Now in its fifth year, the Tech Awards champions the collaboration between agencies, brands and the technology communities, and recognises the outstanding work produced together to drive the creative industries forward.
The headline awards – Agency of the Year and Tech Company of the Year – are not open for entry. Instead, they are nominated and chosen by the Tech Awards’ panel of judges of specialists and digital leaders from across the marketing and tech industries.
This year’s winners will be revealed at an online awards ceremony in April.
Sarah Salter, head of innovation at WPP media agency Wavemaker, is chair of the overall judging panel for this year’s awards.
The shortlist in full
Best Audience Engagement
- The Digital Voice “Sheer driving pleasure with BMW – Sharing Christmas cheer delivered with Cavai”
- MediaCom “Mars – Transfer Deadline Day”
- Unit9 “League of Legends: Wild Rift – Battle of Baron”
- VMLY&R “The Mission” (Royal Navy)
- Verizon Media “Vodafone ‘Finding Unlimited’ From Your Couch”
Best Campaign of the Year by a Start-up
To be announced at the winners’ ceremony.
Best Response to Change Using Tech
- Because Experiential “For the Love of Your Local – Virtual Redemption Solution”
- DOOH.com “#MyHeroes: International Campaign to Celebrate Key Workers During the Pandemic”
- Unit9 “The Met Unframed”
- Unit9 “(Microsoft) Xbox: Power Your Dreams”
- Verizon Media “Vodafone ‘Finding Unlimited’ From Your Couch”
- XYZ “Levi’s Human Nature FW21 / XYZ”
Best Use of Creative Personalisation
- Channel 4 “All4 dynamic audio and Now TV”
- Essence “Keeping the flame alive for the Tokyo Olympic Games”
- Matterkind “Using Dynamic Creative To Personalise JBL To Consumers”
- MediaCom “Boots – what the world needs now”
- A Million Ads “Bose: Listen Up! Delivering personalised audio at scale”
Best Use of Data
- Channel 4 “BrandM4tch: The First Cookie-less Data Matching Broadcaster Product”
- Incubeta “(Pub) Crawling Amazon for Laithwaites Success”
- MediaCom “DFS – Halo-Luxe: An unmissable campaign”
- PwC “ISBA & AOP Programmatic Supply Chain Transparency Study by PwC”
- Xaxis EMEA “Volvo Holistic DCO – Mindshare, Grey Gothenburg, Xaxis”
Best Use of Experiential Tech
- George P Johnson “The Rainwall”
- SharpEnd “Fly Campari Group”
- Unit9 “The Met Unframed”
- Unit9 “(Microsoft) Xbox: Power Your Dreams”
- Unit9 “EE BAFTA 5G-powered AR Dress”
- VCCP “Cadbury’s Secret Santa”
Best Use of Experimental Tech
- MullenLowe MENA FZ “ProtectSet”
- PrettyGreen “Three’s 5G multi-sensory fashion show and AR model of Adwoa Aboah”
- Unit9 “EE BAFTA 5G-powered AR Dress”
- Unit9 “League of Legends: Wild Rift – Battle of Baron”
- VIOOH “Ghost of Tsushima launch using mobile and programmatic OOH”
Best Use of Insight
- Goodstuff Communications “From Psychology To Psychographic Targeting”
- Incubeta “(Pub) Crawling Amazon for Laithwaites Success”
- OMD UK “Frontline Spotify for Dogs”
- Total Media “Thinking outside of the box”
- Mindshare UK “PG Tips Cuppas Together”
- WhoWotWhy “Spotify Pumped”
Best Use of Paid Search
- Essence “BT Enterprise: Mastering search to support small businesses in 2020”
- MediaCom “DLG – Using media for more than marketing”
Best Use of Paid Social
- Because Experiential “A smokin’ hot KOL campaign for Weber”
- Goodstuff Communications “Yorkshire Tea Toast & Jam”
- Manning Gottlieb OMD “The Daily ‘Digital Control Centre’ – A Response to Covid-19”
- Manning Gottlieb OMD “MAC Cosmetics Virtual Try-On”
