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DMA Talent Breakthrough Award 2025
22 May 2025
We’re delighted to announce that Barclays will be partnering with us for the DMA Talent Breakthrough Award for the third year in a row.
“After the success of last two years, we’ve chosen to partner with the DMA Awards programme again for 2025” said Matt Conner, Digital and Innovation Director, Barclays UK, he continues “We believe it provides a fantastic opportunity for the next generation of emerging UK talent to showcase their capabilities, catching the attention of marketing and agency leaders from a diverse set of sectors and disciplines”.
The Breakthrough Award provides aspiring creative marketers up and down the UK the opportunity to:
- Add real client work to their portfolios.
- Experience what it’s like to work on a real-life creative brief.
- Gain invaluable experience pitching their work to a panel of judges.
- Have their talent recognised by industry greats at the DMA Awards.
“Last year we loved meeting the next generation of marketeers” said Matt Conner, Barclays UK, “we were incredibly impressed with the calibre of the pitches and the range of ideas the teams brought to us — we are really excited to see what this year’s students bring”.
The brief has just been released and is being distributed to our network of universities, colleges and students. To ensure the Award is open to everyone across the UK, regional heats will take place in Edinburgh, London, Manchester, Cardiff and online, with a regional winner being crowned at each.
These regional winners will progress to the grand final, pitching to the senior leadership team at Barclays UK at their Canary Wharf offices. Then, they’ll don their glad rags and attend the DMA Awards, giving them the chance to network with some of the most successful advertising and marketing agencies in the country.
The Breakthrough Award has a history of helping students kickstart their careers.
If you know someone who would be interested in entering, they can find the brief, which includes all the details needed to enter,
We can’t wait to see all of this year’s entries.
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