Disciplines & Categories

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Branded Entertainment

Branded Entertainment recognizes the merging of advertising and entertainment content. It includes work that is built around a brand and goes beyond traditional product placement or sponsorship, adding to the experience of the viewer.

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Short Form Video
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Online or broadcast video with a brand integrated into the script, plot, or broader themes. NOTE: Short form submissions must be 3 minutes or less.

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Long Form Video
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Online or broadcast video with a brand integrated into the script, plot, or broader themes. NOTE: Long form submissions must be more than 3 minutes.

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Music Videos
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Live-action or animated videos created to promote a brand, musician or musical act.

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Audio
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Audio content with a brand integrated into the script, plot, or broader themes.

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Games / Gaming
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Games that feature a brand as an integral component of gameplay. Includes digital games on mobile, online, console, computer and other platforms. Also includes physical and immersive games that require participants to interact with a specific environment. NOTE: No special equipment will be used for judging. The required submission media must showcase the technology.

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Experiential
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Virtual/Hybrid events, livestream, brand installations, in-person events centered around a brand.

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Low Budget
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded content that utilized a low or conservative production budget. NOTE: Entries must provide the production budget (in USD) and an explanation of how it was applied.

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User-Generated Content (UGC)
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded content derived from customer/user submitted materials. Can be stand-alone or woven into a larger plot or narrative.

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Commerce
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded content that integrates commerce and entertainment content to facilitate the buying, selling, or trading of goods or services.

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Branded Entertainment for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded content or experiences that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create branded content or experiences. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Use of Humor
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded content that leverage humor as a creative tool.

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Use of Drama
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded content that leverage drama as a creative tool.

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Innovation in Branded Entertainment
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded content that explores new or transformative ideas and concepts, new techniques, devices, or methods in implementation, creative placement, positioning, timing, or other innovative use of media to reach the target audience that push the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects of the concept and idea behind the project.

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Brand-Side / In-House

Brand-Side / In-House recognizes work produced by a brand's internal creative team that focuses on the advertising and marketing of their product or service.

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Brand Identity
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Elements of an identity system created by a brand-side or internal creative team. Includes logo, business cards, stationery, branding guidelines, prospectus, etc.

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Branded Content
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work created by a brand-side or internal creative team in which the brand is incorporated into the story and goes beyond traditional product placement or sponsorship. NOTE: For content videos longer than 5 minutes, ONE Asia reserves the right to stop the video at the 5-minute mark.

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Experiential / Immersive / Events
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Brand experiences created by a brand-side or internal creative team that engage an audience within a physical or digital environment.

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Creative Use of Data
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work created by a brand-side or internal creative team in which data played an integral role in its development and execution. NOTE: Entries must provide the area(s) in which data played a crucial role and how it was used.

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Direct Marketing
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Targeted physical or digital communications created by a brand-side or internal creative team. Must have a clear target group, with a call to action, and defined results. NOTE: Non-broadcast videos should be entered in categories BSI_02: Branded Content and BSI_06: Film & Video. NOTE: Entries must define the target audience of the project.

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Film & Video
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Broadcast, online or non-broadcast videos created by a brand-side or internal creative team. NOTE: For content videos longer than 3 minutes, ONE Asia reserves the right to stop the video at the 3-minute mark.

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Online & Mobile
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of websites, microsites, or mobile applications created by a brand-side or internal creative team as a tool for engagement with the brand.

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Public Relations
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

PR-led campaigns, programs and tactics created by a brand-side or internal creative team.

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Integrated / Omnichannel Campaign
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A fully integrated campaign created by a brand-side or internal creative team consisting of 3-10 elements, executed in at least 3 mediums. Mediums can include, but are not limited to, television, print, online, out-of-home, or radio. NOTE: Project videos should include at least 3 different mediums in the campaign.

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Brand-Side / External Agency Collaboration
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work created in collaboration by a brand-side and external agency. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation which outlines what the brand-side agency and external agency each specifically contributed to the collaboration.

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B2B Communications
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work created by a brand-side or internal creative team intended to communicate a message or service between businesses. NOTE: B2B work can also be entered into other Brand-Side / In-House categories.

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Campaigns for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Brand ideas that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands partnering together to build brand equity for each and/or to reach a unique audience. NOTE: Entries must include all brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Innovation in Brand-Side / In-House
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work created by a brand-side or internal creative team that explores new or transformative ideas and concepts, new techniques, devices, or methods in implementation, creative placement, positioning, timing, or other innovative use of media to reach the target audience that push the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects of the concept and idea behind the project.