- MediaCom “Mars – Maltesers Bunnies”
- Total Media “Pitting puppets in the polls for BritBox”
Best Use of Tech in CRM
- MediaCom “Costa – first one’s on us”
- Ometria “How Made.com grew CRM revenue twice as quickly with Ometria”
- The7stars “TSB – Customer data delivers planning transformation and business success”
Best Use of Tech in Out-of-Home
- DOOH.com “#MyHeroes: International Campaign to Celebrate Key Workers During the Pandemic”
- OMGDOOH (Omnicom Media Group) “Interactive Touchless Experience for Skoda”
- MediaCom “DFS – Halo-Luxe: An unmissable campaign”
- MullenLowe MENA FZ “The World’s Tallest Donation Box”
- Rapport “Lego: Rebuild the world – Mid-air haptics”
- VIOOH “Launching the Renault ZOE with programmatic OOH”
Integrated Campaign of the Year
- Croud “Croud & the Royal British Legion: Poppy Appeal 2020”
- Manning Gottlieb OMD “NHS – COVID-19 Test & Trace App – Launching a life-saving app in record time”
- MediaCom “British Gas – Local Heroes”
- OMD UK “McDonald’s I’m Lovin It Live: Lifting the Nation’s Spirits in Lockdown”
- Gravity Global “Profit Hunter – Tech Lion”
- Total Media “Thinking outside of the box”
Location-based or Proximity Marketing Campaign of the Year
- Ad-Lib.io “In-store booking appointments for Specsavers UK via Display”
- Because Experiential “For the Love of Your Local – Virtual Redemption Location-Based Campaign”
- Firstlight PR “Going the extra mile: how ‘Free Now’ delivered Londoners from commuter hell”
- MediaCom “Coca-Cola – Appreciating Locals”
- MediaCom “Mars – Maltesers Bunnies”
- Verizon Media “Doritos AR Quest”
Most Effective Use of Programmatic Media
- iClick Interactive Asia Group “Expanding Hi-tech Hotel Brand Awareness in Digital China”
- Matterkind “Amplifying social assets across programmatic display”
- VIOOH “Nespresso StoreBoost: driving sales and footfall to Nespresso stores”
- Xaxis EMEA “Volvo Holistic DCO – Mindshare, Grey Gothenburg, Xaxis”
Start-up of the Year
- Ad-Lib.io
- Boldspace
- Egoli Media
Tech as Part of a Campaign: Charity
- MullenLowe MENA FZ “The World’s Tallest Donation Box”
- Unit9 “The Met Unframed”
- Unit9 “AdCouncil: She Can STEM”
Tech as Part of a Campaign: Consumer Goods
- Ad-Lib.io “Open Like Never Before”
- Because Experiential “For the Love of Your Local – Virtual Redemption Location-Based Campaign”
- PrettyGreen “Three’s 5G multi-sensory fashion show and AR model of Adwoa Aboah”
Tech as Part of a Campaign: Entertainment
- Unit9 “(Microsoft) Xbox: Power Your Dreams”
- Unit9 “League of Legends: Wild Rift – Battle of Baron”
- WhoWotWhy “Spotify Pumped”
Tech as Part of a Campaign: Retail
- Incubeta “(Pub) Crawling Amazon for Laithwaites Success”
- VIOOH “Nespresso StoreBoost: driving sales and footfall to Nespresso stores”
Tech Diversity Advocate of the Year
To be announced at the winners’ ceremony.
Tech for Good
- AKQA “Blockdown simulator”
- AnalogFolk “BigUp.AI”
- MullenLowe MENA FZ “ProtectSet”
- MullenLowe MENA FZ “The World’s Tallest Donation Box”
- Wunderman Thompson UK “Refuge National Domestic Abuse Helpline Website”
Tech Pioneer of the Year
- Andrew Casale, Index Exchange
- Projjol Banerjea, ZeoTap
- Kelly Kokonas, Starcom
- Shaun Zacharia, TripleLift
For more information about the awards categories and entry criteria, visit campaigntechawards.com, where you can also find information about sponsorship opportunities and previous award winners.
This article was originally published by Campaign.