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Spotify Hits 2024: Australia, New Zealand

Spotify is driven by creative influence. From music and podcasts, to video and audiobooks—to outstanding advertising. Spotify Hits celebrates the brands who proved that great creative can lead to even greater campaign results.

Here at Spotify, we love to watch creative campaigns come to life and take flight on our platform. Especially when they soar above and beyond benchmarks like shooting stars.

We also love to see breakthrough audio and video ads engage fans as effectively as the content heard or seen right before—a trend that is backed by our Sonic Science research.1

This year, we’re recognising advertisers who achieved great success with Spotify in our first Australia / New Zealand edition of Spotify Hits. These trophy-toting campaigns highlight the many exciting ways brands can effectively reach deeply engaged audiences, surrounded by culture-defining music and podcast creators on Spotify.

So get set for a best-in-class parade of strategy, creativity, and effectiveness on our platform—and be inspired to create your own standout campaign with Spotify Advertising, so you can make the list next year!

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Context Excellence: Best Use of Format

Samsung NZ, Holidays 2023

Samsung NZ wanted to create a campaign inspired by Spotify Wrapped leading into the Holiday Gifting Season. As part of their Global Joint Business Partnership, Samsung was offered an exclusive sponsorship of Spotify's top end-of-year playlists including ‘Your Top Songs’ and ‘Top Tracks of 2023 NZ’.

The brand’s sponsorship lasted throughout December as part of a broader Q4 campaign that combined audio, video, display and sponsorship formats to great effect. This Spotify Advertising campaign also broke new ground in New Zealand, as the first-ever to include a Nielsen Brand Effects report.

  • Industry: Tech / Telco
  • Ad Formats: Audio, Sponsored Session, Video, Sponsored Playlists
  • Agency: Spark

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For the Fans: Best Audience Strategy

Dan Murphy's, Christmas Moments

Knowing customer expectations and market competition are equally high during the Christmas period, Dan Murphy’s needed to strengthen their position as one of the top destinations for buying drinks. Their 'Christmas Moments' campaign utilised Spotify’s first- and third-party audience segments to create highly targeted ‘moments’—including Christmas Parties, Festive Dinners, Road Trips, and Summer Fun—to engage with customers across smaller festive occasions.

The campaign was tied together by a sponsorship of Spotify’s popular summer playlist ‘Happy Pop’, and delivered above average benchmarks for completion rates, engagement, and CTR scores.

  • Industry: Retail
  • Ad Formats: Audio, Podcast Ads via the Spotify Audience Network, Sponsored Playlist
  • Agency: Carat

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Stat-isfaction: Most Creative Test

Asahi | Great Northern Brewing Co., The Ginger Beer For Up Here

To launch Great Northern’s new Ginger Beer, Asahi developed a creative campaign to reach ‘Today’s and Tomorrow’s Adventurers’ with the goal of acquiring new customers. The brand were eager to test the hypothesis that females presented their largest growth opportunity, so they partnered with Spotify to produce 3D audio ads with both male and female voice overs.

The campaign combined relevant first- and third-party segments to reach users in the right moment, mood, and mindset across key locations—and delivered high confidence increases across all brand KPIs. Most importantly, it drew new customers for Great Northern Brewing Co.

  • Industry: CPG (Food & Beverage)
  • Ad Formats: Audio, 3D Audio
  • Agency: 1house, PHD

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Took the Stage: Best Stage Experience

Levi's, The Greatest Story Ever Worn | Levi’s 501 150th Birthday

To celebrate 150 years of Levi’s 501s, the denim clothing brand partnered with Spotify to bring fans an interactive digital experience rooted in music and fashion. The Stage let fans explore a digital museum showcasing the evolution of the 501—charting punk rock rebel eras, and memorable moments the jeans appeared on A-list celebrities.

This market-first activation also ran ads on Spotify podcasts anything goes with emma chamberlain and Gee Thanks to drive to the in-app experience, as well as an exclusive sponsorship of our Throwback Thursday playlist.

  • Industry: Retail
  • Ad Formats: Audio, Mobile Overlay, Playlist Sponsorship (The Stage), Sponsored Sessions, Podcast Sponsorship
  • Agency: Nunn Media

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Spotify Mic Drop: Best Overall Campaign

Celebrity Cruises, Find Your Wonderfull

To spark wanderlust among its audience, this campaign utilised tailored creative to target five specific Celebrity Cruises audiences. A dedicated microsite helped visitors discover their ideal holiday destination and itinerary, complete with a bespoke Spotify travel playlist. The digital experience also included a competition, allowing users to score their very own Celebrity Cruises trip.

The campaign connected with its audience through emotionally driven creative that tapped into the mood of escapism and leveraged always-on audio and display formats to further drive lower-funnel metrics.

  • Industry: Travel
  • Ad Formats: 3D Audio, Spotify Audience Network, SAI Run of Network, Desktop & Mobile Overlay, Video Takeover, Sponsored Sessions, Digital Microsite + Competition Page
  • Agency: PHD

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  1. Spotify x MindProber, Sonic Science Vol.2, February 2023

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