Award Winning Awards

ADFEST 2008 - Submission Deadline is Today!

The Asia Pacific Advertising Festival (ADFEST) will hold it's 11th annual gathering at the Royal Cliff Beach Resort in Pattaya, Thailand. This event honors tv creatives produced in Asia Pacific that are making a splash in today's competitive market. The theme for this year's awards is "Re-invention is key if agencies are to survive." The festival is part of the Intercontinental Advertising Cup. The Cup for short. The festival also offers creative seminars in advertising, marketing and production. It is a place to show of your work and to learn a few tricks of the trade as well.

Deadline: January 15,2008
Winners announced: March 26-29, 2008
Location: Pattaya, Thailand
Presented by: ADFEST

Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange Announces Call For Entries

Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) is accepting online submissions to their 12th annual awards. There are 28 categories divided into either the "general" category which include web projects, CD-Roms, rich media or the "BIMA" category which include direct, online, or mobile marketing. Judges evaluate entries on navigation, technology, content, design and execution. This award event is open to all online marketers who have undertaken projects within the last year by or on behalf of New England companies.

Deadline: September 7, 2007
Finalists announced: October
Winners announced: November 8, 2007 at awards ceremony at the Boston Copley Place Marriott
Fee: $150 MITX members, $300 non-members
Presented by: Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange

Final Deadline for the Big Apple Awards Ends Tomorrow

The Big Apple Awards recognizes exceptional performance in some two dozen categories of public relations practice. To showcase these awards the PRSA of New York will announce and present them at a gala event in one of New York City’s venues, The Rainbow Room. The 2007 Big Apple Awards competition is open to all public relations professionals in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut for programs created in 2006 and implemented anywhere in the world. Most or all of the strategic work on the programs should have been performed by professionals in the Tri-State Area.

Final Deadline: March 15, 2007
Winners announced: May 23, 2007, Rainbow Room, NYC, NY
Entry fee: $300 members, $325 non-members
Presented by: PRSA of New York

The 46th Annual Francis W. Hatch Awards

Hatch Awards Call for Entries. This is a regional show, with national standards. The body of work will be judged against itself, with the goal of recognizing New England’s best efforts in delivering big ideas.

Gold, Silver, Bronze and Distinctive Merit Awards will be given to those entries which the judges feel deserve them. One bowl must be awarded in each category, though it does not have to be a Gold. “Best of Show” will be awarded to that entry which the judges feel distinguishes itself above all others.

Entry deadline: June 9, 2006, 12:00am EST

Cost: 1. Ad Club Trustee Member Companies: $85.00 (+ $10.00 for Campaigns)
         2. Ad Club Corporate or Individual Members: $90.00 (+ $10.00 for Campaigns)
         3. Non-members: $100.00 (+ $25.00 for Campaigns)
         4. Students: $15.00 (+ $0.00 for Campaigns)

Winners announced: September 14, 2006 at the Hatch Awards Show

Sponsor: The Ad Club

2006 WebAward dealine May 31st

Recognizing the Best Web sites in 96 industries.

Website awards are a great way to recognize talented individual and team efforts in outstanding Website development and generate internet marketing exposure for the award winning Web site. The international WebAward Competition is the premier Web site award program available today.

The 2006 WebAwards will name the best Website in 96 industry categories. Nominations for best web site will come from interactive agencies and web site marketing departments in more than 33 countries from around the world.

The Web Marketing Association was founded in 1997 to help set a high standard for Internet marketing and web development on the World Wide Web. Staffed by volunteers, this organization is made up of Internet marketing, online advertising, PR, and web site design professionals who share an interest in improving the quality of online advertising, internet marketing, and website promotion.

The Web Marketing Association is the producer of the WebAward Competition.  Now in its 10th year, the WebAwards is the premier annual web site award competition that names the best Web sites in 96 industries while setting the standard of excellence for all website development.

Deadline: May 31, 2006
Winners announced: mid-September
Cost: $195 per entry ($99 for non-profit category)
Sponsor: Web Marketing Association

2006 Best of the Web & Digital Government/Education Achievement Awards

For a decade, the leading edge of service delivery has been at the portal where governmental and educational entities have presented a single face to their respective publics. The Best of the Web (BOW) has been there to recognize and celebrate the innovations and resulting maturity in providing solutions and communicating well with citizens, businesses or educational communities.

DIGITAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS: The BOW remains focused on the portal/Web site while the Digital Government Achievement and Digital Education Achievement Awards create a forum for recognizing outstanding contributions at the application and infrastructure level. Due to the tremendous number of requests for inclusion ALL GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND ALL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, all levels and all countries, may enter their applications and projects.

Deadline: June 1, 2006
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Center for Digital Government