This award is for custom projects conducted by trade bodies and completed within the qualifying period. This can encompass qualitative, quantitative, desk research or a combination of the approaches. The judges will be looking for evidence of innovation and successful delivery to objectives.

Challenge (300 words)
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words)
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed?

Results (500 words)
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives.

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This award is for custom projects conducted by media owners and completed within the qualifying period. This can encompass qualitative, quantitative, desk research or a combination of the approaches. The judges will be looking for evidence of innovation and successful delivery to objectives.

Challenge (300 words)
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words)
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed?

Results (500 words)
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This award is for custom projects conducted by media agencies or independently by research agencies (i.e. not for media owners or trade bodies) and completed within the qualifying period. This can encompass qualitative, quantitative, desk research or a combination of the approaches. The judges will be looking for evidence of innovation and successful delivery to objectives.

Challenge (300 words)
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words)
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed?

Results (500 words)
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This award is for custom projects conducted by Adtech companies and completed within the qualifying period. This can encompass qualitative, quantitative, desk research or a combination of the approaches. The judges will be looking for evidence of innovation and successful delivery to objectives.

Challenge (300 words)
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words)
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed?

Results (500 words)
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This award is for custom projects conducted by independent media agencies with billings less than £150 million, and completed within the qualifying period. Projects can encompass qualitative, quantitative, desk research or a combination of the approaches. The judges will be looking for evidence of innovation and successful delivery to objectives.

Challenge (300 words)
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words)
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed?

Results (500 words)
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This award is for custom UK projects conducted specifically by media agencies, media owners or research agencies based outside of London and completed within the qualifying period. Projects can encompass qualitative, quantitative, desk research or a combination of the approaches. The judges will be looking for evidence of innovation and successful delivery to objectives.

Challenge (300 words)
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words)
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed?

Results (500 words)
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This includes syndicated research projects or bespoke trackers established for clients. Entries can include new projects that commenced delivering data in the qualifying period, or on-going trackers that were enhanced, re-launched or delivered significant value or new insights to clients during the awards period. The judges will be looking for evidence of innovation and successful delivery to objectives. 

Challenge (300 words) 
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission? 

Approach and Execution (500 words) 
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed? 

Results (500 words) 
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating how the project met its objectives. 

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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With AI playing an increasing role in our lives, this award celebrates its best use in a research project. The category is open to media agencies, media owners and research/data companies. The judges will be looking for evidence of innovation and showing how AI directly impacted a project, whether that be the set up or successful delivery and results.

Challenge (300 words) 
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission?  

Approach and Execution (500 words) 
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed? How was AI incorporated into the project? 

Results (500 words) 
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating how AI helped the project to meet its objectives. 

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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In partnership with IPA

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We have worked with the IPA to develop a new category named in honour of Denise Turner, who was our AMRAs head judge and a media research inspiration. The IPA is generously providing a £2,000 bursary to the winner of this year’s award, to train the next generation of media research leaders.

This award recognises research projects that have used Joint Industry sources, either in isolation or in combination with other data sets, to display innovation and uncover insights that have informed and significantly improved campaign planning or effectiveness. This category is open to agencies, media owners, adtech companies and trade bodies, and the judges will be looking for evidence of innovation, or of leveraging innovation by a Joint Industry body, to show how JIC data made a tangible difference to a project.

Challenge (300 words)
What was the overall objective and what is it about Joint Industry data that offered an opportunity that other data sources could not?  

Approach and Execution (500 words)
Explain the approach used and the challenges that were overcome in delivering the brief. Identify some of the hurdles that had to be faced. Describe the steps taken to deliver the solution.  

Results (500 words)
Describe the results of the approach and show how the use of Joint Industry data contributed to the results. Use supporting evidence to show how the project met its objectives. 

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This award recognises best-in-class use of behavioural data, either in isolation or in combination with other data sets, to display innovation and uncover insights that have informed and significantly improved media and/or advertising.  

Challenge (300 words) 
What was the overall objective and why was the use of 1st/3rd party data the obvious solution?

Approach and Execution (500 words) 
Explain the approach used and the challenges that were overcome in delivering the brief. Identify some of the hurdles that had to be faced. Describe the steps taken to deliver the solution.  

Results (500 words) 
Describe the results of the approach and show how the use of 1st/3rd party data contributed to the results. Use supporting evidence to show how the project met its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This category recognises the best media research projects that have crossed international boundaries. Projects entered should cover at least three different national markets and the category encompasses custom projects, tracking or syndicated services. Judges will be looking for projects that grew client insights into multi-country media behaviour. Submissions should demonstrate innovation and a real understanding of the practical research challenges in terms of variations in language, culture and media markets.

Challenge (300 words) 
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission? What countries were covered?

Approach and Execution (500 words) 
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed?

Results (500 words) 
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives across the different markets. 

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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We are living in rapidly changing times, with significant changes in the shape of consumer behaviour, driven by technology, the cost of living crisis, the pandemic and the shifting social and political landscape. This award is for projects that demonstrate innovation, have illuminated our understanding of consumer behaviour and the implications for the media and advertising industries.

Challenge (300 words) 
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words) 
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed?

Results (500 words) 
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating how the project met its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This award is for custom projects conducted by either media agencies, independently by research agencies, by media owners, adtech companies or by trade bodies with the aim of supporting, developing or demonstrating the good in society across media and/or advertising. Whether covering sustainability, diversity, entrepreneurism or charitable work, the judges will be looking for evidence of innovation and successful delivery to objectives.

