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Two Wheeler Marketing

1. Best Integrated Marketing Campaign

Awarded to campaigns that effectively used multiple channels like digital, social, OOH, influencer, and on-ground marketing together.

2. Best Social Media Campaign

Recognises campaigns that created strong engagement, conversations, and brand visibility through social platforms.

3. Best Digital Marketing Campaign

Honouring campaigns that demonstrate creativity and effectiveness in digital marketing channels such as social media, search engine marketing, and email marketing.

4. Best Content Marketing Campaign

Honouring campaigns that used valuable, relevant, and engaging content to build meaningful audience connections and long-term brand engagement through storytelling, branded content, films, or series.

5. Best Influencer / Creator-Led Campaign

Recognises impactful collaborations with creators, influencers, or automotive content personalities.

6. Best Experiential Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that create memorable experiences to engage consumers and drive brand affinity.

7. Best Brand Partnership

Recognizing partnerships between automotive brands and other brands that result in innovative and successful marketing campaigns.

8. Best Brand Activation Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that successfully activate and engage consumers with the brand through experiential marketing or events.

9. Best Product Launch Campaign

Honoring campaigns that effectively launch a new product or vehicle model in the market.

10. Best Customer Engagement Strategy

Recognizing strategies that effectively engage customers throughout their journey with the brand.

11. Best Community Engagement & Building Campaign

Recognises campaigns that successfully engaged and built strong communities through meaningful interactions, shared experiences, and consumer participation. Honours automotive brands that fostered loyalty, advocacy, and deeper audience connection among riders, owners, enthusiasts, or online communities.

12. Best Dealer Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that support dealerships in promoting automotive products or services effectively.

13. Best Campaign on a Budget

Recognizing campaigns that achieve outstanding results with limited resources.

14. Best Overall Marketing Strategy

Honoring automotive brands with a comprehensive and effective marketing strategy that aligns with business goals and drives results.

15. Best Brand Repositioning / Rebranding Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that successfully rebrand an automotive brand, product, or service.

16. Best Use of Storytelling in Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that effectively use storytelling to connect with consumers on an emotional level and drive brand affinity.

17. Best Partnership with a Celebrity or Influencer

Honoring partnerships between automotive brands and celebrities or influencers that result in successful marketing campaigns.

18. Best Viral & Culture Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that successfully leveraged internet culture, social trends, humour, creator ecosystems, or pop-culture conversations to build strong audience engagement, relevance, and brand affinity.

19. Best Use of Technology in Marketing

Honours innovative use of technologies such as AI, AR/VR, automation, data, or digital tools to enhance marketing effectiveness, consumer engagement, and brand experience.

20. Best Data-Driven Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that effectively used data, analytics, and audience insights to drive results.

21. Best Use of Machine Learning in Marketing

Honoring campaigns that leverage machine learning technology to optimize marketing strategies and improve customer engagement.

22. Best Use of AI in Automotive Marketing

The focus will be on campaigns that demonstrate exceptional use of AI technologies, such as machine learning, predictive analytics, chatbots, personalized content, and automation, to enhance customer engagement, optimize marketing strategies, and drive measurable results in the automotive industry.

23. Best Use of Generative AI in Automotive Marketing

Recognises innovative use of Generative AI in automotive marketing for content creation, personalization, customer engagement, storytelling, or campaign effectiveness.

24. Best Use of AI-Led Customer Experience

Recognises innovative use of AI technologies to enhance customer experience through personalization, automation, intelligent assistance, predictive engagement, or seamless consumer interactions.

25. Best Interactive Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that creatively use interactive experiences, gamification, social engagement, or immersive storytelling to drive deeper consumer participation and brand recall.

26. Best Use of Gamification in Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that use gamification elements to engage consumers and drive brand interaction.

27. Best Conversational Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that effectively used WhatsApp, chatbots, voice assistants, or conversational platforms to drive consumer engagement, personalised interactions, and seamless brand communication.

28. Best Mobile App for Automotive Marketing

Recognizing mobile apps that enhance the automotive marketing experience for consumers.

29. Best Use of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Recognises campaigns that effectively leveraged SEO strategies to improve search visibility, website traffic, audience reach, and overall digital performance.

30. Best Use of Performance Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that maximized results through data-driven strategies, measurable outcomes, and targeted audience engagement, this award honors excellence in performance marketing that led to impactful and quantifiable success in the automotive industry.

31. Best Use of Programmatic Marketing

This award recognizes innovative and effective use of programmatic advertising strategies within the automotive sector.

32. Best Mobile Marketing Campaign

Recognises innovative mobile-led campaigns that effectively leverage apps, mobile platforms, messaging, or mobile-first experiences to engage consumers, enhance brand interaction, and drive measurable business impact.

33. Best Use of OOH (Out-of-Home)

Honoring impactful outdoor advertising campaigns that effectively use traditional out-of-home media to build brand visibility, reach audiences, and create strong consumer recall.

34. Best Use of DOOH

Recognises innovative campaigns that leverage Digital Out-of-Home advertising through dynamic, interactive, or real-time content to engage consumers effectively.

35. Best Use of Programmatic OOH

Awarded to campaigns that use data-driven and automated outdoor media buying to deliver targeted, contextual, and measurable consumer engagement.

36. Best Use of CTV (Connected TV)

Recognises impactful automotive campaigns that effectively leveraged Connected TV (CTV) to deliver targeted storytelling, audience engagement, and measurable marketing results.

37. Best Audio Marketing Campaign

Recognises impactful campaigns executed through podcasts, radio, music streaming, or audio platforms.

38. Best Print & Traditional Media Campaign

Honours impactful campaigns executed across print and traditional advertising formats such as newspapers, magazines, brochures, radio, cinema, or other offline media that effectively drove brand visibility and audience engagement.

39. Best Omnichannel Customer Journey Campaign

Recognises seamless customer experiences across online and offline touchpoints.

