Awards Categories

Digital Marketing

A1. Best Digital Marketing Campaign

This award recognizes the most exceptional integrated digital marketing campaign that effectively utilizes multiple platforms and channels.

A2. Best Email Marketing Campaign

This award recognizes the most exceptional email marketing campaign with high open rates, click-through rates, and conversion rates.

A3. Best Low-Budget Digital Marketing Campaign

This award recognizes the most creative and effective digital marketing campaign implemented with a limited budget. (Under 3 lakhs)

A4. Best Product Launch

This award recognizes the most successful and innovative product launch. (Online)

A5. Best Product Re-Launch

This award recognizes the most successful and innovative product re-launch. (Online)

A6. Best Digital Brand Marketing Strategy

This award recognizes the most effective and innovative digital strategy that has successfully enhanced brand awareness and image

A7. Best Website/Microsite

This award recognizes the most exceptional and user-friendly website or microsite with engaging content and effective conversion strategies.

A8. Best SEO Marketing

This award recognizes the most successful and innovative Search Engine Optimization (SEO) marketing campaign that has effectively improved search engine rankings and organic traffic.

A9. Best Use of Mobile

This award recognizes the most innovative and effective use of mobile marketing technology & channels to engage and delight customers.

A10. Best Use of Video or Animation

This award recognizes the most innovative and effective use of video or animation in digital marketing campaigns to engage and/or to convert the audience.

A11. Best Conversational Marketing

This award recognizes the most effective use of dialogue-based interactions to engage and/or to convert customers in a personalized and human-like way.

A12. Best Customer Relationship Marketing

This award recognizes the most effective use of dialogue-based interactions to engage and/or to convert customers in a personalized and human-like way.

MarTech

B1. Best Programmatic Ad Campaign

This award recognizes the most effective and innovative programmatic ad campaign that utilizes real-time data and automation to target and engage the audience.

B2. Best App Marketing

This award recognizes the most innovative and effective mobile app marketing campaign that has successfully increased app downloads, engagement, and retention.

B3. Best Use of Data Analytics in Marketing

This award recognizes the most innovative and effective use of data analytics in developing and executing successful marketing strategies.

B4. Best Use of AI & ML in Marketing

This award recognizes the most innovative and effective use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in digital marketing campaigns to drive significant results.

B5. Best Use of Personalisation

The award recognizes the exceptional implementation of technology-enabled strategies that deliver personalized experiences and engagement to consumers at scale.

B6. Best Marketing Automation

The award recognizes outstanding use of automated technologies and processes to streamline marketing campaigns, optimize customer engagement, and drive measurable business results.

B7. Best Use of MarTech for Customer Engagement

This award recognizes companies that have effectively used MarTech tools to engage customers across multiple channels, improve customer experience, and drive business growth.

Social Media Marketing

C1. Best Social Media Campaign-Over all

The award recognizes the most outstanding and impactful social media campaign that effectively reaches and engages with its target audience while achieving the desired business goals.

C2. Best Cross-Platform Campaign

The award recognizes the most successful marketing campaign that effectively utilizes multiple channels, messaging apps, and social media platforms to reach and engage with a diverse audience.

C3. Best Moment/Trend Marketing

The award celebrates creative and successful marketing campaigns that leverage current moments and trends to capture audience attention and drive brand engagement.

C4. Best Use of Memes for Marketing

The award recognizes brands that effectively use memes as a creative and humorous tool to engage with their audience and promote their products or services.

C5. Best Use of Social Media Analytics

The award recognizes outstanding utilization of social media analytics to gather insights and inform data-driven decision-making for social media marketing and engagement strategies.

C6. Best Use of Chatbots in Social Media Marketing

The award recognizes the exceptional implementation of chatbots to enhance customer service, engagement, and overall marketing efforts on social media platforms.

Influencer Marketing

D1. Best Integrated Influencer Campaign (Multi-channels)

The award recognizes the outstanding execution of a multi-channel influencer marketing campaign that effectively integrates influencers into various marketing channels to deliver a cohesive message and drive measurable results.

D2. Best Branded Content Collaboration

The award recognizes the most exceptional collaboration between a brand and an influencer in creating authentic and effective branded content that successfully engages the influencer's followers and drives business results for the brand.

D3. Best Use of Micro-Influencers

The award recognizes the most innovative and effective use of micro-influencers in a brand's marketing campaign, resulting in authentic and engaging content that effectively reaches the target audience and drives business results. (Influencers with followers/subscribers between 1,000 to 1,00,000)

D4. Best Use of Technology for Influencer Marketing

The award recognizes technology that is used for influencer marketing that is helping the industry grow and drive more brand safety and transparency.

Solution providers focusing on UI/UX/AI/Machine learning technologies etc. can apply in this category.

