Best Brand Awareness Campaign

About the Award

For campaigns that successfully built brand visibility and engagement while delivering measurable performance outcomes.

Judges will look for creative use of channels, strong partner collaboration, and evidence of impact on brand metrics and conversions.

2026 Gold Winner

Turning Editorial into a Performance Engine: How Give Me Cosmetics Scaled Brand Awareness and New Customers at Golden Quarter Pace, with Linkby & Reach plc

Turning Editorial into a Performance Engine: How Give Me Cosmetics Scaled Brand Awareness and New Customers at Golden Quarter Pace, with Linkby & Reach plc

By: Reach PLCClient/Partner: Linkby, Give Me Cosmetics

The Challenge

Give Me Cosmetics is a fast-growing beauty brand in an increasingly saturated market. Sustaining rapid growth meant reaching new audiences beyond owned channels while delivering measurable acquisition outcomes, not just brand visibility. The challenge was to maintain editorial authenticity while applying a performance framework capable of delivering efficiency and scale during the competitive Golden Quarter.

The Strategy

Give Me partnered with Linkby, a global adtech platform operating on a pay-on-performance CPC model, and Reach PLC, one of the UK’s largest publisher networks. Building momentum throughout the year, all partners aligned on an ambitious Q4 strategy to evolve editorial activity from isolated brand stories into a scalable, performance-driven content ecosystem.

Execution and Innovation

The campaign blended editorial credibility with data-led optimisation to drive performance across Reach’s large publisher network. Editorial and commercial teams worked in close collaboration throughout, delivering an approach to content commerce that scaled effectively at the year’s most competitive retail moment.

Results

A highly collaborative campaign that blended editorial credibility, data-led optimisation and performance technology to deliver significant brand awareness uplift and new customer acquisition.

Judges’ Verdict

“A standout performance-editorial campaign that mastered the balance between editorial credibility and high-scale commercial impact.”

“Proving the power of a unified, non-siloed approach to content commerce at scale.”

2026 Silver Winner

The Launch of the Mercedes-Benz Concept AMG GT XX

By: OMD UKClient/Partner: Mercedes-Benz

2026 Bronze Winner

Passion Digital & Mazda UK: Driving The “Be Big Test” Forward

By: Passion DigitalClient/Partner: Mazda

2026 Finalists

  • Comfort Molly-Mae x Pure Heaven Scent: A 360 Creator Partnership

    By: The Goat AgencyClient/Partner: Unilever Homecare
  • Gamma AI: Reaching new heights with AKG Media

    By: AKG MediaClient/Partner: Gamma AI
  • Passion Digital & Mazda UK: Driving The “Be Big Test” Forward

    By: Passion DigitalClient/Partner: Mazda
  • ’The Desk Break” : How ASICS Took Over LinkedIn (in Just 15 Minutes a Day)

    By: Performics @ StarcomClient/Partner: ASICS
  • The Launch of the Mercedes-Benz Concept AMG GT XX

    By: OMD UKClient/Partner: Mercedes-Benz
  • Turning Editorial into a Performance Engine: How Give Me Cosmetics Scaled Brand Awareness and New Customers at Golden Quarter Pace, with Linkby & Reach plc

    By: Reach PLCClient/Partner: Linkby, Give Me Cosmetics
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