40. Best Video Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that effectively use video content to engage and connect with the audience.

41. Best Short Video (Up to 45 Seconds)

Honouring impactful short-form video campaigns (up to 45 seconds) that deliver strong messaging, creativity, and engagement within a compact format.

42. Best Mid Length Video (Up to 60 Seconds)

Awarding video campaigns up to 60 seconds that effectively balance storytelling and brand communication with creativity and clarity.

43. Best Long Video (60 Seconds and Above)

Celebrating long-format video campaigns (60 seconds and above) that showcase powerful narratives, strong emotional appeal, and immersive storytelling.

44. Best Cause-Related Marketing Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that align with a social or environmental cause to drive brand engagement and awareness.

45. Best Social Impact Campaign

This category focuses more on campaigns that genuinely create positive social change, awareness, or community impact beyond brand promotion.

46. Best Environmental Marketing Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that promote environmental sustainability and eco-friendly practices within the automotive industry.

47. Best Inclusion & Diversity Campaign

Recognises campaigns promoting inclusivity, accessibility, representation, or diversity.

48. Best Regional Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns tailored for specific regional or local markets using strong cultural insights, regional language, and consumer understanding. Honours automotive brands that created impactful communication resonating deeply with local audiences and driving measurable engagement or business results.

49. Best Holiday, Seasonal or Festival Marketing

Recognises campaigns that creatively leverage festivals, holidays, or seasonal moments to drive audience engagement and strengthen brand connection. Honours culturally relevant storytelling and timely marketing that delivers impactful consumer response and business results.

50. Best Use of Sports & Esports Marketing

Honours automotive brands that effectively leverage sports, gaming, or esports platforms and partnerships to drive brand visibility and consumer engagement. Recognises campaigns that build strong audience connect through passion-led communities and experience.

Nomination Fee Per Category : ₹23,000 + GST

Passenger Vehicle Marketing

1. Best Integrated Marketing Campaign

Awarded to campaigns that effectively used multiple channels like digital, social, OOH, influencer, and on-ground marketing together.

2. Best Social Media Campaign

Recognises campaigns that created strong engagement, conversations, and brand visibility through social platforms.

3. Best Digital Marketing Campaign

Honouring campaigns that demonstrate creativity and effectiveness in digital marketing channels such as social media, search engine marketing, and email marketing.

4. Best Content Marketing Campaign

Honouring campaigns that used valuable, relevant, and engaging content to build meaningful audience connections and long-term brand engagement through storytelling, branded content, films, or series.

5. Best Influencer / Creator-Led Campaign

Recognises impactful collaborations with creators, influencers, or automotive content personalities.

6. Best Experiential Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that create memorable experiences to engage consumers and drive brand affinity.

7. Best Brand Partnership

Recognizing partnerships between automotive brands and other brands that result in innovative and successful marketing campaigns.

8. Best Brand Activation Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that successfully activate and engage consumers with the brand through experiential marketing or events.

9. Best Product Launch Campaign

Honoring campaigns that effectively launch a new product or vehicle model in the market.

10. Best Customer Engagement Strategy

Recognizing strategies that effectively engage customers throughout their journey with the brand.

11. Best Community Engagement & Building Campaign

Recognises campaigns that successfully engaged and built strong communities through meaningful interactions, shared experiences, and consumer participation. Honours automotive brands that fostered loyalty, advocacy, and deeper audience connection among riders, owners, enthusiasts, or online communities.

12. Best Dealer Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that support dealerships in promoting automotive products or services effectively.

13. Best Campaign on a Budget

Recognizing campaigns that achieve outstanding results with limited resources.

14. Best Overall Marketing Strategy

Honoring automotive brands with a comprehensive and effective marketing strategy that aligns with business goals and drives results.

15. Best Brand Repositioning / Rebranding Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that successfully rebrand an automotive brand, product, or service.

16. Best Use of Storytelling in Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that effectively use storytelling to connect with consumers on an emotional level and drive brand affinity.

17. Best Partnership with a Celebrity or Influencer

Honoring partnerships between automotive brands and celebrities or influencers that result in successful marketing campaigns.

18. Best Viral & Culture Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that successfully leveraged internet culture, social trends, humour, creator ecosystems, or pop-culture conversations to build strong audience engagement, relevance, and brand affinity.

19. Best Use of Technology in Marketing

Honours innovative use of technologies such as AI, AR/VR, automation, data, or digital tools to enhance marketing effectiveness, consumer engagement, and brand experience.

20. Best Data-Driven Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that effectively used data, analytics, and audience insights to drive results.

21. Best Use of Machine Learning in Marketing

Honoring campaigns that leverage machine learning technology to optimize marketing strategies and improve customer engagement.

22. Best Use of AI in Automotive Marketing

The focus will be on campaigns that demonstrate exceptional use of AI technologies, such as machine learning, predictive analytics, chatbots, personalized content, and automation, to enhance customer engagement, optimize marketing strategies, and drive measurable results in the automotive industry.

23. Best Use of Generative AI in Automotive Marketing

Recognises innovative use of Generative AI in automotive marketing for content creation, personalization, customer engagement, storytelling, or campaign effectiveness.

24. Best Use of AI-Led Customer Experience

Recognises innovative use of AI technologies to enhance customer experience through personalization, automation, intelligent assistance, predictive engagement, or seamless consumer interactions.

25. Best Interactive Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that creatively use interactive experiences, gamification, social engagement, or immersive storytelling to drive deeper consumer participation and brand recall.

26. Best Use of Gamification in Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that use gamification elements to engage consumers and drive brand interaction.

27. Best Conversational Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that effectively used WhatsApp, chatbots, voice assistants, or conversational platforms to drive consumer engagement, personalised interactions, and seamless brand communication.

28. Best Mobile App for Automotive Marketing

Recognizing mobile apps that enhance the automotive marketing experience for consumers.

