Pitch BFSI Marketing Summit & Awards 2024

The Banking & Finance industry has witnessed a significant surge in activity after the global markets reopened last year following a slowdown. The digital infrastructure has become indispensable for the functioning of all the BFSI industries as it continues to drive re-invention and innovation. The industry is witnessing a massive shift fuelled by an increase in the working population and growing disposable incomes. Marketers believe that BFSI advertising and marketing ought to be innovative, flexible, and data-driven to stand the test of time and get the attention of evolving consumers through old methods of advertisements and new methods like digital marketing and ads.

The exchange4media Group proudly brings to you the second edition of the Pitch BFSI Marketing Summit & Awards, an event that is designed to recognize and felicitate leaders and brands from the BFSI & Fintech Sector. The awards honour the best minds who have developed and implemented successful marketing strategies, campaigns, and innovative ideas. The awards are an excellent platform for marketing leaders to showcase their best work and achievements. With access to valuable industry resources and insights shared and discussed, the Pitch BFSI Marketing Summit is a great platform for leaders to connect and share their valuable knowledge about the sector. By recognizing and felicitating pioneers in the BFSI & Fintech marketing sector, the awards aim to inspire others to stay ahead of the curve and unlock their full potential.

Categories

Banking

  • A – Marketing Strategies

    • A01 – Most Effective ROI Driven Campaign
    • A campaign with best return on investment (ROI) that marketing quantifies to justify how marketing programs and campaigns generate revenue for the business.

    • A02 - Most Effective Mobile Marketing Campaign
    • Mobile marketing campaign featuring new or ground breaking techniques and/or technologies to market a service or product or any campaign that has leveraged existing technology with a new, unconventional and creative execution. Brands that have mastered this art are welcome to apply for those campaigns that mobile channels like SMS, WhatsApp, In-App, programmatic, App push.

    • A03 – Most Effective Marketing for Credit/Debit Cards
    • Campaign featuring integrated marketing strategies for Credit/Debit cards.

    • A04 - Most Effective Use of Apps
    • Applications used to market a particular brand/product.

    • A05 - Most Effective 360-degree Marketing Campaign
    • An integrated campaign with focused messaging spread across multiple points of customer contact with a comprehensive plan that focuses on reaching the target audience from multiple platforms and channels.

    • A06 - Most Effective Holiday, Seasonal & Festival Marketing
    • A Campaign to market products and brands during special days/events of the year during viz. Holiday, Seasonal and Festivals through the year.

    • A07 - Most Effective Regional Campaign
    • Campaign featuring a compilation of integrated marketing strategies with a reach in regional demographics.

    • A08 - Most Innovative Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns featuring new or ground-breaking techniques and/or technologies to market a service or a product or even using existing technology in a new or unconventional way to promote product/service to engage customers or to increase sales.

    • A09 - Most Effective Customer Engagement
    • Recognizing campaigns in the Banking industry that is best designed to increase brand proposition, subscription and consumer engagement

    • A10 - Most Effective Launch / Relaunch campaign
    • Campaign featuring marketing strategies designed for launch or re-launch of any brand/product.

    • A11 - Most Effective Content Marketing Strategy
    • A12 - Most Effective PR Campaign
    • Campaigns where development, repositioning, reinvigoration, or re-launch of a brand (product/service) is done through the use of PR.

    • A13 - Most Effective B2C Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that achieved exceptional results through innovative strategies, creative execution, and significant impact on key performance indicators.

    • A14 - Most Effective B2B Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that showcase outstanding success through innovative strategies, precise targeting, and significant impact in achieving business results

    • A15 - Most Effective Online Lead Generation Campaign
    • Campaigns that achieved exceptional success in generating high-quality leads through innovative digital strategies and tactics.

  • B – Use of Channels and Mediums

    • B01 - Best Media Integration – TV, Print, Radio, Outdoor, PR, Direct Marketing, Digital etc. (Minimum use of 3 mediums)
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with minimum 3 other media and communication channels. For example, TV, Print, Radio, Outdoor, PR, Direct marketing, Digital, etc.

    • B02 - Most Effective Use of Traditional Media (Print, OOH)
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with traditional media (Print / OOH).

