The BRIT Awards 2025 with Mastercard takes place tomorrow evening (Saturday 1st March) and as work continues behind the scenes to get ready for the biggest night in British music, a sneak peek into what’s in store is released today…
The BRITs 2025 Red Carpet Live Stream, starting 5.30pm GMT live on The BRITs’ official Instagram and Facebook, will be hosted by radio and TV presenter Sian Welby, who also hosted the livestream revealing this year’s nominees back in January, and Capital Xtra broadcaster and cultural commentator Zeze Millz. The livestream will be the first place to see all the action from the star-studded red carpet, as nominees, performers, presenters and more arrive for the big night. Also joining the red carpet team on the night will be Grimegran, the 86 year old undisputed nan of the grime scene will take to the red carpet armed with her biscuit tin and a pot of tea, to interview all of the artists as part of the live red carpet show. Last year’s Red Carpet Live Stream hit 1 million views within 48 hours of broadcast, double the number of the previous year.
For the first time, BRITs socials will present The Opening Number, a new Red Carpet experience highlighting and capturing the incredible fashion on display from artists and nominees. A unique twist on some of the classic red carpet fashion pieces, fans will be able to see it first across @BRITs socials, including the newly launched BRITs WhatsApp channel.
Backstage during the ceremony, KISS FM presenter Henrie will speak to winners fresh from the stage and Radio 1 presenter Jack Saunders, equipped with his AAA pass, will be chatting to all of the stars attending on the night.
For the 12th year in a row, music fans outside of the UK will be able to tune in to watch the show exclusively through the BRITs official YouTube channel, with the live stream broadcast starting at 9pm GMT.
Providing the Live Voice over for the ceremony this year, will be BBC 1Xtra presenter Nadia Jae.
The 2025 BRITs campaign kicks off at the start of the year with the exclusive Nominations live stream - Bring on The BRITs with Mastercard - The Nominations Show on the BRITs’ official Instagram and Facebook, presented by Sian Welby. To date this 30min broadcast has received over 1.9M views.
As well as being the biggest night in British music, creating iconic cultural moments, The BRITs play a key role in promoting sustainable practices across the music industry. Each year The BRITs aims to be more environmentally-friendly than the last, taking practical steps to measure and lower its emissions, working with partners, suppliers, record labels and artists. For 2025, targets include minimising the use of virgin fossil fuels for the show as well as official merchandise. There is also a reduction in plastic use for branding, and a continuation in measuring audience travel data. All partners and artists are being provided information and guidance on sustainable travel options.
Sustainable catering practices are a major priority for The BRITs, and this year…
- Vegetables will be locally sourced and seasonal, with British-sourced meat and cheese
- Honey sourced from Urban beekeeping social enterprise promoting environmental sustainability and community engagement
- All parts of raw ingredients are used in dishes to eliminate preparation wastage
- Any on-the-night food waste is being collected and sent to make green gas
- Environmentally friendly menu options for production staff including a number of 100% meat free menus on specific days
- Reusable Event Cups for drinks and Earthshot-winning Notpla biodegradable seaweed-based food containers
This year marks the second year of the partnership between The BRITs and Music Declares Emergency. Last year saw 12,000 people sign up to the NO MUSIC ON A DEAD PLANET campaign to take action on climate, with 30 million impressions across social media. Tony’s Chocolonely, a proud MDE partner supporting sustainable practices and advocating for fair treatment of cocoa farmers, have made a limited edition run of NO MUSIC ON A DEAD PLANET bars to be handed out at the event that feature QR codes that link directly to campaign sign-ups.
For over a decade, The BRITs have also collaborated extensively with Life Water, helping to lead the ceremony away from single-use plastics. This partnership has funded 12 clean water projects so far, over 53 million litres of clean drinking water provided to communities across five regions The BRITs donate over 10,000 cases of clean water donated to parts of the world where access to drinking water is extremely limited.
Within the Arena, The BRITs social team and the work of S:E Creative Studio, are focused on delivering real-time updates for fans across all platforms. With live teams positioned on the Red Carpet, backstage and arena floor, the journeys of nominees, performers and winners will be captured through with clips, gifs, photography and commentary.
The BRIT Awards 2025 digital campaign is led by Sebastian Battista Simone, VP Community & Content, Warner Records & Parlophone and BPI Director of Digital Giuseppe De Cristofano who jointly co-chair The BRIT Awards 2025 Digital Committee working with content agency SE: Creative Studio led by Producer Ryan Hunter.
Giuseppe De Cristofano, BPI Director of Digital - Co-Chair of the BRITs Digital Committee - “I'm thrilled that we've built on the success of our Instagram partnership last year and expanded it across the Meta family with the launch of the Official BRITs WhatsApp Channel. This allows us to bring fans even closer to the action with exclusive Red Carpet content and exciting new activities. With unrivalled access, we're bringing fans closer than ever to this year's Show.”
Ryan Hunter, Executive Social Producer at S:E Creative Studio - “It’s been a brilliant BRITs campaign so far and a joy to lead the team at S:E Creative Studio. I couldn’t be more excited to deliver show night to a global audience – we have some incredible plans for our red carpet and event coverage and thanks to our brilliant team of social producers, designers and editors, we are prepped and ready to capture those iconic moments that could only ever happen at The BRIT Awards.
A huge thank you to the wider BRITs team, Giuseppe, Toby, the Digital Committee, and the whole crew at S:E Creative Studio.”
The BRIT Awards 2025 with Mastercard will take place on Saturday 1st March - once again in a primetime weekend slot - broadcast live from 8.15pm on ITV1, STV, ITVX and STV Player - from The O2 arena, hosted by Jack Whitehall. Confirmed to perform live on the show are: Ezra Collective (with special guest Jorja Smith), JADE, Lola Young, Myles Smith, Sabrina Carpenter, Sam Fender, Teddy Swims and The Last Dinner Party.
The BRITs have already announced that Myles Smith is the winner of this year’s BRITs Rising Star award; Sabrina Carpenter will be receiving the BRITs Global Success award; Charli xcx will be this year’s Songwriter of the Year and her long-time collaborator A. G. Cook has been named BRITs Producer of the Year.
Mastercard will be celebrating their headline sponsorship which is now in its 27th year; ITV remain as official broadcaster for the 32nd year, and The O2 arena will host The BRITs for its 14th year.
These long-standing partnerships will continue to support and amplify The BRITs’ vision and values, as the event maintains its fundraising for The BRIT Trust, the charitable arm of the awards, which gives grants to charities around the UK that draw on the power of music to promote education and well-being and improve lives, including The BRIT School and Nordoff and Robbins.
Mastercard also continues to partner with the BRIT School to support and celebrate the next generation of creative talent.