29. Best Use of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Recognises campaigns that effectively leveraged SEO strategies to improve search visibility, website traffic, audience reach, and overall digital performance.

30. Best Use of Performance Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that maximized results through data-driven strategies, measurable outcomes, and targeted audience engagement, this award honors excellence in performance marketing that led to impactful and quantifiable success in the automotive industry.

31. Best Use of Programmatic Marketing

This award recognizes innovative and effective use of programmatic advertising strategies within the automotive sector.

32. Best Mobile Marketing Campaign

Recognises innovative mobile-led campaigns that effectively leverage apps, mobile platforms, messaging, or mobile-first experiences to engage consumers, enhance brand interaction, and drive measurable business impact.

33. Best Use of OOH (Out-of-Home)

Honoring impactful outdoor advertising campaigns that effectively use traditional out-of-home media to build brand visibility, reach audiences, and create strong consumer recall.

34. Best Use of DOOH

Recognises innovative campaigns that leverage Digital Out-of-Home advertising through dynamic, interactive, or real-time content to engage consumers effectively.

35. Best Use of Programmatic OOH

Awarded to campaigns that use data-driven and automated outdoor media buying to deliver targeted, contextual, and measurable consumer engagement.

36. Best Use of CTV (Connected TV)

Recognises impactful automotive campaigns that effectively leveraged Connected TV (CTV) to deliver targeted storytelling, audience engagement, and measurable marketing results.

37. Best Audio Marketing Campaign

Recognises impactful campaigns executed through podcasts, radio, music streaming, or audio platforms.

38. Best Print & Traditional Media Campaign

Honours impactful campaigns executed across print and traditional advertising formats such as newspapers, magazines, brochures, radio, cinema, or other offline media that effectively drove brand visibility and audience engagement.

39. Best Omnichannel Customer Journey Campaign

Recognises seamless customer experiences across online and offline touchpoints.

40. Best Video Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that effectively use video content to engage and connect with the audience.

41. Best Short Video (Up to 45 Seconds)

Honouring impactful short-form video campaigns (up to 45 seconds) that deliver strong messaging, creativity, and engagement within a compact format.

42. Best Mid Length Video (Up to 60 Seconds)

Awarding video campaigns up to 60 seconds that effectively balance storytelling and brand communication with creativity and clarity.

43. Best Long Video (60 Seconds and Above)

Celebrating long-format video campaigns (60 seconds and above) that showcase powerful narratives, strong emotional appeal, and immersive storytelling.

44. Best Cause-Related Marketing Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that align with a social or environmental cause to drive brand engagement and awareness.

45. Best Social Impact Campaign

This category focuses more on campaigns that genuinely create positive social change, awareness, or community impact beyond brand promotion.

46. Best Environmental Marketing Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that promote environmental sustainability and eco-friendly practices within the automotive industry.

47. Best Inclusion & Diversity Campaign

Recognises campaigns promoting inclusivity, accessibility, representation, or diversity.

48. Best Regional Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns tailored for specific regional or local markets using strong cultural insights, regional language, and consumer understanding. Honours automotive brands that created impactful communication resonating deeply with local audiences and driving measurable engagement or business results.

49. Best Holiday, Seasonal or Festival Marketing

Recognises campaigns that creatively leverage festivals, holidays, or seasonal moments to drive audience engagement and strengthen brand connection. Honours culturally relevant storytelling and timely marketing that delivers impactful consumer response and business results.

50. Best Use of Sports & Esports Marketing

Honours automotive brands that effectively leverage sports, gaming, or esports platforms and partnerships to drive brand visibility and consumer engagement. Recognises campaigns that build strong audience connect through passion-led communities and experience.

Nomination Fee Per Category : ₹23,000 + GST

Commercial Vehicle Marketing

1. Best Integrated Marketing Campaign

Awarded to campaigns that effectively used multiple channels like digital, social, OOH, influencer, and on-ground marketing together.

2. Best Social Media Campaign

Recognises campaigns that created strong engagement, conversations, and brand visibility through social platforms.

3. Best Digital Marketing Campaign

Honouring campaigns that demonstrate creativity and effectiveness in digital marketing channels such as social media, search engine marketing, and email marketing.

4. Best Content Marketing Campaign

Honouring campaigns that used valuable, relevant, and engaging content to build meaningful audience connections and long-term brand engagement through storytelling, branded content, films, or series.

5. Best Influencer / Creator-Led Campaign

Recognises impactful collaborations with creators, influencers, or automotive content personalities.

6. Best Experiential Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that create memorable experiences to engage consumers and drive brand affinity.

7. Best Brand Partnership

Recognizing partnerships between automotive brands and other brands that result in innovative and successful marketing campaigns.

8. Best Brand Activation Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that successfully activate and engage consumers with the brand through experiential marketing or events.

9. Best Product Launch Campaign

Honoring campaigns that effectively launch a new product or vehicle model in the market.

10. Best Customer Engagement Strategy

Recognizing strategies that effectively engage customers throughout their journey with the brand.

11. Best Community Engagement & Building Campaign

Recognises campaigns that successfully engaged and built strong communities through meaningful interactions, shared experiences, and consumer participation. Honours automotive brands that fostered loyalty, advocacy, and deeper audience connection among riders, owners, enthusiasts, or online communities.

12. Best Dealer Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that support dealerships in promoting automotive products or services effectively.

13. Best Campaign on a Budget

Recognizing campaigns that achieve outstanding results with limited resources.

14. Best Overall Marketing Strategy

Honoring automotive brands with a comprehensive and effective marketing strategy that aligns with business goals and drives results.

15. Best Brand Repositioning / Rebranding Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that successfully rebrand an automotive brand, product, or service.

16. Best Use of Storytelling in Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that effectively use storytelling to connect with consumers on an emotional level and drive brand affinity.

