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celebrate the 2025 winners
New York Festivals salutes the 2025 Winners. Here’s a behind the scenes look at our Executive Jury judging sessions, the Grand Award winners, the Best of Show and our Industry Award winners!
Every year, the New York Festivals Special Industry Awards honor companies whose multi-award winning campaigns demonstrated innovation and creativity. This honor is the ultimate recognition: celebrating the holding companies, networks, and agencies whose cutting edge work inspired and engaged consumers AND fostered brand affinity.
The 2025 Industry Award recipients are determined by the number of top-scoring entries that earned trophies within the competitions based on scores determined by the New York Festivals 2025 Executive Jury.
NYF CRISTAL VILLAGE AWARD
New York Festivals, in partnership with the African Cristal Festival, is proud to present the NYF Cristal Village Award.
This award celebrates creative brand and experience work that educates for good, recognizing campaigns and initiatives across any channel - with broad appeal, purpose, and driving cultural synergy and understanding.
To qualify for this award, work must embody a strong sense of purpose, inspire new thinking, or deeper understanding, change attitudes and behaviors - for social good. The award focuses on entries that bridge cultures and deliver messages with wide-reaching, positive impact.
Examples of eligible work include, but are not limited to, campaigns delivering: human & community-driven brand activation, new product and service launches and activation - with a strong social focus, climate and sustainability change, mental, physical health & wellness impact, disease awareness, animal welfare, and human rights.
Entry fees for submissions in this category will go towards sponsoring Pan-African young creatives to attend the African Cristal Festival, planned to take place in Casablanca, Morocco in September 2025. Both NYF and The African Cristal Festival hope that such an experience for young talent will change and inspire lives.
2025 EXECUTIVE JURY PRESIDENt
New York Festivals Advertising Awards® proudly announces the return of Javier Campopiano, Global Chief Creative Officer of McCann Worldgroup and McCann, as the industry trailblazer leading the 2025 Executive Jury.
In the latest episode of Creativity From the Other Side, Javier dives into some of the hottest topics in the industry. From his take on the monumental Omnicom-IPG merger to the evolving role of storytelling in gaming and the importance of “truth well told” in modern advertising, this conversation is packed with insights you can’t afford to miss.Javier, the Global Chief Creative Officer of McCann and McCann Worldgroup, also reflects on curating last year’s groundbreaking jury experience and shares what he’s most excited about for 2025.With industry-shaping perspectives and candid advice, this episode is a masterclass in creativity and leadership.
We’re thrilled to release a fantastic and insightful episode of Creativity From The Other Side between Javier and David Sable, Vice Chair of Stagwell. Together they discuss the power of brands today, Javi’s career and iconic campaigns, “tapping into all of the flavors of creativity” and, of course, his thoughts on leading this year’s jury of legends and future legends who will be judging your work. Don’t miss this masterclass discussion!
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