Entry Groups & Categories

Like an open road, this category is just begging for a campaign to display its power. Show us how you drove sales, leases, rentals, accessories, and partsand service for new or used vehicles – or steered brands, engagement, and loyalty. This includes programs developed by manufacturers and marketing organizations, fleet operators, leasing companies, dealer groups, and individual dealerships.

While delivering on the needs of businesses happens largely behind the scenes, those products and services keep entire industries moving ahead. Demonstrate how your smart strategy and breakthrough creative delivered results for your B2B efforts. This category is for campaigns targeting business decision-makers, including tech stack solutions, collaboration tools, consulting and professional services, manufacturing and industrial goods, building supplies, furniture and more.

Consumers come in all shapes and sizes, and this category for campaigns targeting consumer audiences touches them all. It includes everything from traditional consumer packaged goods, food and beverages, consumer electronics, jewelry, and household furnishings and products, to services that help people live their lives such as utilities, telecommunications, internet and streaming services, restaurants, and more.

Dollars, euros, pesos, pounds, rupees, yen – whatever you call it, you cannot live without it. We are looking for your best work for traditional banks, as well as securities, investments, loans, real estate, credit cards, or other financial products and services for consumers, businesses, or agents. This category also includes auto, home, life, disability, and other insurance, excluding health.

This category honors the best marketing within the food and beverage industry. Objectives may include the launch of a new beverage, the opening of a restaurant, the promotion of a sustainable food brand and more.

Many of us strive to live healthier lives and this category recognizes efforts that help us get there. We want to see your fittest campaigns for products and services promoted directly to consumers or to health care professionals, including medical equipment, supplies and services, prescription and over-the-counter medicines, health insurance, coaching and nutrition services, home health services, gyms, fitness equipment and classes.

Unique and uniquely challenging, not-for-profits must appeal to our emotions and drive awareness and action for their causes. Show us your top efforts for non-profit organizations, charitable foundations, cultural institutions, associations, the arts, education, and political advocacy groups. This includes fundraising, public health and safety, public service, and social action educational programs.

This is the category for those who inform, enlighten, thrill, and enthrall. Showcase your campaigns for print or digital books, magazines, newsletters, podcasts, white papers, or websites. Also included are customer engagement and sales for films, TV shows, live theatre and entertainment, sporting events and teams, electronic games, apps and software, and lotteries.

These are the stores and sites we love for the merchandise and services that define our style and fit our lifestyles. We want your submissions for apparel and footwear retailers, e-commerce sites, direct-order enterprises, department and specialty stores, equipment dealers, and other sellers. Show us your approach to building traffic, enquiries, sales, memberships, loyalty, and customer relations.

These are the industries that keep us traveling, lift or rest our spirits, and make traveling for work or pleasure. Show us your best in airlines, hotels, car rentals/ride services, mass transit, tourism and attractions, amusement parks, timeshares, and vacation properties.

Technology is disrupting our lives – for good. Now show us how your marketing is disrupting computer hardware, software, accessories, services,mobile, apps and education. Includes: tech stack solution providers, telecommunications carriers,satellite or cable TV operators or Internet, broadband, streaming and wireless service providers.

Whether public or private utilities, this sector highlights the basic services we use every day like lights, water, gas, sewerage, electricity, solar and more. Share you best in class case study that demonstrates extraordinary work in Utilities.

Standing out in someone’s inbox by delivering timely and tailored messaging is a true test. We are looking for innovative email that generates response, engagement, relationships, and results. This category can be for single or bulk email campaigns targeting consumer or business audiences. Judges will be especially interested in how data was used to enhance customer engagement.

Social media relies on peer-to-peer connections and our desire to share what we find useful or enlightening,funny or infuriating, alarming or heartwarming. Our judges want to see your data-driven social efforts that generate engagement and tailor the experience for your target through storytelling and creativity that produces results.

Show our judges how direct mail is a powerful, data-inspired communication channel for brands, reaching people where they live, work, and make decisions. We will look for data-powered targeting, creative excellence, and flawless execution that pushes the envelope. Entrants are advised that sending physical samples in addition to uploading images greatly increases the probability of success in this category (just like customers, judges are predisposed by the physical experience!).

The medium is the message, and mobile is the medium on the move. Our judges want to see what you have done in the space, including apps, games, banners, messaging, and location-based efforts for tablets, smartphones, and wearables. We are looking for solutions that integrate mobile with other channels or where the unique attributes of mobile meet specific business goals.

Reaching the right consumer at just the right time is both a science and an art. We are searching for executions that deftly combine the two, with campaigns based around search optimization, search marketing, or innovative use of display, internet tools that help drive traffic and more.Pinpoint the stellar strategy behind sophisticated targeting techniques or demonstrate unique technical or creative approaches.

Sometimes it takes an exceptional live experience to seal the deal. Share with us what interacting with a target audience can achieve, whether it is a live virtual broadcast or webinar, or an in-person experience at festivals,exhibitions, concerts, stores/malls/airports, and trade shows. We want evidence that shows where engaging creatively with people in real-time has driven a response such as building relationships, gathering data, or ideally, making sales.

As any teenager with TikTok will tell you, video is hot. We want to see the steak – how data inspired and shaped the idea – and the sizzle – how well the final product was executed and delivered. That goes for your social media teasers, online brand films, vlogs, product reviews, testimonials, user-generated content, corporate videos and presentations,and more.