YouTube Works Awards
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
Action Driver
Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates how YouTube was used to drive customers to action in decision-making moments. We want to see how your campaign made your audience do something in the real world. Did you drive thousands of sign-ups, prompt consumers down a path to purchase, or even trigger a global movement? Big or small, we want to see how you sparked action.
Creative Innovation
Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates brilliant creative execution on a digital platform that drove business results. Here we’re focused on the creative quality of your campaign, your big idea, and how you brought it to life on screen. This includes powerful scripts, treatments, and little details in the look and feel that made a big impact on your results
Big Screen, Big Results
Celebrating the campaign that most creatively used the big screen to reach new audiences and drive results. People are choosing to watch YouTube on connected TVs more than any other ad-supported platform because it has the creators they love and the content they need. For brands, this presents an opportunity to leverage connected TV to reach incremental audiences across YouTube, while engaging audiences with bigger creative canvases. Here we are looking for a campaign that used cross-screen planning, smart targeting, solid measurement - and it off-course also ran on YouTube Connected TV.
Changemakers
Celebrating 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 2022 to be reviewed by our panel of industry leaders in two rounds.
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.
2023 judges
They’ve been there, done that, and got a few trophies themselves. Our judges will bring specialized expertise and significant experience across the industry and category spectrums.
Tim van der Wiel
Founder,
GoSpooky
Britt Hogenhuis
Co-Founder and CCO,
&.mediagroup
Renee Snaak
Executive Director & Head of Talent Partnerships,
We Are Era
Noah Joy Zeeuw
Creator | Creative Producer and Presenter,
TBWA\NEBOKO
Jordi van den Bussche
Creator | Founder,
JVDB Studios
Yvonne Prins
Co-Leader and Managing Partner,
UM NL
Seema Sharma
Creative Director & MT member,
Edelman Amsterdam
Beatrice Lindvall
Director Global Media & Digital,
JDE
Fleur Osté
Benelux Business Lead,
Ben & Jerry's
Contest begins
February 9, 2023
Submissions end
March 15, 2023
Winners announced
May 11, 2023
How to submit
Best practices
Our judges are looking for campaigns that have creatively, strategically, and effectively leveraged YouTube to achieve a clear business impact. Make sure you set the scene and be clear about your KPIs. The metrics you provide will help our judges understand your work and the challenges of your category and marketplace.
Helpful hints:
Consider co-writing your submission; media and creative collaborations help to tell the full story Tell a story with a beginning (objectives), middle (approach), and end (impact) Stick to simple and concise Include critical context around your creative Remember we need all relevant media referenced in your submission Note any factors external to YouTube that could have impacted results Share as many metrics as you can and include objectives, KPIs, and benchmarks
How to enter
Identify your most effective YouTube campaigns from 2022, review the Terms & Conditions, and fill out the submission form below.
The YouTube Works Awards are easy to enter. Even better, it’s free. So if you’re part of a marketing, media, creative, or agency team, show us your best-in-class digital work for your chance to be seen around the world.
Questions? Contact us at youtube-works-netherlands@google.com
YOUTUBE WORKS AWARD WINNERS
2022 Winners
Brands and agencies brought forward 2021’s most creative, compelling, and effective campaigns to the YouTube Works Awards. Our community of expert judges selected winners across a number of categories – here are three of their favorites.
Pepsico x OMD x Fitzroy
Lay’s Iconic Restaurant Flavours
Bol.com x DEPT
Sinterklaas en het verdwenen speelgoed
VanMoof
Hard Times for Super Thieves
Yes We Can Clinics x &.agency
HELP! De onzichtbare strijd van een jonge generatie
Mileudefensie x WeFilm x Blyde
Boardroom
Jumbo x YUNE x Crocodile
Koken & Knoeien