The ADCI Awards are back for another edition One of the most anticipated events of the year for the advertising and communications industry

On October 29, in Milan, the awards ceremony for the ADCI Awards 2026 was held — one of the most anticipated events of the year for those working in the world of advertising and communications — during which the winners of this edition were finally revealed. The award is promoted by the Art Directors Club Italiano, which each year recognises those who, through their ideas, have managed to stand out for their originality, innovation and quality. 

The venue that hosted the event, hosted by Francesco Bozza, was the Auditorium MiCo in Milan, where agencies, brands, professionals and new generations of creatives gathered to celebrate the most significant projects. The 15 juries that selected the winning works were composed of more than 150 industry professionals, including Marco Venturelli, who was entrusted with the presidency. The edition was guided by the goal of championing a form of creativity capable of standing out and making its mark on the Italian market — an approach that recognises in creativity not merely an expression of talent and innovation, but a genuine engine of transformation and value creation. 

Among the evening's most prestigious accolades, the ADCI Awards 2026 Grand Prix was awarded to Dark Mode Ads, a campaign created by LePub Milan for Plenitude, and the Non-Profit Grand Prix was claimed by L'ultima Cena by Cookies Agency for Fondazione Giulia Cecchettin. These two awards highlight how it is possible to express creativity through different languages and fields. Alongside these honours, a great many other categories brought visibility to numerous projects, in an edition that painted an extraordinarily vast creative landscape within which traditional languages and new forms of communication coexist, alongside brand projects, digital experimentation and initiatives of social significance.