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The Drum Commerce Media Awards celebrate excellence across every sector and discipline in commerce media. In all categories, our judges will look for evidence of excellent practice and effective results.

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Categories are grouped as follows...​

Creative & Content Integration

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Effectiveness & Measurement

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Sector Excellence (Brand/Product-Led)

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Technology & Data

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People & Teams

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Partnerships & Strategy

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Top Honours

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Creative & Content Integration

This category celebrates outstanding creative and content integrations that seamlessly connect storytelling with shopping - rewarding innovation, measurable impact, and creativity that turns inspiration into conversion.

Creative Integration of Content & Commerce

Best In-Store Digital Retail Media Activation

Best Use of CTV/Online Video in Commerce Media

Effectiveness & Measurement

This group of categories celebrates excellence in effectiveness and measurement - recognizing campaigns that prove real business impact through data-driven strategy, rigorous incrementality testing, advanced attribution, and innovative use of commerce signals to demonstrate measurable ROI and performance.

Most Effective Commerce Media Campaign (Overall)

Best Proof of Incrementality

Best Off-site Performance Using Commerce Signals

Best Use of Attribution & Analytics in Commerce Media

Sector Excellence (brand/product-led)

This category recognizes outstanding commerce media performance across sectors, celebrating campaigns that deliver category-specific insight, innovation, and measurable results tailored to distinct shopper behaviors and vertical dynamics.

Grocery

CPG (non-grocery packaged goods)

Consumer Electronics

Beauty & Personal Care

Home & DIY

Financial Services

Travel & Hospitality

QSR/Food Service

Technology & Data

This category celebrates the most innovative and effective use of technology and data in commerce media, recognizing privacy-safe, data-driven solutions that deliver personalization, performance, and measurable business impact.

Best Use of First-Party Data in Commerce Media

Best Use of a Data Clean Room

DCO/Personalization in Commerce Media

Ad-Tech Innovation

People & Teams

This category celebrates the people and teams driving excellence in commerce media, recognizing collaboration, innovation, and measurable impact in shaping the industry’s growth and future talent.

Sales Team of the Year (Network/Media Owner)

Strategy/Planning Team of the Year (Agency/Brand)

Operations/Ad Ops Team of the Year

Commerce Media Leader of the Year

Rising Star

Partnerships & Strategy

This category celebrates strategic collaboration and brand-building excellence in commerce media — recognizing partnerships, joint business planning, and creative strategies that fuse media, data, and relationships to deliver innovation, deeper brand impact, and measurable commercial success.

Commerce Media Partnership of the Year

Integration of Commerce Media in Joint Business Planning

Best Brand-Building with Commerce Media

Top Honors

This category recognizes the highest achievements in commerce media – celebrating the standout networks, agencies, and brands setting new benchmarks for innovation, creativity, and measurable success, culminating in the Grand Prix for the most exceptional work of the year.

Commerce Media Network of the Year

Agency of the Year (Commerce Media)

Brand of the Year (Commerce Media)

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