Celebrating the Best Creative Built on Spaceback

Great creative deserves recognition. Because of that, today we’re excited to officially launch The Spaceback Awards, a new program celebrating the boldest, smartest, and best-performing campaigns built on the Spaceback platform.

https://www.spaceback.com/awards

This is our chance to spotlight the great work our clients have poured into their campaigns this year. We want to highlight the CTV spots that stopped scrollers in their tracks, the Pause Ads that turned a break into a brand moment, and the AI-powered edits that turned a single asset into a full campaign. If you’ve run a campaign with Spaceback this year, we want to see it.

Why We’re Doing This

Spaceback exists because creative matters, and increasingly, the smartest advertisers are proving it every day with the work they’re building on our platform. This is a real, public celebration of what our clients and partners have accomplished, judged by ad creative experts.

If you’re already running campaigns with us, this is your moment to show them off. If you’ve been meaning to launch one, now’s a great time to get started (new campaigns are eligible too!). 

Award Categories

We’re recognizing excellence across the full range of what’s possible with Spaceback creative:

• Best CTV: The top-performing, most engaging Connected TV campaign of the year
• Best OLV: The strongest online video creative for reach and engagement
• Best Display: The most effective and creative display ad execution
• Best Pause Ad: The most compelling use of the pause ad format to capture attention during a natural viewing break
• Best Product Card: The most effective product card execution that turns content into a clear and engaging product showcase
• Best Use of AI Editing: The best use of AI-powered features in a campaign, including CARD (AI backgrounds), MOTN (static-to-video), FADE (audio extension), and CLIP (video trimming)
• Most Impact: The campaign that drove the most meaningful business or brand results
• Best Creative: The campaign with the strongest overall creative concept and execution

Plus, if you submit an entry for at least two categories, you’ll be automatically entered into industry-specific categories. 

Meet the Judges

Our judging panel brings together Spaceback team members and respected voices from across the industry (who are Spaceback clients!) to review every submission and select this year’s winners:

• Raphael Rivilla, Chief Media Officer, Marcus Thomas
• Samantha Primack, SVP, Addressable Strategy and Activation, Kinesso
• Soraya Davari, Partnerships, Roku Ads Manager

How to Enter

1. Gather your campaign details (creative links, flight dates, and performance metrics)
2. Fill out our submission form with your goals, your process, and your results
3. Submit before the deadline. One campaign can be submitted to multiple categories

Submissions are free and open to any advertiser with a qualifying Spaceback campaign, including newer advertisers. If you’re not yet running a campaign with us, there’s still time to launch one and enter the awards.

Submissions Are Open Now

The best work deserves to be seen and celebrated. If you’ve built something great with Spaceback this year, now is your chance to put it in front of an industry panel, earn real recognition, and potentially win 1M impressions to keep the momentum going.

Submit your campaigns here. Submissions close October 31 at 11:59 pm ET. Don’t wait to get started.

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