MARKETING AWARDS

Entries now open for the annual African Marketing Confederation Awards

By our African Marketing Confederation News Team | 2025

AMC’s glittering annual awards event honours marketing excellence and the campaigns and that are shaping the continent’s marketing future.

Whether your organisation, agency, or public body delivered a powerful marketing campaign this year – or you witnessed a campaign that moved the needle and made a mark – now’s the time to enter it for recognition.

A scene from last year’s AMC Awards event in Mombasa

From destination marketing to social impact, data-driven brilliance to culturally rooted storytelling – the African Marketing Confederation’s annual awards honour marketing excellence and the campaigns that are shaping the continent’s marketing future.

This year, the winners will be honoured in Ghana, where the continent’s brightest marketing minds unite for the 2025 AMC Conference, being held under the auspices of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Ghana (CIMG) at the Labadi Beach Hotel in Accra from 20-22 August.

The AMC Awards Platform is now open and receiving nominations. It remains open for entries and nominations until midnight on Sunday, 3 August. Eligible entries must represent work executed in 2024 or 2025.

This year’s winners will be crowned at the AMC Conference Awards Gala on Friday. 22 August. In keeping with tradition, it will be a glittering event that formally closes the conference proceedings and lauds the year’s top marketing achievers from across the continent.

The 2025 award categories are:

Tourism & Destination Marketing Campaign of the Year.

Best Social Media Campaign of the Year.

Most Effective Campaign of the Year.

Best Use of Local Insights.

Best Cause-Related Campaign.

Not-for-Profit/Public Sector Campaign of the Year.

Brand of the Year.

Campaign of the Year.

To enter the awards – or to find out more about the categories, requirements and procedures – visit the awards portal here.

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