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Creative Use of Artificial Intelligence

Creative Use of Artificial Intelligence recognizes the groundbreaking use and integration of AI in work for brands, agencies and individuals. It celebrates the partnership between human creativity and artificial intelligence in the evolution of creative work and process.

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Branded AI
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Campaign or brand experience powered by AI created to promote a brand, product, message, or service. Include but are not limited to, television, print, online, out-of-home, radio, installations and immersive environments, digital interfaces, chatbots, AI tools. Includes other unique promotional materials powered by AI that live outside a standard campaign or experiential project.

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Creative Use of Data
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work promoting a brand, product, message, or service executed on top of data sets created, transformed, or manipulated by AI.

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CAI_03
AI Craft - Art & Design
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of AI as a key component in generating or enhancing a project's overall appearance.

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AI Craft - Sound
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of AI as a key component in generating or enhancing a project's audio; including music, voice, and sound.

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AI Craft - Motion
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of AI as a key component in generating or enhancing a project's motion graphics, animation, or visual effects.

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AI Craft - Storytelling
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of AI as a key component in the creation, enhancement, or execution of cinematic or narrative elements, including scriptwriting, character development, scene creation, lighting, cinematography, and editing.

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Innovation in AI
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Experimental work using AI that pushes boundaries; exploring new techniques, applications and processes that will shape or inspire future implementation of the technology. NOTE: Work in this category does NOT need to have been commissioned by a client.

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Creative Effectiveness

Creative Effectiveness recognizes work that produced measurable impact in meeting business objectives and was integral to achieving a brand's purpose.

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Consumer Goods
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Bold creative work that produced measurable impact in meeting defined business objectives and played a key role in achieving a brand's purpose in any of these consumer goods industries: Automotive & Transportation, FMCG & Durable Goods including F&B, Personal Care & Beauty, Household & Cleaning Products, Pet Products & Services, Toys & Games, Home Appliances, Fashion & Accessories, Real Estate, Technology Hardware

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Lifestyle
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Bold creative work that produced measurable impact in meeting defined business objectives and played a key role in achieving a brand's purpose in any of these lifestyle industries: Retail, Sports, Fitness, Tourism

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Media & Entertainment
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Bold creative work that produced measurable impact in meeting defined business objectives and played a key role in achieving a brand's purpose in the industry of Media, Music, Film, Television, Digital Gaming including Console, Online, Mobile, Publishing, Radio and Live Events.

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Consumer Services & B2B
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Bold creative work that produced measurable impact in meeting defined business objectives and played a key role in achieving a brand's purpose in any of these consumer services and B2B industries: Financial Services, Hospitality, Retail, Software & Services

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Non-Profit & Public Service
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Bold creative work that produced measurable impact in meeting defined business objectives and played a key role in achieving a brand's purpose in any of these non-profit and public service industries: Non-Profit Organizations, Charities, Education, Government

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Cultural Impact

Cultural Impact recognizes influential ideas and executions that had a sizable impact in their respective cultures and environments, created new trends, or transformed culture. In addition to the quality of the idea and execution, work in this discipline will be judged through the lens of the specific culture it impacted.

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Pop Culture - Entertainment
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work that tapped into or helped define popular culture—through music, film, television, fashion, viral movements, or celebrity collaborations. Includes campaigns that leveraged major entertainment trends, such as K-pop, Bollywood, or global streaming phenomena, and work that played a role in shaping or amplifying trending conversations on platforms like TikTok, WeChat, or Douyin. NOTE: Entries must provide a description of how the creative work resonated with a broad audience and became part of the cultural zeitgeist.

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Pop Culture - Gaming & Esports
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work inspired by or embedded within gaming culture and communities. Includes campaigns that featured esports tournaments, collaborated with gaming influencers or streamers, or integrated brand messaging into gameplay or virtual spaces. It also recognizes work that reflects the aesthetics, humor, and storytelling of the gaming world, including mobile games, console titles, or PC platforms that are culturally relevant in Asia. NOTE: Entries must provide a description of how the work integrated with or was inspired by gaming and esports culture.

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Pop Culture - Fandom & Subculture
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work that authentically engages with niche cultural communities and underground movements. This includes work centered on anime, manga, cosplay, webtoons, or idol fandoms, as well as creative that embraces emerging or regional subcultures such as skate culture, streetwear, vaporwave, retro tech, or specific online communities. This category also recognizes campaigns that effectively leverage user-generated content (UGC) to foster deeper connections within these communities, such as fan art, memes, or participatory challenges that invite audiences to co-create and share and the innovative use of AI-generated personas—such as virtual idols, VTubers, and digital influencers—that resonate with these subcultures and contribute to evolving expressions of identity and fandom. NOTE: Entries must provide a description of a deep understanding of these cultural groups and how the work created meaningful connection or representation.

