Davos Communications Awards - 2025

On behalf of the World Communications Forum Association, we invite you to enter the global Davos Communications Awards 2025. This competition gives hidden gems a global platform to showcase their achievements and shine bright like diamonds. It also gives opportunity to leading brands to be recognized as the best-of-the-best worldwide. But most importantly, the awards aim to inspire and engage communication leaders to drive excellence in the Public Relations profession. If you are a communications expert who operates at the forefront of modern PR, apply now, and win one of the most wanted awards in the industry.

Mary Beth West

Awards Jury Chair

Maxim Behar

Maxim Behar

President,
World Communications Forum Association

ABOUT
THE AWARDS

The Davos Communications Awards are a global, annual program to recognize leading communications agencies, professionals, in-house teams and projects that have achieved outstanding success and measurable business outcomes. These awards are open for participants from each corner of the world in all sectors.

GALA DINNER & AWARDS

Winners will be announced at an exclusive Gala Dinner in Davos on April 10, part of the Davos Communications Summit 2025, making this a truly unforgettable celebration of excellence. Tickets are available HERE.

Check the links below to gain an understanding of the entry process and key information. If you have any questions, please contact us at mainoffice@wcfaglobal.com

Benefits
for your brand

  • INTERNATIONAL CREDIBILITY
  • PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
  • BRAND AWARENESS
  • GLOBAL RECOGNITION
  • NEW BUSINESS RELATIONS
  • NEW CLIENTS AND PARTNERS
  • STAND OUT AMONG COMPETITORS

WINNER
SPOTLIGHT


Winning Davos Communications Awards 2025 will bring highly valuable publicity through online global media outlets with over 150M total potential audience (Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch, PRNewswire and more), over 3,000 industry professionals reached via email marketing, and over 6,000 followers reached on social media.

ENTRY DEADLINE:
March 1, 2025

ENTRY FEES

EARLY BIRD ENTRY FEES

(For entries by February 5, 2025)
WCFA MEMBER: 100 EUR / WCFA NON-MEMBER: 120 EUR

STANDARD ENTRY FEES

(For entries by March 1, 2025)
WCFA MEMBER: 120 EUR / WCFA NON-MEMBER: 150 EUR You can join WCFA and enjoy all exclusive member-only benefits HERE.

CATEGORIES

PR Consultancy of the Year

This award recognizes a public relations consultancy for its achievements, performance, values, and excellent work over the last year. It is not dependent on size but celebrates excellence in clients, employees, and society.

Digital Agency of the Year

This award recognizes a digital agency for its achievements, performance, values, and excellent work over the last year. It is not dependent on size but celebrates excellence in clients, employees, and society.

In-house Team of the Year

This award recognizes any in-house private, not-for-profit, or public sector public relations and communications team, demonstrating effective communications and use of resources, and general contribution to the organization’s objectives.

Leader of the Future

This award recognizes a leader who has demonstrated exceptional foresight, innovation, and strategic thinking, driving transformative change within the field of communication, marketing, or public relations. The recipient of this award embodies the qualities of a visionary, consistently setting new benchmarks and inspiring their teams, organizations, and the industry to adapt to emerging trends and challenges.

Outstanding Freelancer of the Year

This award recognizes and celebrates the innovation and excellence of the best and brightest freelancers in the field of Public Relations and communications around the world. The category is for professionals who are not committed to a particular employer and organization.

PR Rising Star

*For practitioners under the age of 30 on April 30,2025
This award recognizes the achievements and performance of young professionals who are contributing to the success of their organization and showing potential for future leadership.

PR Silver Star

*For practitioners over the age of 50 on April 30, 2025
This award recognizes those who have made and continue to make significant contributions to public relations and communications practice. It celebrates those who share their knowledge and experience to help spread and develop best practices throughout the profession.

Best Leader in Public Relations and Communications

This award recognizes a global leader in public relations. It is open to leaders of PR, communications, and public affairs consultancies and leaders of in-house communications teams.

Best Crisis Communications Leader

This award recognizes a Professional who demonstrated extraordinary success in leading a team during an economic, social, and/or reputational crisis.

