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
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?
How it works
Submit your best work from 2024 to be reviewed by our panel of industry leaders.
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.
Our 2025 judges
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
Contest begins
February 10, 2025
Submissions end
March 21, 2025
Winners announced
June 12, 2025
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 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.
2024 Winners
Brands and agencies brought forward 2023’s most creative, compelling, and effective campaigns to the YouTube Works Awards. Our community of expert judges selected winners across categories – Here are the 2024 winners.
Tempo-Team, Studio M, Wavemaker, GroupM Nexus
Tempo-Teams Werkplezier: Vreugdevolle carrières creëren.
Netflix, DEPT, JellyFish
BERLIN: The tale of interactive storytelling.
Swapfiets, Better Call Sol, Co.lab
Swapfiets: Own The City, Not The Bike
Ben & Jerry's, GroupM Nexus, Mindshare, Boomerang Agency
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