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.
Submit your entries nowKey Dates
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Early Deadline: Oct 23, 2026€319 per entry
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Regular Deadline: Dec 04, 2026€409 per entry
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Last Chance Deadline: Jan 29, 2027€469 per entry
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Categories
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Best Sports Marketing Activation
Recognizing the sports marketing activation that most effectively engaged its audience, delivered on its objectives and drove meaningful results.
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Best Event
Recognizing the live event or brand activation that most effectively engaged its audience, delivered on its objectives and created a memorable experience.
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Best Retail Media Strategy
Recognizing the retail media strategy that most effectively connected brands with consumers and delivered measurable results.
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Best Omnichannel Campaign
Recognizing the campaign that most effectively connected with audiences across multiple channels to drive meaningful results.
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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.
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Best Collaboration
Recognizing the brand, agency, creator or media collaboration that most effectively combined complementary strengths to achieve shared goals and deliver results.
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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.
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Best Use of Data
Recognizing the strategy that most effectively used data to inform decision-making, engage audiences and drive results.
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Best Use of Technology
Recognizing the innovative use of technology to solve a marketing challenge, enhance audience engagement or drive business results.
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Best Use of Social
Recognizing the social media strategy that most effectively engaged audiences, strengthened a brand and drove measurable results.
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Best Use of Video
Recognizing the video strategy that most effectively captured audience attention, communicated a brand story and drove results.
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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.
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Best Creator Marketing Campaign
Recognizing the creator marketing campaign that most effectively leveraged creator partnerships to engage audiences and achieve campaign goals.
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Grand Prix: Campaign of the Year
Recognizing the campaign that best demonstrates creativity, strategic thinking and innovation while delivering meaningful results.
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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.
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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.
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Grand Prix: Brand/Retailer of the Year
Recognizing the brand or retailer that has demonstrated exceptional marketing leadership, innovation and business impact.
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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.
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Grand Prix: Agency of the Year
Recognizing the agency that has demonstrated exceptional client impact, strategic leadership, innovation and results.
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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
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Martin SouleHEAD OF DIGITAL ACTIVATIONZENITH INTERNATIONAL -
Christiana CourtrightEMEA HEAD OF DIGITAL FOR UNILEVER AND HEAD OF DIGITAL FOR AMSTERDAMEDELMAN -
Hannah SimpsonSVP OF GLOBAL MARKETINGMIQ -
Andrea GarabedianGLOBAL DIRECTOR OF THE GO-TO-MARKET AND BRAND SAFETYAMAZON ADS -
Oliver WalkerMANAGING DIRECTOR AND CO-FOUNDERHOOKFLASH -
Natalia VasilyevaEVP MARKETING & STRATEGYANZU.IO -
Richard BrooksFOUNDERKINASE -
Mateusz RumińskiVP OF PRODUCTPRIMEAUDIENCE -
Wojciech GłowackiCHIEF SALES OFFICERRTB HOUSE
Past Winners
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.
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