ADFEST greatly appreciates your understanding and cooperation in agreeing to our terms as below:

Complimentary Press Passes are provided strictly for publication team members with evidence of at least six months experience with the publication. These may include editors, journalists, reporters, photographers, broadcasters, publishers.

ADFEST provides 1 complimentary press pass per publication.

Other professionals that require press access must register as a delegate but may request press privileges to access all press functions, including editors or publishers of agency magazines, advertising, marketing, sales or PR personnel, researchers, analysts, agency or client staff etc.

Register early for your Press Pass! We do not issue additional press passes at the Festival. Press passes must be pre-registered and non-accredited media will have to purchase a pass on site.

Wear your Press Festival Badge. We take our security seriously and must therefore ask you to remember to wear your Press Festival Badge visibly at all times. This allows you access to the exclusive press facilities, speaker sessions, lunches, and all ADFEST functions including Welcome Party, After Party, and Award Presentations. You will not be permitted access to the Press Centre and the event without your Press Festival Badge, even if you are accredited.

Announcements of ADFEST Lotus Award Winners will be provided as a privilege for press. In return, we ask that you respect our embargo times to ensure that news of award winners is not leaked early to delegates or the public. Information must not be published or shared before the stated embargo expiry time, either verbally or in writing through any channel, including digital and social media.

Do not record, livestream or share the Awards Presentations and Speaker Sessions, as some of speakers may not grant ADFEST permission to share their presentation. We will provide you with press privileges to access online sessions after the festival.

Press Centre facilities are provided for your convenience. The Press Centre is for accredited press representatives only. Agency PR, corporate communications personnel and personal assistants are not allowed to enter the Press Centre unless they request and are granted press privileges from the ADFEST PR team.

All accredited press representatives are expected to behave in a professional manner at all times in the Press Centre and across the Festival venues and to respect our staff, who are there to help and make your visit with us as enjoyable and successful as possible. We would not expect or tolerate any instances of antisocial or threatening behaviour, including rudeness or aggression towards staff or anyone else associated with the Festival.