M14. E-Commerce

Awarded to campaign that delivers e-commerce solution/strategy that delivers seamless user’s experience. Innovative solution applied to existing or new business which enhances and adds value to meet business objectives. Demonstrate strategy to drive business growth through digital platform, customers’ experience, and localised strategy leveraging mobile applications. Using cross-border ecommerce to enter into emerging markets. Mobile – using mobile platform and applications to enhance cross border strategy.

M13. Integrated

Awarded to the campaign that uses multiple media channels as the key engagement driver and to achieve proven results. Entries must build a complete picture by showing how the campaign played across digital channels.
This category recognizes best holistic digital campaigns that demonstrate the uses of multiple digital platforms and media channels as the key engagement driver to achieve proven results. The strongest entries are those that showcase seamless synergy of the campaign elements on strategy, innovation/creativity, execution, and results.

M12. Data Analytics/Insight

This category recognizes the innovative and effective use of research, data planning, and measurement and analytics tools to develop the creative idea. Entries should demonstrate how the insight/data shaped the creative strategy.

M11. Search Engine Optimization

Awarded to the campaign that demonstrated the uses of Search engine optimization (SEO) in improving the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search, academic search, news search and industry-specific vertical search engines.

M10. Digital Media Innovation

Awarded to the campaign that uses existing or newly created digital media in fresh and innovative ways to explore new channels of communication and achieve marketing success during the review period.

M09. KOL Influencer / Viral Marketing

Awarded to the campaign/brand that is most effective in engaging KOL influencer to raise brand awareness, increase in sales, a change in positioning etc. The digital content or campaign that combines creativity, engaging and targeted content or leverages consumer created content to build viral buzz and achieve proven results in relation to the objectives set.

M08. Video

Entries should demonstrate how the brand leveraged videos to achieve its marketing objectives and how the originality and creativity of the marketing video demonstrated strong visual impact and resonated with the targeted audience.

M07. Gaming

Awarded to the strategic development of a game that effectively and creatively reached target customers to build or maintain their brand and market share while attaining marketing objectives.

M06. Apps

Awarded to an innovative, entertainment or informative application developed to run on PC, Mobile devices, or tablets specifically as part of an on-going campaign or standalone addition to a brand that effectively and creatively reached target customers to build or maintain their brand and market share while attaining marketing objectives.

M05. Social Media

Awarded to the campaign that uses social networking and community sites most effectively and creatively to reach target customers to build or maintain their brand and market share while attaining marketing objectives set during the review period. Entries should truly make use of social media platforms beyond simply the viral reach of a campaign.