This category is open to any media owner that has launched a new media campaign during the eligibility period. Judges will be looking for campaigns that display original, creative ideas that have delivered tangible outcomes in both quantitative and qualitative form.

This category recognises campaigns of any length that display creative, original ideas that have delivered tangible outcomes and achieved business goals. To provide an accurate comparison, entries will be judged within one of three financial tiers.

This category recognises campaigns of any length that display creative, original ideas that have delivered tangible outcomes and achieved business goals. To provide an accurate comparison, entries will be judged within one of three financial tiers.

This category recognises campaigns of any length that display creative, original ideas that have delivered tangible outcomes and achieved business goals. To provide an accurate comparison, entries will be judged within one of three financial tiers.

This category is open to any agency that has launched a new media campaign during the eligibility period. Judges will be looking for campaigns that display original, creative ideas that have delivered tangible outcomes in both quantitative and qualitative form.

This category recognises campaigns of any length that display creative, original ideas that have delivered tangible outcomes and achieved business goals. To provide an accurate comparison, entries will be judged within one of three financial tiers.

This category recognises campaigns of any length that display creative, original ideas that have delivered tangible outcomes and achieved business goals. To provide an accurate comparison, entries will be judged within one of three financial tiers.

This category recognises campaigns of any length that display creative, original ideas that have delivered tangible outcomes and achieved business goals. To provide an accurate comparison, entries will be judged within one of three financial tiers.

This award recognises a demonstrable use of content in all its forms to answer a specific client challenge that has helped to transform their business. Clear accountable targets and verified tracking essential.

This award recognises a demonstrable use of content in all its forms to answer a specific client challenge that has helped to transform their business. Clear accountable targets and verified tracking essential.

This category celebrates a longer-term contribution to a clients brand or commercial success. Entrants must clearly demonstrate how insight strategy planning and activation have contributed to success over a minimum period of 2 years.

This award recognises the clever use of new ideas in media that deliver something tangible for an advertiser such as a clever media insight, a new digital or social networking application, a buzz or viral marketing campaign, or a new piece of technology. Judges will be looking to see how the innovation led to business results.

This award will recognise the growing importance of creative thinking. Entries must go beyond evidence of great planning and buying, to the invention of ideas which address a business problem.

This award recognises innovation, creativity, planning, the use of data and consequent business results through having an effective and smart audio strategy. The judges will be looking for examples of where an advertiser, agency or media owner has creatively used the medium and put ambitious use of audio at the heart of a campaign.

This award recognises the best use of commercial media that has a good or progressive purpose at its heart relating to the coronavirus crisis. The initiative could be on behalf of a brand or for another organisation (eg. public sector, third sector) or a collaboration between more than one party. The winning entry will need to show how it has made measurable progress towards the cause in question. Evidence of the positive impact and effectiveness of the campaign on the brand or organisation, where appropriate, will also be advantageous. Judges will be looking for campaigns that demonstrate innovative and creative thinking.

This award recognises the best use of commercial media to drive business outcomes during the coronavirus crisis. This category recognises campaigns of any length that display creative, original ideas that have delivered tangible outcomes and achieved business goals. Judges will be looking for how the campaign was related to, or as result of, the coronavirus crisis.

This category recognises the clever use of new ideas in media that deliver something tangible for an advertiser such as a clever media insight, a new digital or social networking application, a buzz or viral marketing campaign, or a new piece of technology. Judges will be looking for how the innovation happened during, or as result of, the coronavirus crisis and how it led to tangible outcomes and/or achieved business goals.

This category recognises projects or campaigns that have only been made possible by the close collaboration of one or more media agencies and/ or other relevant agencies, with one or more media owners. Judges will be looking for how the collaboration led to business results. Evidence of a wider benefit for the commercial media industry, where appropriate, will also be advantageous.

This category recognises projects or campaigns that have only been made possible by the close collaboration of one or more media agencies and/ or other relevant agencies, with one or more media owners.

This category recognises projects or campaigns that have only been made possible by the close collaboration of one or more media agencies and/ or other relevant agencies, with one or more media owners.

Data is the new currency of planning and buying, often described as being core to the businesses of media owners and agencies. Demonstrate how you have used data to enhance or replace traditional planning processes with a particular focus on the creation of custom segments for your client based on the use of 1st, 2nd and 3rd party data and / or onboarding CRM data. We are looking for demonstration of how the new audience profiles were created and ultimately then executed across programmatic channels.

