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YouTube Works Awards

Celebrating best-in-class advertising campaigns on YouTube.
Select a country to view locale specific award and submission details.
  • Hong Kong
  • Netherlands
  • Nordics
  • South Africa
  • Southeast Asia

What are the YouTube Works 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 video content can drive equally powerful results.

The YouTube Works Awards celebrate and champion the brilliant minds producing the most innovative and effective advertising creative on YouTube in the past year.

Winners join an esteemed shortlist of trophy bearers that help shape the future of creative effectiveness on YouTube. Plus, they have the opportunity to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with some of the industry’s best within published thought leadership and advertising industry moments.
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In partnership with

  • Kantar logo

    Kantar

  • Step 1

    Contest begins

    February 17, 2025
  • Step 2

    Submissions end

    March 16, 2025
  • Step 3

    Winners announced

    June 3, 2025

2025

Award categories

Explore the different categories in this year’s YouTube Works Awards.

Best Content Takeover

Celebrating the campaign that masterfully used YouTube’s Premium Placements to captivate specific audiences during targeted moments/primetimes, leaving a lasting impression and building meaningful brand engagement.

Best Brand Channel

Celebrating the campaign that best manages YouTube as a platform/content hub to regularly engage with the audience.

Best Collaboration: Brand & Creator

Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates the strategic and creative collaboration between the Brand & YouTube Creator.

The Changemaker

Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates inclusivity and diversity in marketing, and/or campaigns that support social or environmental causes.

Best Digital Transformation

Celebrating the pioneering Hong Kong domestic campaign that dared to transform from traditional media to digital, and proved the effectiveness of digital-first thinking.

Best in Action

Celebrating the campaign that best leverages YouTube to drive customers to shift consideration or take action in decision-making moments.

Best of Google AI

Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates how marketers effectively and responsibly leverage Google AI to enhance marketing performance and business impact.

This could include using Google AI-powered solutions to launch campaigns in any of the below areas:
1. Overall Campaign Insights or Ideation
2. Media Strategy for Reach / Views / Traffic / Sales
3. Creative Assets & Message Development

Grand Prix

Celebrating the most effective, creative, and innovative campaign that also drove exceptional business results.

Our 2025 judges

Brian Chan

Senior Digital
Marketing Manager,
Friesland Campina
(Hong Kong) Limited

Caterina Camerata

Strategy Lead, Publicis
Media Hong Kong

Cecilia Lai

Deputy Senior
Marketing Manager,
Promise

Cherry Tsui

Assistant General Manager,
Head of Marketing Division,
Personal Banking and
Wealth Management,
Bank of China (HK)

Gabriel Kung

Chief Commercial Officer,
Bowtie Life Insurance

Jacqueline Tsang

Executive Manager,
Digital Marketing Channels,
Content and Intelligence,
The Jockey Club Cps

Jason Wong

General Manager,
Investment Products,
Omnicom Group HK

Joey Wong

Head of Performance
Marketing and MarTech,
Standard Chartered

Kenny Sham

General Manager,
Hong Kong, Macau
& Thailand, Klook

Raymond Ng

Senior Regional Digital
Marketing Manager,
North Asia, Cartier

Renee Chan

Customer Experience and
Marketing Director, Pizza Hut
and PHD Hong Kong and
Macau, Pizza Hut and PHD

Roman Khan

Co-Founder & President,
Peak 21

Samson Fong

Head of Marketing,
Beame

Silas Ho

Senior Vice President,
Domestic Business and
Essence Mediacom, Hong
Kong, EssenceMediacom

Tania Lau

Vice President, Head of
Brand & Communications,
Consumer Business Group,
HKT Limited

Wai Chung Au

Managing Director,
Media, Dentsu
Hong Kong

Angela Wong

Chief Marketing and
Customer Officer,
AXA Hong Kong
& Macau, AXA

Darren Chan

Managing Director,
Food, HK & Macau
(Wellcome),
DFI Retail Group

Edward Bell

General Manager, Brand,
Insights and Marketing
Communications,
Cathay Pacific Group

Frankie Li

Vice President,
Global Marketing,
Lee Kum Kee

Tak Lee

General Manager
of Marketing,
Swire Properties

Tin Kin Chan

Senior Director, Head
of Brand Function and
Commercial Operation,
P&G HKTW,
Procter & Gamble

Yvonne Leung

Director of Customer
Transformation & Growth,
BUPA

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
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Check out the winners below and discover their success stories!

Want some inspiration for your next campaign? Check out this year’s Hong Kong winners below and new repository containing previous YouTube Works winners from all APAC markets!

McDonald’s Hong Kong – 50th Anniversary Celebration

Categories
  • Grand Prix
  • Best Content Takeover

To celebrate its 50th anniversary in a competitive market, McDonald’s aimed to deepen brand affection, drive store traffic and app engagement, and ultimately boost sales by connecting with Hong Kongers through shared nostalgia.