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Multicultural Impact
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work that addresses the needs of a specific minority culture within a cultural mainstream. (i.e., the Muslim market in Indonesia, the Aboriginal culture in Australia, etc.) NOTE: Entries must define both the majority culture and minority culture. NOTE: Entries must provide information on the specific needs of the minority culture that were addressed and the impact on that culture.

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Real-Time Response to Culture
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work in immediate response to new trends. Includes work that anticipated or reacted to live cultural moments as they were occurring. This category also recognizes campaigns that effectively collaborated with creators to participate in and amplify these cultural moments, fostering authentic engagement and resonance. NOTE: Entries must provide information on the cultural trend or moment that the work was addressing and how it specifically participated in adding to that trend.

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Creative Use of Data

Creative Use of Data recognizes work in which the gathering, interpretation, and/or display of data is integral in defining or communicating the brand's message.

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Data Visualization
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work which utilizes creative visual representation of data. Includes static / dynamic forms of charts, maps, graphs, custom content, etc.

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Targeting
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work for which data was used and interpreted to target a specific audience. Data must have played an integral role in defining the audience for the brand's message.

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Storytelling
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work for which data was used and interpreted to create or enhance a brand narrative. Data must have played an integral role in telling a brand's story.

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Experiential & Immersive
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work for which data was used and interpreted to create an experience in a virtual or physical environment. Includes events, exhibitions, art interventions, responsive environments, etc. Data must have played an integral role in defining the brand's message.

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Real-Time Data
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work for which data was gathered, interpreted, and used in real time to engage with an audience. Data must have played an integral role in defining the brand's message.

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Commerce
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work for which data was used and interpreted to facilitate the buying, selling, or trading of goods or services. Data must have played an integral role in driving consumer transactions.

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Data for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work for which data was used and interpreted to create a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand. Data must have played an integral role in defining the brand's message.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create work for which data was used and interpreted for a brand, product, service, or message. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Innovation in Creative Use of Data
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work in which data was used to explore new or transformative ideas and concepts, new techniques, devices, or methods in implementation, creative placement, positioning, timing, or other innovative use of media that push the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects of the concept and idea behind the project.

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Creative Use of Technology

Creative Use of Technology recognizes work for which technology played an integral role in defining or communicating the brand's message.

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Technology as a Creative Tool
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work that utilized technology as a creative tool in ideation, execution, or as a key element of the final product. Includes technology such as projection mapping, responsive environments, and other work where technology was a core component. NOTE: Entries that used AI technology should be entered into CT_01: Use of AI.

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Experiential
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

In-person/online or digital events, competitions, installations, or other physical/virtual immersive environments where a person actively engages with technology, centered around a brand, product, message, or service. Includes metaverse.

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User-Generated Content (UGC)
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work derived from customer/user submitted materials. Technology must be a core element of the gathering, use, or display of the content or other materials provided by users.

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Technology for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work in which technology was used to create a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Commerce
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of technology in work to facilitate the buying, selling, or trading of goods or services.

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Innovation in Creative Use of Technology
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work in which technology was used to explore new or transformative ideas and concepts, new techniques, devices, or methods in implementation, creative placement, positioning, timing, or other innovative use of media to reach the target audience that push the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects of the concept and idea behind the project.

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Design

Design recognizes the art and practice of planning and projecting ideas and experiences with visual and textual content.

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Brand Identity
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

An individual or a series (2-10) of elements of the identity system for a brand, product, or service. May include business cards, stationery, logo, network IDs, physical collateral such as letterhead, business cards, uniforms, giveaways, etc. or digital items such as branding guidelines.

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Editorial
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Overall design of commercially available books. Includes cover design for books, magazines, newspapers, or digital publications. NOTE: Non-commercially available books should be entered in category DE_04: Promotional. NOTE: Each book in a series must have been released within the eligibility dates.

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Typography
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Typeface design or the use of type in static compositions or animated (kinetic) type compositions for a brand.

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Promotional
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Printed or digital communications containing information about a brand, product, service, or message. Includes multi-page catalogues, pamphlets, booklets, brochures, physical items, etc.

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Packaging
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Packaging design for a product or line of products. Includes commmercially available mass-market items, limited-edition, luxury, sustainable packaging and promotional items which are not commercially available for purchase

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Data Visualization
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work which utilizes creative visual representation of data. Can be static or dynamic forms of charts, maps, graphs, custom content, etc.

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Digital Design
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The aesthetics of websites, apps, games, utilitites, or other digital branded collateral items.

