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The Drum Awards Festival

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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.

Current cycle

2026 cycle now accepting entries

Category depth

23 submittable categories

Matching categories

Agency of the Year (less than 10)Art DirectionBrand Partnership for Social Impact