    • B03 - Most Effective Use of TV
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with television as a marketing medium or communication channel.|

    • B04 - Most Effective Use of Radio
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with radio as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B05 – Most Effective Use of Podcast
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with podcast as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B06 - Most Effective Use of social media
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with social media as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B07 - Most Effective Use of Influencer Marketing
    • Campaigns with marketing strategy that involves digital influencer and a marketing medium/channel.

    • B08 - Most Effective Use of OTT/Digital
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with OTT/Digital as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B09 - Most effective use of Facebook
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with Facebook as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B10 - Most effective use of Instagram
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with Instagram as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B11 - Most effective use of X
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with X as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B12 - Most effective use of LinkedIn
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with LinkedIn as a marketing medium or communication channel

  • C – New-Age Marketing

    • C01 - Most Effective Performance Marketing Campaign
    • A marketing campaign that targets an affiliate for performance-based results and generates leads.

    • C02 - Most Effective Use of Analytics, AI and Big Data
    • Use of AI & Big Data that played an integral role in the development and execution of a campaign to target, engage or develop a meaningful relationship with a specific audience or community.

    • C03 - Most Effective Experiential Marketing
    • Campaigns where the customer was made to experience the product/service to communicate the brand's value proposition and creative idea. This could be through activation, direct marketing and social media, and should include the insight, the creative idea, execution and effectiveness.

    • C04 - Most Sustainable Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that promote and feature promotion of environmentally and socially responsible products, practice and brand values by brand / products that promote sustainable consumption.

    • C05 - Most Effective SEO-Driven, Programmatic Marketing
    • An innovative campaign that has achieved outstanding results in search engine marketing - SEM (will include the quality of Search engine optimization- SEO, pay-per-click - PPC, local listing and social media optimization - SMO) and also automated technology for media buying and marketing.

    • C06 - Most effective use of PPC
    • Campaigns that have achieved outstanding results using PPC (pay-per-click) advertising

    • C07 - Best use of Native Advertising
    • Campaigns that have predominantly used one or more digital media platforms innovatively to communicate with the consumers or target audience and have shown significant impact.

Insurance

  • A – Marketing Strategies

    • A01 – Most Effective ROI Driven Campaign
    • A campaign with best return on investment (ROI) that marketing quantifies to justify how marketing programs and campaigns generate revenue for the business.

    • A02 - Most Effective Mobile Marketing Campaign
    • Mobile marketing campaign featuring new or ground breaking techniques and/or technologies to market a service or product or any campaign that has leveraged existing technology with a new, unconventional and creative execution. Brands that have mastered this art are welcome to apply for those campaigns that mobile channels like SMS, WhatsApp, In-App, programmatic, App push.

    • A03 - Most Effective Use of Apps
    • Applications used to market a particular brand/product.

    • A04 - Most Effective 360-degree Marketing Campaign
    • An integrated campaign with focused messaging spread across multiple points of customer contact with a comprehensive plan that focuses on reaching the target audience from multiple platforms and channels.

    • A05 - Most Effective Holiday, Seasonal & Festival Marketing
    • A Campaign to market products and brands during special days/events of the year during viz. Holiday, Seasonal and Festivals through the year.

    • A06 - Most Effective Regional Campaign
    • Campaign featuring a compilation of integrated marketing strategies with a reach in regional demographics.

    • A07 - Most Innovative Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns featuring new or ground-breaking techniques and/or technologies to market a service or a product or even using existing technology in a new or unconventional way to promote product/service to engage customers or to increase sales.

    • A08 - Most Effective Customer Engagement
    • Recognizing campaigns in the Insurance industry that is best designed to increase brand proposition, subscription and consumer engagement.

    • A09 - Most Effective Launch / Relaunch campaign
    • Campaign featuring marketing strategies designed for launch or re-launch of any brand/product.

    • A10 - Most Effective Content Marketing Strategy
    • A11 - Most Effective PR Campaign
    • Campaigns where development, repositioning, reinvigoration, or re-launch of a brand (product/service) is done through the use of PR.

    • A12 - Most Effective B2C Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that achieved exceptional results through innovative strategies, creative execution, and significant impact on key performance indicators.

    • A13 - Most Effective B2B Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that showcase outstanding success through innovative strategies, precise targeting, and significant impact in achieving business results

    • A14 - Most Effective Online Lead Generation Campaign
    • Campaigns that achieved exceptional success in generating high-quality leads through innovative digital strategies and tactics.

