YouTube Works Awards

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.

About the Awards

Categories

1

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.

2

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.

3

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.

4

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.

How it works

Our 2025 judges

Henriette Van Swinderen

Henriette Van Swinderen

YouTube Works Awards Jury Chair & Managing Director

BvA

Raoul de Graaf

Raoul de Graaf

Creator

Bankzitters

Mascha Feoktistova

Mascha Feoktistova

Creator

Beautygloss

Denise Kenter

Denise Kenter

Brand Marketeer

Randstad Groep Nederland

Daniel Franco

Daniel Franco

Head of Retail Media & Advertising

HEMA

Paul van Kuilenburg

Paul van Kuilenburg

Strategy Director

Alfred

Sebastiaan Spinhoven

Sebastiaan Spinhoven

Creative Content Director

StudioM

Appie Ayoubi

Appie Ayoubi

Talentmanager & Creative Director

Ayo Agency

Senna Kost

Senna Kost

Co-Founder and Head of creative

aidem agency

Su May Tan

Su May Tan

Country manager

Vayner

Edwin Hof

Edwin Hof

Global Digital Marketing & CRM

Rituals

Alexandra den Hartog

Alexandra den Hartog

Head of Growth

Swapfiets

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Contest begins

February 10, 2025

2

Submissions end

March 21, 2025

3

Winners announced

June 12, 2025

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
Best practices

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.

youtube-works-netherlands@google.com

How to enter
YOUTUBE WORKS AWARD WINNERS

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.

2024 Winners
GRAND PRIX
MASTERFUL MEDIA PLANNING
GRAND PRIX
MASTERFUL MEDIA PLANNING

Tempo-Team, Studio M, Wavemaker, GroupM Nexus

Tempo-Teams Werkplezier: Vreugdevolle carrières creëren.

CREATIVE EXCELLENCE
CREATIVE EXCELLENCE

Netflix, DEPT, JellyFish

BERLIN: The tale of interactive storytelling.

THE UNDERDOG
THE UNDERDOG

Swapfiets, Better Call Sol, Co.lab

Swapfiets: Own The City, Not The Bike

CHANGEMAKERS
CHANGEMAKERS

Ben & Jerry's, GroupM Nexus, Mindshare, Boomerang Agency

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