The fifth edition of VideoWeek’s European Video Awards took place in London’s Grand Connaught Rooms last night, as leaders from across the European CTV and video market congregated in the capital to celebrate the most creative and impactful work of the last year. Hosted by comedian and author Shappi Khorsandi (with a little help from a gratefully received phone flashlight from the audience), the ceremony once again highlighted just how innovative and adaptable our industry is.
Alongside our regular awards, this year we introduced three special Editorial Choice awards, honouring those we’ve noticed making a major impact during the course of our reporting. These included a Lifetime Achievement award for Thinkbox founder and Channel 4 NED Tess Alps, whose acceptance speech called for all of us to fight to ensure that the video and TV industry remains “on the side of the angels”.
We’d like to extend our congratulations to all of last night’s winners, and also to recognise the strength of this year’s entries across the board. As our Editor-in-Chief Vincent Flood emphasised in his opening speech, being shortlisted for an EVA is a massive achievement in itself, and our awards ceremony celebrates not just the winners, but all who have made it into the room.
Here’s who took home the trophies at this year’s awards:
Best Video Campaign — Wavemaker, WPP Media: Morrisons: A Tale of Two Farming Giants
Best CTV Campaign — DPG Media Advertising: How Naïf took the big screen beyond baby steps
Best CTV Performance Campaign — LG Ad Solutions & Remitly: Culturally Connected: Remitly’s Ramadan CTV Performance Play
Best CTV Creative Execution — Samsung Ads x Havas x Domino’s: Reimagining the CTV Ad Break with GameBreaks
Best Cross-Media Video Campaign — MiQ x Goodstuff x Perk x Craft Media: Becoming the travel finance platform of choice
Best Video/TV Out of Home Campaign — C-Screens: Sky Sports x C-Screens: Live Football Scores on the Go
Best Impact Campaign — The COOL Company & Altair Media: The COOL Company – Altair Media ‘Cirque Du Soleil’
Best Use of Data — Dailymotion Advertising & Honda: How First-Party Video Data Found Hybrid Buyers Where No One Was Looking
Best Use of AI — EssenceMediacom Scotland: If YouTube Is TV, It Should Deliver Like TV
Best Video Ad Tech Innovation — RAY by Dailymotion: Frame-Level Video Intelligence That Powers Brief to Outcome
Best CTV Ad Tech Innovation — Bedrock Platform: Revolutionizing CTV Buying with Independent Sell-side Bidding
Best Measurement Solution — The COOL Company: Media Attribution
Best Streaming Technology Solution — Wurl: Powering the Infrastructure Behind Europe’s FAST Growth
Best Buy-Side Technology Innovation — FreeWheel Curation Hub: Redefining Supply Path Optimisation for Premium Streaming
Best Sell-Side Technology — Viously: Nine Years in the Making. Still Ahead of the Field.
Best Sell-Side Technology Innovation — RTL AdAlliance: AdManager by RTL AdAlliance – the gateway and innovation lap for European Total Video
Best Ad Format Innovation — ITV AdLabs: How ITV’s LeadGen Killed The QR Code
Best New Product — Index Exchange: Index Cloud- Bringing Intelligence Inside the Exchange
Best AI Solution — MiQ: Transforming programmatic advertising with advanced AI
Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year — Sotiris Oikonomou, Managing Director at Markapp
European Start Up of the Year — Olyzon
Lifetime Achievement Award — Tess Alps, NED, Channel 4
Leadership in Video — Ryan Afshar, VP at LG Ad Solutions
Commercial Leader of the Year — Laurence d’Août, Vice President of Sales, International, FreeWheel (collected by Emmanuel Ogidan)
Rising Star (Under 35) — Chris Remie, Agency Partner at Channel 4
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