  • B – Use of Channels and Mediums

    • B01 - Best Media Integration – TV, Print, Radio, Outdoor, PR, Direct Marketing, Digital etc. (Minimum use of 3 mediums)
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with minimum 3 other media and communication channels. For example, TV, Print, Radio, Outdoor, PR, Direct marketing, Digital, etc.

    • B02 - Most Effective Use of Traditional Media (Print, OOH)
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with traditional media (Print / OOH).

    • B03 - Most Effective Use of TV
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with television as a marketing medium or communication channel.|

    • B04 - Most Effective Use of Radio
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with radio as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B05 – Most Effective Use of Podcast
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with podcast as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B06 - Most Effective Use of social media
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with social media as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B07 - Most Effective Use of Influencer Marketing
    • Campaigns with marketing strategy that involves digital influencer and a marketing medium/channel.

    • B08 - Most Effective Use of OTT/Digital
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with OTT/Digital as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B09 - Most effective use of Facebook
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with Facebook as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B10 - Most effective use of Instagram
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with Instagram as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B11 - Most effective use of X
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with X as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B12 - Most effective use of LinkedIn
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with LinkedIn as a marketing medium or communication channel

  • C – New-Age Marketing

    • C01 - Most Effective Performance Marketing Campaign
    • A marketing campaign that targets an affiliate for performance-based results and generates leads.

    • C02 - Most Effective Use of Analytics, AI and Big Data
    • Use of AI & Big Data that played an integral role in the development and execution of a campaign to target, engage or develop a meaningful relationship with a specific audience or community.

    • C03 - Most Effective Experiential Marketing
    • Campaigns where the customer was made to experience the product/service to communicate the brand's value proposition and creative idea. This could be through activation, direct marketing and social media, and should include the insight, the creative idea, execution and effectiveness.

    • C04 - Most Sustainable Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that promote and feature promotion of environmentally and socially responsible products, practice and brand values by brand / products that promote sustainable consumption.

    • C05 - Most Effective SEO-Driven, Programmatic Marketing
    • An innovative campaign that has achieved outstanding results in search engine marketing - SEM (will include the quality of Search engine optimization- SEO, pay-per-click - PPC, local listing and social media optimization - SMO) and also automated technology for media buying and marketing.

    • C06 - Most effective use of PPC
    • Campaigns that have achieved outstanding results using PPC (pay-per-click) advertising

    • C07 - Best use of Native Advertising
    • Campaigns that have predominantly used one or more digital media platforms innovatively to communicate with the consumers or target audience and have shown significant impact.

Fintech

  • A – Marketing Strategies

    • A01 – Most Effective ROI Driven Campaign
    • A campaign with best return on investment (ROI) that marketing quantifies to justify how marketing programs and campaigns generate revenue for the business.

    • A02 - Most Effective Mobile Marketing Campaign
    • Mobile marketing campaign featuring new or ground breaking techniques and/or technologies to market a service or product or any campaign that has leveraged existing technology with a new, unconventional and creative execution. Brands that have mastered this art are welcome to apply for those campaigns that mobile channels like SMS, WhatsApp, In-App, programmatic, App push.

    • A03 - Most Effective Use of Apps
    • Applications used to market a particular brand/product.

    • A04 - Most Effective 360-degree Marketing Campaign
    • An integrated campaign with focused messaging spread across multiple points of customer contact with a comprehensive plan that focuses on reaching the target audience from multiple platforms and channels.

    • A05 - Most Effective Holiday, Seasonal & Festival Marketing
    • A Campaign to market products and brands during special days/events of the year during viz. Holiday, Seasonal and Festivals through the year.

    • A06 - Most Effective Regional Campaign
    • Campaign featuring a compilation of integrated marketing strategies with a reach in regional demographics.

    • A07 - Most Innovative Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns featuring new or ground-breaking techniques and/or technologies to market a service or a product or even using existing technology in a new or unconventional way to promote product/service to engage customers or to increase sales.

    • A08 - Most Effective Customer Engagement
    • Recognizing campaigns in the Fintech industry that is best designed to increase brand proposition, subscription and consumer engagement.

    • A09 - Most Effective Launch / Relaunch campaign
    • Campaign featuring marketing strategies designed for launch or re-launch of any brand/product.

    • A10 - Most Effective Content Marketing Strategy
    • A11 - Most Effective PR Campaign
    • Campaigns where development, repositioning, reinvigoration, or re-launch of a brand (product/service) is done through the use of PR.

