D&AD Awards

D&AD – home of the talented and skilled, the imaginative and the curious, the restless and the bloody-minded. Commercially savvy, sometimes romantic, often cynical and occasionally rather weird. A source of information and ideas: of professional development, support and inspiration, interesting people to talk and nice things to look at. All creative life is here.

reddot communication design award

The highest award in the communication design competition is the “red dot: grand prix” for the best work in a category. The “red dot: junior prize”, which includes prize money of 10,000 euros, will be awarded to the best student work.

Biene Award

Seit 2003 prämieren die Aktion Mensch und die Stiftung Digitale Chancen die besten deutschsprachigen barrierefreien Angebote im Internet mit einer BIENE. BIENE steht für Barrierefreies Internet eröffnet neue Einsichten, aber auch für Kommunikation, gemeinsames Handeln und produktives Miteinander. Rund 1.800 Unternehmen und Organisationen, Behörden und Ministerien, Städte und Gemeinden sowie Vereine und Verbände aus Deutschland, Österreich, der Schweiz und Südtirol haben sich bislang am Wettbewerb beteiligt. Mehr als 100 Webseiten wurden bisher mit einer BIENE ausgezeichnet.

ADC DE Nachwuchs

Den ADC Nachwuchswettbewerb gibt es seit 1984. Was als kleine Initiative einiger Kreativer in einem Agentur-Konferenzraum begann, hat sich mittlerweile zu einem der wichtigsten Wettbewerbe für den kreativen Nachwuchs entwickelt. 2010 fand der Wettbewerb mit den angegliederten ADC Junior Days erstmalig im Rahmen des großen ADC Festival in Frankfurt statt. Über 10.000 Besucher kamen in die Messehalle, um sich u.a. die Arbeiten der Nachwuchstalente anzusehen. Neben der Ausstellung gab es für die Teilnehmer eigene Vorträge, eine Preisverleihung, das Creative Camp, Workshops, Projekte uvm. 

Grimme Online Award

Mit dem Grimme Online Award werden seit dem Jahr 2001 vom Grimme-Institut qualitativ hochwertige Websites ausgezeichnet. In vier Kategorien werden insgesamt maximal acht Preise vergeben. Der Grimme Online Award Information zeichnet herausragende Beiträge aus, die demonstrieren, wie das Internet für aktuelle Formen des Online-Journalismus und der Informationsvermittlung, für vertiefende Analysen und Reportagen, aber auch für publizistische Kritik und Kontrolle oder publizistisch relevante Service-Leistungen eingesetzt werden kann. 

ADC NY Young Guns

ADC Young Guns® honors the vanguard of creative professionals who let loose their imaginations, shattering conventions and breaking boundaries with a dash of brilliance and personal flair.

ANDY Awards

The International ANDY Awards, known as the world’s toughest award show, was established in 1964. It stands as one of the most sought-after awards for creative excellence in advertising. The ANDY Awards are sponsored by The ADVERTISING Club, a professional not-for-profit organ ization administered by its Chairperson, Beth-Ann Eason, SVP/GM of Epicurious, Gourmet Live and Brides.com - Conde Nast Digital, and the elected board of directors.

Golden Drum Competition

As Golden Drum Festival in its 18 years of commitment to "sharp competition, good school, crazy party and devillish challenge" remebers its Golden Roots, it also again focuses its competition to New Europe only.

Europrix Multimedia Awards

The EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards address young, creative multimedia developers under 30  years, who work in the field of media design and e-Content. Focusing on innovation, creativity and originality, the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards differ from the other contest. The main idea is to encourage the best young talents from all around Europe and establish a Europe-wide platform for promoting the best multimedia projects. In addition to the renowned awards the EUROPRIX offers an international network of students, producers and lecturers. The EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards are organized by the International Center for New Media (ICNM) and invite students and young professionals from 40 countries.

