The 2025 AYA Inclusion Award Is Open!

Deadline April 16th, 2025

The AYA Inclusion Award

 The AYA Inclusion Awards – a creative recognition of profound distinction, aiming to transform the advertising, marketing and communications industries – spaces that control how we view the human condition and each other. The award is a symbol of why inclusion is good for the world and good for business. The idea is that to have world-bending ideas you must include the world.

2024 Winners

GOLD Winner

Campaign: Translators

Client: USBank

Agency: McCann

SILVER Winner

Campaign: Princess And The Crown

Client: Sunsilk

Agency: Soko

BRONZE Winner

Campaign: The Banned Book Club

Client: Dig Pub Lib

Agency: FCB

The AYA Inclusion Award celebrates culture-shifting creativity in the areas of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, religion, disability, neuro, age and body diversity:

  • Entries will need to demonstrate ideas intended to reshape the world; work that sets out to positively impact ingrained inequality, imbalance, or injustice, and should illustrate how the work tackles, highlights or redresses issues of diverse representation and/or shatters stereotypes or stigmas. 

  • Ensuring the team that created the spot is also inclusive will be important.

  • The same piece of work can only be entered once for the AYA Inclusion Award.

  • Entries for the AYA can be for any commercial or non-commercial company/client, regardless of the product or service or the medium of communication.

  • The AYA Inclusion Awards is an important acknowledgment that recognizes the power of creativity to reshape the world. By celebrating work that promotes diversity and inclusion, the AYA helps to make the world a more just and equitable place. After all, the world never looks the same once creativity gets a hold of it. 

For example, an AYA Inclusion Award-winning entry could:

  • Challenge stereotypes about a particular group of people.

  • Promote inclusion and understanding of people with disabilities.

  • Highlight the contributions of people of color to society.

  • Raise awareness of the challenges faced by neurodivergent people.

  • Show the positive impact of older adults in the workforce and on society.

  • The possibilities to change the industry narrative are infinite.

To qualify for the AYA Inclusion Award all entries must be submitted using this application and include the following:

  • In the spirt of equality all entries are free. Submitted work must have been active between May 2024 and April 2025. If the submitted work ran before the start of the Eligibility Period then a minimum of 50% of the implementation must have ran within the Eligibility Period to remain eligible for the AYA Inclusion Awards.

  • Please make sure to include all the required information on the application.

  • A case study video describing your campaign must be included with every submission. Each case study must not exceed 2 minutes in length.

  • A 250-500 word description on the team’s diversity both in front and behind the lens.

In the spirit of equity, all entries are free.

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