    • A12 - Most Effective B2C Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that achieved exceptional results through innovative strategies, creative execution, and significant impact on key performance indicators.

    • A13 - Most Effective B2B Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that showcase outstanding success through innovative strategies, precise targeting, and significant impact in achieving business results

    • A14 - Most Effective Online Lead Generation Campaign
    • Campaigns that achieved exceptional success in generating high-quality leads through innovative digital strategies and tactics.

  • B – Use of Channels and Mediums

    • B01 - Best Media Integration – TV, Print, Radio, Outdoor, PR, Direct Marketing, Digital etc. (Minimum use of 3 mediums)
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with minimum 3 other media and communication channels. For example, TV, Print, Radio, Outdoor, PR, Direct marketing, Digital, etc.

    • B02 - Most Effective Use of Traditional Media (Print, OOH)
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with traditional media (Print / OOH).

    • B03 - Most Effective Use of TV
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with television as a marketing medium or communication channel.|

    • B04 - Most Effective Use of Radio
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with radio as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B05 – Most Effective Use of Podcast
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with podcast as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B06 - Most Effective Use of social media
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with social media as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B07 - Most Effective Use of Influencer Marketing
    • Campaigns with marketing strategy that involves digital influencer and a marketing medium/channel.

    • B08 - Most Effective Use of OTT/Digital
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with OTT/Digital as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B09 - Most effective use of Facebook
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with Facebook as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B10 - Most effective use of Instagram
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with Instagram as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B11 - Most effective use of X
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with X as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B12 - Most effective use of LinkedIn
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with LinkedIn as a marketing medium or communication channel

  • C – New-Age Marketing

    • C01 - Most Effective Performance Marketing Campaign
    • A marketing campaign that targets an affiliate for performance-based results and generates leads.

    • C02 - Most Effective Use of Analytics, AI and Big Data
    • Use of AI & Big Data that played an integral role in the development and execution of a campaign to target, engage or develop a meaningful relationship with a specific audience or community.

    • C03 - Most Effective Experiential Marketing
    • Campaigns where the customer was made to experience the product/service to communicate the brand's value proposition and creative idea. This could be through activation, direct marketing and social media, and should include the insight, the creative idea, execution and effectiveness.

    • C04 - Most Sustainable Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that promote and feature promotion of environmentally and socially responsible products, practice and brand values by brand / products that promote sustainable consumption.

    • C05 - Most Effective SEO-Driven, Programmatic Marketing
    • An innovative campaign that has achieved outstanding results in search engine marketing - SEM (will include the quality of Search engine optimization- SEO, pay-per-click - PPC, local listing and social media optimization - SMO) and also automated technology for media buying and marketing.

    • C06 - Most effective use of PPC
    • Campaigns that have achieved outstanding results using PPC (pay-per-click) advertising

    • C07 - Best use of Native Advertising
    • Campaigns that have predominantly used one or more digital media platforms innovatively to communicate with the consumers or target audience and have shown significant impact.

Financial Services

  • A – Marketing Strategies

    • A01 – Most Effective ROI Driven Campaign
    • A campaign with best return on investment (ROI) that marketing quantifies to justify how marketing programs and campaigns generate revenue for the business.

    • A02 - Most Effective Mobile Marketing Campaign
    • Mobile marketing campaign featuring new or ground breaking techniques and/or technologies to market a service or product or any campaign that has leveraged existing technology with a new, unconventional and creative execution. Brands that have mastered this art are welcome to apply for those campaigns that mobile channels like SMS, WhatsApp, In-App, programmatic, App push.

    • A03 - Most Effective Use of Apps
    • Applications used to market a particular brand/product.

    • A04 - Most Effective 360-degree Marketing Campaign
    • An integrated campaign with focused messaging spread across multiple points of customer contact with a comprehensive plan that focuses on reaching the target audience from multiple platforms and channels.

    • A05 - Most Effective Holiday, Seasonal & Festival Marketing
    • A Campaign to market products and brands during special days/events of the year during viz. Holiday, Seasonal and Festivals through the year.

    • A06 - Most Effective Regional Campaign
    • Campaign featuring a compilation of integrated marketing strategies with a reach in regional demographics.

    • A07 - Most Innovative Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns featuring new or ground-breaking techniques and/or technologies to market a service or a product or even using existing technology in a new or unconventional way to promote product/service to engage customers or to increase sales.