17. Best Partnership with a Celebrity or Influencer

Honoring partnerships between automotive brands and celebrities or influencers that result in successful marketing campaigns.

18. Best Viral & Culture Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that successfully leveraged internet culture, social trends, humour, creator ecosystems, or pop-culture conversations to build strong audience engagement, relevance, and brand affinity.

19. Best Use of Technology in Marketing

Honours innovative use of technologies such as AI, AR/VR, automation, data, or digital tools to enhance marketing effectiveness, consumer engagement, and brand experience.

20. Best Data-Driven Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that effectively used data, analytics, and audience insights to drive results.

21. Best Use of Machine Learning in Marketing

Honoring campaigns that leverage machine learning technology to optimize marketing strategies and improve customer engagement.

22. Best Use of AI in Automotive Marketing

The focus will be on campaigns that demonstrate exceptional use of AI technologies, such as machine learning, predictive analytics, chatbots, personalized content, and automation, to enhance customer engagement, optimize marketing strategies, and drive measurable results in the automotive industry.

23. Best Use of Generative AI in Automotive Marketing

Recognises innovative use of Generative AI in automotive marketing for content creation, personalization, customer engagement, storytelling, or campaign effectiveness.

24. Best Use of AI-Led Customer Experience

Recognises innovative use of AI technologies to enhance customer experience through personalization, automation, intelligent assistance, predictive engagement, or seamless consumer interactions.

25. Best Interactive Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that creatively use interactive experiences, gamification, social engagement, or immersive storytelling to drive deeper consumer participation and brand recall.

26. Best Use of Gamification in Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that use gamification elements to engage consumers and drive brand interaction.

27. Best Conversational Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that effectively used WhatsApp, chatbots, voice assistants, or conversational platforms to drive consumer engagement, personalised interactions, and seamless brand communication.

28. Best Mobile App for Automotive Marketing

Recognizing mobile apps that enhance the automotive marketing experience for consumers.

29. Best Use of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Recognises campaigns that effectively leveraged SEO strategies to improve search visibility, website traffic, audience reach, and overall digital performance.

30. Best Use of Performance Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that maximized results through data-driven strategies, measurable outcomes, and targeted audience engagement, this award honors excellence in performance marketing that led to impactful and quantifiable success in the automotive industry.

31. Best Use of Programmatic Marketing

This award recognizes innovative and effective use of programmatic advertising strategies within the automotive sector.

32. Best Mobile Marketing Campaign

Recognises innovative mobile-led campaigns that effectively leverage apps, mobile platforms, messaging, or mobile-first experiences to engage consumers, enhance brand interaction, and drive measurable business impact.

33. Best Use of OOH (Out-of-Home)

Honoring impactful outdoor advertising campaigns that effectively use traditional out-of-home media to build brand visibility, reach audiences, and create strong consumer recall.

34. Best Use of DOOH

Recognises innovative campaigns that leverage Digital Out-of-Home advertising through dynamic, interactive, or real-time content to engage consumers effectively.

35. Best Use of Programmatic OOH

Awarded to campaigns that use data-driven and automated outdoor media buying to deliver targeted, contextual, and measurable consumer engagement.

36. Best Use of CTV (Connected TV)

Recognises impactful automotive campaigns that effectively leveraged Connected TV (CTV) to deliver targeted storytelling, audience engagement, and measurable marketing results.

37. Best Audio Marketing Campaign

Recognises impactful campaigns executed through podcasts, radio, music streaming, or audio platforms.

38. Best Print & Traditional Media Campaign

Honours impactful campaigns executed across print and traditional advertising formats such as newspapers, magazines, brochures, radio, cinema, or other offline media that effectively drove brand visibility and audience engagement.

39. Best Omnichannel Customer Journey Campaign

Recognises seamless customer experiences across online and offline touchpoints.

40. Best Video Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that effectively use video content to engage and connect with the audience.

41. Best Short Video (Up to 45 Seconds)

Honouring impactful short-form video campaigns (up to 45 seconds) that deliver strong messaging, creativity, and engagement within a compact format.

42. Best Mid Length Video (Up to 60 Seconds)

Awarding video campaigns up to 60 seconds that effectively balance storytelling and brand communication with creativity and clarity.

43. Best Long Video (60 Seconds and Above)

Celebrating long-format video campaigns (60 seconds and above) that showcase powerful narratives, strong emotional appeal, and immersive storytelling.

44. Best Cause-Related Marketing Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that align with a social or environmental cause to drive brand engagement and awareness.

45. Best Social Impact Campaign

This category focuses more on campaigns that genuinely create positive social change, awareness, or community impact beyond brand promotion.

46. Best Environmental Marketing Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that promote environmental sustainability and eco-friendly practices within the automotive industry.

47. Best Inclusion & Diversity Campaign

Recognises campaigns promoting inclusivity, accessibility, representation, or diversity.

48. Best Regional Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns tailored for specific regional or local markets using strong cultural insights, regional language, and consumer understanding. Honours automotive brands that created impactful communication resonating deeply with local audiences and driving measurable engagement or business results.

49. Best Holiday, Seasonal or Festival Marketing

Recognises campaigns that creatively leverage festivals, holidays, or seasonal moments to drive audience engagement and strengthen brand connection. Honours culturally relevant storytelling and timely marketing that delivers impactful consumer response and business results.

50. Best Use of Sports & Esports Marketing

Honours automotive brands that effectively leverage sports, gaming, or esports platforms and partnerships to drive brand visibility and consumer engagement. Recognises campaigns that build strong audience connect through passion-led communities and experience.

Nomination Fee Per Category : ₹23,000 + GST

Electric Vehicle Marketing

1. Best Integrated Marketing Campaign

Awarded to campaigns that effectively used multiple channels like digital, social, OOH, influencer, and on-ground marketing together.