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Posters & Out of Home
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Printed posters or other environmental design including billboards, transit, point-of purchase, brand installations, or other ambient media with the intent of promoting a brand, product, service, or message.

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Spatial Design
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Physical spaces, wayfinding signage or architecture used to connect people to a brand, product, service, or message for a brand or organization. Can be indoor or outdoor, temporary or permanent. Includes live events, exhibitions, art interventions, buildings and landscapes for public and private facilities, etc

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Moving Image
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Moving image-based work that communicates a brand's message. Includes live-action, animation, music videos, network IDs, interstitials, show reels, title sequences, etc.

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Design for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create a design-focused work.

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Innovation in Design
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Design work that explores new or transformative ideas and concepts new techniques, devices, or methods in implementation, creative placement, positioning, timing, or other innovative use of media to reach the target audience that push the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects of the concept and idea behind the project.

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Direct Marketing

Direct Marketing recognizes communications to a clear target group, with a call to action, and defined results.

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Physical Items
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Physical pieces of advertising that target a specific audience. Includes pieces delivered via mail, messenger, handouts, postings, etc.

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Out of Home
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Advertisements which appears outdoor, targeting a specific audience.

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Targeted Video
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

On location or online videos targeted for a specific audience.

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Experiential
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of in-person or virtual events, in-store experiences or brand installations to create an interactive experience with a brand's targeted demographic.

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Digital & Online
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of a websites, microsites, or mobile applications, email communications, online banner advertisements, fully branded games and brand placement or integration into an existing game to direct contact with a brand's targeted demographic.

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Non-traditional & Guerrilla Marketing
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of unconventional and/or low budget techniques outside of standard marketing strategy to engage with a brand's targeted audience. Includes wild postings, stunts, etc.

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Integrated / Omnichannel Campaign
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A fully integrated direct marketing campaign consisting of 3-10 elements, executed in at least 3 mediums. Mediums can include, but are not limited to, television, print, online, outdoor, or radio. NOTE: Project videos should include at least 3 different mediums in the campaign.

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Commerce
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Communications targeting a specific audience created to keep existing customers or attract new customers to buy, sell, or trade goods or services. Includes loyalty programs, geofencing, app & social media integration, etc.

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Direct Marketing for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Targeted communications that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create direct marketing work. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Innovation in Direct Marketing
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work that explores transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution, creative placement, or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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Experiential & Immersive

Experiential & Immersive recognizes temporary or permanent brand experiences utilizing physical and/or digital environments to connect people to a brand.

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Events
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Virtual or in-person events, competitions, or social gatherings centered around a brand, product, message, or service. Includes guerrilla marketing, livestreamed or pre-recorded online community events, or other planned in-person gatherings.

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Brand Installations
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Installations, including the dynamic interaction of a user with a physical product or object centered around a brand, product, message, or service within a larger environment.

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Immersive Spaces
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Large-scale immersive environments centered around a brand, product, service, or message. Includes exhibitions, trade shows, expos, pop-up stores, takeovers, etc.

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Experiential Audio
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded audio content that triggers action from the listener. Includes proximity-based listening, user-specific content, physical world interaction, etc.

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Customer Experience / CX
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Touchpoints that define the overall perception of a brand, based on the users' interactions with it in a physical environment. May include digital elements.

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Commerce
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Temporary or permanent brand experiences utilizing physical and/or digital environments that facilitate the buying, selling, or trading of goods or services. Includes In-store experiences and displays, pop-up shops, events, sampling, etc.

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Experiential & Immersive for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Brand experiences that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create brand experiences. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Innovation in Experiential & Immersive
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Brand experiences that explores transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution, creative placement, or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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Film & Video

Film & Video recognizes advertising in the form of commercial spots that aired on television, in cinemas, or online.

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TV, VOD, & Online - Short Form
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A single (1) or a series (2-5) of commercial spot airing on television, video-ondemand platforms, or online. NOTE: Short form submissions must be 3 minutes or less.

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TV, VOD, & Online - Long Form
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A single (1) or a series (2-5) of commercial spot airing on television, video-ondemand platforms, or online. NOTE: Long form submissions must be more than 3 minutes.

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Cinema Advertising
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Commercial spots shown exclusively in a cinema before a feature film.

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Low Budget
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Commercial spots that creatively utilized a low or conservative production budget. Includes broadcast, cinema, online, or mobile. NOTE: Entries must provide the production budget and an explanation of how it was applied.

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User-Generated Content (UGC)
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Videos that are derived from customer/user submitted content, created on behalf of a brand or organization. Includes broadcast, cinema, and online.