The campaign skillfully blended online and offline activities, using YouTube as a storytelling engine to promote a city-wide treasure hunt centered around nostalgic characters and iconic benches, thereby turning viewers into active participants.

The campaign successfully surpassed all targets, reaching over 9.8 million people and leading to a 2.7% sales growth above goal, a 21.4% beat on app engagement, and 120,000 new app registrations.

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MTR - Journey Together

Categories
  • Best Digital Transformation
To celebrate its 45th anniversary, MTR aimed to shift its brand image from a mere utility provider to a cherished part of the Hong Kong community by fostering emotional connections, particularly with younger audiences.

The campaign leveraged a “One Story, Two Voices” creative strategy on YouTube, blending nostalgic elements like a classic song remake and retro movie scenes with modern collaborations featuring popular YouTubers and dynamic celebrities.

The digitally-focused campaign successfully generated over 10 million views, significantly lifted brand perception by being seen as warm and progressive, and achieved a 94% positive corporate image.

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“HSBC Up” Activation Campaign

Categories
  • Best Brand Channel
HSBC aimed to transform its YouTube channel into an engaging content hub that balanced financial education with entertainment, thereby building a loyal viewership and shifting its brand perception from a transactional institution to a relatable, human-centric one.

The campaign executed a strategy of creating varied content including inspirational employee stories and collaborations with popular YouTube creators, while utilizing a full suite of YouTube tools like Shorts, targeted ads, and a new one-click subscription feature to drive traffic and loyalty.

The campaign successfully gained over 15.5k new subscribers (a 40% increase), garnered 4.6 million views, and significantly boosted brand interest with a 175% increase in related Youtube Channel.

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Standard Chartered In Times of Need Campaign

Categories
  • Best In Action
Standard Chartered aimed to challenge negative stereotypes of personal loans by repositioning them as smart financial tools for younger audiences, with the key objective of driving loan applications and overall business growth.

The campaign centered on a collaboration with popular YouTube creators “Trial & Error” to create authentic, relatable content, which was then amplified using a multi-format video strategy and precision-targeted ad tools like Demand Gen to guide consumers from awareness to conversion.

The campaign drove exceptional business growth, evidenced by a 500% surge in application open rates, a 126% increase in new customers, a 52% rise in sales volume, and a brand lift that far surpassed industry benchmarks.

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McDonald’s Hong Kong – Such a Goooood Morning

Categories
  • Best Collaboration: Brand & Creator
McDonald’s aimed to provide Hong Kongers with moments of emotional relief from their stressful lives by associating its breakfast with the joy of live music, thereby increasing breakfast awareness and driving sales growth for that specific day part.

The campaign centered on a year-long collaboration with the YouTube creator channel “SUCH HK,” featuring a mix of celebrity and local buskers in both long-form videos and Shorts to connect with Gen Z and culminating in a live music festival.

The initiative successfully drove a 13.7% growth in the breakfast segment, achieved over 6 million views, and significantly improved brand metrics, including a 3.8-point lift in being perceived as “Great for Breakfast.”

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McDonald’s Fries, Bryan’s Pride

Categories
  • The Changemaker
To mark its 50th anniversary, McDonald’s aimed to shift its brand perception from a profit-focused corporation to a purpose-driven community champion by authentically showcasing its commitment to inclusivity.

The campaign centered on a 15-minute YouTube documentary created with trusted creator Mill MILK, telling the authentic story of Bryan, an employee with special educational needs, and was launched as a live event using YouTube Premieres.

The campaign became a viral sensation, achieving double its view target with over 610k organic views, quadrupling its engagement goal with 100% positive sentiment, and successfully driving viewers to visit and support Bryan in-store.

Watch the video

View past winners and more

Check out compelling and effective advertising campaigns that have recently made an impact on YouTube.
Preview image for a video that shows highlights from the YouTube Works Awards..

What are the YouTube Works 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.
Preview image for a video that shows highlights from the YouTube Works Awards..
  • Step 1

    Contest begins

    February 10, 2025
  • Step 2

    Submissions end

    March 21, 2025
  • Step 3

    Winners announced

    June 12, 2025

2025

Award categories

Explore the different categories in this year’s YouTube Works Awards.

The Underdog

Celebrating the campaign that beat the odds to create a big impact. A campaign in which a small or medium-sized brand had big-brand ambitions and achieved business results to match. Show us how your scrappiness, your fresh thinking, and your hunger for success helped you make some noise in a way that was more impressive than most.

Creative Excellence

Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates brilliant creative execution on YouTube. This category focuses on the creative quality of your campaign, your big idea, and how you brought it to life on YouTube to drive (business) results. Think of powerful scripts, treatments, utilising the possibilities of YouTube as a platform to the fullest and maybe even acting like a creator.