Please provide evidence of the commercial impact of this new data driven strategy for your client on sales/leads/brand lift.

Econometrics is often a part of successful Media Week Award entries – mainly as a tool of post campaign evaluation. We hope to bring the “backroom boy” of econometrics into the foreground with this specialist award. Judges will be looking for creative or original use of econometrics to guide a campaign towards a successful result.

This award is designed to celebrate research by a media trade body that has provided credible and usable insights into how a particular medium and its advertising work. We are looking for research that is objective, has provided robust evidence and has genuinely filled knowledge gaps. Conclusions must be founded in a research methodology that stands up to scrutiny at the highest level. Please note you may enter more than one piece of research.

The judges will be looking for a research study that uncovered an insight/s that guided a successful media campaign. The research study need not necessarily be an original research technique – we are looking for the discovery of insights from research – insights that unlocked commercial advantage.

Open to agencies, media owners and other media leaders in a senior leadership role within the media industry.

Written entries should provide evidence of business performance, leadership and growth, development of company culture, ability to drive transformation and contribution to the wider media industry. Entries must be no more than one side of A4.

A shortlist of eight individuals will be reached in August. This shortlist will be put to the public vote via Campaign Live. The public vote will not be binding and results won’t be shared, but will be used to inform the final stage of judging.

Entrants that reach the shortlist stage must provide additional evidence in the form of a 2 minute film suggesting why the individual should win, the film doesn’t necessarily have to feature him/her. In addition, shortlisted entrants will also need to supply two endorsements from staff members and two endorsements from clients and/or business partners, which should be a total of no more than 500 words.

This category is open to candidates of 30 years or under working in agencies or media owners. Entries are also welcome from savvy entrepreneurs. Judges will not only be looking at performance and what has been achieved to date or in the present, but will also look at potential and what could be achieved in the future.

Participants will be shortlisted by Media Week judges and invited to present in front of a panel of industry judges on Tuesday 8 September. Written entries must be no longer than 300 words and include - background, why they should win this award and their expectations for the future.

This category is open to candidates of 30 years or under working in agencies or media owners. Entries are also welcome from savvy entrepreneurs. Judges will not only be looking at performance and what has been achieved to date or in the present, but will also look at potential and what could be achieved in the future.

Participants will be shortlisted by Media Week judges and invited to present in front of a panel of industry judges on Tuesday 8 September. Written entries must be no longer than 300 words and include - background, why they should win this award and their expectations for the future.

This award will honour the most innovative and exciting media brand of the year. Judges will be looking to award to the brand which demonstrates evidence of brand development over the previous 12 months, what the brand delivers to agencies and advertisers, success within the marketplace and influence on media practice.

This award recognises the very best in media sales teams who have evidence of financial success, collaboration with agencies, innovation and an acknowledgement of advertiser needs, as well as the media owners’ target audience.

Teams will also be commended for their dedication to diversity within their organisation and/or wider industry. Judges will also be looking to understand the team's response to the Covid-19 pandemic as part of their 2020 entry.

Initial entry can be up to 2 sides of A4. To qualify, you must be shortlisted in a media owner category. The more entries you submit the greater chance you have of being shortlisted for these most coveted awards.

A shortlist will be reached in August, and a panel of judges will assess live presentations from all the competing teams.

This award recognises the very best in media agency teams who have evidence of financial success, client retention and acquisition, work that shows great media thinking and development of the agency’s brand, business and talent base.
Teams will also be commended for their dedication to diversity within their agency and/or wider industry. Judges will also be looking to understand the team's response to the Covid-19 pandemic as part of their 2020 entry.

Initial entry can be up to 2 sides of A4. To qualify, you must be shortlisted in a media agency category. The more entries you submit the greater chance you have of being shortlisted for these most coveted awards.

A shortlist will be reached in August, and a panel of judges will assess live presentations from all the competing teams.

The Grand Prix will be awarded to the campaign who receives the most nominations and awards throughout the evening. Each entry that makes the final shortlist will score points, and these points will be used to identify the leading agency. The scoring system will allocate an appropriate tally for each entry, depending upon the results. This category cannot be entered directly.