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Film & Video for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Commercial spots that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create commercial spots. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Use of Humor
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Commercial spots that leverage humor as a creative tool.

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Use of Drama
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Commercial spots that leverage drama as a creative tool.

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Innovation in Film & Video
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Commercial spots that explore transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution, creative placement, or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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Gaming

Gaming recognizes interactive experiences that use gameplay to entertain, inform, and create community. It includes work that is built around a brand that engages the user and adds to the gaming experience.
NOTE: No special equipment will be used for judging. The required submission media must showcase the game.

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Brand Integration / Placement / In Game
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded elements or components built into an existing game, such as maps, takeovers, or other incorporations to promote a brand, product, message, or service. The brand must be integrated into and add to the gaming experience. NOTE: Entries must provide the game(s) the brand was integrated into.

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Mobile Gaming
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Mobile-based games built around a brand, product, message, or service. Includes new fully branded games and branded elements placed or integrated into existing games.

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Influencer & Content Co-creation
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Partnerships and content co-reation with an established gaming influencer or influencers to enhance or promote a brand through that influencer's audience and style. NOTE: Entries must include the name and gaming and/or streaming platform of the influencer(s) involved in the work.

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Community Building
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of new or existing games to build, support, and/or facilitate interaction between users and utilize the social aspect of gaming. Includes web, mobile, and console games.

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Use of Gaming as a Tool
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A brand's use of gaming as a medium to provide a useful service or function to its users such as education, therapy, ecommerce, etc. Includes, web, mobile, and console games.

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Game Marketing
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Pieces in a marketing campaign for a particular game or gaming product. Includes all mediums such as print, online, tv and video, experiential, and direct marketing.

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Virtual Worlds
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded digital items that can be purchased or earned by the user to enhance their gaming experience. Includes skins, NFTs, virtual fashion, virtual tools, vehicles, and other digital goods. NOTE: No special equipment will be used for judging. The required submission media must showcase the virtual goods. NOTE: Entries must provide the game(s) the brand was integrated into.

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Use of Data
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Gaming experiences that are conceived and brought to life through the strategic collection and interpretation of data, in which marketing initiatives are fundamentally driven by data, utilizing insights to create engaging and personalized experiences

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Gaming for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A brand's use of gaming to provide a positive social, cultural, or environmental impact. Includes awareness of and interaction with an issue, and other positive impact projects.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create a gaming-based work. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Innovation in Gaming
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Digital games or gaming experiences that explore transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution, creative placement, or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward, including innovation in hardware design, UI/UX etc. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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Green Award

Green Award recognizes work which made a measurable environmental impact. This includes, but is not limited to, awareness and messaging, product design, and eco-friendly production techniques.

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Green Award
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Green Award recognizes work which made a measurable environmental impact. This includes, but is not limited to, awareness and messaging, product design, and eco-friendly production techniques.

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Integrated / Omnichannel

Integrated / Omnichannel recognizes creative concepts and messaging unified across multi-channel campaigns.

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Integrated / Omnichannel Campaign
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A fully integrated campaign consisting of 3-10 elements, executed in at least 3 mediums. Mediums can include, but are not limited to film, print, out-of-home, experiential, websites, mobile, social media, online video, or audio.

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Brand Transformation / Repositioning
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A fully integrated campaign that changes the way that the public perceives a brand or organization, or establishes a new visual identity system for an existing brand, product, or service. Must consist of 3-10 elements, executed in at least 3 mediums. Mediums can include, but are not limited to film, print, out-of-home, experiential, websites, mobile, social media, online video, or audio. NOTE: Project videos should explain the transformation from the original to updated brand positioning. NOTE: A rebrand of solely the visual identity should be entered into DES_04: Design - Rebranding.

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Commerce
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A system (3-10) of touchpoints executed in at least 3 mediums that facilitates the buying, selling, or trading of goods or services.

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Integrated / Omnichannel Campaigns for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A fully integrated campaign consisting of 3-10 elements, executed in at least 3 mediums, that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand. Mediums can include, but are not limited to film, print, outof-home, experiential, websites, mobile, social media, online video, or audio.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create a fully integrated campaign consisting of 3-10 elements, executed in at least 3 mediums. Mediums can include, but are not limited to film, print, out-of-home, experiential, websites, mobile, social media, online video, or audio. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Innovation in Integrated / Omnichannel
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

An integrated campaign that explores transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution, creative placement, or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. Must consist of 3-10 elements, executed in at least 3 mediums. Mediums can include, but are not limited to film, print, out-of-home, experiential, websites, mobile, social media, online video, or audio. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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Moving Image & Sound Craft

Moving Image & Sound Craft recognizes the specialized skills demonstrated in the creation and production of branded content videos and commercial spots.

