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Best in Show – Any Marketing Achievement

The best overall strategy and execution of marketing and advertising for the year. The best of the best.

Cause Marketing / Community Enrichment

Demonstrates outstanding marketing work for a cause. May include a partnership between for-profit business and a nonprofit organization, social or charitable campaigns sponsored by for-profit brands, or a campaign fully funded and executed by a community or charitable organization.

Most Innovative Marketing Campaign

Demonstrates the innovation, disruption, forward thinking and capabilities that San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley are known for through its strategies, concepts, tools, and/or execution in a way that other brands will be looking to follow.

Agency of the Year

Celebrates a San Francisco Bay Area agency that deserves top marks for their impact on the marketing community through innovative and effective ideas, strategies, concepts, campaigns, and overall leadership. This agency supports and serves the Bay Area as an inspiration for all marketers, companies, and industry leaders. 

Marketer of the year

Celebrates an individual or team San Francisco Bay Area marketer who, through their contributions of outstanding ideas, strategies, concepts, campaigns, and overall leadership has served as an inspiration for all marketers and a shining example of the very best of marketing professionalism and accomplishment in the past year.

Rising Star of San Francisco

Recognizes an individual or team that has demonstrated exceptional innovation, leadership, and impact within the marketing industry over the past year. This award honors someone who has broken new ground with creative strategies, embraced emerging technologies, or set new industry standards. They have shown a commitment to pushing boundaries, driving results, and inspiring others in the marketing field through their visionary approach and ability to adapt to evolving trends and challenges.

Bootstrapped Campaign of the Year

Budget? Who’s that? This award is for a startup, small-to-midsize brand, or “mom & pop shop” who drove creative, impactful results with limited resources. This campaign shows ingenuity and a grassroots mindset to turn pennies into magic.

Student Achievement

Recognizes excellence in marketing projects created by an individual or group of college/graduate students for academic purposes or as part of developing a portfolio. Some examples of projects considered:

• Marketing Research & Strategy: Individual or group projects that represent strategic plans, data & analytics, and consumer behavior.
• Creative: New brand or rebrand, graphic design, web design.
• Digital Marketing: SEO, social media, paid media.

Presidents Awards

Honors individuals who have shown outstanding contributions to the American Marketing Association San Francisco chapter, selected by AMA SF Board President Eric Weidner.