Award Categories
1. Excellence in Advertising
2. Excellence in B2B Marketing
3. Excellence in Brand Awareness
This category recognises the best marketing campaign or initiative that successfully increased recollection for a firm’s products or services amongst target audiences. The initiatives can include both above the line and below the line activities.
4. Excellence in Brand Strategy
This category recognises the best brand strategy as reflected in a campaign or any marketing initiative. Entrants are reminded to expand on how the brand strategy took shape and the results it saw.
5. Excellence in Communications / Public Relations
6. Excellence in Consumer Insights / Market Research
7. Excellence in Content Marketing
8. Excellence in Corporate Social Responsibility
9. Excellence in Customer Engagement
10. Excellence in Data-Driven Marketing
This category recognises the best marketing campaign, initiative or programme that adopted innovative and effective business intelligence, data planning, measurement and analytic tools to improve targeting whilst successfully driving the organisation’s core business objectives.
11. Excellence in Digital Marketing
12. Excellence in Event Marketing
This category recognises the organisation that best used events as a key tool to increase brand awareness and customer engagement. Entries can be for small-scale events or large-scale events targeting the general public.
13. Excellence in Experiential Marketing
This category recognises the organisation that best implemented an experiential programme that allowed consumers to get involved in, feel, enjoy or share in the brand experience. This should have translated into a positive perception of the brand for consumers.
14. Excellence in Gaming *NEW*
15. Excellence in Influencer Marketing *NEW*
This category recognises the organisation that effectively used influencers within a marketing campaign to enhance awareness and successfully achieve business objectives. Influencers could include appropriate experts, ambassadors, bloggers or celebrities etc.
16. Excellence in Integrated Marketing
17. Excellence in Launch Marketing
18. Excellence in Loyalty Marketing
This category recognises the best campaign, initiative or programme that demonstrated a cohesive customer loyalty strategy and effective CRM programme to grow and retain existing customers through incentives whilst enhancing the customer proposition. It should also have encouraged greater spend, resulting in positive business outcomes.
19. Excellence in Marketing Innovation
20. Excellence in Marketing to a Specific Audience *NEW*
This category recognises the best marketing campaign, initiative or programme aimed at a specific audience. This is not exclusive to a single audience but the majority of the target audience should be a specific demographic the campaign set out to approach. Specific audience bases could include gender, age group, interest groups (e.g. wellness, racing, eSports etc.) and other profiled audiences. Entries should show why the specific audience was important and how the audience responded well.
21. Excellence in Marketing Transformation *NEW*
This category recognises the organisation who best revamped a marketing team(s) to transform their marketing process and / or output. This could be a consultative project by an agency or a project conducted by in-house transformation team. Entrants should be able to demonstrate an effective transformation with minimal disruption and a positive impact on subsequent marketing campaign results.
22. Excellence in Media Strategy
This category recognises the organisation that best utilised media channels as their key strategic tool to execute a powerful marketing campaign while successfully driving core business objectives.
23. Excellence in Mobile Marketing
This category recognises the most effective and innovative use of mobile marketing. Campaigns could have included the use of apps and mobile as a media format, mobile app marketing and / or marketing and advertising through mobile and apps to achieve a specific marketing outcome, be it branding, a prompted consumer behaviour or simply increased consumption.
24. Excellence in Out-of-Home Advertising
This category recognises advertising campaigns that utilised the Out-of-Home (OOH) medium in an innovative, creative way that successfully raised brand awareness. OOH can include media such as billboards, transit media or any other media traditionally classified as OOH.
25. Excellence in Performance Marketing
This category recognises the best performing marketing campaign, initiative or programme. Campaigns entered into this category should be aimed at driving actions and response as opposed to simply raising awareness. Entries should demonstrate evidence of campaigns having been optimised in real time and remuneration to the relevant vendors and platforms should have been based on results delivered.
26. Excellence in Print Advertising
This category recognises the most creative and effective advertisements placed in the traditional print media. This includes ads placed in newspapers, magazines and other media considered traditional print media.
27. Excellence in Programmatic Marketing *NEW*
This category recognises the organisation that best used programmatic strategies and solutions to optimise a campaign and greater enhance the targeting to a specific audience. Entrants should be able to demonstrate how the programmatic strategy specifically improved the campaign’s success and helped achieve business objectives.
28. Excellence in Public Sector / Non-Profit Marketing *NEW*
This category recognises the best public sector or non-profit campaign, initiative or programme that raised awareness and successfully drove business objectives for government schemes, community services and / or NGOs.
29. Excellence in Retail / Shopper Marketing
This category recognises the organisation that most effectively ran a campaign, initiative or programme designed to reach shoppers via sampling, competitions, in-store or in the retail environment etc., and successfully translated this into future purchases of the featured product(s).
30. Excellence in Search Marketing
This category recognises the most effective digital marketing campaigns that had search marketing at their core. Entries should cover campaigns that were geared for cross-channel search engine optimisation, including both desktop and mobile SEO.
31. Excellence in Social Media Marketing
This category recognises the best campaign, initiative or programme that optimised social media channels to build strong relationships with customers, recruit new audiences or engage existing consumers whilst driving core business objectives. This can be a one-off campaign or a longer term strategy.
32. Excellence in Sponsorship Activation
This category recognises the organisation that best developed and activated a brand-relevant sponsorship activity to target a specific audience or marketing opportunity. Entrants should have built successful partnerships with key stakeholders to deliver strong business returns.
33. Excellence in Sports / Esports Marketing
This category recognises the most creative idea in sports or esports related marketing campaigns that meet the marketing objectives of companies through multiple media channels.
34. Excellence in TV / Video Advertising
This category recognises the most creative, entertaining and effective video advertisements. This category will cover both traditional television advertising as well as advertisements deployed on digital video platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo etc.
35. Excellence in Viral Marketing
This category recognises the best campaign, initiative or programme that successfully captured its target audience and subsequently turned into a self-replicating viral process with its results meeting the organisation’s core business objectives.
36. Marketer of the Year (Not for Entry)
This category recognises the organisation that performs best at the Marketing Excellence Awards 2019. This is awarded to the organisation with the highest number of winning entries. This award is not open for entry.
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