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Direction
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Overall artistic vision of commercial spot or branded content video. Includes television, cinema, digital games, or online.

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Writing
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Scriptwriting of commercial spot or branded content video. Includes television, cinema, digital games, or online.

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Editing
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Editing of commercial spot or branded content video. Includes television, cinema, digital games, or online

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Cinematography
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Cinematography of commercial spot or branded content video. Includes television, cinema, digital games, or online.

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Animation
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Animation applied to commercial spot or branded content video. Includes television, cinema, digital games, or online.

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Visual Effects
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Visual effects applied digitally in post-production to commercial spot or branded content video. Includes CGI, motion capture, green screen, and other digital effects in television, cinema, digital games, or online videos.

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Production Design
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Production design of commercial spots or branded content videos. Includes television, cinema, digital games, or online.

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Casting
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The selection of talent for a particular role or part in television, cinema, digital games, or online moving image pieces.

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Use of Technology
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of new or existing technology applied to television, cinema, digital games, or online moving image pieces. NOTE: No special equipment will be used for judging. The required submission media must showcase the technology.

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Experiential Music & Sound
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Audio content that triggers active engagement from a listener. Includes proximity-based listening, user-specific content, physical world interaction, etc.

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Use of Licensed Music
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Use of licensed music in work in any medium for a brand, product, service, or message. Includes television, cinema, experiential, out of home, radio, online, etc.

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Original Music
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Original instrumental composition(s) created for work in any medium for a brand, product, service, or message. Includes television, cinema, experiential, out of home, radio, online, etc.

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Artist / Brand Collaboration
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Audio content in any medium where the collaboration between the brand and a recording artist extends beyond the licensing or composition of a song. The artist or their work should play a featured role. NOTE: Entries must list the recording artist(s) involved in the work and the role they played in its creation.

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Sound Design / Mixing / Editing
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Sound creation, design, and/or application for work in any medium for a brand, product, service, or message. Includes television, cinema, experiential, out of home, radio, online, etc.

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Innovation in Moving Image / Sound Craft Production
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Visual and audio craft used in commercial spots or branded content videos that explore transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution, creative placement, or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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Interactive, Online & Mobile

Interactive, Online & Mobile recognizes advertising communicated through digital channels including websites, mobile applications, and other digital media.

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Websites
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Websites, microsites, or webpages created to promote a brand, product, message, or service.

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Mobile Applications
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Mobile applications created to promote a brand, product, message, or service.

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Online Community Platform
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of an online community platform to facilitate communication and activity between users, centered around a brand, product, message, or service. Includes new platforms or the use of existing platforms such as Twitch, Zoom, Slack, Discord, Line, RedBook, Tik Tok etc. NOTE: Posts on social media channels should be entered into the Social Media discipline.

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Online Advertising & Mobile Video
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Digital advertisements that match the appearance and function of the platform in which they appear or digital banner advertisements, created to promote a brand, product, message, or service, and online or mobile videos that require user interaction throughout the video to enhance the story or experience, online advertisements that play before the start of a video, videos for a brand, product, message, or service created specifically to be viewed online, videos for a brand, product, message, or service created specifically to be viewed on a mobile device. Includes vertical video.

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Virtual Installations
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Virtual interactive installations centered around a brand, product, message, or service. Includes both digital-only installations within a larger environment or large-scale fully immersive experiences.

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Commerce
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded online or mobile transaction tools or solutions that facilitate the buying, selling, or trading of goods or services. Includes E-Commerce, Mobile Commerce, and online or digital payment solutions.

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Interactive & Mobile for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Interactive, online, and mobilebased work that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create interactive, online, or mobile-based work. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Innovation in Interactive, Online & Mobile
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Interactive, online, and mobile- based work that explores transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution, creative placement, or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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IP & Product Design

IP & Product Design recognizes new digital or physical products by a brand as part of integrated advertising and communications campaigns.

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Physical Product
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Physical products created to communicate a brand's personality or story.

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Digital Product
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Digital products created to communicate a brand's personality or story.

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AI Integration in New Products
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Digital and/or physical products that incorporate AI technologies, created to communicate a brand's personality or story. The use of AI must directly enhance the user experience.

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Products for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Digital and/or physical products that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create new products. Includes physical and/or digital products for either in-market or promotional release. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Innovation in IP & Product Design
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Digital or physical products that explore transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution, creative placement, or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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Media

Media recognizes creative and strategic use of media channels to amplify brand messaging and engage audiences effectively.

