[2] The name of the award is a play on words of the Palme d'Or, the festival's highest honor.

In 2023, Woopets, a leading media company, announced that it had taken over the event from its founder, Toby Rose.

[3] First reported in June 2002,[4] the Palm Dog has been reported by major news outlets around the world, including Financial Times Deutschland,[5] Sydney Morning Herald,[6] The New York Times,[7] the BBC,[8][9] the Los Angeles Times,[10] and ABC News.

[1] In 2012 the judges for the Palm Dog were The Times chief film critic Kate Muir, The Daily Telegraph's Robbie Collin, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw and Heat Magazine's Charles Gant.

[11] Three fictional canines from animated movies have each won the coveted Palm Dog: Bruno from Sylvain Chomet's Academy Award-nominated The Triplets of Belleville (2003), Yuki from Marjane Satrapi's Academy Award-nominated film adaptation of Persepolis (2007) and Dug from Pixar's Academy Award-winning feature Up (2009).