Our BeautyMatter NEXT Awards aim to raise the bar and define the future of beauty. Our intention with the awards is to create a level playing field, from the largest multinationals to high-growth indies and to recognize the entire ecosystem of the beauty value chain from brands and suppliers around the globe.
With everything we do, our first goal is bringing value to our community, and our second objective is to find white space either in opportunity or approach. There is no shortage of awards for brands and for products that are well executed. Hopefully, we've carved out a space merging innovation, impact, and design that creates space to highlight everyone involved in bringing brands, products, and services to life for consumers.
We believe everyone should have a fair shake at winning industry awards. We made a foundational commitment that judging would be transparent and done by a panel of independent judges selected for their diversity of experience, deep category knowledge, and insatiable curiosity. The judges also agreed to recuse themselves from any awards they have affiliation with to maintain the integrity of the process.
NEXT Awards are determined purely on the merit of the entry and product submission. At BeautyMatter, it's not a popularity contest, and you cannot buy your way to a win. We received 500 entries for over 50+ awards across seven categories. Our judges had a difficult task reviewing each entry to determine the finalist. In some cases, the submissions were so good, we had some ties.
The NEXT Awards provide a level playing field for recognition judged on relevancy, impact, and innovation.
Meet the finalists.
Changemaker of the Year: Person who has profoundly changed the business of beauty by bringing about positive change linked to equity, health, climate, or sustainability.
Entrepreneur of the Year: An entrepreneur who has built a business that matters through inspired innovations, demonstrated vision, leadership, and success.
Innovator of the Year: Person who has made meaningful contributions to the business of beauty by pursuing and executing novel thinking, challenging the status quo, and/or using creative problem solving to move the industry forward.
Best Public Relations Agency: Recognizes agencies for developing and executing best-in-class communication strategies across media and content platforms.
Best Design + Branding Agency: Recognizes agencies responsible for crafting brand strategies and execution of design services.
Best Digital Agency: Recognizes agencies that provide best-in-class strategic direction, creative design, and technical development for screen-based products and services.
Best Social Media + Influencer Agency: Recognizes agencies responsible for the development of social media strategies, campaign execution, content creation, and connecting influencers with brands.
Best Brand Identity: Recognizes design, content, strategy, and execution tied to brand identity, website, packaging design, etc. Can be a business at any stage.
Best Collaboration: Recognizes unique partnerships or collaborations between any two or more brands, businesses, individuals, or organizations.
Best Product Packaging Design (Brands): Recognizes unique concept and execution tied to packaging design including concept, componentry, material selection, and decoration for a finished product; can be a new-to-market brand or relaunch.
Best Sustainable Packaging Design (Brands): Recognizes unique concept and execution tied to packaging design that addresses the full life cycle of the product, carbon footprint, and material selection/reduction; can be a new-to-market brand or relaunch.
Best Ad Campaign: Traditional Design: Recognizes unique concept, design, and execution of an ad campaign incorporating print, TV, radio, out-of-home, or direct mail.
Best Spatial Design: Recognizes unique concept, design, and execution of a physical space, such as a retail store, salon or spa.
Best Impact Initiative: Companies who are involved in the creation, marketing, and selling of beauty and wellness products or services that implement initiatives that provide measurable impact on DEI or ESG.
Best Sustainable Sourcing Breakthrough: Recognizes breakthroughs in the procurement and use of more sustainable materials, including new materials, improvements to conventional materials, improvements to sourcing practices, and novel uses of materials in challenging applications.
Best Supply Side Impact Initiative: Suppliers that provide goods or services to brands or retailers in the beauty and wellness sector that have rolled out initiatives that provide measurable impact on DEI or ESG.
Best Product Launch Campaign: Recognizes design, content, strategy, and execution tied to a product launch; can be a new-to-market brand or relaunch.
Best Live Event: Recognizes the concept and execution of a live event as an extension of a brand or business.
Best Performance Marketing Campaign: Recognizes strategy initiative/activation, and execution tied to a performance marketing campaign.
Best Content Activation: Recognizes unique concept and its execution tied to the creation of a new content initiative by a brand or business to engage or communicate with its audience.
Best Community Engagement: Recognizes the building, nurturing, and activating communities attached to brands or businesses.
Best Use of Social Media: Recognizes strategy, initiative/activation, content creation, and execution tied to the use of social media.