Best Public Relations Campaign

This award recognizes outstanding achievement in developing and implementing a public relations campaign. Tasks, developments, strategies, ideas, implementation, and results will be important to be mentioned as the main points of the overall application.

Best Marketing Communications Campaign

This award recognizes an outstanding marketing communications campaign that clearly demonstrates an integrated approach with integrated paid, earned, shared, or owned (PESO) media elements. Tasks, developments, strategies, ideas, implementation, and results will be important to be mentioned as the main points of the overall application.

Best Social Media Campaign

This award recognizes an outstanding campaign on social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedIn. The campaign should demonstrate exceptional results in increasing followers, likes, comments, engagement rates, and enhancing the brand's identity and sales.

Best Digital Campaign

This award recognizes an exceptional digital marketing campaign that leverages a variety of online channels, including social media, email marketing, search engine marketing (SEM), display advertising, and more. The campaign should showcase significant achievements in driving engagement, website traffic, conversions, and overall brand growth.

Global Communication Campaign

This award is presented to a campaign led from one country but implemented in 10 or more markets around the world.

Inclusive Marketing Campaign

This award recognizes campaigns that make a conscious effort to include diverse audiences, including multicultural, LGBTQ+, and differently-abled consumers.

Engage for Change Campaign

A campaign designed to improve public health or drive awareness of an issue with important societal implications.

Best Internal Communications Campaign

This award recognizes campaigns that best exemplify excellence in internal communications that supported the organization in creating a great employee experience. The campaign should demonstrate clear objectives, a creative-strategic approach, and well-defined results.

Best Influencer Marketing Campaign

This award recognizes campaigns that were executed across multiple platforms which successfully increased brand awareness and/or engagement, by working with big-name celebrities and/or micro-influencers to social media networks.

Best Content Marketing Campaign

This award recognizes award-worthy content that clicks with bloggers, brand ambassadors, influencers and inspires them to spread it by word-of-mouth.

Best Use of Brand

This award is for the best use of the brand. This could include any, or all, aspects of branding including naming, visual, audio, and experiential. It can be for the development or launch of new branding or for redevelopment and relaunch.

Best Corporate Affairs

This award recognizes effective corporate affairs to support reputation, public affairs, or financial relations.

Best CSR or ESG

This award recognizes successful public relations to deliver or support purpose-led business with a clean environment, social and governance (ESG), and corporate social responsibility (CSR) emphasis.

Special Event

This award recognizes events that support or raise awareness about special causes and/or demonstrate innovative organizational tactics. Live, virtual, and hybrid events may be nominated.

Emerging Technology Campaign

This award celebrates campaigns that highlight the use of emerging technologies, such as blockchain, AR/VR, or IoT, to create innovative and impactful communication strategies.

Employer Branding Campaign

This award recognizes campaigns that succeed to attract and retain talents and embodies the organization’s employee experience leading to a higher rate of retention.

B2B Communications Campaign

This award recognizes clear results in achieving strategic business-to-business goals, promoting products and services offered specifically to businesses (as opposed to consumer goods).

Best Lifestyle Campaign

This award recognizes an outstanding campaign focused on fashion, beauty, or general lifestyle topics.

Best Health & Wellness Campaign

This award recognizes an outstanding campaign focused on promoting personal health and well-being.

Best Education Campaign

This award recognizes an outstanding campaign that effectively promotes education, learning initiatives, or skills development. The campaign should demonstrate measurable success in reaching its target audience, driving engagement, and achieving key objectives such as increased enrollment, awareness, participation, or advocacy for educational causes.

Communications in the Age of Crypto

This award recognizes outstanding campaigns that succeed in enhancing the company’s brand and its new approach in the world of cryptocurrencies.

JUDGES

Ana-Maria Diceanu

Ana-Maria Diceanu

Managing Director, Brain 4 Strategy PR agency; President, Global Women in PR Romania; Host, Brain it Forward PR podcast

Romania
Artūras Jonkus

Artūras Jonkus

Managing Partner at Salve Agency and Associate Professor of Partnership in the Economics and Business Management Department at Vilnius University

Lithuania
Stuart Thomson

Stuart Thomson

Founder & Director of CWE Communications, Member of the Management Board and Treasurer of PRCA

United Kingdom

PARTNERS