Masterful Media Planning

Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates brilliant media planning that drove business results. We’re searching for campaigns that took a media-first approach using YouTube as an integrated part. Did a stroke of media genius spark the idea? Were your ads contextually spot on? Did your media planner nail your audience insights? This award recognizes that media strategy makes all the difference to creative effectiveness.

Changemakers

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?

The 2025 Local Jury

Henriette Van Swinderen

YouTube Works Awards
Jury Chair & Managing Director
BvA

Raoul de Graaf

Creator
Bankzitters

Mascha Feoktistova

Creator
Beautygloss

Denise Kenter

Brand Marketeer
Randstad Groep Nederland

Daniel Franco

Head of Retail Media
& Advertising
HEMA

Paul van Kuilenburg

Strategy Director
Alfred

Sebastiaan Spinhoven

Creative Content Director
StudioM

Appie Ayoubi

Talentmanager
& Creative Director
Ayo Agency

Senna Kost

Co-Founder and
Head of creative
aidem agency

Su May Tan

Country manager
Vayner

Edwin Hof

Global Digital Marketing
& CRM Rituals

Alexandra den Hartog

Head of Growth
Swapfiets

How to enter

Identify your most effective YouTube campaigns from 2024, 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. [email protected]
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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
Preview image of a person peeking into a car window in a YouTube video.

View past winners and more

Check out compelling and effective advertising campaigns that have recently made an impact on YouTube.
Preview image for a video that shows highlights from the YouTube Works Awards..

What are the YouTube Works 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 Nordic YouTube Works Awards celebrate and champion the brilliant minds producing the most innovative and effective campaigns on YouTube in the Nordic countries past year. Originally started in the UK, the YouTube Works Awards are celebrated in 15+ markets.

Questions? Contact [email protected].
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  • Step 1

    Contest begins

    February 3, 2025
  • Step 2

    Submissions end

    March 7, 2025
  • Step 3

    Winners announced

    14 May 2025

2025

Award categories

Explore the different categories in this year’s YouTube Works Awards.

Masterful Media Planning

Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates brilliant media planning that drove business results. We’re searching for campaigns that took a media-first approach using YouTube as an integrated part. Did a stroke of media genius spark the idea? Were your ads contextually spot on? Did your media planner nail your audience insights? This award recognizes that media strategy makes all the difference to drive results.

The Unskippable

Celebrating the paid ad campaign that made people watch and where they could have skipped but didn’t. Submissions competing in this category grabbed viewers’ attention, kept it and have the stats to back it up. We will be placing special emphasis on campaigns that effectively leveraged Google’s ABCD framework (Attention, Branding, Connection, Direction) to achieve unskippable results. (Only paid ads are eligible for this category.)

Brands as Creators

Celebrating the campaign that best demonstrates brands behaving like creators. We are looking for campaigns and brands that delivered impactful and engaging content in partnership with YouTube content creators --or-- by acting like one. We want brands that show us that YouTube is in their DNA. This brand regularly crafts content informed by consumer trends and knows how to nurture passionate online communities. In what ways did your content meet audiences where and how they’re watching? How did you deliver entertainment and inspiration — just like a creator would?

Our 2025 judges

Caio Franchi

Head of Creative Works
Northern Europe
Google

Emma Zanderholm

Head of Digital
Publicis

Stefan Bjurholm

Head of Media
Telia

Frida Siversen Ljung

Copywriter & Partner
NordDDB

Eka Ruola

Chief Creative Officer
Nitro

Ilari Ahtola

Head of Digital
Dagmar

Ruusa Koskelainen

Head of Marketing
& Digital Sales
Finnair

Søren Christensen

Partner & Strategy Director
Robert/Boisen & Like-minded

Cecilia Jonasson

Exec. Director Dentsu DK
Dentsu

Katrine Marie Klitgaard

Head of Creative
Salling Group

Martin Saabye Maaløe

Senior Director & Group
Lead, Creative Performance
s360

Minna Philipson

CMO
Gelato

Stine Jarl Andersen

Advisor and team lead
- TRY Opt TRY

Jayany Jørgensen Bråthen

Head of Video
OMD

How to enter

Identify your most effective YouTube campaigns from 2024, 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 [email protected]
Two women looking at a laptop screen in an office setting.

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
Preview image of a person peeking into a car window in a YouTube video.

View past winners and more

Check out compelling and effective advertising campaigns that have recently made an impact on YouTube.
Preview image for a video that shows highlights from the YouTube Works Awards..

What are the YouTube Works 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 Global YouTube Works Awards, in partnership with Kantar is finally coming to South Africa, to honor the brightest minds behind groundbreaking and effective YouTube campaigns of the past period.
Preview image for a video that shows highlights from the YouTube Works Awards..
  • Step 1

    Contest begins

    12 Mar 2025
  • Step 2

    Submissions end

    17 June 2025
  • Step 3

    Winners announced

    10 Sept 2025

2025

Award categories

Explore the different categories in this year’s YouTube Works Awards.