D5. Best Use of User-Generated Content (UGC) in Influencer Marketing

This award recognizes agencies that effectively leveraged UGC to create compelling influencer marketing campaigns that resonated with the target audience.

D6. Best Influencer Marketing Platform

This category recognizes the top platforms that facilitate effective influencer marketing campaigns. These platforms help brands connect with influencers, manage collaborations,and measure campaign performance.

D7. Best Influencer Marketing Tool

This category highlights tools that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of influencer marketing campaigns. Unlike platforms that offer a comprehensive suite of services, individual tools are often specialized to address specific needs within the influencer marketing ecosystem.

D8. Best Use of Automation in Influencer Marketing

This category recognizes innovations and solutions that effectively leverage automation to streamline and enhance influencer marketing efforts. Automation in this context involves using technology to perform repetitive tasks, manage workflows, and optimize campaigns, thereby increasing efficiency and effectiveness.

Traditional Marketing

E1. Best Brand Activation

This award recognizes the most innovative and successful execution of an experiential marketing campaign or event that effectively engages consumers and promotes brand awareness, loyalty, and sales.

E2. Best Low-Budget Offline Marketing

The award recognizes the most creative and effective low-budget offline marketing campaign that generated maximum brand awareness and customer engagement. (Up to 5 Lakhs)

E3. Best Print Campaign

The award recognizes the most innovative and impactful print campaign that effectively communicated the brand's message and increased brand recognition and sales. (*Print should have been at least 50% of the media cost)

E4. Best Radio Campaign

The award recognizes the most innovative and impactful radio advertising campaign that effectively delivered the brand message to the target audience. (*Radio should have been at least 50% of the media cost)

E5. Best TV Campaign

The award recognizes the most impactful and memorable TV commercial campaign that effectively communicated the brand message and resonated with the target audience. (*TV should have been at least 50% of the media cost)

E6. Best Product Launch (Offline)

The award recognizes the most impactful and successful product launch executed through offline marketing channels.

E7. Best Content Marketing to Build Brand Awareness

The award recognizes the best content marketing strategy that effectively builds brand awareness and engages the target audience.

E8. Best DOOH/OOH Campaign

The Award honors the most innovative, effective, and impactful Out-of-home (OOH) / Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) media campaigns that have demonstrated exceptional creativity, strategic thinking, and successful execution in reaching and engaging audiences.

Sectoral Marketing

F1. Best Marketing Campaign for a BFSI Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for BFSI brands that showcased the effective and quantifiable impact.

F2. Best Marketing Campaign for a Consumer Durable Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for consumer durable brands that showcased the effective and quantifiable impact.

F3. Best Marketing Campaign for a Food & Beverage Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for food & beverage brands that showcased the effective and quantifiable impact.

F4. Best Marketing Campaign for a Gaming Company/Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for gaming companies/brands that showcased the effective and quantifiable impact.

F5. Best Marketing Campaign for a Healthcare & Wellness Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for healthcare & wellness brands that showcased effective and quantifiable impact.

F6. Best Marketing Campaign for a Hospitality Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for hospitality brands that showcased an effective and quantifiable impact. (Includes hotels and restaurants)

F7. Best Marketing Campaign for a Media & Entertainment Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for media & entertainment brands that showcased effective and quantifiable impact. (Includes music, film, television, publications & media, books, news, digital platforms, and other media.)

F8. Best Marketing Campaign for a Real Estate Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for real estate brands that showcased the effective and quantifiable impact.

F9. Best Marketing Campaign for a Retail Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for retail brands that showcased the effective and quantifiable impact. (Restaurants should enter F6. Best Marketing Campaign for a Hospitality Brand)

F10. Best Marketing Campaign for a Travel/Tourism Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for travel/tourism brands that showcased the effective and quantifiable impact.

F11. Best Marketing Campaign for an Automobile Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for automobile brands that showcased the effective and quantifiable impact.

F12. Best Marketing Campaign for an e-Commerce Brand

This award recognizes the most successful and creative marketing campaign by or for an e- commerce brand that effectively engages its target audience and drives measurable results in customer engagement.

F13. Best Marketing Campaign for an FMCG Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for FMCG brands that showcased the effective and quantifiable impact.

F14. Best Marketing Campaign for an IT/ITES Brand

The award recognizes marketing excellence for IT/ITES brands that showcased the effective and quantifiable impact.

F15. Best CSR/ Social Initiative Campaign

The Award is designed to honor and recognize the most outstanding corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives carried out by organizations. These campaigns go beyond mere compliance with ethical standards and demonstrate a genuine commitment to making a positive impact on society and the environment.

Special Awards

G1. Rising Maverick of The Year - Agency (Active since 2018)

This award honors agencies that have achieved impressive growth within a short time span. Eligible agencies must have been incorporated for less than six years as of December 31, 2023.

G2. Maverick of The Year – Agency

This award is NOT OPEN for entry. The winner will be determined based on the total metals received in other categories.