2. Best Social Media Campaign

Recognises campaigns that created strong engagement, conversations, and brand visibility through social platforms.

3. Best Digital Marketing Campaign

Honouring campaigns that demonstrate creativity and effectiveness in digital marketing channels such as social media, search engine marketing, and email marketing.

4. Best Content Marketing Campaign

Honouring campaigns that used valuable, relevant, and engaging content to build meaningful audience connections and long-term brand engagement through storytelling, branded content, films, or series.

5. Best Influencer / Creator-Led Campaign

Recognises impactful collaborations with creators, influencers, or automotive content personalities.

6. Best Experiential Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that create memorable experiences to engage consumers and drive brand affinity.

7. Best Brand Partnership

Recognizing partnerships between automotive brands and other brands that result in innovative and successful marketing campaigns.

8. Best Brand Activation Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that successfully activate and engage consumers with the brand through experiential marketing or events.

9. Best Product Launch Campaign

Honoring campaigns that effectively launch a new product or vehicle model in the market.

10. Best Customer Engagement Strategy

Recognizing strategies that effectively engage customers throughout their journey with the brand.

11. Best Community Engagement & Building Campaign

Recognises campaigns that successfully engaged and built strong communities through meaningful interactions, shared experiences, and consumer participation. Honours automotive brands that fostered loyalty, advocacy, and deeper audience connection among riders, owners, enthusiasts, or online communities.

12. Best Dealer Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that support dealerships in promoting automotive products or services effectively.

13. Best Campaign on a Budget

Recognizing campaigns that achieve outstanding results with limited resources.

14. Best Overall Marketing Strategy

Honoring automotive brands with a comprehensive and effective marketing strategy that aligns with business goals and drives results.

15. Best Brand Repositioning / Rebranding Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that successfully rebrand an automotive brand, product, or service.

16. Best Use of Storytelling in Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that effectively use storytelling to connect with consumers on an emotional level and drive brand affinity.

17. Best Partnership with a Celebrity or Influencer

Honoring partnerships between automotive brands and celebrities or influencers that result in successful marketing campaigns.

18. Best Viral & Culture Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that successfully leveraged internet culture, social trends, humour, creator ecosystems, or pop-culture conversations to build strong audience engagement, relevance, and brand affinity.

19. Best Use of Technology in Marketing

Honours innovative use of technologies such as AI, AR/VR, automation, data, or digital tools to enhance marketing effectiveness, consumer engagement, and brand experience.

20. Best Data-Driven Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that effectively used data, analytics, and audience insights to drive results.

21. Best Use of Machine Learning in Marketing

Honoring campaigns that leverage machine learning technology to optimize marketing strategies and improve customer engagement.

22. Best Use of AI in Automotive Marketing

The focus will be on campaigns that demonstrate exceptional use of AI technologies, such as machine learning, predictive analytics, chatbots, personalized content, and automation, to enhance customer engagement, optimize marketing strategies, and drive measurable results in the automotive industry.

23. Best Use of Generative AI in Automotive Marketing

Recognises innovative use of Generative AI in automotive marketing for content creation, personalization, customer engagement, storytelling, or campaign effectiveness.

24. Best Use of AI-Led Customer Experience

Recognises innovative use of AI technologies to enhance customer experience through personalization, automation, intelligent assistance, predictive engagement, or seamless consumer interactions.

25. Best Interactive Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that creatively use interactive experiences, gamification, social engagement, or immersive storytelling to drive deeper consumer participation and brand recall.

26. Best Use of Gamification in Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that use gamification elements to engage consumers and drive brand interaction.

27. Best Conversational Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that effectively used WhatsApp, chatbots, voice assistants, or conversational platforms to drive consumer engagement, personalised interactions, and seamless brand communication.

28. Best Mobile App for Automotive Marketing

Recognizing mobile apps that enhance the automotive marketing experience for consumers.

29. Best Use of SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

Recognises campaigns that effectively leveraged SEO strategies to improve search visibility, website traffic, audience reach, and overall digital performance.

30. Best Use of Performance Marketing

Recognizing campaigns that maximized results through data-driven strategies, measurable outcomes, and targeted audience engagement, this award honors excellence in performance marketing that led to impactful and quantifiable success in the automotive industry.

31. Best Use of Programmatic Marketing

This award recognizes innovative and effective use of programmatic advertising strategies within the automotive sector.

32. Best Mobile Marketing Campaign

Recognises innovative mobile-led campaigns that effectively leverage apps, mobile platforms, messaging, or mobile-first experiences to engage consumers, enhance brand interaction, and drive measurable business impact.

33. Best Use of OOH (Out-of-Home)

Honoring impactful outdoor advertising campaigns that effectively use traditional out-of-home media to build brand visibility, reach audiences, and create strong consumer recall.

34. Best Use of DOOH

Recognises innovative campaigns that leverage Digital Out-of-Home advertising through dynamic, interactive, or real-time content to engage consumers effectively.

35. Best Use of Programmatic OOH

Awarded to campaigns that use data-driven and automated outdoor media buying to deliver targeted, contextual, and measurable consumer engagement.

36. Best Use of CTV (Connected TV)

Recognises impactful automotive campaigns that effectively leveraged Connected TV (CTV) to deliver targeted storytelling, audience engagement, and measurable marketing results.

37. Best Audio Marketing Campaign

Recognises impactful campaigns executed through podcasts, radio, music streaming, or audio platforms.

38. Best Print & Traditional Media Campaign

Honours impactful campaigns executed across print and traditional advertising formats such as newspapers, magazines, brochures, radio, cinema, or other offline media that effectively drove brand visibility and audience engagement.

39. Best Omnichannel Customer Journey Campaign

Recognises seamless customer experiences across online and offline touchpoints.

40. Best Video Marketing Campaign

Honoring campaigns that effectively use video content to engage and connect with the audience.

