Awards

Advertising Award Festivals

•   ADDY Awards - The world's largest and arguably toughest advertising competition. The ADDY Awards represent the true spirit of creative excellence by recognising all forms of advertising from media of all types, creative by all sizes and entrants of all levels from anywhere in the world.

•   AdPrint - The festival’s core recognition goes to creative teams – being the only European advertising contest awarding the partnership behind great ideas.

•   Art Directors Club of Europe - The Art Directors Club of Europe Awards is the pre-eminent creative show in Europe. It's judged by a panel of 44 top international creatives who select the best of the best in European design and advertising.

•   Cannes Lions Festival - The Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival is the only annual gathering of the world's advertising, creative, direct marketing, interactive, film, radio, media, sales promotion and marketing communities.

•   Clio Festival - The Clios held at Miami Beach celebrate the best in global advertising and design innovation.

•   Commercial Radio Awards - The awards, which seek to recognise excellence in all aspects of commercial radio from production to presenting.

•   Cresta Awards - The Cresta Awards were launched in 1993 by Creative Standards International, in partnership with the International Advertising Association. The Cresta Awards are steadily gaining recognition among industry creative gurus worldwide as a truly tough and prestigious awards program. To win a Cresta means you're hot, because Cresta stands on its promise of adhering to the highest standards of creative excellence and it delivers the reputation and value that top-level creatives seek. Cresta’s name is becoming synonymous with “achievement ” among the worldwide marketing communications industry.

•   D & AD Awards - The D&AD Awards, familiarly known as the ‘Yellow Pencils’ are the most internationally respected and prestigious creative awards for the design and advertising industry.

•   EACA Euro Effies - The EACA Euro Effies are the Gold Standard in Commercial Communications Effectiveness and are open to all agencies (whether members of EACA or not) for campaigns which ran in at least two European markets.

•   El Sol Festival Pub. Iberoamericano - The Iberamerican Advertising Festival El Sol will be celebrating it´s 21st anniversary next year, is the most important Spanish and Iberoamerican advertising event. The best ideas of the year will compete for the prestigious award 'Sol de Oro'.

•   Eurobest - Advertising Awards and Festival - Since its inception in 1988, Eurobest has been the premier awards for Europe's creative advertising industry. Eurobest is now the Eurobest Festival which, in this its third year, takes place from 6 to 8 December 2010 at the Handelskammer in Hamburg. The Festival will provide three essential days of focus and debate for the European advertising and communications industry. The Festival is organised by the International Advertising Festival, the team behind Cannes Lions, Dubai International Advertising Festival and Spikes Asia. The Eurobest Festival has a purely European focus and will engage the European creative community on the industry's most pertinent issues.

•   Globes Awards - The MAA champions the highest standards of excellence and recognition in the marketing communications industry via the highly successful Globes Awards. The program, established in 2000, is the industry's leading international recognition program for the world's most outstanding marketing campaigns. It is the only competition of its kind.

•   Golden Award of Montreux - Golden Award of Montreux, one of the leading advertising and multimedia festivals in Europe, is a meeting point for students and professionals in the field of communication. Besides the competitions there are the opening ceremony, award night, conference, master classes, speech, internet-platform and public screenings. The festival takes place at the Casino Barrière de Montreux.

•   Golden Drum Advertising Festival - The Golden Drum Competition is open to all entities involved in advertising and marketing communications throughout the countries of the New Europe, from the Baltic to the Bosporus.

•   Golden Hammer Advertising Festival - The Gold Hammer Advertising Festival is the leading creative advertising festival for Baltic States.

•   Green Awards - The Awards have been created to recognise excellent creative work that illustrates and communicates the importance of CSR, sustainable development, and ethical best practice. And they will be awarded to brands or organisations that have demonstrated their commitment to these issues in a creative and effective way across different media platforms and marketing disciplines.

•   IAB Europe MIXX Awards - The MIXX Awards is co-produced by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and Adweek Magazine. The MIXX Awards identifies the "best of the best" in interactive advertising and provides a valuable platform to educate the broader advertising and marketing industry about the real impact Interactive has in the overall marketing mix.

•   IABC Gold Quill Awards - The International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Gold Quill Awards are the mark of global distinction and is the highest level of professional acknowledgement within business communication today and is open to both members and non-members.

•   IAC Awards - Jupiter predicts that online ad spending will more than double to $19 billion per year by 2010, with an annual compound growth rate of 9.6 percent. As the growth of Internet ad spending continues to climb, companies shift ad budgets from other media and more companies include the Internet as part of there campaigns, the role of creativity and functionality become even more important in online advertising.

