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Examples of the best entries from The WARC Awards, highlighting a campaign from Vanish by Havas

The WARC Awards 2025

Strategic brilliance, effective impact

The WARC Awards

The WARC Awards seek campaigns that show the world how strategic thinking leads to effective impact for brands and business. The 2025 shortlists were announced on 8 April and bronze, silver and gold winners for each region will be revealed from 29 April. Global Grand Prix judging is now underway, with winners to follow on 13 May.

in association with LIONS

How the Awards work

Stage 1

Enter in your region and compete for Bronze, Silver and Gold

Stage 2

All regional Gold winners are elevated to the global championship

Stage 3

Global Grand Prix winners are chosen by the super jury

Key dates

11 December 2024

Final deadline

Week commencing 8 April 2025

Shortlists announced

Week commencing 28 April 2025

Regional winners announced

Week commencing 12 May 2025

Global Grands Prix announced

How the entry process works

Step 1: Get the entry pack

Download the Entry Pack which contains all the information you need to enter the Awards – from details on categories and what judges are looking for, to an entry template and full rules for entering.

Step 2: Submit your entry

When you are ready to upload your entry, click on Enter the Awards. You'll be taken through to the LIONS awards portal where you can register and upload your entry, as well as submit supporting images and video content.

Entry fees:

Enter on or before 16 October: €555

Enter from 17 October to 13 November: €832.50

Enter from 14 November to 11 December: €1,110

2025 Global Jury Chairs

Top tips, killer charts and webinars

Learn from the 2024 Grand Prix winners

The Effectiveness Show - part one

Amy Rodgers (Head of Content, WARC Creative) and John Bizzell (WARC Awards Lead) reveal the SIX MOST EFFECTIVE campaigns of 2024

The Effectiveness Show - part two

John Bizzell (WARC Awards Lead) hears from the 2024 Grand Prix winners in Cannes about WHAT WINNING MEANS to them

The Creative Effectiveness Ladder, with ascending steps, linked by increasing commercial impact: 1 Influential Idea. 2 Behaviour breakthrough. 3 Sales spike. 4 Brand builder. 5 Commercial triumph. 6 Enduring icon

Learn from The Creative Effectiveness Ladder

This unique tool offers a new shared language of effectiveness for the marketing industry.

Each entry will be benchmarked against the WARC/LIONS Creative Effectiveness Ladder (and the B2B Effectiveness Ladder in the B2B category).

The Ladder ensures the awards are judged against a consistent and rigorous framework every year.

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Our commitment to sustainability

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Our commitment to diversity, equality and inclusion

Any questions?

For general enquiries, please email: warcawards@warc.com

To set up a call with the WARC Awards expert, please email: john.bizzell@warc.com

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John Bizzell Awards Lead

john.bizzell@warc.com