41. Best Short Video (Up to 45 Seconds)

Honouring impactful short-form video campaigns (up to 45 seconds) that deliver strong messaging, creativity, and engagement within a compact format.

42. Best Mid Length Video (Up to 60 Seconds)

Awarding video campaigns up to 60 seconds that effectively balance storytelling and brand communication with creativity and clarity.

43. Best Long Video (60 Seconds and Above)

Celebrating long-format video campaigns (60 seconds and above) that showcase powerful narratives, strong emotional appeal, and immersive storytelling.

44. Best Cause-Related Marketing Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that align with a social or environmental cause to drive brand engagement and awareness.

45. Best Social Impact Campaign

This category focuses more on campaigns that genuinely create positive social change, awareness, or community impact beyond brand promotion.

46. Best Environmental Marketing Campaign

Recognizing campaigns that promote environmental sustainability and eco-friendly practices within the automotive industry.

47. Best Inclusion & Diversity Campaign

Recognises campaigns promoting inclusivity, accessibility, representation, or diversity.

48. Best Regional Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns promoting inclusivity, accessibility, representation, or diversity.

49. Best Holiday, Seasonal or Festival Marketing

Recognises campaigns that creatively leverage festivals, holidays, or seasonal moments to drive audience engagement and strengthen brand connection. Honours culturally relevant storytelling and timely marketing that delivers impactful consumer response and business results.

50. Best Use of Sports & Esports Marketing

Honours automotive brands that effectively leverage sports, gaming, or esports platforms and partnerships to drive brand visibility and consumer engagement. Recognises campaigns that build strong audience connect through passion-led communities and experience.

51. Best EV Launch Campaign

Recognises the most impactful launch campaign for an electric vehicle that successfully built awareness, excitement, consumer engagement, and market visibility through innovative storytelling, media strategy, and audience connect.

52. Best Charging Infrastructure Campaign

Honours campaigns that effectively promoted EV charging infrastructure, charging accessibility, convenience, or charging ecosystem awareness through impactful communication and consumer education.

53. Best EV Awareness Campaign

Honours campaigns that effectively educated consumers about EV adoption, charging, range, affordability, or sustainable mobility benefits.

Nomination Fee Per Category : ₹23,000 + GST

Tyre Marketing Excellence

1. Best Brand Campaign in Tyre Industry

Recognises the most creative and impactful tyre marketing campaign that built strong brand awareness and consumer connection.

2. Best Digital Strategy in Tyre Marketing

Honours the most effective use of digital platforms, social media, and online advertising to engage audiences and drive results.

3. Influencer & Content Marketing Excellence

Celebrates campaigns that successfully used influencers and engaging content to educate, connect with, and influence consumers.

4. Sustainable Brand Campaign in Tyres

Recognises campaigns promoting sustainability, eco-friendly practices, recycling initiatives, or green mobility solutions.

5. Best Experiential Marketing Activation

Honours immersive on-ground or virtual brand experiences that created strong audience engagement and memorable interactions.

6. Most Effective Regional Marketing Campaign

Celebrates campaigns that effectively connect with regional audiences using local culture, language, and insights.

7. Innovation in Product Launch Marketing

Recognises creative and impactful campaigns launched to introduce a new tyre product or technology.

8. Best Use of Data & Analytics in Marketing

Awards campaigns that used consumer data and insights effectively to improve targeting, engagement, and performance.

9. Customer Loyalty & Retention Program of the Year

Honours initiatives that strengthened customer relationships through loyalty programs, rewards, or after- sales engagement.

10. Breakthrough Digital Innovation in Tyres

Recognises innovative use of technologies like AI, AR/VR, or interactive digital tools to enhance customer experience.

11. Best Tyre Safety Campaign

Celebrates campaigns focused on promoting tyre safety, road awareness, and responsible driving practices.

12. Best Omnichannel Marketing Strategy

Honours campaigns that delivered a seamless and consistent brand experience across online and offline channels.

13. Best Brand Collaboration in Tyres

Recognises successful partnerships between tyre brands and other brands, retailers, or automotive companies.

14. Best Use of CTV (Connected TV)

Awards campaigns that effectively used Connected TV platforms for targeted storytelling and audience engagement.

15. Best Use of OOH Marketing Campaigns

Celebrates impactful Out-of-Home campaigns that delivered strong visibility and audience recall through outdoor media.

16. Best Use of DOOH Marketing Campaigns

Honours campaigns that creatively leveraged Digital Out-of-Home media for dynamic and engaging brand communication.

17. Best Use of Programmatic OOH Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that used data-driven programmatic outdoor advertising for targeted and real- time consumer engagement.

18. Best Holiday, Seasonal or Festival Marketing

Celebrates campaigns that creatively leveraged festive, seasonal, or holiday moments to drive audience engagement and brand impact.

19. Best Short Video Campaign (Up to 45 Seconds)

Honours short-format video campaigns that delivered impactful storytelling and strong audience engagement within 45 seconds.

20. Best Mid-Length Video Campaign (Up to 60 Seconds)

Recognises engaging video campaigns up to 60 seconds that balanced storytelling, creativity, and brand messaging effectively.

21. Best Long Video Campaign (60 Seconds and Above)

Celebrates long-format video campaigns that showcased compelling storytelling and emotional audience connection.

22. Best Radio Marketing Campaign

Honours innovative and memorable radio campaigns that achieved strong listener engagement and brand recall.

23. Best Print Marketing Campaign

Recognises impactful print campaigns across newspapers, magazines, brochures, and other static media formats.

24. Best Campaign on a Budget

Celebrates cost-effective campaigns that achieved exceptional impact, creativity, and measurable results within a limited budget.

25. Best Partnership with a Celebrity or Influencer

Recognises successful collaborations with celebrities or influencers that enhanced brand visibility, engagement, and campaign effectiveness.