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Media-Led Brand Strategy
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work that utilizes audience insights, media channel planning, and innovative media ecosystems to shape brand strategies that drive growth beyond traditional advertising.

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Media-Led Creative Execution
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work in which strategic media choices enhance storytelling, demonstrating how media planning influences and elevates creative execution.

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Branded Content & Media Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Collaborations with publishers, influencers, and entertainment platforms that craft compelling brand narratives through strategic content integration within media ecosystems.

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Cross-Platform Media Excellence
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Multi-channel campaigns where media planning amplifies creative storytelling across digital, social, TV, OOH, experiential, and emerging platforms.

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Data-Driven Creativity
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work in which data and analytics fuels creative breakthroughs, showcasing the use of consumer insights, AI, programmatic targeting, or predictive analytics to shape impactful creative executions.

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Performance-Driven Brand Building
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work that balances brand storytelling with measurable performance outcomes, rewarding media agencies for translating creative ideas into tangible business impacts such as sales, brand lift, engagement, or loyalty.

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Purpose-Driven Media lmpact
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Work that drives social, cultural, or environmental change, focusing on how media placements, partnerships, and creative strategies amplify a brand’s purpose for real-world impact.

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Out of Home

Out of Home recognizes advertising in public spaces, delivered via physical or digital mediums.

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P.O.P. & In-Store
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Poster, shelf banner, 3D display, window display, or other promotion placed in-store or at point-of-sale.

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Billboards & Transit
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Advertisement which appears in or around transit. Includes billboards, bulletins, lamppost banners, vehicle wraps, bus shelters, subways, taxis, and transportation hubs.

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Experiential & Installations
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Temporary or permanent immersive experiences that connect people to a brand in an indoor or outdoor space. Includes pop-up stores, trade show booths, kiosks, and station or street dominations.

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Out of Home for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Out-of-home advertisments that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create out of home advertising. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Innovation in Out of Home
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Out of home advertising that explores transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution, creative placement, or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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OOH, Print & Digital Craft

OOH, Print & Digital Craft recognizes exceptional artistry and technical excellence in the execution of creative ideas across Out-of-Home, Print, and Digital platforms.

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Craft - Art Direction
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Communication of the brand's overall visual appearance in out-of-home, print and digital work.

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Craft - Writing
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Writing in out-of-home, print and digital work.

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Craft - Illustration
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Illustration within out-of-home, print and digital work. Can be a stand-alone work or incorporated into a larger layout.

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Craft - Photography
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Photography within out-of-home, print and digital work. Can be a stand-alone work or incorporated into a larger layout. NOTE: Altered photographs may be entered, but added elements such as typography or illustration will not be considered.

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Craft - Typography
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Use of typography within out-of-home, print and digital work. Can be a stand-alone work or incorporated into a larger layout.

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Craft - Use of Technology
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of new or existing digital technology applied to out-of-home, print and digital work. NOTE: No special equipment will be used for judging. The required submission media must showcase the technology.

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Craft - Printing & Production
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Specialized printing or production techniques applied to out-of-home and print work.

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Craft - UX/UI
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Overall look and feel of websites or mobile applications created for a brand, product, message, or service.

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Craft - Visual Effects / Animation
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Visual craft applied to work of websites, mobile applications, smart devices, or other interactive digital work. Includes visual effects, animation, motion graphics, etc.

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Craft - Sound
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Exemplary use of music and sound design in spots created for websites, mobile applications, smart devices, or other interactive digital work. Also includes sound effects.

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Public Relations

Public Relations recognizes campaigns, programs and tactics that actively engage consumers/audiences and demonstrate the highest levels of strategic planning, creativity and business results. It focuses on building and preserving the trust and understanding between brands or organizations and their public/audiences by using strategic conversation at the service of an objective.

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Traditional Media Relations
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A public relations campaign via traditional media outlets, such as print, broadcast, and online, created to raise awareness and influence public perception of a brand, product, message, or service.

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Digital & Online
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A public relations campaign via online methods such as social media, blogging, or email marketing, created to raise awareness and influence public perception of a brand, product, message, or service.

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Events & Experiential
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A public relations campaign centered around a "stunt," conference, or other event created to raise awareness and influence public perception of a brand, product, message, or service.

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Community Building
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A public relations campaign engaging target audiences via social networks and community forums in order to improve brand sentiment and increase consumer interaction with the brand, product, message, or service.

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Brand Voice
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The combination of verbal, visual, emotional, and other tools to tell a brand's narrative and to maintain and increase engagement.

