Digiday Marketing and Advertising Awards Europe

The Digiday Marketing and Advertising Awards Europe recognize the companies, campaigns and technology modernizing European marketing and advertising. Over the years, we’ve honored industry-leading work from Mountain Dew, Volkswagen, Havas, Epsilon and more.

Planning to submit this year? To access everything you’ll need to join the ranks of our past winners including our entry kit, expert tips for crafting a winning entry and past coverage of this program, click here.

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Key Dates

  • Early Deadline: Oct 23, 2026
    €319 per entry
  • Regular Deadline: Dec 04, 2026
    €409 per entry
  • Last Chance Deadline: Jan 29, 2027
    €469 per entry
All deadlines end at 11:59PM PST

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Categories

  • Best Sports Marketing Activation

    Recognizing the sports marketing activation that most effectively engaged its audience, delivered on its objectives and drove meaningful results.

  • Best Event

    Recognizing the live event or brand activation that most effectively engaged its audience, delivered on its objectives and created a memorable experience.

  • Best Retail Media Strategy

    Recognizing the retail media strategy that most effectively connected brands with consumers and delivered measurable results.

  • Best Omnichannel Campaign

    Recognizing the campaign that most effectively connected with audiences across multiple channels to drive meaningful results.

  • Best Out-of-Home Campaign

    Recognizing the out-of-home campaign that most effectively used physical and digital placements to engage audiences and achieve its objectives.

  • Best Collaboration

    Recognizing the brand, agency, creator or media collaboration that most effectively combined complementary strengths to achieve shared goals and deliver results.

  • Best Use of AI

    Recognizing the most innovative and effective use of artificial intelligence to solve a marketing challenge, enhance performance or create new opportunities.

  • Best Use of Data

    Recognizing the strategy that most effectively used data to inform decision-making, engage audiences and drive results.

  • Best Use of Technology

    Recognizing the innovative use of technology to solve a marketing challenge, enhance audience engagement or drive business results.

  • Best Use of Social

    Recognizing the social media strategy that most effectively engaged audiences, strengthened a brand and drove measurable results.

  • Best Use of Video

    Recognizing the video strategy that most effectively captured audience attention, communicated a brand story and drove results.

  • Best First-Party Data Strategy

    Recognizing the strategy that most effectively collected, managed and activated first-party data to create value for the business or its customers.

  • Best Creator Marketing Campaign

    Recognizing the creator marketing campaign that most effectively leveraged creator partnerships to engage audiences and achieve campaign goals.

  • Grand Prix: Campaign of the Year

    Recognizing the campaign that best demonstrates creativity, strategic thinking and innovation while delivering meaningful results.

  • Grand Prix: Media Plan of the Year

    Recognizing the media plan that demonstrated the strongest strategic thinking, channel selection and execution to achieve campaign goals.

  • Grand Prix: Brand/Retail Executive of the Year

    Recognizing the brand or retail executive who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, innovation and impact in driving business and marketing results.

  • Grand Prix: Brand/Retailer of the Year

    Recognizing the brand or retailer that has demonstrated exceptional marketing leadership, innovation and business impact.

  • Grand Prix: Tech Platform of the Year

    Recognizing the technology platform that has delivered innovative, effective solutions that create meaningful value for clients and the industry.

  • Grand Prix: Agency of the Year

    Recognizing the agency that has demonstrated exceptional client impact, strategic leadership, innovation and results.

  • Grand Prix: Agency Executive of the Year

    Recognizing the agency executive who has demonstrated exceptional leadership, innovation and impact for their agency, clients and teams.

Judges

  • Martin Soule
    HEAD OF DIGITAL ACTIVATION
    ZENITH INTERNATIONAL
  • Christiana Courtright
    EMEA HEAD OF DIGITAL FOR UNILEVER AND HEAD OF DIGITAL FOR AMSTERDAM
    EDELMAN
  • Hannah Simpson
    SVP OF GLOBAL MARKETING
    MIQ
  • Andrea Garabedian
    GLOBAL DIRECTOR OF THE GO-TO-MARKET AND BRAND SAFETY
    AMAZON ADS
  • Oliver Walker
    MANAGING DIRECTOR AND CO-FOUNDER
    HOOKFLASH
  • Natalia Vasilyeva
    EVP MARKETING & STRATEGY
    ANZU.IO
  • Richard Brooks
    FOUNDER
    KINASE
  • Mateusz Rumiński
    VP OF PRODUCT
    PRIMEAUDIENCE
  • Wojciech Głowacki
    CHIEF SALES OFFICER
    RTB HOUSE

Past Winners

  • Green Cola
  • Initiative
  • Kia
  • Whalar

Judging Criteria

Judges will be looking for companies or campaigns that can clearly demonstrate success over the past 12 months. Judges are seeking companies or campaigns that have seized challenges and created opportunities and will evaluate entries based on the following criteria: Innovation, Creativity, Consumer Value, Results and Overall.

Judges will require evidence to substantiate all entries. This can include details of financial performance, specific KPIs, creative evidence in the form of a sizzle reel, campaign images, or links to the final project or related sites. The judges will also consider the structure, presentation and clarity of each entry.

Judging Process

Judges will score each entry prompt and consider any supporting materials submitted. After each judge submits their score for the above criteria, the scores of each criteria will then be averaged and then combined to determine an overall score for each entry. The highest scoring entries will appear on the shortlist and winner lists.

Confidentiality

All material will remain confidential to the judges. Only the 'Credits' section of an entry will be made public via the shortlist/winners announcement. If you win a particular category, our team may summarize the entry for shortlist/winner announcements and winners guides.