The Drum · Global
The Drum Awards Festival
The Drum Awards Festival is the annual lighthouse awards event for the global marketing community, celebrating work across every key marketing discipline, including Design, Media, Advertising, PR, Social, Creator Marketing, Experiential and Digital Experience. One of the world’s largest marketing competitions and award shows, it brings together nine standalone discipline awards, each with its own categories, specialist jury and jury president, within one global celebration. The Festival also covers Social Purpose and Agency Business and culminates in discipline-specific awards shows. It is organised by The Drum, the marketing and media publisher owned by Carnyx Group Limited.
Date overview
How to use this The Drum Awards Festival calendar
This page is designed for awards managers who need a working view, not just a list of dates. Use the cycle blocks below to confirm the live entry window, identify fee-changing milestones, and decide when case writing, asset collection, approval, and payment need to be finished internally.
First tracked date
June 11
Last tracked date
December 3
Priced milestones
0
2026current
2026-06-11 to 2026-12-03- 🔺
Early-bird deadline
June 11
- 🔴
Standard entry deadline
July 30
- 🔴
Extended entry deadline
September 3
- 📢
Nominees announced
October 15
- 🏆
Awards festival and winner announcements
December 3
Planning guidance
Turn dates into a submission workflow
Assign an internal owner to every deadline at least six weeks before the official date. For each candidate entry, track category fit, evidence readiness, asset completeness, client approval status, and budget approval. If a milestone carries a fee, use it as a forcing function for the slate review rather than waiting for the final submission date.
Want reminders and shortlist tracking?
Awardy Core lets you track deadlines, manage team submissions, and benchmark against shortlisted work.
Open Awardy Core