The SMARTIES Thailand 2026 Winners

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Thailand – Brand Purpose / Activism

The Brand Purpose/Activism category recognises campaigns that harness the power of brand platforms to champion social causes or address significant societal issues. Entries are evaluated on the credibility of the brand’s commitment, the clarity and courage of its point of view, and how purpose is embedded into the brand’s narrative, actions, and behavior. It underscores the importance of leveraging brand influence and reach, to make a meaningful impact on society. This category emphasizes the role of brands in contributing to the greater good, covering a wide range of initiatives from environmental sustainability to social, political, and economic activism.

Thailand – Social Impact Marketing

The Social Impact Marketing category honors campaigns that leverage marketing to drive significant social change, focusing on initiatives that contribute to public service, social responsibility, and positive shifts in societal attitudes or behaviours. It recognizes efforts that go beyond conventional marketing to make a meaningful difference in the world. Successful entries clearly demonstrate how marketing activity directly contributed to positive change, whether through awareness, participation, behavior change, or real-world impact.

Thailand – Brand Experience

The Brand Experience category honors campaigns that create immersive, memorable brand interactions, leveraging innovative strategies and technologies to foster deep consumer connections, human centric design and brand loyalty. Campaigns that redefine the interaction between brands and consumers, setting new standards for how brands engage, inspire and connect with their audiences creating a 360-customer experience.

Thailand – Instant Impact / Promotion

The Instant Impact/Promotion category aims to recognize campaigns that not only creatively engage consumers but also drive immediate promotion driven business results, showcasing the power of promotions in today’s competitive market. Campaigns that deliver business impact/results through creative and effective promotional tactics, driving consumer engagement and sales.

Thailand – Customer Growth & Conversion Strategy

The category recognizes campaigns designed to acquire, nurture, and convert customers through data-driven and automation, strategies and marketing technology and honors initiatives that elevate business performance by using CRM, automation, AI, segmentation, and predictive modelling to generate qualified leads, optimize the customer journey, and drive measurable sales and retention outcomes. Winning campaigns demonstrate a clear focus on acquisition efficiency, conversion impact, and long-term customer value.

Thailand – New Product and / or Service Launch / Re-launch

The Product and/or Service Launch category celebrates marketing campaigns that have successfully introduced, or reintroduced, products or services to the market. This category recognizes the crucial role of strategic marketing in making a launch effective, highlights campaigns that have managed to capture consumer interest, generate buzz, and ultimately drive sales and market share growth from the outset.

Thailand – Real Time Marketing

The Real Time Marketing category celebrates campaigns (campaign activation and /or targeting) that excel in leveraging current data and trends demonstrating agility and strategic innovation. It recognizes the agility and creativity of brands in using real-time information to craft marketing messages that are highly relevant, engaging, and effective in achieving business objectives.

Thailand – Small Budget, Big Impact

The Small Budget, Big Impact category recognizes campaigns that achieve significant marketing success with limited financial resources, with a budget from $5k to $25k, highlighting the power of creativity and strategic efficiency. This total budget must include all campaign-related costs, including but not limited to production, media spend, talent, technology, partnerships, and any other executional expenses. It is mandatory to include the budget converted to USD dollars.

Thailand – Creator / Influencer / Celebrity Marketing

The Creator/Influencer/Celebrity Marketing category celebrates campaigns that effectively leverage personalities to enhance brand engagement and achieve marketing objectives through authentic and persuasive collaborations. brands that use creators, influencers, or celebrities as part of their campaign in a strategic manner to reach and engage target audiences. Showcase the brand narrative, resulting in enhanced consumer interaction and engagement driven by the campaign highlighting the said segments.

Thailand – Partnership, PR & Branded Content Excellence

This category recognizes campaigns that combine PR strategies to generate earned media, expand organic reach, strengthen brand reputation and create impact. It celebrates projects that leverage contemporary communications practices, original content, partnerships, powerful narratives, and innovative formats to engage audiences, shape perceptions, and drive meaningful business outcomes. Eligible entries include initiatives executed at festivals, sporting events, concerts, exhibitions, large public gatherings, proprietary brand events, and any high-visibility occasion capable of driving immersive experiences, multichannel activations, or live/digital integration.

Thailand – Omnichannel Marketing

The Omnichannel Marketing category honors campaigns that achieve a seamless customer experience across multiple channels, showcasing strategic coherence and integration. It celebrates the strategic and tactical prowess of using various media touchpoints like TV, print, radio, outdoor - D/OOH, PR, direct marketing, and digital platforms to craft a coherent brand story that engages consumers at multiple touchpoints on their journey.

Thailand – Cross Digital Media Marketing

This category celebrates digital campaigns that integrates the diversity of various digital platforms to create an engaging, and impactful brand experience, showcasing the power of a comprehensive digital only strategy. Importance of a unified digital strategy that spans various applications and devices (minimum of 3), including desktop, mobile, wearables, digital installations etc. Campaigns should emphasize the ability of brands to navigate the complexities of the digital landscape to develop meaningful consumer engagements that drive business impact.

Thailand – AI Powered Data Insights / Contextual Marketing

This category celebrates campaigns that effectively utilize AI driven data analytics clearly articulated insight uncovered through research, data analysis or a deep understanding of consumer, cultural or business pain points, A contextual information and technology to deliver personalized marketing experiences to tailor marketing messages of the target audience. Importance of data-driven decision-making in crafting marketing strategies are paramount to the success of a highly engaging and effective campaign meeting business objectives.

Thailand – Advanced Technologies Marketing

The Advanced Technologies Marketing category recognizes campaigns that creatively apply emerging or advanced technologies to transform consumer engagement, elevate brand interaction, and pioneer new forms of marketing innovation. This category includes initiatives leveraging AR/VR, spatial computing, audio/voice/sonic experiences, NFTs and Web3, as well as location intelligence, Bluetooth, sensors, IoT, automation, and other breakthrough digital capabilities. Campaigns in this category push the boundaries of what technology can unlock for brands and consumers, delivering interactive, intelligent, and future-ready experiences that redefine how audiences connect with brands.

Thailand – Retail Media / O2O Excellence

Honours campaigns or initiatives that leverage retail-media channels (online or in-store) to deliver meaningful business impact. This could include sponsored product placements, in-retail digital media, branded content within retailer ecosystems, retail display & media, online retail-platform advertising, “shop-the-ad” activations, or integrated omnichannel retail-media strategies.

Thailand – Audience Engagement Excellence Using AI

The Audience Engagement Excellence Using AI category celebrates marketing campaigns that utilize artificial intelligence to significantly enhance audience engagement. This award recognizes efforts that employ AI technologies to analyze behaviors, predict preferences, automate interactions, and personalize communications at scale. It showcases how AI can be a critical tool in understanding and connecting with audiences more deeply and effectively, leading to increased engagement, satisfaction, and loyalty.

Thailand – Design / Customer / User Experience

This category celebrates campaigns that excel in creating online and offline superior customer and user experiences, through innovative and thoughtful design, significantly enhancing user satisfaction and engagement.

Thailand – Personalization

The Personalization category recognizes campaigns that achieve excellence in delivering highly customized content to consumers, leveraging data and technology to enhance engagement and drive business results.

Thailand – Short or Long Form Video

The Short or Long Form Video category acknowledges campaigns and content that leverage video content (not necessarily high production quality) including micro-dramas to captivate audiences, utilizing creative storytelling and high production quality to achieve significant engagement and business outcomes. Highlight campaigns that leverage the power of video to convey compelling messages, drive consumer engagement, and enhance brand identity across digital and traditional platforms, including micro-dramas.

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