The Creative Visionary

Celebrating the YouTube campaign that demonstrated creative ingenuity and brought to life a captivating vision. This category champions your singular vision of creating something exciting and wholly original. How did your story punch through the page and onto the screen? What key creative decisions were made along the way to delight and excite? How did this make the work more effective, bold, and unforgettable?

Tech Pioneer

Celebrating the YouTube campaign that best leveraged technology to drive more creative impact. We’re looking for campaigns that pushed boundaries with tech, responsibly and effectively, to spark new ideas, evolve the creative canvas, generate assets, or scale the campaign across devices and formats. How did AI, ML, automation, or other technology improve the creative process or help your assets shine? How did you harness technology creatively to elevate marketing outcomes and drive business impact? How did you experiment with new tech to drive results?

The Shapeshifter

Celebrating the campaign that best adapts original storytelling for all kinds of formats. We’re searching for campaigns that demonstrate exceptional storytelling across various YouTube formats. Tell us how your brand crafted a compelling narrative and then adapted it for different formats. What specific results did this multi-format approach achieve? How did your campaign use innovative storytelling to empower your audience?

The Hidden Gem

Celebrating the YouTube campaign that achieved the greatest impact through a brilliant audience insight. We’re searching for YouTube campaigns that demonstrate the power of audience insights. Tell us how you uncovered a key insight and used it to shape your campaign’s creative, targeting, and optimization strategies. How did this insight inspire your creative strategy and drive measurable results? What specific impact did this insight-driven approach have on your YouTube performance?

The YouTube Symphony

Celebrating the campaign that redefined integrated marketing through the synergy of other media platforms and YouTube. The YouTube Symphony Award seeks to celebrate the campaigns that have truly mastered the art of storytelling across the diverse media landscape. We’re on the hunt for brands that have not only crafted compelling narratives but also understood how to expertly tailor them to resonate with audiences across various marketing channels (e.g YouTube and Social media/traditional media etc). What unique creative considerations did you make for each channel?. how did you use a variety of media channels in ‘symphony’ with Youtube to create a synergistic campaign?

The Underdog

Celebrating the campaign that beat the odds and made big waves. We’re looking for campaigns that used a small budget to make a BIG impact on YouTube. How did you transform limited resources into major impact? What brilliant creative idea or novel consumer insight helped your campaign punch above its weight?

The Grand Prix

The ultimate accolade awarded to the YouTube campaign that breaks barriers across South Africa, by celebrating the most effective, creative, and innovative campaign that also drove exceptional business results. The Grand Prix will be awarded at the Grand Jury’s discretion, with special consideration granted to the winners of all submissions-based categories. This isn’t a category you can enter, but one you can hope to win if you show that your campaign checks all of the boxes

Our 2025 judges

Judges to be announced soon.

How to enter

Identify your most effective and exciting YouTube campaigns that ran from 1st January 2024 to 31st May, 2025 , review the Terms & Conditions, and fill out the submission form below.

The YouTube Works Awards are easy and free to enter. 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 [email protected]
Two women looking at a laptop screen in an office setting.

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
Preview image of a person peeking into a car window in a YouTube video.

View past winners and more

Check out compelling and effective advertising campaigns that have recently made an impact on YouTube.
Preview image for a video that shows highlights from the YouTube Works Awards..

What are the YouTube Works Awards?

As the world has changed in the span of a few years, 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, in partnership with Kantar, is back to honor the brightest minds behind groundbreaking and effective YouTube campaigns of the past period.

This year’s Awards comes packed with three new Agency of the Year Award categories, new all-star jurors, and more chances to be recognized locally and across Southeast Asia.
Preview image for a video that shows highlights from the YouTube Works Awards.

In partnership with

  • Kantar logo

    Kantar

  • Step 1

    Contest begins

    March 17, 2025
  • Step 2

    Submissions end

    April 30, 2025
  • Step 3

    Winners announced

    October 2025

2025

Award categories

Explore the different categories in this year’s YouTube Works Awards.

The Big Bang

Awarded to the most effective launch to build awareness for a new product or launch. The launch (or relaunch) including (not limited to) new brand or sub-brand, new product or service, new brand positioning, new tagline, etc.

Multiformat Storytelling

This award celebrates the campaign that masterfully adapted original storytelling across various ad durations, formats, and/or devices. It recognizes the creative vision and strategic decisions that allowed the story to resonate with audiences in different viewing contexts, maximizing impact and engagement.

Masters of Media

The Masters of Media award celebrates campaigns showcasing brilliant and innovative media strategies, with a strong focus on the effective and responsible application of AI, that deliver exceptional media and/or business results and demonstrate marketing excellence. This award recognizes how marketers leverage AI-powered solutions to enhance performance, optimize campaigns, generate assets, and drive impactful outcomes.

