Presenting The Smarties APAC 2023 Winners
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APAC Best In Show
Mondelez International and Leo Burnett Indonesia for
BLACKPINK In Your Oreo
Credits
Sony Nichani, CEO, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Ravi Shanker, CCO, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Dafi Alfadila, Sr.Creative Director, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Randy Handoko, Sr.Art Director, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Septian Listyanto, Art Director, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Evlin Debora, Copywriter, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Joshua Tjandra, Copywriter, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Monideepa Nandi, Regional Business Director, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Avisenia Qashashi, Associate Account Director, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Athaya Thalla, Sr.Account Executive, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Timothy Laksmana, Associate Social Media Director, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Rezzi Saputra, Social Media Manager, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Anti Istianti, Sr.Producer Broadcast, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Nilakshi Medhi, Head of Strategic Planning, Leo Burnett Indonesia
Vebrian Wijaya, Motion Designer, Vebz Visual Solution
Nikhil Rao, Vice President Marketing, Mondelez International
Vikram Chandratrey, Head of Marketing Indonesia & Oreo SEA, Mondelez International
Jovena Loon, Senior Brand Manager Oreo, SEA, Mondelez International
Akshay Brijkrishan, Digital Lead - Consumer Experience, Mondelez International
Thinesh Muniandy, Overall Lead Producer SEA, Mediamonks
Andrea Dimasuay, Account Director SEA, Mediamonks
Liukh -, Director, -
Semi Kim, Assistant Director, -
Chloe Ko, Executive Producer, -
Ratri Kartika Sari, AV Video Producer, Imaginary
Revli Pradana, AV Video Editor, Imaginary
Purpose Driven Marketing
APAC – Brand Purpose / Activism
Campaigns that use the brand's platform to promote a cause or social issue, including sustainability, to benefit society and give back for the greater good. This can include social, political, corporate sustainability, economic, and/or environmental campaigns for brands, products, services, or initiatives addressing a new program or expanding on an existing one. Example: campaigns focused on giving back to society and promoting social responsibility through a brand's influence and reach.
Gold Winner
Google and Dentsu Creative for
Google: Defeating cyber Bad Friends together
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Kimberly Clark and Mindshare Vietnam / WPP for
Kotex Fights Back Period Stigma - Bloody Awesome Series
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Purpose Driven Marketing
APAC – Social Impact Marketing
We believe that marketing can change the world. This award is a recognition to modern-day marketing that drives forward socially responsible marketing that creates significant social change and/or deliver against a public service while demonstrating real impact and creativity, & translates into a compelling call-to action to effect positive social change. Includes lobbying, fundraising, expanding, informing, or positively changing attitudes and behaviors.
Silver Winner
Grab and Grab / Grab for
MYNAME Promocodes - Turning Grab Transport Drivers into GrabFood Affiliate Marketers
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Global Digital Niaga and Wavemaker for
HeartSpeak: Voice of the Voiceless
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Kraft Heinz ABC and Leo Burnett Indonesia for
ABC | Moms’ Open Kitchen
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Google Search and Toaster India for
Bolne Se Sab Hoga - How Google Search empowered young Indian women to speak up to reach for their dreams.
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APAC – Diversity & Inclusion
Campaigns or marketing programs raising the audience’s appreciation by providing the means and opportunities to reduce inequality based on age, sex, sexual orientation, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic status (e.g., contractual workers, people with disabilities, small farmers, etc.) and consciousness for the sublime - (painting, sculpture, architecture, music, literature, history, etc.) - in order to uplift the lives of people and society at large. Describe creative work or strategy specifically directed to these communities and any relevant cultural differences.
Gold Winner
Grab and Grab for
GrabConnect - Digitalising Vietnam’s Farm-to-Door Supply Chain
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Bronze Winner
Reckitt and McCANN Indonesia for
From Fear to Honor – Embracing Heat & Sweat with Pride
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Marketing Impact
APAC – Brand Experience
Communicating your brand and positioning it in the market is core to business success. Campaigns that showcase excellent marketing strategies bridging the gap between the brand and the consumer, brand growth, development, and enrichment. Includes establishing brand recognition, meaningful relationships, memorable engaging experiences, and unique connections, either in single or multimedia platforms that created a 360-customer experience. Additionally, campaigns may incorporate new-age technological solutions to achieve desired business results and make a significant impact on the business.
Gold Winner
Mondelez International and Leo Burnett Indonesia for
BLACKPINK In Your Oreo
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Bronze Winner
Kimberly Clark and Mindshare Vietnam / WPP for
Kotex Bloody Awesome Music Journey To Break Period Stigmas
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APAC – Instant Impact / Promotion
Best and most effective use of a promotion, either standalone or part of an integrated multi-media – new technologies campaign ranging from contests and coupons to special offers, sweepstakes, and POS/Merchandising. The entry might be a prize draw, a competition, a demo, a coupon, a rebate, a giveaway, a reward scheme, or an instant win campaign to support the sales and business impact of marketing, a product or service directed at either the customer, sales staff, or distribution channel members.
Silver Winner
Swiggy and InMobi | Glance for
Swiggy Rescues "Foodies in Need" with a One-Click Install Experience on Glance
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Techcombank and dentsu Redder for
How Techcombank broke ALL RECORDS of bank promotion with the new formula of PROMO-TAINMENT?
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APAC – Customer Journey Marketing - Lead Generation / CRM
Campaigns that have a significant impact on the business by strategically applying marketing technology, including third-party platforms such as CRM, CMS, and payment systems. Entries should demonstrate how the use of these platforms generated prospects and leads, resulting in increased sales, conversions, purchase intent, or loyalty and retention, while delivering measurable ROI results and business impact. Successful campaigns should showcase the potential of these platforms to deliver tangible results, and how they were used to provide the best possible experience for customers while driving brand growth and success.
Gold Winner
Nestlé and Mindshare Vietnam / WPP for
How La Vie 19 Liters Transforms Its Business Model
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Unilever and Mindshare Vietnam / WPP for
P/S - WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU MET A DENTIST?
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Heineken and Leo Burnett for
HEINEKEN SILVER From Gems to Silver
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Nestlé and Adtima / FMC Marketing for
How Nestlé Health Science Created Seamless O2O Experiences with Holistic CRM Strategy
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APAC – Product and / or Service Launch
Campaigns showcasing an effective customer focused product or service launch. Work that launched, or re-launched, a product or service highlighting the impact your launch had on consumer perception, increase in sales etc. achieved growth and measurable success. Innovation/creativity, clear strategic thinking, effectiveness, and tangible results are key points to be shared.
Gold Winner
Mondelez International and Leo Burnett Indonesia for
BLACKPINK In Your Oreo
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Silver Winner
HEINEKEN and Dentsu Redstar for
Edelweiss Festive - The First Snow Show in Vietnam
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HEINEKEN and DENTSU REDSTAR / HAKUHODO / ICON / GALAXY / LEGATO for
Tiger Soju Infused Lager Launch: Asian Explosion In A Bottle
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APAC – Real Time Marketing
Campaigns showcasing the most successful and engaging creative and media execution based on real-time information and platforms delivering on the brand's objectives. Campaigns that include new age technology solutions in an immediate and meaningful way delivered for achieving desired business results and business impact. Use of GPS, geolocation and/or proximity technologies. Brands and tech providers giving their consumers an engaging, personalised and targeted brand experience using proximity technology or location-based data or contextual targeting. Campaign must include specifics on business impact against marketing goals.
Silver Winner
RKSV Securities Pvt Ltd and Mindshare India for
THE NET PRACTICE OF STOCK TRADING
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Vietjet and PMAX for
VIETJET - Personalization with Real-time Data
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Impact Media
APAC – Omnichannel Marketing
Campaigns utilizing digital as core strategy, that demonstrate strategic and tactical thinking in the use of multiple media touchpoints (TV, print, radio, outdoor, PR, direct marketing, etc) to deliver a compelling, business impact while delivering key messages. Media strategy highlighting how the channels came together to deliver outstanding results.
