Categories for 2025 awards
Winning an award at the Creative Circle is not first past the post, it is a standard. In any category there can be multiple winners or none.
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Categories include:
- Audio
- Company
- Design & craft
- Event & experience
- Film
- Film craft - animation
- Film craft - general
- Film craft - visual effects & colour grading
- Gaming
- General
- Music video
- New talent
- Online/digital & direct
- Packaging
- Photography & illustration
- PR & social
- Press & outdoor
- Short film
All Gold, Silver & Bronze winners are eligible to enter the ADC*European awards.
Company Award results are established by the success across all other categories.
All categories accept both Single and Campaign entries unless noted otherwise.
A Campaign is two or more executions.
Download the full 2025 award categories, descriptions and all the information you need to submit an entry here: