The Indie Awards are the only large scale international awards designed exclusively for independent agencies of all communications disciplines and judged by independent agencies. This is your chance to benchmark your work against the very best in the independent sector.
From their creation, the Indie Awards have aimed to raise the profile of the independent agency sector by recognising talent and rewarding achievement. Prizes are presented for excellence, not agency size. No bias, no politics, just the best work produced by indie's
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We are honoured to welcome a guest speaker to our ceremony, Heide Cohu, Founder of The Studio of Art & Commerce.
Heide will address why agency leaders need to be brave in 2025: thinking about how they build the best team around them; how to better understand client needs; and why she thinks independence is now a super power for agencies working with mega brands. Heide's background includes eight years spent working at Red Bull as Global Brand Communications and Media Director leading on projects such as Felix Baumgartner's supersonic free fall from the edge of space in 2012. She also spent three years at Bacardi as Global Brand Communications and Creative Director, before striking out on her own to build her own successful experiential agency.
early bird deadline
judging starts
winners announced
entries open
entries close
shortlist announced
13th September 2024
4th October
2024
4th December 2024
11th November 2024
22nd January
2025
7th November 2024
The Indie Awards are simple and easy to enter. Here are the previous categories for 2025:
Best in show: this award will be selected from all of the winners of all the creative categories and will be judged by a panel of the lead jurors on each of those categories. This is not an entry category.
Best in world: this award will be selected from all of the winners of all the regional categories plus entries from some sister award programmes from across the world, it will be judged by a panel of the lead jurors on each of those categories. This is not an entry category.
Each entry costs £450 GBP during the late bird period. Members of thenetworkone are entitled to one free entry. If you have not received your entry code via email. Please reach out to your contact at thenetworkone.
OUR 2025 JUDGES
Some of our Indie Award 2023/24 Winners
The Indie Awards are unique- each entrant receives personalised feedback on how their entries were scored by the jury, against each criteria. You will find out how your work was scored for insight and strategy, creativity, execution and results, relative to the average in each category, so that you can truly benchmark your work.
"Extremely valuable feedback to receive, and share with the teams who helped create the work!"
– Nelson Schmidt, USA
Sponsorship
If you would like know more about becoming a sponsor of
The Indie Awards, contact helen.anderson@thenetworkone.com