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The Golden Drum Festival calls for entries. Works aired, published, or publicly released for the first time between 22 August 2024 and 22 August 2025, are eligible to compete for the prestigious Golden Drum awards.

Agencies, advertisers, media companies and creatives from 42 countries are invited to submit their best work by 22 August 2025, across six sections: One-Channel Drum, Omni-Channel Drum, Craft Drum, Creative Media Excellence Drum, Creative Business Excellence Drum and a special All Juries Section. The main competition’s only group open to entries from around the world is the ‘Game Changer’, a special group designed for campaigns that break away from traditional advertising approaches.

Golden Drum will again celebrate crème de la crème of the advertising industry in October in Portorož. The festival’s new visual identity, “Eye.Sea.You.” embodies creativity’s essence—seeing beyond the ordinary and connecting ideas in unexpected ways. We believe that showcasing your best work at Golden Drum, will not only capture the creative industry’s attention but also inspire, influence, and shape the future trends together.

Key Competition Information:

• Deadline for Entry Submission: 22 August 2025 at 23:59 CET
• Deadline for Super Early Bird Entry Fee: 25 April 2025
• Deadline for Early Bird Entry Fee: 27 June 2025
• Golden Drum Shortlists Announced: 30 September 2025 at 08:00 CET
• Golden Drum Awards Show: 14 October 2025

-> Submit your work! 

Join us from 13 to 14 October 2025 in Portorož, Slovenia and seize this golden opportunity to gain the well-deserved recognition and celebrate with the best!

Der CCA-Venus-Award ist die Qualifikation für die ADCE-Awards: Gold-, Silber-, Bronze-, Shortlistarbeiten können beim ADCE eingereicht werden.

Einreichdeadline: 26. September 2025

ADCE-Awards-Gala: 21. November 2025 in Barcelona

UNLEASH YOUR CREATIVITY
at Forward Festival Vienna

Forward 2025: New Highlights, More Creativity, and Networking in Berlin and Vienna

The Forward Festival, the established annual gathering of the creative industry, will take place exclusively in Berlin and Vienna in 2025.

After a season with four stops across Europe, Forward is now focusing on the capitals of Germany and Austria with a tailored program and deeper integration into the local creative scenes. With an impressive lineup of over 80 speakers from fields such as AI, digital art, graphic design, photography, and more, the 2025 edition will once again unite creatives from around the world at the HKW in Berlin and the Gartenbaukino in Vienna.

SPEAKERS: BRÁULIO AMADO | KELLY ANNA | SARAH BORIS | ANTHONY BURRILL |DAILY DIALOGUE | DEVEROE | LUCY HARDCASTLE | HELLOME STUDIO | ALICE ISAAC | PORTO ROCHA | PUBLIC POSSESSION | FLORIANE ROUSSELOT | FAN SHI | SNASK | STEPHANIE SPECHT | STUDIO HERRSTRÖM | STUDIO RANDOM | WIEDEN+KENNEDY AMSTERDAM // ZEYNEP ORBAY | AND MANY MORE TBA! FESTIVAL EXPERIENCE: TALKS | EXPO AREA | EXHIBITIONS | SIDE-EVENTS | AFTER PARTIES

CITIES: 28.+29.08.2025 BERLIN @ HKW and 02.+03.10.2025 VIENNA @ Gartenbaukino

10% Discount for CCA members

-> Forward Festival Tickets