Adweek Award Lists
Brand Genius
For nearly four decades, ADWEEK has been recognizing the brightest minds in branding and marketing with our highest honor, the Brand Genius award.
Media Plan of the Year
Media Plan of the Year recognizes honorees across 27 categories, ranging from Best Use of AI to Best Use of Streaming Media. Whether it was a campaign to counter an auto sales slump, build cross-generational love for a brand, or promote inclusiveness in the workplace, these media plans showed impressive results.
Agency All-Stars
Adweek’s Agency All-Stars Awards is celebrating agency leaders who not only excel within their own organizations but also drive the industry forward.
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.
Audio Awards
Adweek Audio Awards celebrate the most exceptional podcasts and podcast professionals across a diverse range of categories. These awards recognize the very best, especially those targeting professional audiences.
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.
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 honors the individuals who represent the best, brightest and most strategic thinking across the media business with the Media All-Stars awards. Each year, the most innovative media and brand marketing professionals are given the title of Media All-Stars.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