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Business Transformation
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A public relations campaign intended to explain and highlight the evolution of the brand or organization, resulting in a change of consumer perception. NOTE: Project videos should explain the transformation from the original to updated brand positioning. NOTE: A rebrand of a visual identity should be entered into DES_01: Design - Brand Identity.

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Reputation Management
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A public relations campaign negates the impact of negative publicity or crisis to improve the short or long-term reputation of a brand or organization.

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Current Event Response
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

The use of real-time information to create brand-centric messaging or to react to current events.

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Influencer & Creator Marketing
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A public relations campaign that strategically collaborate with influencers and content creators to promote a brand, product, service, or message.

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Public Relations for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A public relations campaign that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create a single unified public relations campaign. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Integrated / Omnichannel PR Campaign
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A fully integrated public relations campaign across at least 3 channels. Channels can include, but are not limited to media relations, events, community building, etc. NOTE: Project videos should include at least 3 different mediums in the campaign.

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Innovation in Public Relations
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

A public relations campaign that explores transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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Print & Promotional

Print & Promotional recognizes advertising communicated through printed publications and other physical collateral.

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Newspaper & Magazine
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Newspaper or magazine advertisement to promote a brand, product, service, or message.

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Physical Products & Apparel
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Physical items created to promote a brand, product, service, or message. Includes catalogues, pamphlets, booklets, brochures, books, flyers, clothing, accessories, jewelry, pet apparel, giveaways, swag, or other printed communications and promotional products. NOTE: Commercial packaging should be entered in category DE_05: Packaging.

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Product Packaging
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Packaging for a promotional product or line of products.

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Print & Promotional for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Print or promotional advertising that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create print or dimensional promotional work. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Innovation in Print & Promotional
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Print advertising that explores transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution, creative placement, or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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Radio & Audio-First

Radio & Audio-First recognizes advertising in the form of audio-based content such as broadcast or online commercial spots and podcasts.

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Sonic Branding / Branded Audio
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Sounds or compositions used to identify a brand. Includes sonic logos, jingles, etc.

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Broadcast
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Commercial spot broadcast over national, regional, or satellite radio stations.

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Podcast
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Podcasts that integrate a brand into its content.

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Custom Content
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded audio content customized to a specific audience. Can be stand-alone or woven into a larger plot or narrative. Includes user-generated content.

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Experiential Radio & Audio
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded audio content that triggers action from the listener. Includes proximity-based listening, user-specific content, physical world interaction, etc.

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Radio & Audio for Good
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Audio-led advertising that creates a positive change by addressing a pressing social, environmental, or cultural challenge and that benefits a larger purpose than the brand.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create audio-based pieces. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Use of Humor
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Radio and audio advertising that leverage humor as a creative tool.

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Use of Drama
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Radio and audio advertising that leverage drama as a creative tool.

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Innovation in Radio & Audio
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Radio and audio advertising that explores transformative ideas, devices, methods in its execution or other innovative use of media pushes the discipline forward. NOTE: Entries must include a written explanation of the innovative and transformative aspects behind the project.

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Sustainable Development Goals Award

SDG Award recognizes the teams who chose to utilize their creative talents and resources to better the world we live in, and contribute to securing a sustainable future for all. Work submitted must address at least one of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Sustainable Development Award
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Sustainable Development Award rewards the teams who chose to utilize their creative talents and resources to better the world we live in, and contribute to securing a sustainable future for all. Work submitted should address at least one of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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Social Media

Social Media recognizes work that leverages the power of social platforms to communicate a brand's message and interact with its targeted audience.

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Livestream
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Online videos that document a brand's live event via real-time video on a social platform.

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User-Generated Content (UGC)
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded social content that is derived from user-submitted materials. Content should have been created specifically for distribution on social media channels.

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Active Engagement / Call to Action
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded social content that encourages active participation from users to trigger engagement and interaction with the brand.

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Stunts & Activations
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Real-world stunts or activations intended to trigger social media response and interaction.

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Influencer Marketing
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Partnership with an established social media influencer or influencers to enhance or promote a brand through that influencer's audience and style, released on social platform. NOTE: Entries must include the name and social channel of the influencer(s) involved in the work.

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Commerce
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded social content that integrates and facilitates the buying, selling, or trading of goods.

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Brand Partnerships
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Two or more brands working together to create work created specifically for distribution on social media channels. NOTE: Entries must include all client/brand names involved in the work. NOTE: All brands involved should also be listed under the full credits.

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Use of Humor
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded social media content that leverage humor as a creative tool.

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Use of Drama
Final Deadline Fee: $625.00

Branded social media content that leverage drama as a creative tool.

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