Gold Winner
Mondelez International and Leo Burnett Indonesia for
BLACKPINK in Your Oreo
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Bronze Winner
Qualcomm and Mindshare for
Qualcomm: Discover China's Endemic Species
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APAC – Cross Digital Media Marketing
Truly digital campaigns are now the main stay of many marketing and advertising strategies and are driving most of the spends integrating a minimum of 3 applications or mediums that enhances a brand experience. Showcase the various digital platforms and devices used to develop and amplify meaningful consumer engagement and business impact. This may include but is not limited to desktop, mobile, wearable technology, outdoor installations, (digital) billboards, retail experiences etc. Submissions for this category should hit the above marks and be strategically customized for each experience while delivering ROI.
Bronze Winner
Heineken and Leo Burnett for
HEINEKEN SILVER From Gems to Silver
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Procter & Gamble and EssenceMediacom Indonesia for
Downy Harumkan Indonesia: Hijacking Indonesia Independence Day with Cross Digital Media
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APAC – Social Media Marketing
This category aims to recognize outstanding marketing and advertising campaigns that utilize one or multiple social platforms to reach a targeted audience, impact business objectives, and enhance relationships with brands, communities, or consumers. Successful strategies that have effectively communicated with target audiences through social messaging apps and text messaging (SMS/MMS, RCS) to drive sales, engagement, leads, or even foot traffic will be highly considered. The submission should demonstrate how client objectives were met and a significant return on investment (ROI) was achieved through the strategies.
Gold Winner
Mondelez International and Leo Burnett Indonesia for
BLACKPINK in Your Oreo
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Unilever and Mindshare Vietnam / WPP for
P/S - WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU MET A DENTIST?
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APAC – Creator / Influencer / Celebrity Marketing
Campaigns showcasing the best use of social platform/influencers highlighting new community sales models & advertising strategies, creatives capturing consumer attention, interaction and engagement that encourage transactions. Content related to a brand created by consumers, the creator economy - showcase how your brand has used a creator to create special content for your campaign with mostly seamless experience, and shared through social media to increase brand engagement, sales, create buzz about a product or service. Share quantifiable results demonstrating how the influencers used in the campaign successfully drove brand experience/ purpose, traffic, resulting in business impact and ROI.
Gold Winner
Yili Group and Mindshare China for
Yili's Football Farewell: Letters to Our Legends
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P&G and EssenceMediacom Indonesia for
Pantene Miracles Conditioner – No More Setengah-setengah
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Skipper Ltd and Mindshare India for
Skipper Pipes : A New Skipper in the Market
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APAC – Gaming, Gamification & E-Sports
Campaigns showcasing interactive storytelling as a main stay of the campaign and mainstream gaming apps, gamification applications, in campaign/app gaming or e-sports activities that are either a part of a broader marketing strategy or a stand-alone brand experience. Be specific in describing how the brand is positioned in the gaming environment and the desired results for the business derived from the campaign.
Gold Winner
Bayer and Carnival / EssenceMediacom for
BEROCCA - TRANSCEND THE POSITIVE ENERGY
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HEINEKEN and Dentsu Redstar for
HEINEKEN Silver x AOV 2022 – CRACK THE CULTURE’S CODE OF GAMING
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RKSV Securities Pvt Ltd and Mindshare India for
THE NET PRACTICE OF STOCK TRADING
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APAC – Data Insights / Contextual Marketing
Use of customer data, analytics, and technology, that play an integral role in the development and execution of a meaningful relationship with a specific audience. Show the most successful and engaging media and creative execution based on real-time information and/or data insights and platform to shape the marketing strategies delivering on the brand's objectives rooted in data-driven customer insight contributing significantly to the business impact including ROI demonstrating elements, such as segmentation or real time targeting, to improve the end user's experience.
