Special, HERO, Hello, FOX Sports and Tourism WA announced as 2026 Adland ARIA nominees
The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has reveal the five nominees for the 2026 ARIA Award for Best Use of an Australian Recording in an Advertisement, celebrating the power of harnessing Australian music to tell our stories.
The nominees are:
Special Australia for Uber Eats ‘The Man LAROI’ featuring The Kid LAROI
HERO for Toyota ‘Nice to Know it Could’ featuring Amyl and The Sniffers
Hello for Paramount+ ‘All Fired Up, AFC Women’s Asian Cup’ featuring G Flip
Fox Sports Australia for Fox Sports Australia ‘Finals Footy’ featuring 3%, Fred Leone and Scribe
Tourism WA for Tourism WA ‘Walking On A Dream’ featuring Empire Of The Sun, West Australian Symphony Orchestra and Billy-Jo Shoveller
The winner of the fourth Adland ARIA will be announced at the 2026 ARIA Awards in partnership with Spotify on Wednesday, 18 November at the Hordern Pavilion on Gadigal land.
Says Annabelle Herd, CEO, ARIA: “Every campaign on this list could have chosen to license anything in the world. They all chose an Australian record. A local artist is an incredibly powerful choice to tell a local story, and equally, a line in an agency’s music budget can change an artist’s career. Congratulations to all five nominees. Thank you to every agency and brand backing homegrown music for homegrown campaigns.”
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