“For seven decades, agencies, brands, creatives, production companies, and innovators from around the world have entered their best work to New York Festivals. Their work has become part of our collective creative history. If you believe that the work your and your teams are creating today deserves to be seen, debated, celebrated, and remembered, I hope you will participate in the 2027 New York Festivals Advertising Awards.”
Ellen Smyth
CEO of New York Festivals
Small Agencies get a bigger stage.
New for 2027. Agencies with fewer than 50 employees now have their own dedicated category group, along with discounted entry pricing across the general competition, making it easier for independent creative firepower to go head-to-head with the world’s biggest agencies.
Get those case studies ready for the concrete jungle.
New York Festivals proudly celebrates the winners of the 2026 Advertising Awards.
Hear directly from members of our Executive Jury as they share their perspectives on the ideas, innovation, craft, and creative courage that defined this year’s winning work. Explore the campaigns that earned Grand Awards, discover the 2026 Best of Show winner, and experience the work that set the standard for excellence through the NY Lens.
2026 DEFINING WORK
Sheep happens - PENNY - SAINT ELMO'S GERMANY / charles & charlotte - GERMANY
“When 50 Sheep accidentally walked into a PENNY supermarket and created chaos, your first thought might be …Sh*t… What am I going to do with that? Don’t talk about it all or make one post and forget about it?
Instead, we had clients who have had the courage to turn this unexpected incident into the fastest at the same time most extensive activation campaign PENNY has ever launched.”
—Matthias Harbeck, Chief Creative Officer and Partner at Saint Elmo’s Germany
No Project without Drama - HORNBACh - film Craft + Film - heimattbwa - GERMANY
“Winning a double Grand Prix besides 9 Golds is a wonderful thing. Being named Agency of the Year is something else entirely. Because it celebrates the people and all their decisions that made our winning work possible.”
—Guido Heffels, Chief Creative for HORNBACH, Founder at HEIMAT Berlin
Beat Cancer Off - fuck cancer - PURPOSE - VML New York - USA
Get Almost Almost Anything - uber eats - NYFIN FUNNY -special US - USA
RADIO TIME MACHINE - NICHII GAKKAN CO., LTD - FUTURE NOW tbwa hakuhodo - JAPAN
Boysen Color Stories - boysen - SOCIAL MEDIA & INFLUENCER TBWAISMP - PHILIPPINES
Bedtime Donations Children - royal society for blind children - DIGITAL/MOBILE - INNOCEAN berlin - GERMANY
Never become a former new yorker - streeteasy - baked in new york - Mother - usa
McDelivery® Speed Camera Ads - OUTDOOR - Scholz & Friends Berlin - GERMANY
The Kitkat Heist - KitKat - PUBLIC RELATIONS - Burson & VML London - UNITED KINGDOM
2026 industry awards