Brands & Creators

Awarded to the brand and YouTube Creator(s) partnership that best exemplifies strategic collaboration and creative excellence. Winning campaigns will demonstrate a deep understanding of consumer and cultural trends, leveraging the creators’ community and their authentic voices deeply in the campaign. The award recognizes campaigns where creators were integral to the strategy from inception, showcasing how this close partnership and tailored approach drove exceptional results across the marketing funnel, including significant social buzz and positive brand impact.

Best of Festive

Awarded to the most outstanding campaign that celebrates key festive seasons. This award recognizes work that is able to build a connection with consumers in a locally relevant yet refreshing story, and compliment their message with strategic media orchestration to maximise impact in this key festive moments (i.e. Tết, Ramadan, Christmas, Songkran, Valentine’s Day, Independence Day, etc.)

Best of Country

Awarded to the most effective, outstanding and innovative campaign of each country - from insight to media to creative. This will be awarded at the Local Jury’s discretion, with special consideration granted to the winners of all submissions-based categories.

Grand Prix

The ultimate accolade awarded to the campaign that breaks barriers across Southeast Asia, and demonstrates excellence throughout the entire process, from creative idea, to media execution, and measurable results. The Grand Prix will be awarded at the Grand Jury’s discretion, with special consideration granted to the winners of all submissions-based categories.

Media Agency of the Year

Awarded to the media agency contributing to client success, through winning submissions at the YouTube Works Awards SEA 2025.

The winner of this category is the media agency that earned the highest overall score from entries at all qualifying levels: local finalists, local runners-ups, local winners, and SEA winners.

Creative Agency of the Year

Awarded to the creative agency contributing to client success, through winning submissions at the YouTube Works Awards SEA 2025.

The winner of this category is the creative agency that earned the highest overall score from entries at all qualifying levels: local finalists, local runners-ups, local winners, and SEA winners.

Specialty Agency of the Year

Awarded to the specialty agency contributing to client success, through winning submissions at the YouTube Works Awards SEA 2025.

The winner of this category is the specialty agency that earned the highest overall score from entries at all qualifying levels: local finalists, local runners-ups, local winners, and SEA winners. Specialty Agency covers the following type of agencies, but not limited to, Creator Agency, Influencer Agency, Social Media Management Agency, Social-Commerce/Live-streaming agency, and/or Multi-Channel Network (MCNs).

The 2025 Southeast Asia Winners

Meet the SEA winners for this year’s YouTube Works Awards, who took home the gold in representing the best YouTube campaigns across Southeast Asia. These outstanding campaigns set a new standard, impressing our grand jury with their groundbreaking creativity, transformative innovation, and resounding success. A huge round of applause to all the winners!

Fight For Thais’ Gut | Thailand

Brand: Dutchie
Agency: Prakit Holdings, Ogilvy Group Thailand, Suneta House, Positive4, Sound Space Studio
Winner of Category: SEA Grand Prix, Multiformat Storytelling

This Dutchie campaign brought “Fight For Thais’ Gut” to life with a seamless, multi-format story. It centered on a captivating, long-form soap opera for deep emotional connection, then extended into five targeted bumper ads, each debunking a gut health myth and highlighting a specific product e.g., Acne for teens, Bowel movement for kids etc.

YouTube’s execution involved launching with the 5-minute thematic video to maximize views and measure effectiveness via Brand Lift Studies. As the campaign progressed, cutdown versions and bumper ads were introduced, rotated across time slots to avoid fatigue and target specific audience segments.

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Lifebuoy: #KetempelanDingin | Indonesia

Brand: Lifebuoy
Agency: Mindshare (WPP Media), Mullenlowe Lintas Indonesia
Winner of Category: The Big Bang

The YouTube strategy tapped into the power of creator partnerships and diverse video formats to connect with Gen Z, modernize the brand, and spark engagement. For its “big bang” moment, it combined YouTube’s advanced tools with authentic influencer content, using a multi-format approach to maximize reach and views.

This fully integrated execution not only captured the attention of the target audience but also delivered a true cultural moment. By weaving in local folklore, ghost stories, and other culturally resonant elements, the campaign struck a chord that entertained, engaged, and left a lasting imprint.