Gute Gestaltung DDC

Jährlich gibt es den Wettbewerb GUTE GESTALTUNG. Mit großen und kleinen Namen. Mit leisen und lauten Beispielen. Mit Vorbildhaftem aus allen Gestaltungs-Disziplinen. 
Und dann sporadisch und je nach Bedarf und Chance schafft der DDC zusätzliche Plattformen für die Mitglieder. Wettbewerbe für Projekte, die innerhalb der Reihen des DDC ausgeschrieben werden. Auftraggeber sind bisher DDC Fördermitglieder oder Institutionen aus dem öffentlichen Sektor.

Clio Awards

The CLIO Awards is the world’s most recognized global awards competition for advertising, design, interactive and public relations. For over five decades, the CLIO Awards has maintained its original commitment to celebrate and reward creative excellence, honoring a powerful form of communication and its impact on modern culture. At the same time, the CLIO Awards remains focused on evolving with the industry in order to acknowledge the most current, breakthrough work. CLIO’s iconic statue is the most widely recognized and coveted symbol of the industry’s creative accomplishments.

Epica Awards

Epica's aim is to reward outstanding creativity and help communication agencies, film production companies, media consultancies, photographers and design studios to develop their reputations across Europe and the EMEA region.

The awards are judged by the trade press; 35 specialist magazines from 28 countries will be represented on the jury this year. This unique jury guarantees objectivity and widespread coverage of the results. The best work is also published in the annual Epica Book.

CommClubs Award "Der Pixel"

DER PIXEL - der Kreativaward für die besten digitalen Arbeiten aus allen Bereichen. Der Preis wird an Agenturen und Unternehmen vergeben, die den Mut hatten, sich mit ihrer Idee und deren Umsetzung vom Standard zu lösen. Für die besten Ideen wird der "PIXEL" in Gold, Silber und Bronze vergeben. Der "O2 Grand Prix"-Sonderpreis wird für die innovativste Kampagne verliehen. Die Gewinner in der Shortlist erhalten Urkunden.

Cristal Award

Since its creation in 2001, the Cristal Festival unites theprofessionals of the advertising and creative world: the main agencies, advertisers, producers, directors, Media, market research companies, journalists, TV producers … in a convivial atmosphere for networking and knowledge sharing.

In 10 years, this European Festival has increased its participants and has become the event “not-to-be-missed” for the communications world at the end of the year.

The ambition of the Festival is to promote European advertising creativity and to showcase a variety of work from the industry by means of a diverse range of creative competitions and through the sharing of knowledge.

The competitions in December close the creative year and forecast the trends for the next year. The“Cristal” awards reward the year’s best creations for the different types of media, and are judged by mixed international juries made up of agencies and advertisers.

The Festival is the number one place for networking and knowledge sharing during the Cristal Lab. This is the moment to get a good overview of the latest trends and developments in the industry, and is a meeting place for the biggest European and international specialists through prestigious debates, keynote speakers, conferences and workshops.

Cyber Lions Award

Cannes Lions is where creative professionals come to debate, learn and be inspired; where the greatest industry honours are bestowed; where those pushing creative communications forward are celebrated.

eurobest Award

Eurobest is organised by the same team that is behind the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Dubai Lynx and Spikes Asia.

It has grown from an awards ceremony for Europe's creative advertising industry to a fully-formed, three-day Festival and Awards Show, celebrating and exploring the best communications solutions from across the continent.

Annual Multimedia

Es stellt sich die Bandbreite der Branche im Annual Multimedia Award dem Vergleich. Die namhafte Jury wählt und kommentiert die besten Multimedia-Produktionen des vergangenen Jahres. Die prämierten Arbeiten definieren den State of the Art und markieren Trends. Alle Gewinner werden im „Annual Multimedia – Jahrbuch für digitales Marketing“ präsentiert.

Digital Artist Awards

The Digital Artist Awards is a worldwide competition for anyone with a passion for digital art. It aims to inspire, recognise and reward the highest standards of digital art across a range of genres and categories from concept art, illustration, architectural visualisation and animation to character design and videogame art.

DMMA Onlinestar

Der DMMA OnlineStar und ging aus dem bereits seit 1996 bestehenden Deutschen Multimedia Award (DMMA) und dem seit 2007 verliehenen OnlineStar hervor. Entstanden ist der wichtige Kreativ- und Branchen-Award der digitalen Wirtschaft, der in seiner Historie bisher insgesamt fünfzehn Mal verliehen wurde.

