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The Drum Awards Festival
The Drum
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.
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2026 · The Drum Awards Festival · Recorded status: current. Dates below belong to this edition, not necessarily an open entry window.
- Entries open
- Early-bird deadline
- Standard entry deadline
- Extended entry deadline
- Nominees announced
- Awards festival begins
- Awards festival ends / Grand Finale
Leaf categories
239
Category collections
10
Entry fees
all
| Entry / scope | Fee | Deadline / terms |
|---|---|---|
| single · none · all | GBP 495 | Early-bird deadline · Early-bird entry |
| single · none · all | GBP 595 | Standard entry deadline · Standard entry |
| single · none · all | GBP 714 | Extended entry deadline · Extended deadline entry |
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