Founded in Ibiza in 1998. Nineteen years at Pacha, a twentieth anniversary at Hï, and now a three-year residency at Amnesia. Winners are chosen by a public vote and a Grand Jury of more than fifty industry leaders — and because there is no pay-to-play, the artists turn up and collect in person.
Every winner walks it, and every photograph carries the partner board behind them.
Winners collect in person and stay for the finale. Nobody sends a representative.
Live on YouTube, recorded multicam and aired in ninety countries.
Winners post. That is the mechanism. The artists on this stage carry a combined following larger than any media buy a UK travel brand has ever made — and when they share the night, the partner is in the frame.
Twenty-five years of them, and they still come back. This is the company a partner keeps.
International DJ of the Year. The most decorated name in the history of the awards.
2.8M Followers
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Every card below links to that artist's Instagram. When they win, they tell their own audience — and the brand that handed them the award is in the photograph.
Combined Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud and Spotify monthly listener figures at the time of the award. The awards were not held between 2020 and 2023.
Decided by a global public vote — 250,000 votes cast in 2025, up from 21,000 the year before.
Decided by the Grand Jury — more than fifty global industry leaders, with published conflict-of-interest declarations.
Chosen by a public vote and a Grand Jury of more than fifty industry leaders. No pay-to-play, and there never has been — which is why the artists turn up and collect in person.