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The Marketing Week Awards are a prestigious celebration of excellence in marketing, recognising the most impactful, innovative, and effective campaigns, teams, and individuals across the industry. Covering a wide range of categories, these awards highlight standout work that drives real business results. Judged by senior marketing leaders, the Marketing Week Awards offer industry-wide recognition, enhanced credibility, and valuable exposure for winners. With a rigorous judging process and a high-profile awards ceremony, they are a benchmark for marketing success.

The Marketing Week Awards recognise excellence in marketing across more than 30 varied categories, celebrating innovation, creativity, and effectiveness. Entering gives you the opportunity to have your work seen by a panel of senior brand-side marketers—an invaluable advantage, particularly for agency entrants looking to showcase their expertise to key decision-makers. Even if not shortlisted, entering allows you to benchmark your work against the industry’s best and gain insight into what sets outstanding marketing apart.

For those who win, the benefits go even further. Winners gain industry recognition and have their achievements showcased across Marketing Week’s platforms, reaching a highly engaged global audience of marketers. This unparalleled exposure can enhance your reputation, open new business opportunities, and provide a powerful platform to share success stories within the marketing community. With Marketing Week as the go-to source for brand marketers, winning an award aligned with its authority and influence amplifies your impact across the industry.

We are committed to showcasing winners to our global audience across more than 3.3 million touchpoints annually, making the Marketing Week Awards the ultimate platform to share your success story and elevate your brand’s impact.

Benefits of winning:

• Trophy: Category winners receive a prestigious trophy recognising their achievement.
• Industry recognition: Winning a Marketing Week Award is more than just an accolade—it’s an endorsement from the UK’s most trusted marketing publication. As the go-to resource for brand marketers, Marketing Week shapes industry conversations, making its awards a true mark of excellence. Winners gain credibility, respect from peers and industry leaders, and a stronger reputation within the marketing community. For brand entrants, it’s an opportunity to demonstrate the value of marketing within your organisation, elevating the function’s strategic role.
• Exposure: Award-winning work is showcased across Marketing Week’s platforms, reaching a highly engaged global audience of senior marketers. This includes a dedicated winners’ page and potential coverage in articles, podcasts, and newsletters, ensuring your success story gets the attention it deserves.
• Event participation: Some winners are invited to feature at major industry events, such as the Festival of Marketing, providing exclusive opportunities to share insights, discuss their achievements, and connect with fellow marketing leaders.
• Branded marketing assets: Winners and shortlisted entrants receive official Marketing Week Awards graphics to use across social media, websites, and marketing materials—helping you maximise the impact of your achievement.
• Team recognition: Entering and winning a Marketing Week Award is a chance to celebrate the hard work, creativity, and impact of your team. It reinforces the value of their contributions and boosts morale, demonstrating their role in driving business success.

These accolades do more than celebrate excellence—they offer winners a platform for professional growth, industry influence, and increased visibility among the most influential marketers in the UK and beyond.

You can download an Entry Pack here. 

All entrants will be notified as to whether or not they have been shortlisted in late July 2025. Shortlisted entrants will receive assets they can share on social media, as well as priority booking for the Awards.

The Marketing Week Awards 2025 winners are announced at the Awards Ceremony at The Londoner on Thursday 23 October 2025.

Our judges are an unrivalled group of senior marketers in number, seniority and expertise. From a range of industries, they are some of the most respected individuals in the world of marketing.

Entries will be judged by a senior judging panel that is as diverse and varied as the categories available to enter. The jury comprises CMOs, CEOs, Brand Directors and other senior leaders from some of the most innovative marketing organisations. Your work is to impress and demonstrate your boldness to those who have seen it all. The Talent Trailblazer and Marketer of the Year awards will have separate judging panels.

All judging decisions are final. No correspondence will be entered into.

Early Bird entries are charged at £449 + VAT per entry (price expires at midnight on Friday 11 April 2025).

Standard entries are charged at £549 + VAT per entry (price expires at midnight on Friday 9 May 2025).

