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Innovation in Digital Experience

Recognizes breakthrough work that transforms how brands engage people through digital touchpoints, turning interactions into meaningful and connected experiences. Innovation is measured by how effectively the experience solves real needs relevant to the brand, driving sustained engagement, and creating measurable impact.

Innovation in Digital Experience
Direct Marketing & CRM

01: Direct Marketing & CRM
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

The digital transformation of direct marketing and CRM has birthed more diverse and innovative approaches — from acquiring first-party data to novel takes on loyalty programs.This category recognizes innovation in customer targeting and acquisition, managing relationships and value throughout the customer life cycle, and more.
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Promo & Activation

02: Promo & Activation
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

The design and execution of live, participatory brand moments that spark immediate engagement, drive trial, and influence purchase. Work that seamlessly integrates physical and digital touchpoints to create meaningful, two-way connections through inventive mechanics.
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Commerce

03: Commerce
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

As eCommerce becomes more embedded in our daily lives, consumer expectations continue to evolve dramatically. This category celebrates human-centric solutions built for eCommerce, or digital innovations related to commerce across B2B, B2C, C2B, C2C, and D2C.
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Branded Experience

04: Branded Experience
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Branded experiences are immersive and engaging activations that allow brands to transcend from transactions to meaningful connections with their target audiences. This category rewards digital innovation in the creation of unique experiences that educate, entertain, inform, and enlighten.
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Social

05: Social
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Social media plays a vital role in the success of digital campaigns, as it effectively supports awareness, engagement, and conversion objectives. By leveraging best practices in personalization, customization, and scalability, social media can be a key strategy for brands in creating deeper connections with people.
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Creator and Influencer

06: Creator and Influencer
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Creators are on the leading edge of platform adoption, authentic creativity, and community building. This category recognizes innovations in collaborations and co-creations with influencers or KOLs, who create contents that leave a lasting impression and yield positive outcomes for the brand.
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Small Budget

07: Small Budget
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

High‑impact digital work delivered within a defined low‑budget threshold. Various digital marketing technologies can help unlock a level playing field for advertisers who may have limited resources. This category recognizes innovative projects, campaigns, or solutions that have achieved significant, measurable impact while operating within a budget of PHP 1,000,000 all in; considering all costs for media and creative/assets or produced materials. The award highlights brilliant resourcefulness and strategic execution in maximizing limited financial resources to drive meaningful outcomes.
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Creative Use of AI

08: Creative Use of AI
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Recognizes the innovative application of artificial intelligence to elevate digital experiences, engagement, creativity, and problem-solving. Celebrates work where AI is not simply a tool, but a transformative force that enables new forms of interaction, personalization, storytelling, utility, or brand participation across digital platforms and ecosystems.
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Innovation in Digital Media

Recognizes the strategic and creative use of media, where channels, data, and technology are orchestrated to deliver precision, scale, and impact. Innovation lies in how media is planned, activated, and optimized as a connected system that delivers effectiveness and relevance.
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Omnichannel

09: Omnichannel
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Effective media experiences rely on the seamless integration of multiple platforms that collectively enhance consumer familiarity, understanding, and ultimately, conversion to a brand. It is essential for brands today to strategically leverage human-centric insights to engage consumers in a hyper-personalized manner. This category recognizes digital media campaigns that leverage on omnichannel strategies and effective use of channels to achieve a brand’s full funnel goals.
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Applied Innovation in Traditional Media

10: Applied Innovation in Traditional Media
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

This category celebrates the strategic application of emerging technologies—such as AI, data-driven personalization, interactive formats, and cross-platform integrations—to traditional channels like TV, radio, print, and out-of-home (OOH). Recognizing efforts that redefine how these media connect with audiences, this category awards initiatives that successfully drove brand relevance, impact, and measurable results.
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Digital Media

11: Digital Media
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

This category rewards the creative and fresh use of technical innovation in digital media with tangible results. Evolving audience behaviours are transforming how people consume and interact with media. This award celebrates work that not only pushes creative and technical boundaries but also responds to changing user habits and expectations. From AI-driven personalization and interactive storytelling to immersive formats that redefine engagement, this award honours groundbreaking approaches that shape the way digital media influences culture, communication, and everyday experiences.
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Performance Marketing

12: Performance Marketing
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

This category recognizes campaigns that leverage data, technology, and optimization strategies to deliver measurable results—whether through conversions, lead generation, customer acquisition, or sales. Entries should demonstrate a clear strategy, precise audience targeting, and the effective use of performance-driven channels that maximize ROI, optimize real-time performance, and create meaningful engagement that drives business impact.
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Data and Analytics

14: Data and Analytics
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Data is more than just a measurement tool—it is the foundation for smarter marketing, deeper consumer understanding, and business innovation. This category recognizes the strategic and unexpected use of data to drive impact, whether by uncovering new audience insights, refining targeting and segmentation, optimizing customer journeys, reducing acquisition costs, or even transforming business models. Entries must showcase how data has been leveraged not just for basic analytics, but for strategic force that enhances decision-making, personalization, and meaningful brand engagement.
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Emerging Channels and Experiences

15: Emerging Channels and Experiences
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

First‑mover implementations of new platforms or tech that create novel audience interactions. As digital continuously evolves, new platforms, technologies, and touchpoints emerge, reshaping the way brands connect with audiences. This category recognizes trailblazing campaigns that embrace first-mover strategies, push the boundaries of innovation, and successfully integrate new digital channels and experiences into their marketing mix—setting new industry benchmarks. This category celebrates bold experimentation, strategic risk-taking, and breakthrough results, rewarding brands that lead the charge in shaping the future of digital marketing.
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Applied AI

