Annual Awards 2025 Advertising Shortlist

For the first time this year, we are releasing shortlists for our Annual Awards, which demonstrate the exciting breadth of creativity and design today. Here you can see all the work that featured in the final jury discussion for the Advertising section

Creative Review’s Annual Awards have been championing the very best of commercial creativity and design for the past 22 years. We aim to celebrate the role that creativity and design plays in building successful brands and businesses and offer an opportunity to recognise your achievements, praise your team, inspire your colleagues and impress your clients.

For the first time this year, we are showcasing the work that has been shortlisted in the awards for everyone to see. Our judging follows a two-stage process: online judging followed by a panel discussion via video. The work that is featured below is everything that appeared in the online discussion for the Advertising section.

The Annual Awards are different to other awards schemes in that we only have two types of awards: Winner and Grand Prix. This is so our winners showcase celebrates only the very best work of the year. All the final winners will be announced online and in the Summer issue of our print magazine on May 8. Who would you pick?

ADVERTISING SHORTLIST

Entrant: AMVBBDO; Essity Bodyform, Never Just A Period (Shortlisted in Commercials)

Entrant: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire with +61; Telstra, Together is for Christmas (Shortlisted in Commercials)

Entrant: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire with +61; Telstra, Better On A Better Mobile Network (Shortlisted in Commercials)

Entrant: Bear Meets Eagle On Fire; Rollin’, Smooth (Shortlisted in Commercials)

Entrant: Mother; KFC, Believe (Shortlisted in Commercials and Integrated Campaigns)

Entrant: Mother; FIGS, Anatomy of a Champion (Shortlisted in Commercials)

Entrant: Park Village; The Woolmark Company, Wear Wool, Not Waste (Shortlisted in Commercials)

Entrant: Uncommon Creative Studio; SiriusXM, A Life in Sound (Shortlisted in Commercials)

Entrant: Uncommon Creative Studio; Monzo, Money Never Felt Like Monzo (Shortlisted in Commercials; OOH)

Money Never Felt Like Monzo Uncommon

Entrant: 4creative; Channel 4, Paris 2024 Paralympic Games – Considering What? (Shortlisted in Integrated Campaigns and OOH)

Paralympic Games 4creative

Entrant: 4creative; Channel 4, Generation Z – You’re on the Menu (Shortlisted in Integrated Campaigns)

Generation Z Channel 4 campaign

Entrant: Alphabetical; Audible, Audible 1984 (Shortlisted in Integrated Campaigns)

Audible 1984

Entrant: Mother; Uber, Your Nearest Driver (Shortlisted in Integrated Campaigns)

Entrant: VCCP; Cadbury Mondelēz, Yours for 200 Years (Shortlisted in Integrated Campaigns)

Cadbury's 200 Years campaign

Entrant: BBH; Burger King, Bundles of Joy (Shortlisted in OOH)

Burger King BBH Bundles of Joy

Entrant: BBH; Tesco, Icons (Shortlisted in OOH)

Tesco Icons

Entrant: Saatchi & Saatchi; British Heart Foundation, ‘Til I Died (Shortlisted in OOH)

British Heart Foundation Til I Died

Entrant: Uncommon Creative Studio; SiriusXM, Closer (Shortlisted in OOH)

SiriusX Closer Uncommon

Entrant: Uncommon Creative Studio; B&Q, You Can Do It (Shortlisted in OOH)

B&Q You Can Do It Uncommon

Entrant: Uncommon Creative Studio; British Airways, Windows (Shortlisted in OOH)

British Airways WIndows Uncommon

Entrant: Uncommon Creative Studio; Hiscox, The Most Disastrous Campaign Ever (Shortlisted in OOH)

Hiscox Most Disastrous Campaign Ever Uncommon

Entrant: Mother; Ikea, Mattresses (Shortlisted in Social)

Ikea Mattresses ad

Entrant: The Romans; Lidl x Nik Bentelm, The Croissant Bag (Shortlisted in Social and PR)

@lidlgb

It’s here. The limited-edition Croissant Handbag made in collaboration with @Nikolas Bentel ???? Launching on Thursday August 29th at 10AM ET (3PM BST)

♬ Storytelling – Adriel

Entrant: Wieden+Kennedy London; Heinz, Every Sauce (Shortlisted in Social, PR and Direct Marketing)

Heinz Every Sauce Wieden+Kennedy

Entrant: Mother; Ikea, The Co-Worker (Shortlisted in PR)

Entrant: Wieden+Kennedy London; Malibu, Pernod Ricard, Don’t Drink and Dive (Shortlisted in PR and Integrated Campaigns)

Entrant: BBC Creative; BBC, Vote Stamp (Shortlisted in Direct Marketing)

BBC Voting Stamp campaign

Entrant: BBC Creative; BBC, Planet Earth III – Narrated By Kids (Shortlisted in In-house Campaigns)

Entrant: BBC Studios Marketing; BBC, Dance With Bluey (Shortlisted in In-house Campaigns)

Please note: The categories in each section are only a guide for entries, there will not be winners in every one. In turn, there may also be multiple winners in a category: our aim overall with the awards is to simply honour the best work of the year chosen by our judges.