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The 2024 Jay Chiat Awards recognize strategic excellence across 12 categories including three new categories introduced this year.


EMERGING TREND – AI STRATEGY (NEW)

Recognizes ingenious approaches that seamlessly integrate artificial intelligence into the strategic planning and/or the execution of campaigns, enabling brands to connect with audiences in transformative ways. Submissions should demonstrate exceptional use of generative AI or machine learning in shaping strategic insights and/or in optimizing the delivery of brand messaging and product engagement.

B2B STRATEGY (NEW)

Recognizes strategic thinking that led to transformative success of business-to-business engagement, whether products, accessories, services, software or solutions.

BRAND PIVOT STRATEGY

Recognizes the strategic insights from brands that found extraordinary ways to support customers and the public at large, and/or repositioned a legacy brand or product in fresh, contemporary, and relevant ways in the face of disruptive change in the economy, category or product​.​

CONNECTION STRATEGY

Recognizes strategic thinking that directly led to smart and innovative use of media that connects consumers to brands in relevant and transformative ways.

EXPERIENTIAL STRATEGY

Recognizes extraordinary marketing strategy that fuels compelling brand experiences, whether physical, virtual or hybrid.

GAMING STRATEGY (NEW)

Recognizes strategy to capture the receptive, engaged audiences of the gaming industry, whether for a game itself or an in-game brand or product.

HEALTHCARE STRATEGY

Recognizes insights that informed the CX/engagement strategy of a healthcare service, product or Rx drug brand. Inclusive of big ideas and innovative use of technology or media that connects customers to brands in relevant and transformative ways. Identify whether HCP or Consumer.

NATIONAL STRATEGY

Recognizes marketing efforts that spanned an entire country, either in the United States or in the country for which they were designed.

NONPROFIT STRATEGY

Recognizes work done in support of a social cause or not-for-profit company.

PRODUCT/SERVICE CREATION STRATEGY

Recognizes new product ideas, service offerings, launches and the like, showcasing strategic acumen in identifying opportunities and delivering compelling solutions, including disruptive product innovations or transformative service offerings that demonstrate exceptional strategic planning and market insight.

PUBLIC RELATIONS STRATEGY

Recognizes work that earned media, attention, and influence to shape perceptions of a brand, company, or issue.

REGIONAL STRATEGY

Recognizes thinking that influenced a marketing initiative at the local or regional level, either in the United States or in the country for which they were designed.


NEW for 2024: NOMINATE A STRATEGIST! 

Nominations open for Emerging Strategist and Visionary Strategist | Deadline: June 28, 2024
Nominations are only open to those who submit a case study in one of the 12 categories. When you complete your JCA submission, you will be able to access the nomination forms. Self-nominations are encouraged!

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