16: Applied AI
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Recognizes the strategic and effective use of artificial intelligence to optimize, enhance, or transform digital media planning, targeting, delivery, and performance. Celebrates AI-powered media solutions that unlock smarter audience engagement, adaptive content, predictive insights, automation, or measurable business impact across channels and platforms.
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Innovation in Digital Entertainment

Recognizes brand work that enters or creates entertainment, earning attention by delivering value to audiences rather than interrupting them. Innovation is defined by the ability to create content that engages, and enhances the audience experience.
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Entertainment‑led Branded Experience

17: Entertainment‑led Branded Experience
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Brand experiences built around entertainment formats (shows, concerts, productions) that deepen engagement.
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Streamed Content & Video

18: Streamed Content & Video
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Long‑form or episodic streaming and film/video content designed for digital distribution and audience retention.
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Music & Audio Experiences

19: Music & Audio Experiences
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Music partnerships, audio campaigns or sonic IP driving audience engagement and brand recall. Accepts entertainment‑first podcast work (branded series, artist partnerships, narrative audio designed for audience growth).
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Alternate Realities (AR / VR)

20: Alternate Realities (AR / VR)
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Immersive AR/VR experiences that enable unique storytelling or product interaction.
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Sports & Esports

21: Sports & Esports
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Branded initiatives leveraging sports or esports to engage fandom, community or commerce.
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Innovation in Digital Craft

Celebrates excellence in the execution and production of digital work, where technology, design, and creativity are brought together with precision and artistry, whether in platforms, interfaces, sound, or systems. Innovation lies in elevating standards of craft to create seamless, elegant, and impactful experiences.
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Websites & Apps

22: Websites & Apps
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Front‑end digital products (websites, mobile apps) that combine UX, design and business objectives.
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Software & Hardware

23: Software & Hardware
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Technical platforms, SaaS solutions or devices/IoT that deliver operational or product innovation.
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UX/UI

24: UX/UI
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

The application of design thinking to user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) has become increasingly vital in today’s digital landscape, where users demand simplicity and speed. This award honours strategic design and execution of UX/UI solutions that enhance usability, accessibility, and engagement. Design thinking applied to UX/UI has never been more critical in customer journey optimization.
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Digital Production

25: Digital Production
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

As digital content production continues to accelerate, the importance of craftsmanship remains paramount. This category honors work that exemplifies exceptional attention to detail in visual design, user experience, and storytelling—demonstrating a commitment to aesthetics, precision, and emotional resonance in the digital space.
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Audio, Voice & Sonic Branding

26: Audio, Voice & Sonic Branding
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

This category celebrates innovative digital campaigns that leverage the power of sound. From voice recognition technology and sonic branding to immersive audio experiences, sound can be used to drive awareness, engagement, and conversion. Whether through branded audio assets, interactive voice technology, or strategic music marketing, these campaigns enhance the consumer experience and reinforce brand identity in a uniquely auditory way. This category recognizes brands that use audio to resonate with consumers beyond visuals, creating memorable, immersive, and effective marketing experiences.
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Use of AI

27: Use of AI
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Recognizes the creative and technical application of artificial intelligence in the execution and production of digital experiences. Celebrates AI as a craft enabler, powering new forms of design, storytelling, production, interfaces, systems, audio, visuals, or interactive experiences that push the boundaries of digital creativity and innovation.
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Innovation in Specializations

Recognizes work that demonstrates excellence within a variety of specific, high-impact disciplines shaping the future of digital and marketing. Innovation is defined by depth, credibility, and the ability to create meaningful impact within the field the work is entered in.
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Sustainability

28: Sustainability
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

This award honors digital campaigns that drive impact toward sustainability, social responsibility, and long-term positive change. Founded on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this award aims to inspire organizations to create meaningful campaigns that demonstrate how digital innovation can be used as a catalyst for a more sustainable and equitable world. This category also aims to capture campaigns that successfully leverage the Filipino culture and our values as a people, as well as address real-world challenges in the local arena.
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DEI

29: DEI
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

This category recognizes digital innovation that advances diversity, equity, gender equality, accessibility-including digital accessibility and inclusion-and other DEl-related challenges. It celebrates ideas, campaigns, experiences, products, or platforms that create positive social change, recognizing both brand-led and non-profit initiatives that demonstrate meaningful business, organizational, or societal impact.
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Creator Economy

30: Creator Economy
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Platform, business model or IP innovations that materially advance creator monetization or community growth.
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Gaming

31: Gaming
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

The gaming landscape has undoubtedly become a powerful medium for engagement, storytelling, and community building. This category recognizes brands that have successfully activated multiple gaming technologies, platforms, creator drops, stream raids, LiveOps, and many more.
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Emerging Technology

32: Emerging Technology
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Recognizes breakthrough work that leverages new and evolving technologies to create innovative, immersive, or transformative digital experiences. This category celebrates the innovative application of technologies such as AR/VR/MR, AI, spatial computing, robotics, holography, advanced sensors, wearables, and other emerging platforms that redefine participation, interaction, and engagement.
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Podcasts

33: Podcasts
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Recognizes the creative and strategic use of podcasts as a specialized channel for brand storytelling and audience engagement. This includes branded series, episodic content, or creator-led formats that leverage the strengths of audio to build connection, community, and brand affinity.
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Business / Pivotal Transformation

34: Business / Pivotal Transformation
Early Bird Fee: ₱10,300.00

Sometimes, a business or a brand meets a challenge that can only be overcome by transforming its product or business model. This award recognizes the pivot to or within a digital ecosystem, that is possible only with innovation, creativity, and of course, impact.
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