Calling all rising advertising
and media industry superstars!
Mark your calendars for the 2025 US Young Lions competition.
Registration opens 12:00:01 AM ET on Friday, December 13, 2024.
How to Enter
All registered teams for the 2024 US Cannes Lions Young Lions competition may now download the brief and submit their entries. Submissions will be accepted until 8:00 p.m. (E.T.) February 20, 2024.
Each submission must include the Team’s confirmation code. Your name and company name should NOT appear anywhere on your entry. The judging process and criteria are detailed in the official rules.
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Competition Categories
All registered teams will receive a brief from a US-based non-profit organization on January 23, 2025. Your team's goal is to answer the challenge in that brief in the most creative way possible according to the guidelines of the category you are registered to compete in. Entries are due by February 6, 2025.
Join the competition and make your mark!
Digital
Build a digital-led campaign that uses the powers of digital technology to respond to the challenge in the brief.
Media
Develop an innovative media strategy based on compelling insights, showing how you’ll use different media channels and encourage engagement in response to the brief.
PR
Construct an effective and engaging Public Relations campaign in response to a communications challenge described in the brief.
Create an eye-catching print ad that answers the challenge in the brief and engages the target audience.
The 2025 US Young Lions competition is now open!
Registrants should login to download the creative brief now.
Submissions will be accepted from registered teams until 8:00 PM ET February 7, 2025.
The 2025 Young Lions competition window is now closed.
Winners of the 2025 Young Lions Competition were announced.
Registration for the 2025 US Young Lions competition is now closed.
Registered teams will receive an assignment brief no later than 6:00 PM (ET) on January 23, 2025.
Note: If you are registered and do not receive the email brief by that time, check spam folder and/or login on this site to download it.
Get ready to showcase your creative skills to the world –
the 2025 US Cannes Lions Young Lions competition is here!
This is your chance to take on the best and brightest advertising minds from around the globe. Winning teams from the five US competition categories become TEAM USA.
TEAM USA travels to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in Cannes, France, to experience the most prestigious global advertising festival firsthand and compete against other winning teams from around the world!
The festival experience, including airfare, hotel, and delegate passes, is covered by our generous US competition sponsors, so all you need to do is bring your A-game!
To register, you must first create a login for this site.
Once your login is created, you can proceed with the registration process.
Registration closes Friday, January 17, 2025.