•   IMC European Awards - The Integrated Marketing Communications European Awards showcase the very best promotions in Europe, based on innovation, creativity, relevancy of the offer in view of the market, and results. Refer to the EACA Integrated Marketing Communications Council Awards pages for further details.

•   Internet Advertising Competition - Now it their 10th year, the annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) allows interactive professionals from around the world to have their work evaluated in 85 industry categories. Hosted by the Web Marketing Association, the WebAwards are designed to provide a showcase for the best Web development in the world and recognition for the individuals responsible for the work.

•   IPA Best of Health Awards - The Best of Health Awards are now recognised as the top creative advertising awards by healthcare advertising agencies, as they are the only awards given entirely by peers in the industry.

•   IPA Effectiveness Awards - The IPA Effectiveness Awards reward and showcase the commercial power of marketing communications. They are the only UK awards scheme where entries have to prove that the campaign actually worked in hard business terms.

•   M&M Awards - The M&M Awards are the International awards for senior advertisers and agency executives.

•   Magdalena Festival Awards - The main goal of the Magdalena Festival awards is to seek, present and award the most creative ideas in the field of public communication, created by young authors. The competition for the festival awards - Golden & Silver Bras and the big Magdalena award - is open to individuals of 30 years or less. An international jury selects group winners, awarded with Golden Bras, and the overall (Magdalena prize) winner based on the most creative idea. Entry fees are symbolical so that the competition is accessible to most young people all over the world.

•   Marcus Morris Award - 2006 will see the presentation of the 17th Marcus Morris Award, the highest accolade in magazine publishing in the UK. The award honours the individual who has gained distinction through significant and long-standing contribution to the magazine publishing business in the UK.

•   Méribel Ad Festival - The Méribel Ad Festival celebrates the creativity of European TV and Cinema Advertising and encourages exchanges between professionals.

•   POPAI Europe Awards - The POPAI Europe Awards is a European contest that recognizes the best designs of the year in the following areas: POP material, POP information, commercial architecture, store layout, merchandising, interactive advertising, etc.

•   The Advertising Festival & Ad Awards Tenerife - The Advertising Festival Tenerife is an international event and was initially created to bring together the “business of advertising”. No other Festival caters to this business to business section of the media market with The Festival designed for everyone connected with the media and advertising industries: be it agency planners, buyers, media owners, production companies, clients large and small or simply creative individuals who want to make the best use of their advertising budgets and to better understand the business of advertising and marketing. The emphasis was first and foremost to be as inclusive as possible.

•   The Cup - Intercontinental Advertising Cup - ICAC, The Intercontinental Advertising Cup was established in 2007 by organizers of the world’s three biggest regional advertising festivals: Asia Pacific’s ADFEST, Ibero-American FIAP and New European Golden Drum. From the first year onwards the ADC*E, Art Director’s Club of Europe, is also a member. The mission of THE CUP is the affirmation of locally inspired creativity. The purpose of THE CUP is not competition with any other advertising show, but a very new international concept that makes it possible for local creativity to be judged on a global scale by its local merit. It is a natural extension of local festivals with regional judges, who recognize the quality of local creativity and bring a fresh perspective to global judging.

•   The Epica Awards - The Epica Awards are the largest European advertising awards with 6.268 entries from 39 countries in 2000. A total of 771 companies participated in the awards.

•   The Marketing Society Awards Presentation - The Marketing Society Awards is the benchmark in marketing excellence and provides a platform for senior marketers to exchange ideas and share best practice.

•   The New York Festivals - The New York Festivals honors excellence in communications media. Awards for the world's best work in television, radio, interactive, print and cinema advertising are selected by an international board of judges. In a separate awards ceremony, The New York Festivals also recognizes excellence in television programming and non-broadcast media.

•   The Rainbow Marble - The Rainbow Marble, an international competition of advertising focused on children is one of the supporting events of the 46th International Film Festival for Children and Youth in Zlin, Czech Republic. The competition is open to commercials and print advertisements.

•   The Shark Awards - The Shark Awards are an annual advertising industry festival with a worldwide reputation for excellence in awarding outstanding broadcast creative work. Multinational agencies, increasingly aware of the need to climb the ratings for awarded creativity have recognised the importance of the Sharks in that respect. Entries close in August and the Awards Ceremony is held in September in Kinsale, Ireland.