YouTube’s Most Iconic Ads Of The Year Awarded To Calvin Klein, Mattel & Always

YouTube asked voters to choose their favorite ads of 2015 for five different categories. Here are the winners.

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Earlier this month, YouTube asked viewers to vote on their favorite ads for the following five categories:

  • #TheYouTubeAd You Wish You Were In
  • #TheYouTubeAd That Gets You Going
  • #TheYouTubeAd That’s Your Guilty Pleasure
  • #TheYouTubeAd That Gives You Feels
  • #TheYouTubeAd That Restores Your Faith in Humanity

“The best of ads of 2015 have made us all laugh, cry, think and feel inspired,” says YouTube on its Ads of the Year website, adding that it had partnered with The Webby Awards to select 25 of the most iconic ads from its 2015 monthly leaderboards.

The winners included a number of well-known faces, from Barbie in the Mattel “Imagine the Possibilities” spot that was named the “#TheYouTubeAd That Restores Your Faith in Humanity” to Justin Bieber’s Calvin Klein ad which won the “#TheYouTubeAd That Is Your Guilty Pleasure.”

Here are all five winners for each of the categories:

YouTube Ad You Wish You Were In

YouTube Ad that Restores Your Faith in Humanity

YouTube Ad that Gives You Feels

YouTube Ad That Is Your Guilty Pleasure

YouTube Ad You that Gets You Going

Voting for the ads opened December 1 and lasted through December 8. YouTube also released its most popular ads of the year (Top 10 YouTube Ads of 2015), and created the following #YouTubeRewind video featuring some of its top creators in 2015:




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Amy Gesenhues
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Amy Gesenhues was a senior editor for Third Door Media, covering the latest news and updates for Marketing Land, Search Engine Land and MarTech Today. From 2009 to 2012, she was an award-winning syndicated columnist for a number of daily newspapers from New York to Texas. With more than ten years of marketing management experience, she has contributed to a variety of traditional and online publications, including MarketingProfs, SoftwareCEO, and Sales and Marketing Management Magazine. Read more of Amy's articles.

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