AMAZON ADS
PARTNER AWARDS

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The premier Amazon Ads recognition program that celebrates agencies and technology partners who demonstrate excellence in driving advertiser success with Amazon Ads.

Regional award categories

These awards recognize a campaign strategy within a specific region. There will be three winners for each category (1 AMER, 1 EMEA, 1 APAC).

Full Funnel Advertising

Recognizing partner who demonstrate how their strategic approach seamlessly connected every stage of the customer journey – from initial awareness to long-term loyalty – resulting in exceptional client success.

Brand Storytelling

Celebrating partners who demonstrate how their creative excellence transformed brand perceptions and built emotional connections with audiences through powerful narratives that brought campaign objectives to life.

Seasonal Sales Strategy

Celebrating partners who demonstrate excellence in executing three-phase campaigns for key shopping moments, maximizing immediate performance while building lasting customer value through strategic planning, real-time optimization, and sophisticated measurement approaches.

Challenger
Brand

Honoring partners who demonstrate how they helped ambitious brands strengthen their position against category leaders through smart strategy and efficient resource use, delivering impressive results.

Global award categories

These awards recognize campaign performance from any region with one winner selected overall for each category.

Technology Innovation

Recognizing partners who demonstrate excellence in developing scalable solutions that transform advertising success through innovative use of Amazon Ads APIs and tools, solving critical business challenges while enabling new opportunities for growth.

Global
Expansion

Honoring partners who demonstrate excellence in helping brands scale across international marketplaces, successfully adapting their strategies across multiple regions while maintaining brand consistency and driving measurable growth.

AI
Innovation

Recognizing partners who demonstrate how they harnessed Amazon Ads AI solutions to solve advertising challenges, delivering both productivity gains and better advertising outcomes.

Performance Optimization

Celebrating partners who demonstrate excellence in sophisticated campaign optimization, combining strategic audience insights with innovative solutions to unlock new opportunities and drive measurable results at scale.

REASONS TO ENTER

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Recognition

Join an elite community of industry leaders alongside over 100 past winners and finalists.

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Validation

Receive official recognition from Amazon Ads with physical and digital trophies.

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Visibility

Gain exposure through awards promotion, case studies, events, and more across Amazon Ads channels.

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Celebration

Celebrate your achievement at the annual Partner Awards reception.

Frequently asked questions, answered

What are the 2025 Partner Awards eligibility criteria?
  • Partners must be Advanced or Verified in the Amazon Ads Partner Network as of May 1 and be certified to be eligible for the Partner Awards.
  • The advertiser featured in the partner submission must be linked within the partner's Partner Network account. The advertiser also must not have been featured in a finalist or winner campaign in 2024 to ensure a variety of customer challenges across an array of advertisers are represented. To check past winners, please view the past winners or contact partnerawards@amazon.com to find out more.
  • The advertiser can be from a brand that sells product or services on or off the Amazon store, and can be based anywhere in the world. However, for regional awards, the featured advertiser must be advertising in the associated region for a partner to be considered for the award.
What are the 2025 Partner Awards submission criteria?
  • The applying partner must have achieved advanced or verified partner status within Amazon Ads Partner Network to enter the Partner Awards.
  • All participating partners must agree to the terms and conditions of the program.
  • For regional awards, The Full Funnel Advertising Award, Brand Storytelling Award, Seasonal Sales Strategy Award, or Challenger Brand Award, partners will need to reference a successful campaign strategy for an advertising client in either AMER (North/South America), EMEA (Europe/Middle East) or APAC (Asia Pacific).
  • For global awards, The Technology Innovation Award, Global Expansion Award, AI Innovation Award, or Performance Optimization Award, partners can reference a successful campaign strategy for an advertising client that took place in any country, region, or worldwide.
  • All submissions require a signed client release form signed by the advertiser/client mentioned in the application. If a submission does not contain a signed client release form, the submission will be disqualified.
  • Each submission should showcase a unique advertiser success story. If the same advertiser client and success story is submitted across multiple categories, unfortunately, all entries will be disqualified.
  • All submissions and supporting documentation must not include partner/agency name or any identifiable information that would make you known to judges (including proprietary tool names) to ensure a fair and equitable judging process. Any entries that do not adhere to this will be removed from judging.
  • Joint submissions from two partners are accepted. In such cases, both partners must individually accept the terms and conditions of the program.
How may Amazon use the information I provide in my award submission?

We will use the information to assess your submission and determine winners. We may also use submissions to exemplify Amazon Ads success in future marketing materials and for other purposes.

Where can I find more information about the Partner Awards categories, judging process, and program details?

Please contact your Amazon Ads representative who will provide you with updates, share the entry handbook when available, and inform you about upcoming Partner Awards webinars and resources. Your representative is your best point of contact for all things Awards-related. Alternatively, you can reach out to partnerawards@amazon.com.

When will the 2026 Partner Awards be announced?

Keep a look out for more information in the first quarter of 2026 (January - March). New information will be published on this page and on LinkedIn.

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