Connect, share challenges and develop new relationships with key industry budget holders and decision makers in global media from advertisers and agencies.
Partnering with Festival of Media provides access to this hard-to-reach audience in intimate or large settings. There are four key opportunities:
There is an opportunity around each of the Festival of Media Awards programmes to take out between 6-10 jurors for a relaxed dinner after a day of judging.
The partner has the opportunity to bring up to three of its team to sit amongst the jurors and get to know them and their business needs in a relaxed environment.
Festival of Media chooses a venue and invites the guests and connects the partner to the audience post event.
Cost £12,000 – £15,000
This is an opportunity for a partner to provide a space for the juries made up primarily of brands/advertisers.
The partner gets the opportunity to showcase their space and business to influential media figures.
They also have the opportunity to nominate a potential jury member – must be approved by Festival of Media – to be part of one of the judging sessions.
Cost – breakfast, lunch, refreshments and drinks.
In partnership with Festival of Media curate an educational session to take place before the awards ceremony starts.
It’s an opportunity for the partner to provide insight around industry knowledge gaps identified by the FOM team.
The partner and FOM to curate the session.
Cost – £5,000.
This is an opportunity to partner with Festival of Media to curate a bespoke category for one or more of the awards programmes.
The partner has will be interviewed about the category’s topic for a thought leadership piece to be distributed to Festival of Media’s Global audience. The partner will also get to present the category winner with their trophy at the ceremony and have pre, during and post branding on all marketing for the category.
The partner will encourage its clients and the wider industry to enter into the category.
Cost – Partner to use its marketing platforms and audience to promote the category.
This is an opportunity for a partner looking to connect with brands and agencies to provide the lunch for our jurors during the lunch break of judging.
The partner can furnish the juries with insights or research around the subject of a particular category or potentially offer energy packs for the jurors to help guide them through the afternoon of judging.
The partner can bring three to four of their team to connect and eat with the jury.
Cost – £5,000 plus the cost of the food
An opportunity for a partner to provide jurors with drinks post-judging. The partner can bring three to four members of its team to connect with the judges in a relaxed environment after a day of adjudicating.
It’s an opportunity to build and develop new and existing contacts in the industry. Judges are more than happy to unwind, discuss the work they have just reviewed and also the challenges they face in their daily roles after the judging.
Cost – £5,000
The partner has the opportunity to showcase its event space, facilities and hospitality to the most influential people in the media sector.
They also have the opportunity to nominate a potential jury member – must be approved by Festival of Media – to be part of one of the judging sessions.
Cost – venue space and food and drink.
Being part of the jury was a truly inspiring and eye-opening experience — it offered me a front-row seat to creative excellence from around the world and meaningful insights from industry leaders on what truly makes great work stand out. I had the opportunity to share from my years of experience but also learn from the submissions and my fellow jury panel.
It has been one of the most important moments in my career, when I could effectively contribute to judging and learning from amazing case studies from around the world. It is an awe-inspiring experience we get to live at the M&M Global Awards 2025 which lets us see how much the exchange and sharing could reshape our marketing approach, focused on a worldwide customer-centric basis.
Team up with Festival of Media to gain access to influential and senior brand and/or agency media people in an informal and relaxed environment, which will help develop key contacts and an understanding of their key working challenges.
It’s an opportunity to showcase a business to the key decision makers in media and help influencer their thinking when it comes to media planning and implementation.