ADWEEK Marketing Vanguard Awards 2026: Submissions Now Open

The business’s prime CMOs make the most of their visibility and voice to drive their enterprise, proving themselves indispensable to their CEOs, colleagues, groups, and boards. Via creativity, charisma, and unrelenting work ethic, these chief entrepreneurs are setting the usual of efficient management and paving the best way for the subsequent era. They’re the Advertising Vanguard, and we’re proud to announce, as a part of ADWEEK’s general Advertising Vanguard program, the fourth annual Advertising Vanguard Awards. We will even be honoring CEOs who graduated from CMO roles—chief executives who perceive, assist, and drive the advertising agenda at their firms—having had that remit beforehand of their careers.In Could, we are going to reveal and honor 15 advertising leaders on the Advertising Vanguard Summit in Chicago, who show that they persistently do the next:  Advocate for the advertising follow.  Place advertising as a progress driver within the group.  Use their visibility and voice to develop the enterprise. Can quantify the worth of promoting within the group.  Every nominee should additionally submit the identify of a so-called subsequent chief on their workforce to be featured within the remaining record alongside them—somebody who’s the CMO’s right-hand individual, their ride-or-die, or their vital collaborator. Please observe that entries won’t be thought-about with out this. There is no such thing as a entry price and the deadline to submit is Friday, February 13, 2026. Please use the nomination kind beneath to submit your entry and call awards@adweek.com you probably have any questions or wish to request a remaining extension.