celebrate the 2025 winners

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New York Festivals salutes 2025’s 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.


celebrate the
2024 winners

New York Festivals salutes 2024’s winners. Here’s a behind the scenes look at the Grand Prize winners, our Executive Jury judging sessions and a special message from Mercado McCann our Best of Show winner!

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 2024 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 2024 Executive Jury.

what winning work looks like

BEST OF SHOW

Wolf BKK Thailand “The Air Drummer” for Robinsons Department Store    

GRAND AWARD WINNERS

ACTIVATION & ENGAGEMENT: DDB Chicago USA “Apologize the Rainbow” for Skittles
AVANT-GARDE/INNOVATIVE:
DDB MEXICO SA DE CV “Data Tienda” for Gahr WeCapital
COLLABORATIONS & PARTNERSHIPS:
Saatchi & Saatchi Düsseldorf Germany “Oreo Cheat Cookies” Mondelēz Europe/Oreo
COMMERCE AND CREATIVITY:
VMLY&R Commerce USA “Oreocodes” for Oreo
DESIGN:
FCB Lisboa “Portuguese (Re)Constitution” for Penguin Books
DIGITAL/MOBILE:
DDB MEXICO SA DE CV “Data Tienda” for Gahr WeCapital
DIRECT:
DDB MEXICO SA DE CV “Data Tienda” for Gahr WeCapital
FILM: Wolf BKK Thailand “The Air Drummer” for Robinsons Department Store
FILM CRAFT: BBDO Group Germany GmbH “The Glitch” for Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.V.
PACKAGE & PRODUCT DESIGN: TBWA HAKUHODO Japan “SHELLMET” for Koushi Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
PRINT: AfriSam + BlackStudio South Africa “Plan (a)” for Promise

See all of the amazing winning work in our Winners Gallery.

2023 INDUSTRY AWARDS