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Beat The Streamers World | Indonesia

Brand: Honda BeAT
Agency: BigEvo, Dentsu Creative
Winner of Category: Brands & Creators

The Honda BeAT x Kobo Kanaeru campaign tapped deep into digital culture to spark a genuine connection with Gen Z. Launching on YouTube, it raced to 10 million views and ignited global buzz, drawing creators from across Asia and beyond. In a first for Indonesia, they introduced BeAT Aeru, a virtual motor club that seamlessly blended entertainment with the thrill of riding. The campaign’s boldest play came when they hijacked gamer livestreams with playful donation messages from Kobo, cleverly showcasing the bike’s anti-theft feature. These moments turned into viral, meme-worthy content that fueled organic traction and propelled their reach far beyond expectation

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GSafeTayo: Entertainingly Serious | Philippines

Brand: GCash
Agency: Universal McCann, VML
Winner of Category: Masters of Media

GCash’s campaign used “Tita Marnie” to show how clicking fake links leads to real losses—each spoofed “pindot” stole something from her home. This powerful visual was backed by a three-part YouTube exposé explaining how scammers hijack telco signals and how users can protect themselves.

The campaign launched with a 40-sec hero video, followed by a three-part ad series, 6-sec bumpers, and 15-sec non-skippables. Using YouTube’s AI tools for smart sequencing, retargeting, and frontloaded delivery, GCash maximized reach, engagement, and message retention.

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Songkran Thai Splash | Thailand

Brand: Netflix
Agency: I-DAC, VML GROUP THAILAND, GOODSTUPH Thailand
Winner of Category: Best of Festive

Netflix used a concept called “Netflix-Thai-Chum,” which is based on Thai guardian spirits. The long form video’s idea was to promise a fun Songkran with lots of great Thai movies and shows to watch at home. They used the word “Nam” (water) to promote local content and culture as water splashing at home, which made more people interested in Thai titles. They also added data of affordable price campaign to build awareness among new consumers.

For YouTube, Netflix leveraged Video Reach Campaigns (VRC) for sustaining awareness and utilizing a YouTube Masthead during peak Songkran days to ensure maximum visibility.

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The 2025 Local Winners

Meet the local winners for this year’s YouTube Works Awards, who will be competing in the final Southeast Asia round.
These exceptional campaigns rose above the competition, captivating our local judges with their creativity, effectiveness and impact.
Congratulations to all local winners!

Explore the complete list of local winners below.

The 2025 Agency of the Year Winners

SEA
Indonesia
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam

SEA

Mindshare logo featuring the company name in dark purple text next to a circular abstract design composed of overlapping radial gradients in shades of purple and blue.

Mindshare (WPP Media) Indonesia

Media Agency of the Year

The word Ogilvy in a custom, red serif typeface on a white background.

Ogilvy Group Thailand

Creative Agency of the Year

Logo for little red ants vietnam featuring a stylized, rounded black speech bubble or square shape above the text, with three small red dots underneath the shape representing the 'ants'. The word 'ants' is also in red.

Little Red Ants Vietnam

Specialty Agency of the year

Indonesia

Mindshare logo featuring the company name in dark purple text next to a circular abstract design composed of overlapping radial gradients in shades of purple and blue.

Mindshare (WPP Media) Indonesia

Media Agency of the Year

Wordmark logo for MullenLowe Lintas Indonesia in a dark gray serif font on a black background.

Mullenlowe Lintas Indonesia

Creative Agency of the Year

The words Dentsu Creative in a stylized, modern sans-serif font above the word Indonesia. The full logo is black on a black background (if a black-on-black treatment is the intention) or simply the words Dentsu Creative Indonesia.

Dentsu Indonesia

Specialty Agency of the year

Malaysia

The wordmark logo for PHD in a bold, blocky, dark purple typeface with rounded edges, set against a black background.

PHD Media Malaysia

Media Agency of the Year

Logo for Media Brands Content Studio where the words MEDIA, BRANDS, STUDIO, and Content form a square frame around a black center. The text is light gray, with small orange-red accents in the corners.

MBCS Malaysia

Creative Agency of the Year

Graph Studio logo with the text stacked in white, stylized capital letters on a solid red background. The letters 'G' and 'O' have faint, semi-transparent overlays.

Graph Studio Malaysia

Specialty Agency of the year

Philippines

The OPENMIND wordmark logo. The first half, OPEN, is in a dark blue outline font, and the second half, MIND, is filled with a gradient that transitions from purple to pink to blue.

Openmind (WPP Media) Philippines

Media Agency of the Year

A solid magenta or bright pink color text 'ggl', which stands for gigil.

GIGIL Philippines

Creative Agency of the Year

Logo for the nerve featuring the word nerve in white text with a stylized neuron or network icon in blue and white replacing the letter 't' at the beginning, all on a purple background.

Nerve Philippines

Specialty Agency of the year

Singapore

Wordmark logo for M&C Saatchi Performance with the name stacked across three lines in bold, black, sans-serif capital letters.

M&C Saatchi Performance Singapore

Media Agency of the Year

Thailand

Logo for i-dac BANGKOK. It features five parallel, slanted black bars forming an abstract icon above the company name in a thin, modern, black sans-serif typeface.

I-DAC Thailand

Media Agency of the Year

The word Ogilvy in a custom, red serif typeface on a white background.