Extended Deadline entries are charged at £649 + VAT per entry (price until midnight on Friday 23 May 2025)

All deadlines are at midnight.

Entries are submitted online through the Marketing Week Awards entry platform. This entry platform allows you to log in and out so that you can save, edit, review, approve and pay for your entries online. Visit the entry platform here to create an account. 

Yes! The Marketing Week Awards offer a three-tier pricing structure, meaning the earlier you submit your entry, the lower your entry fee. Take advantage of early-bird rates to secure the best price before fees increase at later deadlines.

Want to know more about the entry deadlines? Take a look at our Entry Pack for more information.

All submissions must be completed by midnight on Friday 23 May 2025. 

The Marketing Week Awards are open to: 

• Brands 

• Agencies 

• In-house marketing teams 

• Designers 

• Consultancies 

• Media owners 

• PR firms 

• Charities 

Plus, any organisation that has carried out exceptional marketing. 

The Marketing Week Awards are open to any brand or marketing services provider from any and all countries globally, that contributed to a campaign or communication as outlined in the category descriptions. The campaign must have been launched or shown substantial, measurable progress during the judging eligibility period which runs from 1 January 2024 to 1 June 2025 inclusive.   

The entry, submitted online, comprises a 140-word executive summary and three sections with a maximum of 500 words each. You may also upload supporting creative images and charts to help illustrate the entry and aid the judges in their evaluations. Each entry should cover three core areas, laying out the objectives, implementation and results of the work undertaken. 

• The diagnosis, objectives and strategy in 500 words 

• The execution in 500 words 

• The effectiveness in 500 words 

Yes, you can submit as many entries as you like. Please note that a separate entry fee will apply for each submission. 

Yes, you can submit the same entry into more than one category. Please note that a separate entry fee will apply for each category the entry is submitted into. 

The activity period is from 1 January 2024 to 1 June 2025 inclusive.   

Any submitted entry may be withdrawn for any reason up until the entry deadline (Friday 23 May 2025), upon written request to the organisers; however, once the entry is submitted the entry fee is non-refundable. 

Yes, you can log in and out of the entry platform to edit and save your entry form/s until you are ready to submit. 

No, entries cannot be edited once they have been submitted. Please make sure the information and supporting materials are final before you submit an entry. 

If editing is absolutely essential post submission, we can un-submit your entry for you so you can log back in, make your edits, and then resubmit the form. HOWEVER, you will be charged the entry price WHICH APPLIES ON THE DATE OF RE-SUBMISSION (i.e. if you have entered at the Early Bird price, but then need to edit your entry and re-submit it at the Standard Entry price, you will be charged the Standard Entry price when you resubmit, and will be required to pay the difference). 

Entry fees are paid online via the entry platform when you submit your entry/ies. Payment must be made by credit/debit card and is due immediately. If opting to pay via invoice (available for orders over £500 only), payment is due immediately upon receipt of invoice. 

Our entry platform is very user-friendly, and submissions can be saved and come back to at any time prior to the final deadline.  

If you need help with your submission, please get in touch here.  

Yes! All members of our judging panel will sign an NDA and details provided in the ‘Confidential Information’ section of the entry form will be used only for judging purposes (no inclusion in editorial coverage etc.).  

Yes, the Marketing Week Awards is open to international entries. 

The Awards Ceremony takes place at The Londoner, 38 Leicester Square, London, WC2H 7DX, United Kingdom. 

The Marketing Week Awards Ceremony will take place on the evening of Thursday 23 October 2025.

The dress code is black tie. 

Yes, we will be visually capturing many of the elements of the Marketing Week Awards to use in future marketing materials.  

More information is available in our Terms & Conditions. 

Priority table booking will be available to shortlisted entrants a week before tickets go on general sale. As tickets for the Awards have sold out for the last three years, we do advise booking as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. 

No worries, please let us know when booking your table or get in touch here.  

We love our furry friends, however, only service animals are able to attend the Awards Ceremony.

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