YouTube NZ Marketing Awards finalists
Finalists for the YouTube NZ Marketing Awards 2026 have been announced!
Once again, we’ve had a record number of entries to the Awards, which celebrate strategy, campaigns and individuals across the marketing spectrum in Aotearoa. Now in its 35th year, this is the only awards programme in New Zealand to focus on the essential business disciplines and benefits of great marketing.
Take me to the 2026 finalists
Read more about the brands who made list here.
Awards night is on Wednesday, September 2 at Spark Arena – it’s going to be a hot ticket, so book now and take your place among Aotearoa’s best marketers.
Book tickets here
How does the list compare to 2025?
Check out last year’s list of finalists here. And click the links below to find out more about nominees from 2025.
Hear from our oOh!media Marketer of the Year finalists 2025
Brid Drohan-Stewart
Cath Brands
Dave Pearce
Fraser Shrimpton
Leanne Too
Matthew Pickering
PJ Morris
Susanne Hardy
This category is sponsored by oOh!media.
Say hello to the Marketer of the Future finalists 2025
Jess Bark
Josie Cook
Lucy Hansard
Millie Astley
Thomas Siemsen
Simran Wadhawan
Previous winners
What does it take to be a winner? Just getting to be a finalist in the NZ Marketing Awards is a feat. Competition is fierce and the bar keeps being set higher each year. In 2024, convenor of judges Michael Friedberg said: “Organisations with a marketing mindset are more likely to have winning entries and deliver business outcomes or move the dial and deliver big results.” Read more of his advice here.
Find out who picked up the trophies in years past:
| Winners 2025 | Winners 2024 | Winners 2023 |
| Winners 2022 | Winners 2021 | Winners 2020 |
| Winners 2019 | Winners 2018 | Winners 2017 |
| Winners 2016 | Winners 2015 | Winners 2014 |
