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FAQs
Entries are open now and the deadline is 4 March 2022.
All material will remain confidential to the judges. Winning and highly commended cases will be published in The Marketing Society and on our partner’s website Warc.com. Entrants have the right to mark financial info or sensitive parts of their entry as ‘Not for publication’. This will, in all cases, be respected by the organisers. But we ask that you DO NOT mark the whole paper as judges eyes only, as we publish the winning and commended papers on our website after the Awards, for our members to learn best practice from one another.
The judging takes place in April each year.
The shortlist is announced on this website – and via our social platforms – in April each year.
Timings: Wednesday 6 July 20212
Location: MADFest, Bespoke Festival Venue at The Old Truman Brewery, London
No. Please leave the membership number field blank on the entry form if you are not a member. Members of the Society will receive a discount on their entries, however, if you wish to apply for membership please contact Corey Newfield in our membership team.
No, the entry system is all online.
Yes. Head to our YouTube channel and the Awards playlist. There you'll find advice from past judges on what they look for in a winning paper, as well as insight from senior marketers from the winning brands, interviewed on Awards night.
Please submit your entry PDF format, and JPEG for supporting images.
Yes you may include supporting documents for our judges to review, this can be in the form of images and videos.
There is no maximum file size.
Entrants can be nominated by their colleagues, enter on their own behalf or be entered by a partner company, client or peer. All nominations will be reviewed by key personnel within The Marketing Society team and our boards, a final shortlist of five will be presented to the Awards judging panel who through discussion and voting will decide on the winner, which we announce on Awards night in June.
Members of The Marketing Society have access to hundreds of winning and highly commended papers from our Awards in the Library section of our online Clubhouse.
Members can login using their Marketing Society membership number and password (which are different to the login details you create to submit your papers on our our Awards platform).
For non-members, you can view our 2021 Grand Prix paper from The National Lottery here.
Yes, we first published Marketing Excellence in 2006 and we're now on our third edition, Marketing Excellence 3, which contains 30 case studies from award-winning brands and is available to buy via Amazon.
If you would like to discuss which category or categories to enter, please call +4420 8973 1350 or email us and we can advise you.
Multiple trophies are able to be purchased. Please email the team for more details.
We have a variety of sponsorship opportunities available, and can work with you to tailor your package. For more details on Awards sponsorship opportunities please contact Rachael Rodrigues on +44208 9731372 or email [email protected]
No, we do not have eligibility dates on our award, we want to see all work that showcases marketing excellence, as long as you can answer all the criteria points we would love to see your entry