Ogilvy Group Thailand

Creative Agency of the Year

Logo for pinpung in gray, lowercase letters. The logo includes a gray square graphic on the left with an orange pushpin icon, and a second orange pushpin replacing the dot over the letter 'i'.

PinPung Thailand

Specialty Agency of the year

Vietnam

Mindshare logo featuring the company name in dark purple text next to a circular abstract design composed of overlapping radial gradients in shades of purple and blue.

Mindshare (WPP Media) Vietnam

Media Agency of the Year

Wordmark logo for T&A Ogilvy in a bold, black serif typeface. The T&A uses large capital letters with a prominent ampersand, followed by Ogilvy in the same style.

Ogilvy Vietnam

Creative Agency of the Year

Logo for little red ants vietnam featuring a stylized, rounded black speech bubble or square shape above the text, with three small red dots underneath the shape representing the 'ants'. The word 'ants' is also in red.

Little Red Ants Vietnam

Specialty Agency of the year

The 2025 Local Finalists

We’re thrilled to announce the local finalists for the YouTube Works Awards 2025 Southeast Asia!
These brilliant entries impressed our local panels with their innovative campaigns and outstanding results.

Good luck to all finalists! Winners will be announced in September and October.

Click below to preview the complete list of local finalists:

The 2025 Jury Panels

SEA Grand Jury
Indonesia
Malaysia
Philippines
Singapore
Thailand
Vietnam

SEA Grand Jury

Siew Ting Foo

SEA Grand Jury Head,
Lead of The Big Bang
Transformational Growth
Leader/ Former CMO/ Best
selling author

Lex Bradshaw-Zanger

Lead of Multiformat Storytelling
Chief Marketing & Digital Officer,
South Asia Pacific, Middle
East & North Africa Region,
L’Oréal

Ali Malik

Lead of Masters of Media
Senior Director,
Procter & Gamble

Samuel Vanel

Lead of Brands & Creators
GOAT VP Product &
Services APAC,
WPP Group

Georgina Koh

Georgina Koh

Lead of Best of Festive
Director of Marketing
Activation, Marketing Group
Singapore Tourism Board

Intan Andini

Indonesia Jury Head
Media and Digital Lead,
Danone Waters Indonesia
(AQUA)

Stanley Clement

Malaysia Jury Head
Chief Executive Officer,
Mediabrand Content Studios
(MBCS)

Liam Capati

Philippines Jury Head
Chief Media Officer,
Publicis Media

Chloe Neo

Singapore Jury Head
Chief Executive Officer,
Omnicom Media Group
Singapore

Supphasit Chokmongkolsatian

Thailand Jury Head
Chief Strategy Officer,
Ogilvy

Huong Ta

Vietnam Jury Head
Personal Care - Digital
Marketing, Media Lead and
Country Media Head,
Unilever

Indonesia

Arindam Bhattacharyya

Chief Strategy Officer,
dentsu

Bagus Erlangga

Corporate Marketing Director,
Samsung Electronics

Bahari CK

Vice President,
Creative Director,
GOJEK

Eka Sugiarto

Head of Media,
Unilever

Essy Cinta

Senior Vice President,
National Brand IM3
Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison

Fibriyani Elastria

Chief Marketing
Officer, Halodoc

Intan Andini

Media and Digital Lead,
Danone Waters
Indonesia (AQUA)

Leonard Wiguna

Chief Creative Officer,
Future Creative Network
Indonesia (Flock)

Memoria Dwi Prasita

Global Brand Director,
Paragon Corp

Norisa Saifuddin

Senior Vice President -
Marketing Communications,
BCA

Rajat Basra

Chief Executive Officer,
Omnicom Media
Group (OMG)

Reddia Virginia

Head of Mass Media,
Blibli

Rina Marie Simon

Principal Partner,
GOAT GroupM

Sachidananda Panda

Principal Partner Client Leadership Unilever,
Mindshare

Yolanda Sastra

Marketing Director,
Wings Indonesia

Malaysia

Andrew Pinto

Vice President, Brand
and Marketing, Unifi,
Telekom

Azman Mohammad

Senior Brand
Director,
McDonald’s

Chin Chuan Lee

Country Manager,
Anymind Group

Emir Shafri

Chief Creative Officer,
Publicis Group

Fred Chong

Group Chief
Executive Officer,
WebTVAsia

Jessica Lim

Group Media
Manager,
Nestlé

Kristine Ong

Chief Executive
Officer,
Publicis Media

Lubna Lanjekar

Group Business
Director,
Publicis Media

Marisha Lakhiani

Chief Growth
Officer,
Mindvalley

May Ling Chan

Head of Brand &
Marketing Services,
CelcomDigi Bhd.

