YouTube Works Awards
About the Awards
Over the past decade, marketers have redefined how they communicate with consumers. From the heartwarming to the heart-racing — and everything in between — YouTube has seen how incredible digital content can drive equally powerful results.
The YouTube Works Awards celebrate and champion the brilliant minds producing the most innovative and effective campaigns on YouTube in the Netherlands in the past year.
Categories
The Underdog
Celebrating the campaign that beat the odds to create a big impact. A campaign in which a small or medium-sized brand had big-brand ambitions and achieved business results to match. Show us how your scrappiness, your fresh thinking, and your hunger for success helped you make some noise in a way that was more impressive than most.
Creative Excellence
Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates brilliant creative execution on YouTube. This category focuses on the creative quality of your campaign, your big idea, and how you brought it to life on YouTube to drive (business) results. Think of powerful scripts, treatments, utilizing the possibilities of YouTube as a platform to the fullest and maybe even acting like a creator.
Masterful Media Planning
Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates brilliant media planning that drove business results. We’re searching for campaigns that took a media-first approach. Did a stroke of media genius spark the idea? Were your ads contextually spot on? Did your media planner nail your audience insights? This award recognizes that media strategy makes all the difference to creative effectiveness.
Changemakers
The campaign that walked the walk on social or environmental issues. We’re looking for campaigns that demonstrate a brand’s fierce commitment to diversity, inclusion, sustainability, environmental issues, or other social causes. How did your campaign balance your brand’s purpose with a tangible impact that extends beyond the bottom line? How did you inspire and empower your audience to take action?
How it works
Submit your best work from 2023 to be reviewed by our panel of industry leaders.
Our judges will select the winners across a number of awards categories and a Grand Prix will be awarded to the submission that best demonstrates brilliant results, storytelling, and effectiveness.
Our 2024 judges
They’ve been there, done that, and got a few trophies themselves. Our judges bring specialized expertise and significant experience across the industry and category spectrums.
Baba Touré
Managing Director
Hammerfest
Laurens Eckhart
Influencer Marketing Manager
Bol.com
Marloes Gaaf
Head of AV
Dentsu
Tale Meester
Global head of strategy
OMD
Tamara Couperus
Founder
Crocodile Agency
Nienke Plas
Creator and co-founder
Going Places Management
& Productions
Belén Llamazares Carballo
Head of Marketing Benelux
Kraft Heinz
Meester Jesper
Teacher, actor and creator
Contest begins
January 8, 2024
Submissions end
February 9, 2024
Winners announced
18 April 2024
2024 Winners
Brands and agencies brought forward 2023’s most creative, compelling, and effective campaigns to the YouTube Works Awards. Our community of expert judges selected winners across categories – Here are the 2024 winners.
Tempo-Team, Studio M, Wavemaker, GroupM Nexus
Tempo-Teams Werkplezier: Vreugdevolle carrières creëren.
Netflix, DEPT, JellyFish
BERLIN: The tale of interactive storytelling.
Swapfiets, Better Call Sol, Co.lab
Swapfiets: Own The City, Not The Bike
Ben & Jerry's, GroupM Nexus, Mindshare, Boomerang Agency
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