It’s time to show off your best marketing achievements as the YouTube NZ Marketing Awards call for entries officially opens.

NZ Marketing magazine, the NZ Marketing Association and naming partner YouTube are thrilled to once again invite marketers across Aotearoa to enter the Awards. It’s an opportunity to showcase how your strategies and creativity have delivered real results to businesses and brands across the nation and beyond.

Now in its 35th year, the Awards celebrate the collective excellence in strategic and creative thinking that goes into award-winning marketing. They recognise exceptional marketing and marketing professionals that shape successful businesses across all aspects of the discipline. They:

• set the standards for marketers and their service industries in a local context.
• provide examples of integrated marketing that have been rigorously judged by an independent panel of some of the country’s most respected marketers and business leaders.
• raise business and organisational awareness — both private and public sector — of the value of marketing, and understanding of the economic importance of marketing excellence.
• demonstrate the tangible (commercial and human) benefits that accrue from marketing excellence.

The YouTube NZ Marketing Awards offer recognition over 34 awards in three key areas:

• Marketing Excellence Awards
• Marketing Campaign Awards and
• Individual Awards.

Marketing Excellence Awards celebrate excellence in specific disciplines across different sectors, demonstrating how effective marketing strategy has led to measurable results for a business or brand.

The Marketing Campaign Awards recognise innovative and agile marketing initiatives that have identified short-term opportunities or challenges and delivered tangible results within 12 months or less.

Individual Awards honour marketing professionals who have contributed to a business or brand’s overall marketing success, both in the short and long term.

Key dates to be aware of include:

• Call for entries: Thursday, 12 March
• Entries close: Friday, 24 April, 5pm
• Extension deadline: Monday 4 May, 5pm (at an additional $150+GST)
• Judging rounds 1&2: May to July
• Finalists announced: Tuesday, 23 June
• Awards Night: Wednesday, 2 September at Spark Arena

For further information pertaining to the Awards, including a list of all the categories, the judging process and FAQs, visit the YouTube NZ Marketing Awards website.