26. Best Use of AI in Tyre Marketing

Recognises campaigns that effectively used Artificial Intelligence for audience targeting, personalization, predictive insights, creative optimisation, or customer engagement.

27. AI-Powered Customer Experience Excellence

Honours tyre brands that leveraged AI tools such as chatbots, virtual assistants, recommendation engines, or smart platforms to enhance consumer experience and support.

28. Best AI-Led Innovation in Tyre Brand Communication

Celebrates innovative use of AI technologies like generative AI, AI-driven content creation, virtual simulations, or automated storytelling to create impactful brand communication.

Nomination Fee Per Category : ₹23,000 + GST

Auto Fluids Marketing Excellence

1. Best Integrated Marketing Campaign

Recognises fuel campaigns that effectively combine digital, on-ground, retail, and media channels for maximum impact.

2. Best Digital Marketing Campaign

Honours innovative digital campaigns that drive awareness, engagement, and customer action for fuel brands.

3. Best Social Media Campaign

Celebrates fuel brands that use social media creatively to connect with consumers and build brand affinity.

4. Best Content Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that use informative and engaging content to educate and influence fuel consumers.

5. Best Influencer Marketing Campaign

Honours collaborations with influencers that successfully promote fuel brands, products, or services.

6. Best Experiential Marketing Campaign

Recognises immersive fuel marketing experiences that create memorable consumer interactions.

7. Best Use of Technology in Marketing

Celebrates innovative use of AI, AR/VR, automation, or data tools in fuel marketing campaigns.

8. Best Product Launch Campaign

Honours impactful launch campaigns for new fuel products, lubricants, EV fuels, or premium offerings.

9. Best Customer Engagement Strategy

Recognises strategies that effectively build long-term customer relationships and loyalty.

10. Best Use of Data in Marketing

Celebrates campaigns that use customer insights and analytics for targeted fuel marketing.

11. Best Video Marketing Campaign

Honours creative and engaging video-led campaigns promoting fuel brands or services.

12. Best Community Engagement Campaignn

Recognises campaigns that connect fuel brands with local communities and consumers meaningfully.

13. Best Cause-Related Marketing Campaign

Honours campaigns linked to sustainability, road safety, clean energy, or social causes.

14. Best Interactive Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns that engage audiences through gamification, AR filters, polls, or immersive experiences.

15. Best Dealer Marketing Campaign

Celebrates impactful campaigns executed through fuel stations, dealer networks, or retail partners.

16. Best Overall Marketing Strategy

Honours fuel brands with a strong and consistent marketing approach delivering measurable business growth.

17. Best Social Impact Campaign

Recognises campaigns that create positive environmental or social impact within the fuel industry.

18. Best Environmental Marketing Campaign

Honours campaigns promoting cleaner fuels, sustainability initiatives, or eco-friendly energy solutions.

19. Best Use of AI or Machine Learning in Marketing

Recognises campaigns using AI-driven targeting, automation, predictive analytics, or personalization.

20. Best Brand Activation Campaign

Celebrates high-impact activations that increase fuel brand visibility and consumer engagement.

21. Best Use of Storytelling in Marketing

Honours campaigns that emotionally connect with audiences through powerful fuel brand narratives.

22. Best Use of OOH (Out-of-Home)

Recognises impactful outdoor campaigns including billboards, transit media, and fuel station branding.

23. Best Use of DOOH

Celebrates innovative digital outdoor campaigns that effectively capture consumer attention.

24. Best Use of Performance Marketing

Honours campaigns that deliver measurable ROI through targeted and data-driven marketing efforts.

25. Best Regional Marketing Campaign

Recognises campaigns tailored to regional markets using local language, culture, and consumer insights effectively.

26. Best AI-Powered Performance Marketing Campaign

Celebrating campaigns that leveraged AI for media optimisation, audience targeting, and measurable ROI.

27. Best Use of Conversational AI in Marketing

Recognising the use of AI chatbots, voice assistants, or virtual agents to improve customer interaction and engagement

28. Best AI Innovation in Energy & Mobility Marketing

Celebrating breakthrough AI-led marketing innovations in the fuel, mobility, EV charging, or energy ecosystem.

Nomination Fee Per Category : ₹23,000 + GST

Auto Ancillary Marketing Excellence

1. Best Integrated Marketing Campaign

For campaigns using multiple channels seamlessly across digital, retail, influencer, OOH, and experiential.

2. Best Digital Marketing Campaign

For high-performing digital-first campaigns across search, social, video, and online media.

3. Best Social Media Campaign

Perfect for tyre, lubricant, EV charging, and accessory brands heavily investing in Instagram, YouTube, and creator-led engagement.

4. Best Influencer Marketing Campaign

Highly relevant for auto creators, riders, mechanics, road trip influencers, and automotive YouTubers.

5. Best Automotive Influencer Campaign

A stronger auto-focused version specifically rewarding automotive creator collaborations.

6. Best Use of AI for Auto Marketing Campaign

One of the strongest future-facing categories for predictive targeting, AI-generated creatives, chatbots, automation, and personalization.

7. Best Use of AI or Machine Learning in Marketing

For broader martech, personalization engines, analytics, CRM automation, and intelligent audience targeting.

8. Best Use of Technology in Marketing

Perfect for AR product demos, virtual garages, immersive retail, configurators, or smart experiences.

9. Best Use of Data in Marketing

For data-led targeting, customer segmentation, fleet behavior analysis, or retail analytics.

10. Best Data-Driven Marketing Campaign

Focused on measurable business outcomes powered by analytics and insights.

11. Best Dealer Marketing Campaign

Extremely important for ancillary brands with nationwide dealer/distributor networks.

12. Best Customer Engagement Strategy

For loyalty programs, mechanic engagement, fleet partnerships, app ecosystems, or after-sales engagement.