    • A08 - Most Effective Customer Engagement
    • Recognizing campaigns in the Financial Services industry that is best designed to increase brand proposition, subscription and consumer engagement.

    • A09 - Most Effective Launch / Relaunch campaign
    • Campaign featuring marketing strategies designed for launch or re-launch of any brand/product.

    • A10 - Most Effective Mutual Fund Marketing Campaign
    • A11 - Most Effective Marketing Campaign – NBFC
    • Campaigns with marketing strategy that involves any NBFC platforms.

    • A12 - Most Effective Marketing Campaign - Online Trading Platform
    • Campaign featuring a compilation of integrated marketing strategies designed for online trading firms.

    • A13 – Most Effective Content Marketing Strategy
    • A14 - Most Effective PR Campaign
    • Campaigns where development, repositioning, reinvigoration, or re-launch of a brand (product/service) is done through the use of PR.

    • A15 - Most Effective B2C Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that achieved exceptional results through innovative strategies, creative execution, and significant impact on key performance indicators.

    • A16 - Most Effective B2B Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that showcase outstanding success through innovative strategies, precise targeting, and significant impact in achieving business results

    • A17 - Most Effective Online Lead Generation Campaign
    • Campaigns that achieved exceptional success in generating high-quality leads through innovative digital strategies and tactics.

  • B – Use of Channels and Mediums

    • B01 - Best Media Integration – TV, Print, Radio, Outdoor, PR, Direct Marketing, Digital etc. (Minimum use of 3 mediums)
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with minimum 3 other media and communication channels. For example, TV, Print, Radio, Outdoor, PR, Direct marketing, Digital, etc.

    • B02 - Most Effective Use of Traditional Media (Print, OOH)
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with traditional media (Print / OOH).

    • B03 - Most Effective Use of TV
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with television as a marketing medium or communication channel.|

    • B04 - Most Effective Use of Radio
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with radio as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B05 – Most Effective Use of Podcast
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with podcast as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B06 - Most Effective Use of social media
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with social media as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B07 - Most Effective Use of Influencer Marketing
    • Campaigns with marketing strategy that involves digital influencer and a marketing medium/channel.

    • B08 - Most Effective Use of OTT/Digital
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with OTT/Digital as a marketing medium or communication channel.

    • B09 - Most effective use of Facebook
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with Facebook as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B10 - Most effective use of Instagram
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with Instagram as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B11 - Most effective use of X
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with X as a marketing medium or communication channel

    • B12 - Most effective use of LinkedIn
    • Campaigns with integrated marketing as a core strategy with LinkedIn as a marketing medium or communication channel

  • C – New-Age Marketing

    • C01 - Most Effective Performance Marketing Campaign
    • A marketing campaign that targets an affiliate for performance-based results and generates leads.

    • C02 - Most Effective Use of Analytics, AI and Big Data
    • Use of AI & Big Data that played an integral role in the development and execution of a campaign to target, engage or develop a meaningful relationship with a specific audience or community.

    • C03 - Most Effective Experiential Marketing
    • Campaigns where the customer was made to experience the product/service to communicate the brand's value proposition and creative idea. This could be through activation, direct marketing and social media, and should include the insight, the creative idea, execution and effectiveness.

    • C04 - Most Sustainable Marketing Campaign
    • Campaigns that promote and feature promotion of environmentally and socially responsible products, practice and brand values by brand / products that promote sustainable consumption.

    • C05 - Most Effective SEO-Driven, Programmatic Marketing
    • An innovative campaign that has achieved outstanding results in search engine marketing - SEM (will include the quality of Search engine optimization- SEO, pay-per-click - PPC, local listing and social media optimization - SMO) and also automated technology for media buying and marketing.

    • C06 - Most Effective Integrated Payments / Mobile Wallets Solutions
    • Marketing Campaigns with key strategy focused on driving transactions via Integrated Payment Solutions (IPS) / Mobile Wallets. Campaigns where online payment is promoted via IPS / Wallets.

    • C07 - Most effective use of PPC
    • Campaigns that have achieved outstanding results using PPC (pay-per-click) advertising

    • C08 - Best use of Native Advertising
    • Campaigns that have predominantly used one or more digital media platforms innovatively to communicate with the consumers or target audience and have shown significant impact.

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