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THE
LISBON
FESTIVALS
GROUP

WHY LISBON FESTIVALS? WHY
NOW?

The Lisbon Festivals were not created simply to celebrate great work, showcase talent, or add another stage for industry best practice. Other festivals already do that well.

Our ambition is different: to reflect the reality of today’s industry more accurately, and to promote a more relevant, lasting way of evaluating brands, ideas, and creative value.

We aim to do two things:

Bring creative and marketing talent to the same table

One of the biggest challenges in our industry today is the growing gap between brands and their creative partners: different languages, different objectives, different processes, and too often, different definitions of value.
The Lisbon Festivals are designed to help close that gap.
We believe the best ideas can transform businesses, create lasting value, and influence behaviour. But great ideas rarely happen in isolation. They are built by aligned teams: brand and agency working together, with clarity, trust and shared ambition.
That is why our model is deliberately collaborative. Across the festivals, agency and client leaders will judge side by side. Creative leaders will help evaluate marketing effectiveness, and marketing leaders will help evaluate creative excellence.
The goal is not just better awards, but better understanding, better collaboration, and ultimately better ideas.

Champion a more lasting idea of value: Slow Brand Value

Culture moves at two speeds. One is fast: trends, memes, moments, attention spikes. The other is slower: deeper shifts in behaviour, values, identity and meaning.

Brands need to understand both. Winning attention matters. Building lasting relevance matters more.

Inspired by Lisbon’s spirit of intentionality and quality over noise, we believe in a more enduring model of value creation: one based on ideas that build equity, meaning and legacy over time, not just short-term visibility or engagement.

This is what we call Slow Brand Value: work that is authentic, distinctive, durable and genuinely valuable, for brands, businesses and people.

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Now entering its 11th edition, the Lisbon Advertising Festival has reached a pivotal moment of transformation. This year, we evolve beyond traditional boundaries to align our celebration of creativity with the very soul of Lisbon, moving deeper, slower, and more deliberately to honour work that truly glows.

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Now entering its 9th edition, the Lisbon International Health Festival has reached a pivotal moment of transformation. This year, we evolve beyond traditional boundaries to align our celebration of creativity with the very soul of Lisbon, moving deeper, slower, and more deliberately to honour work that truly glows.

WHY
PARTI
CIPATE?

Align on what makes an idea truly valuable

Evaluate work through both creative and business lenses

Validate a long term, legacy building perspective

Learn from each other

Encourage stronger collaboration

Recognise work that creates not only impact now, but value over time

Lisbon is not only about rewarding excellence.
It is about improving how our industry works together,
and what it chooses to value.

LISBON AD FESTIVAL
LISBON HEALTH FESTIVAL

LISBON R.O.I. FESTIVAL (SOON)

Contacts

Festivals Support & Entries
maria@lisbonfestivals.com

Phone and Whatsapp
+351 931 174 621

Rua Seara Nova, 5, Palácio Rosa
1250-002 Lisboa


Sponsorship & Partnerships
finance@lisbonfestivals.com

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