KFC, Marina Bay Sands and Unilever are some of the innovative brands winning big at The Drum Digital Advertising Awards APAC 2019.
Taking place at JW Marriott Singapore South Beach on Friday 4 October, the black-tie event saw Mindshare China take home the coveted Grand Prix, Best Mobile Campaign and Best Branding Campaign.
KFC is a frequent winner of these awards so it’s no surprise they took home three awards for Colonel KL.
E-sports has roughly 111 million players in China. When looking at how to penetrate this space, KFC and Yum! China realised it needed to become an integral part of League of Legends, the world’s most popular e-Sport game.
Mindshare China created a HTML 5 version of Colonel KI housed in KFC’s app, allowing fans to log into the app to check out mobile-exclusive predictions and deals. It not only placed mobile front-and-centre of Colonel KI’s activities, but also fed into KFC’s CRM business activity.
The judging panel explained that the campaign was a good use of data which aligned the brand to a huge target market in eSports and League of Legends. They said: “This was a smart creative execution which integrated the predictions into the app, offered exclusive coupons and captured data for CRM, tying the campaign together.”
For their work with the Marina Bay Sands, Red2Digital took home the Chair Award and Best SEO Campaign.
Although MBS is one of Singapore and the world’s leading luxury resorts, they operating in an increasingly competitive market, particularly in South Korea. To turn around MBS’ fortunes they implemented a new strategy and platform that brought together consumer insights, SEO and performance SEO content marketing.
Mindshare Indonesia and Unilever snapped up Best Campaign on an E-commerce Platform and Best Video Campaign.
To launch its new “Unicorn” variant, Cornetto created a six-minute short film about a typical teenage romance. However, getting teenagers to watch this entire video online could be seen as a near impossible task. In order to build awareness for their new variant, increase engagement, and ultimately drive sales, Cornetto developed an innovative programmatic strategy to drive their product launch.
The campaign was chosen for its quality of thinking, executional strength and innovative deployment of long form video. The judges expressed that it was a great Indonesian example of strategy (local insight), media understanding (Facebook) data partnerships (Lazada) and brand voice to drive a full-funnel approach.
The following is a complete list of winners:
Grand Prix
Mindshare China for KFC
Chair Award
Red2Digital for Marina Bay Sands
Most Effective Media Agency
Entropia
Best Ad Ops Team
Unruly
Best Digital Advertising Team
Acquire NZ
Best Campaign on an E-commerce Platform
Mindshare Indonesia for Unilever
Best Use of Data for Creativity
Moving Walls for Shell
Best Video Campaign
Dentsu Aegis Network for DB Breweries
AND
Mindshare Indonesia for Unilever
Best Mobile Campaign
Mindshare China for KFC
Best Paid Social Campaign
PHD Taiwan for Unilever
Best Use of Performance
Forward PMX for Uber Eats
Best PPC Campaign
Kayo Sports for Kayo
Best SEO Campaign
Red2Digital for Marina Bay Sands
Best Cross Platform Campaign
Blanc by Entropia for AIA Malaysia
Best Branding Campaign
Mindshare China for KFC
Most Effective Use of Data
Clear Channel Singapore for The Walt Disney Company (South East Asia)
Most Effective Programmatic Media Partnership
Cadreon Malaysia for KFC Malyasia
The Drum Digital Advertising Awards APAC took place at the JW Marriott Singapore South Beach on Friday 4 October 2019. Register your interest for the 2020 awards here.
Partners of these awards are AdColony, OpenX, Telaria, Unruly and Xandr.
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