Campaign created for brand growth, development, and enrichment. Includes establishing brand recognition, meaningful relationships, memorable engaging experiences, and unique connections.
First AbuDhabi Bank and
UM Abu Dhabi
/ MullenLowe Profero Abu Dhabi
/ InMobi
Marketing Objectives Channel
MENA – Lead Generation / Direct Response / Conversions
Campaigns which use mobile to directly impact sales, conversions, trial, purchase intent or generated customers for future engagement and sales. Showcase how your submission has achieved either or both.
Work that launched or re-launched a product or service with mobile at the heart, delivering measurable success. Be specific as to what made this launch effective, along with the role mobile played in the process.
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AdColony a Digital Turbine Company
/ Havas Middle East
Marketing Objectives Channel
MENA – Consumer Promotions
Campaign ranging from contests and coupons to special offers, sweepstakes, and POS/Merchandising to support the sales and marketing of a product or service. Includes demos, coupons, rebates, exhibitions/trade shows, and games. Sales promotions can be directed at either the customer, sales staff, or distribution channel members (such as retailers)
Campaigns for not-for-profits or government agencies that create significant social change and/or deliver against a public service. Includes lobbying, fundraising, expanding, informing or positively changing attitudes and behaviors. Show how your approach added value to your customers and benefitted your organization.
RAKBANK and
Mojo Advertising
/ Universal Media
/ RAKBANK
Media Channel
MENA – Gaming / Gamification & E-Sports
Gaming apps, gamification applications or e-sports activities that are either a part of a broader marketing strategy or a stand-alone brand experience. Please be specific in describing how the brand is positioned in the gaming environment. If you have a branded gaming app, please submit to the Mobile App category.
Almarai and
AdColony a Digital Turbine Company
/ Spark Foundry
Media Channel
MENA – Social Media Marketing
Social can include networks (think Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, etc.), person-to-person (i.e. Skype, Facebook Messenger, Whatsapp etc.). Of course, all work must be focused on the mobile platform.
RAKBANK and
Kiyani Media
/ Universal Media
/ RAKBANK
Media Channel
MENA – Contextual / Native Advertising
Advertising on a website which allows your brand to fit into – and not disrupt – the audience experience. The ads follow the natural form and function of the user experience in which it is placed or is relevant to the page’s content. Includes in-game, in-video, behavioral advertising, or native advertising.
Campaign utilizes mobile as a core strategy, along with one or more separate channels to round out the campaign. This could include: TV, print, radio, outdoor, PR, direct marketing, etc.
Mobile advertising, applications, or sites that explore new ideas, devices, or methods in their execution and push the boundaries of the discipline. Includes new or groundbreaking techniques or an unconventional/creative use of existing technology. Include the impact to your current business or potential shifts it will create for your future marketing efforts.
Maybelline and
AdColony
/ Universal Media Egypt
/ AdColony a Digital Turbine Company
Technology Channel
MENA – Location Based Services or Targeting
Use of GPS, geolocation and/or proximity technologies. It could be a targeted campaign for a location-specific audience (based on proximity), or contextual targeting based on history and customer behavior. Campaign can include one-off executions or longer term campaigns but must include specifics on impact against your marketing goals.
More Cravings by Marriott Bonvoy™ and
Spark Foundry
/ InMobi
Technology Channel
MENA – mCommerce
Mobile commerce solutions improving or enhancing the customer buying experience, creating increased engagement and commercial success. Includes in-app purchasing, mobile banking, virtual marketplace apps (i.e. Amazon mobile app), or a digital wallet such as Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay.
A campaign that demonstrates how the use of a programmatic / RTB platform improved the targeting and increased the efficiency and effectiveness in buying, selling and creating a mobile advertising solution.
Campaigns demonstrating how video advertising was used to create consumer demand and engagement or provide an immersive experience for the viewer. Includes 360° video, shoppable video, personalized video, etc.
First AbuDhabi Bank and
UM Abu Dhabi
/ MullenLowe Profero Abu Dhabi
/ InMobi
Technology Channel
MENA – Audio / Sonic Branding
Any campaign that demonstrates how the experience of audio techniques, be it music, voice or other sound (audio advertising), was used in a mobile environment to create consumer demand and engagement.
Use of customer data, analytics, and technology, that play an integral role in the development and execution of a campaign to develop a meaningful relationship with a specific audience or community. Detail the role that data had within the campaign strategy in achieving the brand and business goals (targeting, engaging, customer loyalty, retention, etc.).
Campaigns and programmes that show innovative thinking and solutions to reach consumers during the pandemic. It could cover using platforms in new and innovative ways; using technology to launch new products, new channels, or new features.
MARS and
AdColony a Digital Turbine Company
/ Mediacom
Business Transformation 2021
MENA – Customer Experience
Campaigns that enrich digital experiences or enable new methods of connecting with the consumer allowing seamless experience and keeping in mind social distancing norms. Mobile should play a key role in enhancing consumer experience & engagement.
Content related to a brand created by consumers or influencers and shared through social media to increase brand engagement, sales, create buzz about a product or service, and boost website conversions, etc. Content could be images, videos, text, audio, etc.
Mobile and Ecommerce solutions improving or enhancing the customer buying experience, creating increased engagement and commercial success. Includes in-app purchasing, mobile banking, virtual marketplace apps (i.e. Amazon mobile app), or a digital wallet such as Apple Pay, Android Pay and Samsung Pay.