Adweek Award Lists
The Hot List
Adweek’s The Hot List honors the best in TV, media and digital and tech. The list evolves each year to recognize new media trends and this year is no different.
B2B Innovations Awards
Adweek’s B2B Innovation Awards has multiple categories recognizing the organizations and people devoted to bringing new ideas to life in the world of B2B advertising and marketing.
Media All-Stars
Adweek’s Media All-Stars Awards honors the individuals who represent the best, brightest and most strategic thinking across the media business. Each year, Adweek honors these individuals and their impact on the industry.
Media Agency of the Year
Adweek’s Media Agency of the Year recognizes Breakthrough, Global, and U.S. Agencies whose excellence positively disrupts the media industry. These trailblazing agencies pave the way for the next generation of greatness in the media.
Audio Awards
Adweek Audio Awards celebrate the best of the best, especially among shows aimed at professional audiences by recognizing the hard work, innovation, and creativity going into the podcasting medium.
Fastest Growing Agencies
Adweek’s Fastest Growing Agencies list honors agencies who have achieved significant growth over the past three years. It also recognizes agencies from all over the world, no matter their size, whose industry presence is on the rise.
Agency of the Year
Adweek’s Agency of the Year honors the advertising agencies that are setting the standard for where the industry is heading into 2024. Adweek values creativity, business results and, ultimately, how agencies treat their people because it’s the people who drive the business forward.
Media Plan of the Year
Media Plan of the Year celebrates the year’s most creative media plans and executions from around the globe, these winning strategies helped brands reach new markets. In an omnichannel world where anything can be an ad, the best media plans use this to their advantage to cut through the clutter and leave a lasting impression on consumers.
Marketing Vanguard
Marketing Vanguard honors the leaders, advocates, and growth drivers of marketing agencies. Through their work, they are demonstrating the standard of effective marketing leadership and paving the way for the next generation of marketing leaders.
Creative 100
Adweek’s Creative 100 celebrates the most innovative and visionary talent across advertising, marketing, social media, TV and streaming, visual art, literature, filmmaking and more. These figures are helping to shape culture while breaking new ground in their fields.
AI Awards
Adweek announced its first annual AI Awards, honoring the pioneers of the media and marketing industry who are revolutionizing creativity and workflow with the power of generative AI.
Adweek 50
Adweek 50 spotlights the behind-the-scenes luminaries in advertising, marketing, media, and technology who were essential growth drivers in 2023. It’s about honoring the leaders who keep the operation running efficiently and profitably, and who put innovation and team culture at the fore.
Creator Visionary Awards
Adweek’s Creator Visionary Awards honors the innovative minds that have not only entertained us, but wholly shifted our approach to marketing, media, and connection. With an aim to carve out a differentiated space for themselves and their community of supporters, creators are often born of the very disruption that seasoned industry professionals strive for.
Champions of Change
Adweek’s Champions of Change Awards highlights the most powerful women in sports franchise. This years’ list awards the women and non-binary people making a difference in the worlds of sports and sports marketing, from players in the (literal) field to executives working behind the scenes to bring you the sports you love.
Experiential Awards
Adweek’s Experiential Awards honors the finest in experiential brand marketing by celebrating the creativity, originality, and entrepreneurialism coming out of this rapidly growing sector of the brand marketing ecosystem. Experiential activation continues to attract the biggest producers, executives and talent in the business who are deploying increasingly ambitious, and effective, brand campaigns.