Challenge (300 words) 
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise? What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words) 
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed?

Results (500 words) 
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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In partnership with
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In a tribute to the late Adrian Edwards of TechEdge, this category has been renamed in his honour, to The Adrian Edwards award for Best Use of Datasets. Money raised from entry fees for this award will go to bibic, a charity that delivers therapeutic programmes to children and young adults and is based near where Edwards lived in Taunton, Somerset. In addition, the company with the winning entry will receive a £2,000 bursary from Barb to be used for training purposes to develop the next generation of research leaders

Media researchers are constantly challenged with drawing insights and driving business decisions using a vast range of data sources. This award is dedicated to the most innovative and best use of a combination of data sets to meet a business challenge. This can cover ‘Big data’, server data, user databases, client databases, return path data or sales data, fusions between them or hybrid approaches. The data could be used exclusively to deliver insight or integrated with survey research. The emphasis should be on the methods used to bring the sources together to produce insights on the value delivered as a result. 

Challenge (300 words) 
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise. What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words) 
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed to use or combine the data sets?

Results (500 words) 
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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Data is nothing without exceptional storytelling, ease of access, and outstanding communication of results. This category recognises the innovation and importance of bringing data to life to highlight the best course of action, and/or excellence in democratising access to data so that people across the organisation and their clients can find and tell the stories that will make a difference.  Entries are welcome from any company type with entries showcasing websites, data analysis software systems or intranets, innovative infographics, data visualisation, presentation decks, sales packs, videos and animation. How do you make the data come to life?

Describe (300 words) 
Describe the challenge that necessitated the new approach taken. What were the objectives and hurdles to be overcome in delivering the solution?

Approach and Communication (600 words) 
Explain how you approached the solution, what steps were taken to deliver the end product.  Summarise the approach used along with any links to the materials used to communicate the solution.

Success (400 words) 
Outline the success of the project using evidence, which demonstrates the difference this product has made. Testimonials will be accepted.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This award focuses on evaluating the business impact of research, the return on the original research investment, be it increased sales, awareness, customer satisfaction or successful new launches, whilst demonstrating innovation. Entries in this category will need to evidence the impact that the research has had, so to allow that to be evaluated, the qualifying window is extended to research or data projects that delivered within the last three years.

Challenge (300 words) 
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise. What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words) 
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed?

Results (500 words) 
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives 

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This award is to celebrate the most effective, innovative and trailblazing collaboration between media owners, agencies or trade bodies, to showcase the power working together can have for a common positive end goal

Challenge (300 words)
What was the challenge that the project had to meet, or the opportunity it sought to realise. What was the mission?

Approach and Execution (500 words)
Explain the approach and methodology used - what specific skills, technology and solutions were needed? How did the collaboration deliver more?

Results (500 words)
Describe the results of your approach, with supporting evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of the project in meeting its objectives.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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supported by The Media Leader’s
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This award will go to a media researcher identified as being a research thought leader within the industry. Nominated individuals can be client side, at media owners or at a media or research agency, and must be able to provide experience of leading from the front.

Background (300 words)
Provide a brief background to the nominated individual in terms of their role, responsibilities and skills.

Key Projects and Initiatives (500 words)
Please outline the key projects and initiatives that they have worked on and the impact these have had on the industry.

Overview (500 words)
Describe the characteristics and skills that make them a thought leader, focusing on the value they add, ideally with testimonials from internal/external clients, managers or colleagues.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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Proudly Sponsored by
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Which media agency research team has delivered the most business impact, via innovation and effectiveness? The award is open to research teams at media agencies of any size.

Description (300 words) 
Describe your team, your approach and the media research services that you provide. 

Projects (500 words)
Outline any notable projects in the last year, including example links.s. 

Evaluation (500 words) 
Provide evidence of positive client feedback, industry impact or business benefit.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This will be awarded to the media owner or trade body research team that has demonstrated continued excellence, innovation, business impact, or contribution to wider industry understanding of media. The award is open to research teams, media owners, JICs or trade bodies. 

Description (300 words) 
Describe the mission of your organisation and your research team. 

Projects/ Service (500 words) 
Outline any notable successes in the last year, including example links.

Evaluation (500 words)
Provide evidence of positive stakeholder or industry feedback, industry impact or business benefit for members or stakeholders. 

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This will be awarded to the research agency or division, data company or media measurement company that has demonstrated the most innovation, effectiveness, business impact or contribution to industry understanding of media. The award is open to research teams and research suppliers of any size, from boutique to multinational and will be judged on quality not quantity of activity.

Description (300 words) 
Describe your team, its ethos and the media research services that you provide. 

Projects (500 words) 
Outline any notable projects in the last year, including example links. 

Evaluation (500 words)
Provide evidence of positive client feedback, industry impact or business benefit. 

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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This award will go to a media researcher identified as being a real rising star within the industry. Nominated individuals can be client side or at a media or research agency, dealing with survey research, data science, analysis and reporting or combinations thereof. However to qualify they must have less than five years industry experience in total. 

Background (300 words) 
Provide a brief background to the nominated individual in terms of their role, responsibilities and skills.

Key projects and initiatives (600 words) 
Please outline the key projects and initiatives that they have worked on and their contribution to success. 

Overview (500 words) 
Describe the characteristics and skills that make them a rising star, focusing on the value they add, ideally with testimonials from internal/external clients, managers or colleagues.

Submission Summary (250 words)
Summarise your submission in 250 words

£285+VAT (before 7 Oct 2026)
£335+VAT (7-14 Oct 2026)

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