Australian creators Taz and Alessia and We Got the Chocolates to host 2024 AiMCO Awards

The Australian Influencer Marketing Council (AiMCO) has today announced that award-winning Australian content creators Taz and Alessia and podcasters We Got the Chocolates will host the 2024 AiMCO Awards.

The annual awards, which are set to be held at NIDA Theatres in Sydney on February 27, will recognise the brands, creators, agencies and businesses driving innovation and creativity across the Australian influencer marketing industry.

This year, the awards attracted a record number of entries, with nominees all celebrating the theme of the ‘Creator Influence’, acknowledging the power of creator campaigns within the broader marketing ecosystem. A total of 127 finalists have been selected from the hundreds of entries submitted for this year’s awards.

Over the past four years,  Taz Zammit and Alessia Allfree (@tazandalessia) have built a community of more than one million people across their platforms. Through being authentically themselves, they have built a strong following, also known as TeamTANDA, that turns to them for relationship advice, guidance on being young and LGBTQIA+ with their candid vlogs.

The couple reached new heights in 2020, after they hosted a 24-hour livestream fundraiser, raising $5,000 for LGBTQIA+ youth in Australia. Since then, they have hosted the 24-hour live event annually, raising more than $21,000 for important causes nationally. The pair has also been vocal in their efforts to address social media and mental health as content creators.

Last year, Taz and Alessia were named Live Creator of the Year at the TikTok Awards in Sydney and this year are finalists in both the Best Gaming/Streamer Creator and Best Business/Finance/Insurance/Telco Creator categories.

Commenting on their hosting duties, Taz and Alessia said: “2024 was such a massive year for us on social media – what better way to celebrate than to host this year’s AiMCO Awards? We couldn’t think of a more fitting way to give back to an industry that’s given us so much over the past 12 months – we cannot wait for this event!”

We Got the Chocolates (@wegotthechocolates) is the brainchild of Queensland brothers Leigh and Mitch Drennan. The pair spearheads the hugely popular We Got the Chocolates weekly podcast, which has helped them amass more than 1 million followers on TikTok and Instagram. The pair turned a hobby for their love of dad jokes, sport content and puns into their now highly successful podcast and social media platforms, with Born Bred Talent identifying them as “one of Australia’s most exciting entertainment businesses.” The pair has since inked partnerships with several brands including Amazon, among others. This year they have also been announced as finalists in the awards in the Best Podcast Creator category.

Leigh and Mitch said: “It’s one thing to host a podcast where we just chat to each other and our mates – it’s quite another to host a major industry event like the AiMCO Awards! But we’ve got plenty of dad jokes up our sleeves and we’re excited to get amongst some of the nation’s best content creators and influencers.”

AiMCO Managing Director, Patrick Whitnall, said: “To have both Taz and Alessia, and the boys behind We Got the Chocolates on board to host our 2024 awards is testament to the talent we have here in Australia. Both Taz and Alessia and Mitch and Leigh have built significant audiences across their many platforms over the past few years – they’re true trailblazers of the Australian influencer marketing sector and well-placed to bring their experience and humour to our 2024 awards. I am confident that with such great talent  at the helm, we’re in for an entertaining evening.”

The 2024 AiMCO Awards’ Premier Partners are Hello Social and GroupM, Major Sponsors the Amazon Influencer Program, influencer marketing technology service Fabulate, and management service Talentpay, Contributing Partner Born Bred Talent, along with Gifting Sponsors Consumer Healthcare Products (CHP) Australia, Colgate, MadeMart Co., PapaFlock and Sticki.

For more information on the awards and to book tickets go to: https://www.aimco.org.au/aimco-awards-2024