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PARTNER AWARDS

The premier Amazon Ads recognition program that celebrates agencies and technology partners who demonstrate excellence in driving advertiser success with Amazon Ads.
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ABOUT PARTNER AWARDS
The Partner Awards is a submission-based program recognizing Amazon Ads partners who are raising the bar for advertisers around the world. Partners can submit their advertiser success stories across global and regional award categories. Submissions are evaluated against category criteria by a committee of industry leaders and Amazon experts, who determine the finalists and winners. Finalists and winners receive exclusive benefits and recognition.
submissions closed
Semi-finalists will be announced in June
2026 timeline
* Subject to change
February 12
2026 category announcement
March 16
Submissions open
April 10
Submissions closed
June
Semi-finalist announcement
August
Finalist announcement
September
Winner announcement

Regional award categories
These awards recognize a campaign strategy within a specific region. Each category will have three winners (1 AMER, 1 EMEA, 1 APAC).
Brand Storytelling
Honoring partners who showcase creative excellence through compelling narratives that connect brands with audiences across Amazon and premium apps and websites—strategically leveraging insights, multiple Amazon Ads formats, and AI-powered tools to create brand stories that drive engagement and results.
Challenger Strategy
Celebrating partners who helped ambitious brands—large or small—strengthen their category positioning and increase brand presence through smart strategy, AI-powered optimization, and innovative use of Amazon Ads solutions.
Full-Funnel Advertising
Recognizing partners who reimagine full-funnel marketing for today’s fluid customer journeys, demonstrating expertise in multiple Amazon Ads solutions and using AI-powered optimization to create adaptive campaigns that engage customers across their journey while building lasting loyalty.

Global award categories
These awards recognize campaign performance from any region with one winner selected overall for each category.
Breakthrough Partner
Recognizing partners who demonstrate impressive momentum and recent growth within Amazon Ads, showcasing their upward trajectory and emerging expertise. Winners must demonstrate significant year-over-year growth within Amazon Ads. Previous Partner Awards winners and finalists are not eligible.
Collaborative Excellence
Celebrating partnerships between Amazon Ads agencies and tech providers driving full-funnel excellence for a single advertiser, demonstrating how their unique capabilities across creative and technology, when combined, drove exceptional results for their clients.
Programmatic Optimization
Honoring partners who demonstrate excellence in sophisticated campaign optimization, using Amazon Marketing Cloud and Multimedia Solutions with Amazon DSP—plus optimization solutions like Performance+—to unlock strategic audience insights and drive measurable results at scale.
Strategic Localization
Recognizing partners who drive measurable business impact through sophisticated localization strategies across marketplaces, combining deep understanding of local audiences, cultures, and marketplace dynamics with strategic use of Amazon Ads solutions.

Technology Innovation
Recognizing partners who develop innovative, scalable technology solutions through sophisticated use of Amazon Ads APIs and tools, solving advertisers’ critical business challenges while delivering measurable results and enabling new opportunities for growth.
Recognition at every stage
The Amazon Ads Partner Awards recognize excellence in driving advertiser success. Award-winning partners experience significant business growth, with a 14% increase in both total advertisers and advertiser spend over six months compared to average partner growth.1
All qualified submissions for regional and global awards will be considered for case study development, thought leadership opportunities, and events, regardless of semi-finalist, finalist, or winner status.2
Semi-finalists
Recognized on the Amazon Ads Partner Awards page and across our social media channels.
Finalists
Featured in the finalist announcement on the Amazon Ads Partner Awards page and social channels. Recognized at the Partner Awards reception at unBoxed. Awarded an official finalist badge on their Partner Directory page, a physical and digital trophy, and a case study published on social.
Winners
Featured in the winner announcement on the Partner Awards page and social channels. Celebrated at the Partner Awards reception at unBoxed. Awarded an official winner badge on their Partner Directory page, a physical and digital trophy, and a case study published and promoted on the Amazon Ads website. Winners also receive exclusive benefits, including a social media video feature and a co-branded thought leadership content opportunity.
Sources
1 Amazon internal, WW, Mar 2024-Apr 2025
2 Please note, these benefits do not automatically apply to country-level award honorees in China, Japan, and India. Benefits may vary for Breakthrough Partner winners.

Frequently asked questions, answered
We are no longer accepting submissions for the 2026 Partner Awards. If you missed the deadline, you may submit a story to our year-round Partner Success Stories program, however it will not be considered for the 2026 Partner Awards.
Partners must have Advanced or Verified status in the Amazon Ads Partner Network; status must be maintained throughout the program cycle and certifications must be up to date and linked to your Partner Network account.
The advertiser featured in the submission must be linked within the partner's Partner Network account. The advertiser can be from a brand that sells products or services on or off the Amazon store.
All participating partners must agree to the terms and conditions of the program.
For regional awards, partners must 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, partners can reference a successful campaign strategy for an advertising client in any country, region, or worldwide.
Each submission must showcase a unique advertiser success story that took place between April 1, 2025, and March 31, 2026. If the same advertiser client and success story is submitted across multiple categories, all entries will be disqualified.
All submissions will be evaluated against category-specific criteria via an automated system and validated by Amazon Ads experts assigned to each category. A committee of jurors, composed of external industry leaders and Amazon executives, will determine the finalists and winners. Past jurors have included representatives from organizations such as the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), The New York Times, and Kantar.
We will use the information to assess your submission and determine the 2026 finalists and winners. All qualified submissions will be considered for future marketing opportunities, such as case study publications, content opportunities, and events.
All partners will be notified about the status of their entry after the first evaluation round. Partners shortlisted for the final round will receive confirmation of their advancement. Partners whose entries have not moved forward will also be notified.
After the first phase of evaluation, shortlisted submissions advancing to the final round will be required to provide a signed client release form from the featured advertiser. Entries that are unable to provide advertiser consent will be disqualified.
For partners based in China, Japan, and India, we are introducing country-level recognition for select categories, based on entry volume and quality. Partners in these countries who submitted entries for the regional and global categories will automatically benefit from additional chances to win at the local level.
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