Gold Winner
Mondelez International and Leo Burnett Indonesia for
Oreo Undercover Ads
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Bronze Winner
RKSV Securities Pvt Ltd and Mindshare India for
THE NET PRACTICE OF STOCK TRADING
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APAC – Programmatic
A campaign that demonstrates how the use of a programmatic/RTB platform improved targeting and increased the efficiency and effectiveness in buying, selling, and creating a digital/mobile advertising solution. Entries can include campaigns using creative applications of mobile-based intelligent technology. Includes AI, chat-bots, facial recognition, etc. delivering business results maximising the use of automated media solutions to create memorable campaigns.
Bronze Winner
VNGGames and INNITY SOFTWARE AND ADVERTISING COMPANY LIMITED for
Vo Lam Truyen Ky MAX – Programmatic Marketing to the MAX
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APAC – Audio / Voice / Sonic Branding
Campaigns that used voice recognition technology, audio identities, or other audio advertising to create consumer demand and engagement, enhance the consumer experience, or reinforce brand identity. Includes audio logos, audio branding, voice assistant devices, such as Alexa, Google Home, and audio platforms like Pandora, Spotify, YouTube, etc., or activation leveraging a space or using a more permanent spatial feature. Campaigns and/or individual measures that demonstrate a special effort and/or excellent interpretation of existing data. This includes excellently developed and implemented insights as well as exceptionally executed segmentations, the acquisition and/or enrichment of data and specific knowledge about the addressees, the granting of permissions, etc.
Silver Winner
Lego China and Initiative China / Initiative for
Little Heroes Big Power
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Emerging Tech Marketing
APAC – Experimental / Innovation Technology
Campaigns that enhance a branded experience by using experimental and innovative technology or applications including the use of Web 3.0 to create immersive large-scale or small-scale digital experiences and events in a way that impresses consumers and drives deeper engagement for fans, ultimately delivering an unforgettable digital or physical experience. Seeking campaigns that showcase creative use of media, highlighting innovative ways of using new or existing technology or applications that are genuinely groundbreaking or innovative to engage with consumers and drive engagement. Examples could include art exhibitions, fairs, trade shows, and signage. Submissions should also include quantifiable business results.
Gold Winner
Mondelez International and Leo Burnett Vietnam for
OREO Lucky Twist
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Global Digital Niaga and Wavemaker for
HeartSpeak: Voice of the Voiceless
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Global Digital Niaga and Wavemaker / YMT for
Smile to Unlock: E-commerce Discounts Meet Joyful Engagement
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APAC – Spatial / AR / VR / NFT / Metaverse Tech
Moving to Web 3.0 means more privacy and less ability to reach customers the way we do now. Campaigns that are building communities and experiences for customers (including metaverse) and finding advertising opportunities including partnerships and collaborations with creators to leverage their audience and bring innovation, impact and communication power to the brand through use of new technology like NFT to enhance the visual experience of a brand, product, service, or message including, but not limited to AI, AR, VR, robotics, gadgets and electronics, wearable and interactive technology etc. Can be a stand-alone experience, or an extended reality which combines all new Web 3.0 technologies.
Bronze Winner
HEINEKEN VIETNAM BREWERY LIMITED COMPANY and DENTSU REDSTAR / HAKUHODO for
TIGER CRYSTAL RAVE - THE FIRST-EVER PHYGITAL MUSIC EXPERIENCE TO LEAD & BREAK BEER CONVENTION TO THE YOUNGSTERS
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Global Digital Niaga and Wavemaker / YMT for
Smile to Unlock: E-commerce Discounts Meet Joyful Engagement
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APAC – Live (Streaming) E-commerce
Campaigns showcasing best use of content through live streaming highlighting marketing & advertising strategies, creatives capturing consumers attention, interaction and engagement that encourage transactions. Please share quantifiable results demonstrating how the influencers or celebrities used in the campaign successfully drove brand experience/ purpose, traffic, resulting in business impact and ROI.
Gold Winner
Unilever and Mindshare India for
Shikhar Super Chat - Unilever's Sales Rep of the Year!
