As chosen by the Chairs of our panel Curtis Schmidt and Georgie Kemp

Rising Star of the Year Award

The Rising Star of the Year Award highlights individual excellence in advertising and marketing and celebrates the pioneers of tomorrow.

Agency of the Year Award

The Agency of the Year Award celebrates the very best and most recommended agencies from around the globe. Exclusive and free of charge to agencies recommended by The Drum, the award winner will be selected through a rigorous research process taken from client recommendations, industry peers and additional The Drum research sources.  

Discuss the structure of the team. Describe the team’s marketing activities over the past year. Demonstrate results produced by these activities and how they impacted on the overall company.

Discuss the structure of the team. Describe the team’s marketing activities over the past year. Demonstrate results produced by these activities and how they impacted on the overall company.

To reward a campaign which has been implemented across a variety of platforms such as mobile, desktop, tablet etc, showing great attributable results.

For work briefed and implemented for a charity or not for profit organisations. 

For any sport and leisure business or organisation.

Judges will be looking at how data and insights were used to inform a smart strategy or campaign. 

For any public sector organisation, service, government body, or individual project.

This category will award a strategy or campaign that has delivered impressive results. 

For any financial service including insurance, banking, accountancy, engineering etc.

For any organisation in the music and entertainment industry

This category will award a strategy or campaign that has delivered impressive results. 

For any retail or ecommerce business or organisation

This will reward the outstanding use of content in a search campaign

Demonstrate how technology was used in a search campaign to your advantage, creating impressive results.

To reward the best technical innovation across suites, tools and overall tech.

This category will award a strategy or campaign that has delivered impressive results.

For any b2b sector organisation, service or individual project

To reward both software or tools that have been ground-breaking within the search industry

This will reward an effective use of PR in a search campaign

Judges will be looking at how data and insights were used to inform a smart strategy or campaign. 

This category will award a strategy or campaign that has achieved great results. 

Discuss the structure of the team. Describe the team’s marketing activities over the past year. 

For any organisation working in the the automotive and transport.

For any organisation working in the healthcare and pharma.

For any business in the travel and tourism industry.

For any FMCG business or organisation

This category will recognise and reward creative and innovative thinking/swift action, where a business can demonstrate a change in model/product to enhance experiences or in response to an external factor.

This category will award a strategy or campaign that has delivered impressive results. 

For an innovative strategy or campaign that has engaged the target audience.