13. Best Brand Activation Campaign

Perfect for roadshows, retail activations, mechanic meets, pit-stop experiences, and live demos.

14. Best Experiential Marketing Campaign

For immersive experiences at auto expos, racing events, mall activations, and test-drive engagements.

15. Best Experiential Event

Recognizing large-scale on-ground automotive or mobility engagement events.

16. Best Use of Storytelling in Marketing

For emotionally driven campaigns around safety, journeys, durability, innovation, or mobility transformation.

17. Best Video Marketing Campaign

One of the most active formats across auto ancillary brands today.

18. Best Short Video (Up to 45 Seconds)

Ideal for reels, YouTube Shorts, and quick-impact product storytelling.

19. Best Performance Marketing

For lead generation, ecommerce conversions, dealer visits, app installs, and measurable ROI campaigns.

20. Best Use of Programmatic Marketing

For smart audience targeting and precision media buying.

21.Best Content Marketing Campaign

Recognising impactful content-driven campaigns that enhanced brand engagement, storytelling, and consumer awareness in the automotive ancillary sector.

22. Best Mobile Marketing Campaign

Honouring mobile-first campaigns that effectively engaged automotive audiences through apps, messaging, mobile ads, or interactive mobile experiences.

23. Best Video Marketing Campaign

Recognising compelling video-led campaigns that drove brand visibility, audience engagement, and impactful storytelling for automotive ancillary brands.

24. Best Regional Marketing Campaign

One of the strongest categories for India because ancillary brands rely heavily on regional dealer ecosystems and vernacular outreach.

25. Best Campaign on a Budget

Excellent for emerging ancillary brands and regional campaigns delivering strong impact efficiently.

26. Best Environmental Marketing Campaign

Very important due to sustainability, EV transition, green mobility, eco-lubricants, recycling, and carbon- conscious branding.

27. Best AI-Driven Personalization Campaign

Honouring campaigns that used AI to deliver highly personalized experiences, offers, recommendations, or communication based on customer behavior and preferences.

28. Best AI-Powered Experiential Campaign

Honouring immersive campaigns powered by AI, including smart installations, intelligent interactions, AR/VR integrations, or adaptive experiences.

Nomination Fee Per Category : ₹23,000 + GST

Auto Insurance Marketing Excellence

1. Best Integrated Marketing Campaign

For campaigns using digital, social, influencers, OOH, partnerships, and performance marketing together.

2. Best Digital Marketing Campaign

Recognising high-impact digital-first insurance campaigns driving awareness, leads, or policy conversions.

3. Best Social Media Campaign

Honouring campaigns that created strong engagement, conversations, and consumer trust through social platforms.

4. Best Performance Marketing Campaign

Recognising data-driven campaigns focused on lead generation, app installs, renewals, or policy sales with measurable ROI.

5. Best Content Marketing Campaign

Awarding educational, awareness-driven, or storytelling-led content simplifying insurance for consumers.

6. Best Influencer / Creator-Led Campaignn

Recognising collaborations with finance creators, auto influencers, riders, or digital personalities to build trust and awareness.

7. Best Customer Engagement Strategy

Honouring strategies that improved customer interaction, retention, policy renewal, or service experience.

8. Best Omnichannel Customer Journey Campaign

Recognising seamless insurance journeys across app, website, call center, WhatsApp, dealership, and offline touchpoints.

9. Best Conversational Marketing Campaign

For campaigns using WhatsApp, AI chatbots, voice assistants, or conversational journeys for customer acquisition and support.

10. Best Use of AI in Insurance Marketing

Recognising innovative use of AI for personalization, automation, customer targeting, predictive engagement, or claims communication.

11. Best Use of Generative AI in Marketing

Honouring use of Generative AI for content creation, customer communication, personalization, or creative storytelling.

12. Best Use of Data-Driven Marketing

Recognising campaigns powered by analytics, audience segmentation, behavioral insights, and measurable performance outcomes.

13. Best Use of Machine Learning in Marketing

Awarding campaigns leveraging ML for lead scoring, fraud prediction, targeting, customer retention, or optimization.

14. Best AI-Led Customer Experience

Recognising AI-powered policy buying, claim assistance, renewal reminders, personalization, or customer support experiences.

15. Best Mobile Marketing Campaign

For mobile-first campaigns leveraging apps, mobile ads, notifications, or smartphone-led consumer engagement.

16. Best Mobile App for Insurance Experience

Recognising apps delivering seamless policy purchase, claims, roadside assistance, renewals, or customer servicing.

17. Best Interactive Marketing Campaign

Awarding campaigns using calculators, quizzes, gamification, interactive videos, or engagement-led digital experiences.

18. Best Use of Gamification in Marketing

Recognising campaigns that use rewards, challenges, driving scores, safe-driving programs, or engagement mechanics effectively.

19. Best Brand Partnership Campaign

Honouring partnerships between insurers and automotive brands, fintechs, fuel brands, mobility apps, or e-commerce platforms.

20. Best Product Launch Campaign

Recognising successful launches of new insurance products, EV insurance plans, usage-based insurance, or add-on covers.

21. Best Video Marketing Campaign

Awarding impactful video-led campaigns across digital, TV, OTT, or social media platforms.

22. Best Short Video Campaign (Up to 45 Seconds)

Recognising high-impact short-form videos designed for reels, YouTube Shorts, or snackable digital consumption.

23. Best Regional Marketing Campaign

Honouring campaigns tailored for regional audiences using local languages, cultural insights, and localized storytelling.

24. Best Cause-Related or Road Safety Campaign

Recognising campaigns promoting road safety, responsible driving, accident awareness, or consumer education.

25. Best Brand Repositioning / Trust Building Campaign

Awarding campaigns that successfully improved brand perception, trust, accessibility, or modernized the insurance category image.

Nomination Fee Per Category : ₹23,000 + GST