The Wires APAC 2019

Thank you to everyone who entered, judged, and supported The Wires APAC 2019. We're delighted to reveal the well deserving winners of The Wires APAC, which were announced at the ATS Singapore Wrap Party.

Ad Tech Rising Star, APAC

*Winner: Vincent Niou, Head of Programmatic, APAC, Essence*

Runners Up:
Chin Cheung Lun, VP, Technical Consulting, MediaMath;
Kenneth Wong, General Manager, Asia/Malaysia, Cadreon

Shortlist
Xinyi Peng, Trading Manager, Xaxis
Andrew Park, CEO, TPMN Inc
Vincent So, Head of Programmatic, 9GAG
Shawn Byun, Account Director SEA, Integral Ad Science
Jakub Ratajczak, Managing Director, APAC, RTB House
Stephanie Famolaro, Director of Agency API Sales, APAC, The Trade Desk
Supalurk Tangcharoensiri, Reprise Managing Director, Thailand, IPG Mediabrands
Benjamin Tan, Programmatic Lead, iProspect
Jasmine Leow, Senior Market Manager, AppNexus
Jonathan Beh, Managing Director, Cadreon China
Max Steigler-Peters, Senior Solutions Engineer, MediaMath
Diet Pineda, Account Manager, The Trade Desk

Ad Tech Personality of the Year, APAC

*Winner: Niraj Nagpal, IPONWEB*

Runners up:
Yean Cheong, Cadreon;
Tom Simpson, AdColony

Shortlist:
Kabeer Chaudhary, M&C Saatchi Performance
Amy Ho, Integral Ad Science
Caspar Schlickum, Accenture Interactive Operations
Michel de Rijk, S4 Capital Group
Josephine Tan, McDonald's
Matt Harty, The Trade Desk
Jonathan Mackenzie, Publicis Media
Phil Townend, Unruly APAC
Sonal Patel, Dentsu Aegis Network APAC
Jason Barnes, PubMatic
Adele Wieser, Index Exchange
Jonas Jaanimagi, IAB Australia

Best Digital Campaign

*Winner: MediaMath with IBM*
Highly Commended: Cadreon/UM Malaysia with KFC (Golden Egg Crunch Hijacked Chinese New Year)
Cadreon/UM Malaysia with KFC (Bringing Breakfast Back)
Innovid with Estée Lauder
MediaMath and Ikon with NIB

Best Data Activation

*Winner: PHD Media with SAP*
Highly Commended: PubMatic with Publicis Media Asia Pacific and Heineken
Clear Men and AdColony
AdTiming and Tik Tok
Integral Ad Science with DWA and Intuit
LiveRamp with Bench and SBS
Mindshare + Ogilvy (Eightbar Collective) with IBM Cloud

Best Mobile Campaign

*Winner: AdColony with Clear Men*
Highly Commended: PHD Media with HP
Cadreon/UM Malaysia with J&J (Acuvue)

Best Video Campaign

*Winner: Teads with Essence and Google Assistant Japan*
Innovid with Vodafone and TVNZ
Verizon Media with King of Tea
Cadreon Malaysia with KFC

Best New Product or Service: Buy Side

*Winner: Adzymic - Next Generation Dynamic Creative Solutions*
The Hub by CtrlShift
Rubicon Project - Estimated Market Rate Feature
Verizon Media - Pure Tea, “Try it! Ghost Festival AR Interactive Ad”

Best New Product or Service: Sell Side

*Winner: Triton Digital’s Yield-Op Supply-Side Platform for Best New Product or Service 2019*
App Discovery Solutions, Powered by Appnext

Best Marketing Technology Solution

*Winner: Adzymic - Next Generation Dynamic Creative Solutions*
Highly Commended: Zirca Digital Solutions: ContentDB - Asia’s First Integrated Native Advertising Management Platform
Dataxu TouchPoint™
IPONWEB - Audience Management Platform
Silverpush for Breeze - Real-time multiscreen sync campaign