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The Categories

2020 Category Descriptions

Sector Awards

The Sector Awards recognise the best-in-breed marketing within specific industry categories.

Agriculture

Open to companies that offer products and/or services relating to the field of agriculture, covering services, animal remedies and veterinary, chemicals, buildings and equipment and retail.

Automotive

Open to automobile manufacturers, fleet operators, leasing companies and dealer groups; as well as individual dealerships and providers of vehicle parts and/or accessories.

B2B

Open to businesses whose products and services are directed toward other businesses – for example delivery companies, business software companies, business course providers and more.

Consumer Products & Services 

Open to companies whose main focus is to market and sell products and/or services for personal consumption by directly engaging and effectively influencing the consumers’ path to purchase. This can include companies specialising in non-FMCG consumer durables, appliances, consumer services, and packaged products etc (Please Note: you may not enter this if entered into the Fast Moving Consumer Goods category).

Education

Open to providers of education services – from pre-school to tertiary institutions, language and professional schools, etc.

Fast Moving Consumer Goods 

Open to companies of all sizes that market products which are purchased on a regular basis, usually inexpensive, and the result of a low-involvement decision-making process (Please Note: You may not enter this if entered into the Consumer Products & Services category).

Financial & Banking 

Open to any organisation which provides the market with banking, securities, investments, loans, real estate, credit cards, insurance or other financial products or services.

Healthcare/Beauty 

This category is open to entries from all healthcare, wellness, beauty and pharmaceutical providers, suppliers and resellers (e.g. gyms, hair providers, pharmacy and natural health products, personal services, retirement homes etc).

Media/Publishing 

Open to entries from organisations including radio, television, newspaper, magazine and digital, as well as service providers that operate within these industries.

Not-for-Profit  

Open to not-for-profit organisations/charities only, whose activities involve fundraising, community services or any other activity where profit is not used as a measure of success (Please Note: You may not enter this if entered into the Public Sector category).

Public Sector 

Open exclusively to government departments and State-Owned Enterprises (Please Note: You may not enter this if you entered into the Not-for-Profit category)

Retail (Sponsored by TRB)

Open to retail operations where the majority of business comes from direct purchase by consumers – for example supermarkets, fast food restaurants, and clothing and accessory outlets.

Technology 

Open to companies whose main business lies in providing technology-based products and/or services such as hardware, software, applications, accessories or electronic entertainment (gaming). Biotech and hitech manufacturing are also included in this category.

Travel/Leisure 

Open to providers of travel and transportation services (e.g. airlines, hotels, car rental firms, mass transit systems), tourism providers, cultural attractions, sports, entertainment, venues and vacation properties. Retail and online travel agencies are also included in this category.

Utilities/Communications

Open to communications and utility companies such as telecommunications carriers, electric/gas power companies, and Internet and broadband service providers.

Excellence Awards

The Excellence Awards recognise excellence in specific marketing disciplines across different industries.

Best Use of Customer Insight/Data (Sponsored by ReachMedia)

The judges are looking for the most outstanding example of a situation where customer/market insight was used to optimise marketing performance; design a product or service in fulfilment of a customer need; or increase customer loyalty retention, satisfaction and/or profitability.

Best Marketing Communications Strategy

Judges will be looking for the proven effect that marketing communications have had on the improved performance of a brand and will evaluate:

Communications strategy
Creativity
Media planning
Communications affect, isolated from other influencing factors
Return on marketing expenditure.

Best Use of Sponsorship

This category honours and rewards outstanding partnerships of any kind (sports, arts, causes, individuals) and is open to both the recipients of sponsorships and the sponsors themselves.

Best Brand Extension/Innovation

Judges will be looking for the successful extension of an existing brand into new markets or market segments, to the long-term commercial benefits of the original brand and its owner. Judges will evaluate:

  • Customer insight Extent of cannibalisation with existing brand, brand health and saliency measures
  • Effective use of marketing resource
  • Evidence of commercial success (incremental sales, new usage occasions and/or new customer segments, and/or increased frequency of consumption/usage, enhanced brand margins from cost reductions or premiumisation).

Best Purpose-driven Marketing Strategy

The judges are looking for the entry that can best demonstrate how a company’s corporate social responsibility programme has been brought to life through its marketing activities. This can include a focus on sustainable growth, brands or campaigns built around a social or environmental issue, or any other purpose-driven marketing activity that has helped improve commercial performance, brand health and broader society.

Best Internal Marketing Strategy

The judges will be looking for the marketing teams that can demonstrate how the use of research, communications and technology has built employee motivation and got staff to buy in to a marketing initiative/project or rebrand. (Open to companies who have implemented employee engagement, internal communications and/or change management programmes).

Best Emerging Business/New Brand

The judges are looking for the best example of commercial success from the creation of a new product, service or entire business to meet a market need/opportunity. Note that the business must be less than two years old in order to be eligible.

Best Brand Transformation (Sponsored by One Picture)

The judges are looking for the best example of where marketing identified and led to the transformation of a market category, brand or entire business.

Best Marketing on a Shoestring Budget

The judges will be looking for the proven effect on the success of a brand with a total brand marketing budget of less than $100,000. The budget may have been spent through any communication channel. The judges will evaluate:

The scale of the task
Creativity of the marketing plan
Originality of approach.

Best In-House Marketing

The judges are looking for the best example of marketing initiatives/projects that were created by in-house marketing or creative teams. This could include campaigns created by in-house creative or design team, real-time/social media marketing, branded content campaigns or innovative digital products/brands such as websites, chatbots, or CX/customer service solutions.

Best Collaboration

This award will be awarded jointly to the client and their partners who have best shown how their relationship has produced world-class marketing work and results.

Partnerships can be between:

  • Client and marketing technology company
  • Client and media brand/Influencer
  •           Co-branding initiative.

Long-Term Agency Partnership

This award recognises a long-term partnership between a brand and an agency over a sustained period of no less than five years. The award will go to the company and its agency that best demonstrates how their long-term partnership has improved business outcomes for the client and produced world-class marketing work and results.

Long-Term Marketing Excellence (Sponsored by Loyalty NZ)

This award recognises marketing excellence over a sustained period of no less than three years. The award will go to the company or brand that best demonstrates how a superior marketing strategy, consistently applied, has driven business improvement over time. (Please Note: You are not eligible to enter the Long-Term Marketing Excellence if you have won this category in the past 3 years).

Individual Awards

Young Marketer of the Year (Sponsored by NZME)

An award open to those at the very beginning of their marketing careers. This will be awarded to the marketer, who with no more than 2 years’ marketing experience, has been able to make a significant contribution to a marketing project or initiative within their company over the last 12 months. (Please Note: Applicants need to be NZ residents at time of application)

Marketer of the Year (Sponsored by oOh!media)

An award to recognise an exceptional marketing professional. The judges are looking for a marketing leader who has demonstrated success in a diverse range of marketing skills and competencies and has achieved outstanding results throughout his or her marketing career, with an emphasis on measurable achievements in the past 12 months.

Marketing Hall of Fame (Sponsored by TVNZ)

An award for individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to the New Zealand marketing industry, who have distinguished themselves in marketing and/or related fields; contributed to the betterment of marketing and its reputation; individually motivated others to excel by mentoring, inspiring, training or volunteering; and completed their primary careers.

SUPREME AWARD (Sponsored by TVNZ)

Presented by the judges to the best overall entry from the Sector Award winners.

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