North America Selects 6 Finalists at The Immortal Awards 2025

The North American leg of judging at The Immortal Awards 2025 wrapped up on Friday November 14th, with the North America jury held in partnership with Whitehouse Post.

Taking place at Whitehouse Post in New York, the session saw the seven Canadian and six US Finalists come together to form the regional shortlist, from which the jury further narrowed the list down to find this year’s North America Finalists.

The jury was a blend of jurors from both markets who had judged in the earlier rounds of judging. The session concluded with six projects emerging as the best of North American creativity from the past year.

The Immortal Awards 2025 North America Finalists are:

Dove - ‘Most Likely To’ (entered by Ogilvy Toronto)

IKEA - ‘U up?’ (entered by Rethink)

Nutter Butter - Nutter Butter, You Good? (entered by Dentsu Creative US)

Rakish Entertainment, Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, Chicago Hearing Society - Caption with Intention (entered by FCB Chicago)

SickKids Foundation - ‘The Count’ (entered by FCB Canada, Merchant and Soundtree)

Uber One - Cox Goes to College (entered by Union Editorial)

The six North American Finalists will go up against the seven European and four MEA Finalists as well as the Finalists from the forthcoming LATAM, AUNZ and Asia juries, at the global round of judging on Wednesday, December 3rd. They’ll be competing in the final round of judging for a chance at winning an Immortal Award or Commendation.

This year’s North American jury was made up of Danilo Boer, global creative partner, FCB; Sharon Cha, producer, JSM Music; Tim Gordon, CCO, Zulu Alpha Kilo New York; Sam Gunn, partner/editor, Whitehouse Post; Susan Irving, chief marketing officer, Kruger; Julia Lafferty, head of production, 72andSunny New York; Lisa Mehling, owner, Chelsea Pictures; Tom Murphy, North American CCO, VML; Andrea Ogunbadejo, president, Eva Nosidam; and Aaron Starkman, global chief creative officer, Rethink.

The rest of the work that made it to The Immortal Awards 2025 North America Shortlist but didn’t make it through to the next round included:

Brand - Project (Entrant Company)

• Google - Dream Job (entered by Heard City)
  
• KFC Canada - ‘Sorry, Manners’ (entered by Courage and Alter Ego)
  
• Royal Ontario Museum - ‘Opera’ (entered by Broken Heart Love Affair)
  
• Second Nurture - 18 Months (entered by Zombie Studio)
  
• SKIP - ‘Winter Delivery Fleet’ (entered by Courage)
  
• Terry Fox Foundation - ‘Finish It’ (entered by Diamond)
  
• Ziploc - Preserved Promos (entered by VML New York)