, as well as online/offline integrations.

Entries should demonstrate how the brand incorporated gaming to extend their client base, and gain loyalty with a fun and engaging approach.

26. Best Use of Influencers

This category recognises the best campaign designed to increase consumer interest in a brand, product or service and/or changing consumers’ attitudes through the use of influencers.

Entries should demonstrate the increased audience engagement and the generation of positive word of mouth by consumers following the collaboration with the influencer.

27. Best Use of MarTech

This category recognises the most innovative use of marketing technology to attract customers and enhance customer loyalty.

Entries should demonstrate how the innovative technology served as the enabler for the brand and customer with meeting customer expectations, and thus, improving customer engagement and loyalty.

28. Best Use of Mobile

This category recognises the most effective use of mobile technology in building strong ties and meaningful connections with consumers.

Entries should demonstrate heightened usage and returning loyalty among the target customer base.

29. Best Use of Rewards & Incentives

This category celebrates the brand which best leveraged on rewards and incentives to cultivate customer loyalty.

Entries should demonstrate how the rewards/incentives strategy increased customer loyalty and/or engagement, offered value to customers as well as commercial benefits for the brand.

30. Best Use of User-Generated Content (NEW)

This category recognises brands that effectively harnessed user-generated content to enhance customer engagement and loyalty.

Entries should showcase how the user-generated content strategies built trust, fostered brand advocacy, and created authentic connections with customers.