Service and Fees
Your Options With an Award
Find out about German Brand Award entry fees, optional Nominee Package, and service fees and benefits for award-winning projects. Explore all costs and funding opportunities at a glance.
Those who are nominated stand out in a competitive environment. Showcase this external mark of quality with our Nominee Package:
- Unlimited use of the Nominee Label for print and analogue media
- A personalised document for internal and external use (as pdf)
- Social media frames for Meta and LinkedIn
- Impactful text templates for your press work
* All prices are per project and do not include the applicable value-added tax.
Funding Opportunities for the German Brand Awards
Do you run a small business and lack the financial means to participate in the German Brand Awards? Once you have registered, you can apply for funding from the German Design Council. If your funding application is approved, we will waive all service fees if your entry receives a distinction. If your application is unsuccessful, you can withdraw your entry from the Awards.
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What the Funding Covers
If your entry receives Best of Best, Gold or Winner, we will waive all service fees, subject to approval. The mandatory registration fee, the project handling fee for the jury session and optional services such as the nominee package are not included.
Requirements for Funding
- Your company generated annual turnover of no more than EUR 100,000 in each of the two preceding years (2024 and 2025).
- You can provide officially verified proof of turnover for 2024 and 2025 in German or English.
- If you do not yet have proof of turnover for 2025, you may submit a business management analysis (BWA).
- If your company was founded in 2024, you may submit an extract from the commercial register.
What You Need to Know
- A maximum of three funding applications may be submitted per company.
- Incomplete applications will not be reviewed.
Submission deadline
The application should be submitted within 14 days of approval of the submission via the “Application for Funding” form. Applications submitted after 5 March 2027 cannot be considered.
Service Packages & Fees*
In the case of an award, you will receive a comprehensive service package to enable you to communicate your success to a wide audience. By registering for the award, you agree to any service fees that may be incurred.
- Unlimited use of the label for your communication efforts
- You will receive two personalized documents
- You’ll get a white paper and text blocks for your press and social media communication
- Your project or product will be presented with a short text, photo, credits, and a link in our online gallery
- You will have access to our extended Marketing Services
- You will be invited to the Award Show** and Brand Convention in Berlin
- At the Award Show, you can have professional photos taken in front of the photo wall
- You will receive an official short statement from the jury about your award
- You will receive a short clip about your project or product – for free use on social media
- Unlimited use of the label for your communication efforts
- You will receive two personalized documents
- You’ll get a white paper and text blocks for your press and social media communication
- Your project or product will be presented with a short text, photo, credits, and a link in our online gallery
- You will have access to our extended Marketing Services
- You will be invited to the Awards Show** and Brand Convention in Berlin
- At the Award Show, you can have professional photos taken in front of the photo wall
- You will receive an official short statement from the jury about your award
- You will receive a short clip about your project or product – for free use on social media
- We will create a targeted ad for your project or product on Meta, including a link
- As a Gold winner, you will receive a high-quality award sculpture with the Goldlabel
- Unlimited use of the label for your communication efforts
- You will receive two personalized documents
- You’ll get a white paper and text blocks for your press and social media communication
- Your project or product will be presented with a short text, photo, credits, and a link in our online gallery
- You will have access to our extended Marketing Services
- You will be invited to the Award Show** and Brand Convention in Berlin
- At the Award Show, you can have professional photos taken in front of the photo wall
- You will receive an official short statement from the jury about your award
- You will receive a short clip about your project or product – for free use on social media
- We will create a targeted ad for your project or product on Meta, including a link
- As the Best of Best-winner, you will receive a high-quality prize sculpture with the Best of Bestlabel in the category
- Your award will be officially presented to you on stage at the Award Show
* All prices are per award and do not include the applicable value-added tax.
** Participation only possible after timely registration and subject to available ticket contingent.
Please note: If an award (Winner, Gold or Best of Best) is made in an additional category, service fees will be charged for the additional service package.