Best Metaverse Activation: Recognizes unique concept or initiative and its execution creating new experiences, services, and products in the Metaverse/Web3.
Best Influencer Partnership: Recognizes unique relationships, effective partnerships, or initiatives in the realm of the creator economy.
Best Digital Event: Recognizes the concept and execution of a digital event or event series as an extension of a brand or business.
Best New Category Launch: Recognizes design, content, strategy, and execution tied to a new product category launch.
Best Pop-Up: Recognizes unique concepts from design through execution for a short-term beauty or wellness pop-up retail concept.
Best Service Provider: Recognizes a stand-alone or chain concept providing beauty and/or wellness services and/or treatments.
Best Retail Activation: Recognizes unique training, visual merchandising, activations, events, or activities carried out by brands to support brick-and-mortar retail partners.
Best Technology Solution Provider: Recognizes businesses that provide technology to help beauty and wellness companies run their operations more efficiently from sourcing through supply chain to managing and training retail support staff and everything in between.
Best Logistics Solution: Recognizes companies that provide third-party logistics services as outsourced services related to distribution, warehousing, and fulfillment.
Best Ingredient Supplier: Recognizes companies that provide raw material ingredients used in formulating beauty and wellness products; may include active ingredient, fragrance, flavor, or pigment suppliers.
Best Contract Manufacturing: Recognizes companies that provide services related to the production, formulation, and filling of beauty and wellness products.
Best Packaging Supplier: Recognizes companies that create and manufacture packaging; may include componentry for primary and secondary packaging, GWPs, gift sets, or sampling.
Best Breakthrough Beauty Brand: Recognizes innovation by a beauty brand stemming from the creation of a product/service, consumer engagement, marketing or design; can be a new brand initiative from an existing brand or a new-to-market brand launch.
Best Breakthrough Wellness Brand: Recognizes innovation by a wellness brand stemming from the creation of a product/service, consumer engagement, marketing or design; can be a new brand initiative from an existing brand or a new-to-market brand launch.
Best Breakthrough Supplier: Recognizes innovation by businesses that support brands or retailers and create a meaningful impact in the beauty ecosystem.
Best Breakthrough Technology (Supply Side): Recognizes the creation of a new technology or the innovative use of existing technology that created a material impact to a part of the beauty and wellness value chain.
Best Breakthrough Technology (Ingredient): Recognizes the creation of a new ingredient/technology or innovative use of an existing ingredient/technology associated with the formulation of cosmetic products.
Best Breakthrough Technology (Omnichannel): Recognizes the creation of technology (app, platform, SAAS) to enable the execution of omnichannel consumer experiences.
Best Breakthrough Packaging (Suppliers): Recognizes innovation by companies that create and manufacture packaging; may include componentry for primary and secondary packaging, GWPs, gift sets, or sampling.
Best Use of Technology (Brands): Recognizes the use of technology (app, platform, SAAS) by a brand or retailer to solve a pain point, create an experience, or provide transparency.
Recognizes innovation in a finished product launched to market related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Skincare): Recognizes innovation in a finished skincare product launched to market related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Hybrid): Recognizes innovation in a finished hybrid product (any product that is multifunctional or combines efficacies from multiple product categories) related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology, or claims.
Best Breakthrough Product (Haircare): Recognizes innovation in a finished haircare product launched to market related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Color Cosmetics): Recognizes innovation in a finished color cosmetics product launched to market related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Devices): Recognizes innovation in a finished beauty device product related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Fragrance): Recognizes innovation in a finished fragrance product launched to market related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Home Fragrance): Recognizes innovation in a finished home fragrance product launched to market related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Personal Care): Recognizes innovation in a finished personal care product launched to market related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Bodycare): Recognizes innovation in a finished bodycare product launched to market related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Men): Recognizes innovation in a finished men's product launched to market related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Suncare): Recognizes innovation in a finished suncare product related to either formulation, delivery system, new format type, use of technology or sustainability.
Best Breakthrough Product (Kids): Recognizes innovation in a finished product created specifically for use by children.
Best Breakthrough Product (Tweens): Recognizes innovation in a finished product created for tweens defined as children between 8-12 years old.
Best Breakthrough Product (Wellness)
Join us in Los Angeles on October 24, 2024 when we announce the winners at our NEXT Summit + Awards.
