🚀 Oh what a night! The biggest ever IAB NZ Digital Advertising Awards Show was held on Thursday 20 November at Shed 10, Queens Wharf, celebrating the work, technology and talent driving Aotearoa’s digital advertising industry forward - plus there was a touch of pyro, dancing and DJ General Lee nailed the brief.
Dentsu Aotearoa won Best in Show for The Export Ultra "Cold Call Back Service", Together won Media Agency of the Year, NZME was awarded Media Publisher of the Year, Infinitum won Digital Product or Service of the Year, and TVNZ Blacksand won Creative Agency of the Year.
Congratulations to Kate Grigg Head of PMX Publicis Media who was awarded the Grand Award for Service to the Industry, Tina Trenkner-Meade Founder Signal & Light – Commerce Consulting for the AI Shopping Era who won the Grand Award for IAB New Zealand Council Member of the Year, and to Ester Monti from NZME for winning the Grand Award for Emerging Talent. Congratulations to all our winners, you can see the full list here 👏
Award entries were up 20% YOY, 130 judges shared their expertise and 470 guests attended a sold out show - celebrating an industry that delivered over $2.42 billion in digital advertising revenue in 2024.
📸 You can check out the Awards Show photos here and see if you can spot yourself in the event video below.
A big thank you to our sponsors Blis Hype & Dexter | 6x APAC HubSpot Partner of the Year | Part of the Avidly Group Lumo Digital Outdoor Market Media Meta New Zealand Media & Entertainment (NZME) Perion MediaWorks NZ rova Sky New Zealand Stuff The Trade Desk Trade Me TVNZ Vistar Media
And thank you to all our outstanding guests who made the night such a celebration, and to our talented presenters 🎤 MC Tamati Rimene-Sproat Juliet Peterson Matt Headland Katie Macdiarmid Jack Plowright Spencer J. Bailey Sam Ward John Buckley Rory McDonald Nick O'Neill Silvana Vulinovich Sandra Scott Elias Psarologos Ash Houghton Stephen Old Rhys Heron Jodi O'Donnell
Until next year 🎉
