What's New & Different for 2025

Eligibility Timeframe:

• Eligibility for the 2025 IBAs extends from 1 January 2023 through 11 June 2025, the last day that entries will be accepted.  Nominations should cite achievements during this eligibility window.  Videos, publications, events, podcasts, and other media premiered since that date are eligible to be entered.  There is no eligibility timeframe for app and website entries - it doesn't matter when they were first published.

Entry Deadlines

• There are three entry deadlines, including an early-bird deadline by which the entry fees are discounted:
  • 9 April 2025: early-bird deadline
  • 7 May 2025: deadline
  • 11 June 2025: late entry deadline, $55/entry late fee due in addition to entry fees 

Entry Fees

• Entry fees have been raised $10 raised from 2024.

New Categories

• There are many new categories for the 2025 IBAs
  • There are two entirely new category groups
    • Individual Professionals
    • Podcasts
  • These category groups feature new categories for 2025
    • Achievement
    • Apps
    • Creative
    • Customer Service
    • Entrepreneur
    • Events
    • Management
    • Marketing
    • New Products & Services
    • Public Relations
    • Social Media
    • Sustainability
    • Videos
    • Websites