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L'Oréal and Starcom / TikTok Vietnam for
L'Oréal Paris Hyaluronic Acid (Ha) Revitalift Livestream Marathon
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APAC – Integrated Ecommerce Innovation
Campaigns showcasing best use of 360 E-commerce highlighting marketing & advertising strategies, creatives and online experiences & activations on an ecommerce platform to carry out innovative marketing/sales methods to achieve marketing purposes and business results. Please share quantifiable results demonstrating how the campaign and any influencers or celebrities used, successfully drove brand experience/ purpose, traffic, resulting in business impact and ROI.
Gold Winner
Grab and Grab for
GrabConnect - Digitalising Vietnam’s Farm-to-Door Supply Chain
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Samsung and Cheil India / Amazon Ads for
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4 & Fold4 Smartphone launch_Amazon Ads
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Global Digital Niaga and Wavemaker for
Smile to Unlock: Ecommerce Discounts Meet Joyful Engagement
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APAC – O2O / New Retail / Innovative & New Tech Sales Channels
This award celebrates the best use of new technologies in O2O marketing, where online and offline channels and data are integrated and innovated to provide users with better participation and buying experience. The campaign should demonstrate how it used media creatively and strategically to connect with consumers and achieve the desired results / business impact. The campaign should also highlight how it used influencers or celebrities to drive brand experience / purpose, traffic, and transactions. The campaign should share quantifiable results that show the effectiveness and ROI of the O2O marketing strategy. Highlight marketing & advertising strategies, creatives capturing consumers attention, targeted and engaged audience(s), and encouraged transactions.
Gold Winner
Master Kong and Mindshare China for
KangShiFu: Propelling Restaurants to Stardom
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Grab and Grab / Grab for
MYNAME Promocodes - Turning Grab Transport Drivers into GrabFood Affiliate Marketers
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Grab and Grab for
GrabConnect - Digitalising Vietnam’s Farm-to-Door Supply Chain
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APAC – Customer (CX) / User Experience (UX) & Design
This award focuses on a campaign/brand that provides a truly outstanding customer experience and/or user experience on a platform, or integrated platforms/omni-channel showcasing design practice focused on the emotional and behavioural response to a digital product or service with relevant, seamless, and consistent user experience at every point of interaction, with particular focus on the overall support, structure and usability achieving best B2C or B2B results.
Silver Winner
Techcombank and dentsu Redder for
The BIG CAT that Brings You BIG LUCK
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Creative
APAC – Personalisation
Campaigns that perfect the consumer journey and create personalised marketing reflecting best use of data, analytics, AI and automation in creating personalised content at scale for brands and campaigns to effect more business outcomes and enhanced ROI.
Gold Winner
Mondelez International and Leo Burnett Indonesia for
Oreo Undercover Ads
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Grab and Grab / Grab for
MYNAME Promocodes - Turning Grab Transport Drivers into GrabFood Affiliate Marketers
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Samsung Galaxy and Cheil Vietnam for
Samsung Galaxy Z FLIP4 | Z FOLD4 - Curate Your Flex Mode
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Airtel and Performics India for
Creative Personalisation for Airtel Xstream Fiber
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APAC – Short or Long Form Video
Campaigns demonstrating how video advertising was used to create consumer demand and engagement or provide an immersive experience for the viewer. The creative use of digital footage or online video to create or enhance a brand experience or activation. Including, but not limited to, mobile-based VR and 360° video experiences, shoppable video, personalized video, etc. driving effective business results and engagement.
2023 Smarties APAC Industry Award Winners
Digital Agency of the Year
PMax
Enabling Technology Company of the Year
Bobble AI
Specialist Agency of the Year
Media.Monks
Publisher of the Year
Grab
Creative Agency of the Year
Leo Burnett Indonesia
Media Agency of the Year
Wavemaker Indonesia
Agency Network of the Year
Mindshare
Holding Agency Company of the Year
WPP
Brand of the Year
Oreo
Most Resilient Brand of the Year
Grab
Advertiser of the Year
Mondelez International