ADC EU Awards

ADC*E is an association of European Creative Clubs. Its aim is to foster and reward creative excellence in European design and advertising, which is why every year we host the ADC*E Awards -Best of European Design and Advertising.

ADC*E is the only Awards scheme in the world to bring all the European award winning work from the national schemes into one competition. 

Up until 2004, the Best of European Design and Advertising Awards were only open to the Gold and Silver winners from each member's national premier Awards scheme. They were closed to non-ADC*E member advertising and design clubs and associations, despite the endless requests we received from around Europe.

iF communication design award

Seit seiner Einführung im Jahr 2004 hat sich der iF communication design award in der Spitzengruppe der wichtigsten nationalen und internationalen Wettbewerbe etabliert. Wer hier ausgezeichnet wird, hat mit außergewöhnlichem Kommunikationsdesign überzeugt.

ADC DE Wettbewerb

Seit 1964 gibt es den Art Directors Club Deutschland e.V. (ADC), der 2012 zum 48. Mal die berühmten goldenen, silbernen und bronzenen Nägel an die herausragendsten Arbeiten der Bereiche Klassische Medien, Digitale Medien, Dialogmarketing/Promotion/Media, Design, Editorial, Räumliche Inszenierung, Craft und Ganzheitliche Kommunikation verleiht. 

ADC NY Annual Awards

The Annual ArtDirectorsClub NY Awards.

Every year since 1920, the ADC Annual Awards competition identifies and honors the best work of the year in visual communications. ADC's first call for entries included just three categories—black and white illustration and design, paintings and drawings in color, and posters of all sizes. Today, there are 220 categories spanning all areas in print and broadcast advertising, interactive media, graphic design, publication design, packaging, photography and illustration. 

Cresta – Creative Standards Awards

The Cresta Awards were launched in 1993 by Creative Standards International, in partnership with the International Advertising Association. Cresta stands for 'Creative Standards'. As the name suggests, the aim of the Cresta Awards is to honor an absolute standard of creative excellence in the international advertising and marketing communications industry.

Internet Advertising Competition

The Web Marketing Association (WMA) helps set a high standard for Internet marketing and corporate web development on the World Wide Web. Staffed by volunteers, this organization is made up of Internet marketing, advertising, PR and design professionals who share an interest for improving the quality of advertising, marketing and promotion used to attract visitors to corporate Web sites.

In 1999, the Web Marketing Association decided to create a new award program to recognize outstanding online advertising in all of its various forms. While many advertising award shows had a category for online, no program was dedicated to it.

New Media Age Effectiveness Awards

The Awards promote the quality of new media usage in the UK, emphasising effectiveness to allow smaller companies to compete on an equal footing with larger ones. They provide a benchmark of excellence for the industry to learn from and build upon, emphasising the importance of usability and accessibility in building an effective online presence. And they demonstrate the power of interactive media to the wider business world. 

Annual Design Award

The Annual Design Awards (nicknamed ANNDAS) is a global recognition of cutting edge visual communications, set up to reward outstanding contributions within the Design industry. We have brought together some of the most amazing talents and respected figures from around the world to judge this global event which aims to become the premier design awards and set international standards.

Drum Marketing Awards

The Drum Marketing Awards are designed to reward and celebrate in-house marketing teams and marketing agencies that are excelling and producing excellent marketing strategies.

Each year the event pulls together a panel of stellar judges, consisting of top marketing directors from big brands and in the past this has included; Burger King and ebay

Transform Awards

The Transform Awards is the UK's leading awards programme to recognise, benchmark and celebrate excellence in brand transformation. The awards provide an opportunity for all staff, at companies and agencies alike, to see their efforts recognised and to celebrate excellence in rebranding.

Lead Award

Das Beste aus Zeitschriften und Internet.

Bis heute nominieren ausschließlich Gremien der LeadAcademy – eine Bewerbung ist nicht möglich. Der Preis wird neben anderen Firmen hauptsächlich von den Unternehmen Spiegel, Hugo Boss, Google und EnBW gesponsert und von der Hansestadt Hamburg gefördert.