Mayank Bhatnagar

Managing Director,
OMD

Stanley Clement

Chief Executive Officer,
Mediabrand Content
Studios (MBCS)

Toni Darusman

Group Chief Brand
& Marketing Officer,
CIMB Bank

Philippines

Ada Lazaro

Chief Marketing
Officer,
McDonald’s

Bea Atienza

Marketing Director
for Impactful Brand
Experience,
Colgate-Palmolive

Carlo Licuanan

Vice President Marketing,
Universal Robina
Corporation

Emmanuel Ordinanza

Vice President
and Head of
Integrated Media,
Nestlé

Huishu Jin

Global Vice President
– Consumer Marketing,
Jollibee Food Corporation

Jolly Estaris

Head of iWant,
ABS-CBN Corporation

Kay Veloso Palisoc

Integrated Media and
Commerce Lead,
Unilever

Kim Martin Viray

Assistant Vice President,
Head of Marketing
Communications,
GCash

Kristine Go

Senior Vice President and
Head of Prepaid, Postpaid
& Fixed Wireless,
Smart Telecommunications

Laurent Goirand

Head of GroupM Nexus,
GroupM Nexus

Liam Capati

Chief Media Officer,
Publicis Media

Mary Buenaventura

President and Chief
Executive Officer,
Omnicom Media Group

Peach Natividad

Chief Strategy Officer,
BBDO Guerrero

Reena Franciso

Client President,
EssenceMediacom

Roche Vandenberghe

Chief Marketing
Officer,
Globe Telecom

Singapore

Chloe Neo

Chief Executive
Officer,
Omnicom Media
Group

Joban Singh

Senior Director,
Consumer Marketing
Asia Pacific, Invisalign,
Align Technology

Jūn Shea

Vice President,
Consumer Marketing,
Starhub

Lynn Chong

Head of Marketing,
Samsung Electronics,
Singapore
Samsung

Prakash Kamdar

Chief Executive Officer, Clients
& Solutions, Southeast Asia,
Chief Executive Officer,
Singapore,
dentsu

Primus Nair

Head of Creative,
The LEGO Agency,
Asia Pacific

Thailand

Chanchai Pongsanan

Managing Director & Head of
Performance Marketing,
dentsu

Nidarat Urailertprasert

Data, Media and Commerce
Lead,
Unilever

Park Wannasiri

Chief Creative Officer,
VML

Pathamawan Sathaporn

Chief Executive Officer,
GroupM

Piyanant Nimakorn

Head of Digital,
OMD

Piyanuch Meemook

Chief Executive Officer,
Publicis Media

Rajsak Asawasupachai

Transformation Director,
IPG Mediabrands | Kinesso

Rassarin Arunittiwit

Editor,
Brand Buffet

Sripapha Chingprasertsuk

Business Executive Officer,
Nestlé

Supphasit Chokmongkolsatian

Chief Strategy Officer,
Ogilvy

Warin Tinprapa

Chief Growth Officer,
Media Intelligence Group

Wilailuk Potrakoon

Chief Marketing Officer,
THE STANDARD

Yada Sarttarasathit

Chief Digital & Marketing
Officer,
L’Oréal

Vietnam

Andrzej Tomasz Bialasiewicz

Chief Marketing Officer,
Tan Hiep Phat Beverage
Group

Huong Ta

Personal Care - Digital
Marketing, Media Lead and
Country Media Head,
Unilever

Huong Vu

Head of Digital Marketing and
Retail Business Marketing,
Techcombank

James Fearn

Chief Client & Growth Officer,
GroupM

Luu Ly Nguyen

Head of Marketing
Communications,
Viettel Telecom

Quyen Le

Chief Growth Officer,
metub

Siddarth Malhotra

Chief Executive Officer,
dentsu Creative

Stefan Reicherstorfer

Chief Marketing Officer,
Uniben

Tam Truong

Media Director,
P&G

Thanh Anh Nguyen

Head of Country Marketing,
Grab

Thu Trang Vu

Global Chief Marketing
Officer,
XanhSM

Tin Le

Marketing Director,
Coca-Cola

Tram Anh Le

Head Of Integrated Marketing
Communication,
Vinamilk

Tu Le

Chief Marketing &
Sustainability Officer,
La Vie LLC – Nestlé Water

How to enter

Identify your most effective YouTube campaigns from the eligibility period, review the Terms & Conditions (ID, TH, VN), learn more from the Submission Guide, 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.

Need more help?

To ensure a smooth journey, we’re happy to guide you through the process. Check out our FAQs or book a session at YouTube Works Awards SEA Office Hours with Kantar. In the office hours, you can find further tips on how to craft a winning submission, learn more about the program, and get your questions answered. Book a session with Kantar or reach us anytime at [email protected].

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Best practices

Looking for inspiration? Here’s a line-by-line guide inspired by the submissions of previous winners on how to answer each entry form question meaningfully.

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
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