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Festival of Media APAC Awards launches three new categories and a Grand Prix accolade for Advertiser of the Year for its 2026 programme. 

The three new categories are Best Publishing Band, which is open to media owners only, Best Seach Campaign and Best Use of AI have been created this year to provide a platform for the media work being produced across the APAC region.  

For the first time in its 16-year history Festival of Media APAC Awards is a adding an Advertiser/Brand of the Year Grand Prix to proceedings and this will celebrate the advertiser with the most shortlisted entries and trophy wins across the programme based on the points system employed for the other Grand Prix awards.  

Last year’s winners set an impressive benchmark with Mindshare securing an incredible three Grand Prix titles, Agency of the Year – Mindshare India for the third consecutive year – Agency Network of the Year and Campaign of the Year with Dove Beauty Test Stops With Me by Mindshare India. 

“We’ve listened to the industry once again and created three new categories in response to these and curated a team of influential brands and agencies from the region to adjudicate over the work and set the benchmarks for media in APAC. We’ve also launched a new entry handbook, which provides key information on how to enter and most importantly to craft submissions,” said Leah Mellard, Awards Director at Festival of Media 

Festival of Media also offers workshops designed to help company’s looking for help and information on how to submit their work and what categories to enter into.  

For any questions relating to marketing, please contact- izzy.branson-hammond@festivalofmedia.com 

Entries are officially open. Enter now to get ahead of the competition: https://www.festivalofmedia.com/asia-pacific-media-awards/ 

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