Best Audience Engagement
This award will recognise the technology and creativity behind campaigns that produce real, demonstrable engagement with their target audience.
Best Use Gaming
Awarded to the best creative idea using in-game technology. Campaigns entered into this category will have utilised the comms opportunities of any type of gaming (including console games, PC games, social or mobile gaming) to reach audiences in new and exciting ways.
Best Use of AI
This award recognises the most effective use of AI for a campaign or business optimisation. Entries must clearly explain what type of AI was used, how it was implemented, and how it produced demonstrably better results and performance for a brand.
Best Use of Creative Personalisation
This award is for campaigns using technology to deliver targeted and personalised communications. The winner will pair brilliant creative with insightful use of data and media to deliver a highly tailored message to the customer resulting in great engagement and conversions.
Best Use of Data
This category seeks to recognise innovative brand activity rooted in data-driven customer insight. The winning work will show that data was used not only to solve a problem but also contributed to the brand’s overall marketing mission.
Best Use of Experiential Tech
This category rewards a branded experience that makes use of technology in an innovative way that wows consumers, helps drive deeper engagement for fans and delivers an unforgettable experience for the customer.
Best Use of Innovation
This award honours inventive campaigns that have used innovative technology to deliver exceptional brand engagement.
Best Use of Insight
This award seeks to recognise innovative brand activity through insight. The winning work will show that insight was used not only to solve a problem but also contributed to the brand’s overall marketing mission.
Best Use of Paid Search
We are seeking proficient and successful management of a paid search campaign.
Best Use of Paid Social
We are seeking an innovative and effective paid social campaign or strategy that gained a stellar set of results via a performance-based effort. Whether the objective was to drive sales, engagement, leads or even footfall, entries should demonstrate how client objectives were met and ROI achieved from the activity.
Best Use of Programmatic Media
This award is open to media owners, media agencies, brands or creative agencies that have maximised the use of automated media solutions to create memorable campaigns. T
Best Use of Tech in CRM
Tech has enabled brands to talk directly to their customers in more innovative and personalised ways. Companies that are most effective or innovating in customer relationship management should enter this award.
Best Use of Tech in Out-of-Home
The UK’s out-of-home industry has been transformed by digital and there are more opportunities than ever before to use tech in ingenious ways to reach consumers. This award recognises memorable and powerful advertising created by innovative and creative uses of technology.
Best Integrated Campaign
This award is for campaigns that demonstrate both excellence and creativity across a range of channels.
Best Location-Based or Proximity Based Marketing Campaign
This award celebrates agencies and tech providers who have enabled brands to give their consumers an engaging, personalised and targeted brand experience using proximity technology or location-based data.
Tech as Part of a Campaign
This award recognises tech innovations created as part of a brand campaign or branding initiative. Entrants must be able to demonstrate that the technology made a difference to the campaign.
Tech for Good
The winner of this award will demonstrate excellence in using technology in a creative campaign.
Best Use of AR/VR
This award recognises innovative use of augmented or virtual reality to create immersive brand experiences.
Best Creative Use of AI
This award celebrates campaigns and projects that showcase AI as a transformative tool for creativity. Judges will look for entries that leverage AI to bring unique and imaginative ideas to life, from content creation to interactive experiences and beyond.
Best Operational Use of AI
This category recognises the outstanding use of AI to optimise business processes, drive efficiencies, or enhance operational performance.