Global Excellence Awards
The Licensing International Excellence Awards are a global award for a global industry and the only international recognition of licensing excellence, spanning borders, and languages. Our past winners offer a glimpse of the brands and innovations that have shaped our industry over the last three decades.
2025 Global Excellence Awards Now Open for Submissions!
Did your brand take the world by storm? Did your product fly off the shelves? Enter for a chance to be recognized among the most influential companies and brands across the world.
Submissions close February 7, 2025.
Thank you to this year’s sponsors!
A Global Awards Ceremony Live in Las Vegas
This year’s ceremony will be celebrated at Licensing Expo, shining a spotlight on the innovation and accomplishments of the global brand licensing community and showcasing the year’s best brands, properties, products, retailers and activations.
What You Need to Know
The Licensing International Excellence Awards are open to licensors, agents, licensees, retailers and anyone else from the worldwide licensing industry with a product or brand that meets the criteria of each category. You (or your company) DO NOT have to be a Licensing International member to enter.
The brand or product must have had bona fide retail distribution between January 2024 and January 2025.
We are offering early bird pricing for submissions. Early bird pricing for members is $100 per submission and $170 for non-members. This pricing will end Friday, January 31, 2025 at 11:59pm EST and will then increase to $150 per submission for members and $220 for non-members.
You must fill out the online entry form for each category you wish to enter. You will be asked to describe what was special about your product/brand and discuss how it was received in the marketplace (things like placement, sell-through, etc.)
You will need to provide at least one high resolution image, not exceeding 5MB and 1920×1080 pixels. Horizontal images look best.
The deadline for submissions is February 7, 2025. Entries received after this date will not be eligible for consideration.
