About Our Award Programs

Ex Awards

Event Marketer started the Ex Awards 22 years ago to recognize what back then was just a handful of experiential programs that were showing others in this burgeoning industry how viable and valuable live events could be. Today, it’s the oldest recognition program for experiential marketing—still judged entirely by brand-side marketers. Brands and agencies across business-to-business events and consumer-targeted events vie to be named among the best campaigns of the year, with winners honored live on stage at the annual Ex Awards Gala at the Experiential Marketing Summit.

Check out the 2024 winners here, featured in a special issue of Event Marketer magazine.

Click here for the 2025 call for submissions/email updates.

Experience Design Awards

The Experience Design Awards, (formerly the Experience Design & Technology Awards), recognize outstanding event design, innovative builds and environmental creativity across a wide variety of consumer-targeted and business-to-business event formats. A jury of brand-side judges will review consumer event activations, b-to-b experiences and trade show footprints, and will award winning creative teams with a gold, silver, bronze or “shortlist” award based on overall creative strategy, originality, and how the design and execution ultimately engaged audiences. Check out the 2023 honorees and sign up here for email updates on all of our recognition initiatives.

Click here to submit your work to the 2024 EDAs.

The Awards Archive

Subscribers Get Access to more than 15 years of Award-Winning Case Studies, All in One Place

Campaign Finder is the world’s first experiential marketing case study search engine. Get unlimited access to a growing database of more than 1,500 award winners and best-in-class case studies for your brainstorming session, CMO pitch, team meeting and more. Search, filter and download case studies by brand, category of business, type of event, event objective and more.