ADWEEK 2026 Creative 100 Now Open for Nominations

Again for its twelfth 12 months, the ADWEEK Inventive 100 is now open for submissions. This famend record highlights the highest inventive minds within the advertising and marketing, promoting, media and leisure industries, spanning trade expertise to celebrities. Previous winners embody Jon Chu, Vince Staples, and Zendaya. The Inventive 100 will honor people who’ve formed tradition over the previous 12 months by their inventive work throughout promoting, model advertising and marketing, social media, TV and streaming, filmmaking, visible artwork, and extra. This 12 months’s classes embody: Company Inventive Leaders: ECDs, CCOs, founders and so on. Rising Company Inventive Expertise: copywriters, designers, ACDs, CDs, and so on.Model Innovators: People overseeing and innovating a model’s inventive output.Media, TV, and Streaming Innovators: People driving creativity or making visionary work at media, TV, and streaming corporations, corresponding to TV creators, podcasters, e-newsletter founders, and so on.Administrators: Filmmakers who’ve additionally directed advertisements or work for manufacturers. Celebrities and Creators: Those that are difficult norms or influencing tradition in groundbreaking methods. Visible Artists: Animators, designers, photographers, or different visible artists which have performed work on behalf of manufacturers.You’ll be able to nominate a possible honoree utilizing the shape beneath and linked right here. You should definitely examine that your nominee wasn’t beforehand acknowledged, as a result of the Inventive 100 doesn’t repeat winners. Try final 12 months’s winners right here.The ultimate deadline to submit is Friday, February 13, 2026. If in case you have any questions, please attain out to awards@adweek.com.