FOR THOSE WHO ROCK, WE SALUTE YOU.
MarCom is seeking the brightest, most radical and revolutionary creatives who are rocking the marketing and communication industry. Only those who communicate boldly and brilliantly through planning, design and writing will be honored.
2017 Competition Opens August 1 | Deadline September 15
International Competition for Marketing and Communication Professionals
ENTRY INFORMATION
All you need to know to enter the MarCom Awards.
The competition is designed for the convenience of the entrant. You have the option of entering online and uploading your entries or sending in entry forms with entries.
>Print Entry Form.
If you send in your entries, please attach a copy of Form A to each entry. Submit only one copy of each entry. There are no special binders, or matting requirements. A digital version of a print entry is acceptable. If an entry is too large, a photo will suffice. Since each entry is judged on its own merits, no accompanying materials are necessary for most categories. In a few designated categories where a plan is involved, submit whatever you produced for your client (whether internal or external). If the plan or report is not available, submit a brief summary of objectives, challenges and solutions. Audio, video, print or web entries may be uploaded or submitted on CD, DVD or USB flash drive, or write a web location on the entry form below the title of entry. Multiple entries may be submitted on the same CD, DVD or flash drive. Most formats are acceptable.
An entry may be submitted in more than one category at an additional cost. However it is not necessary to send an additional copy for each category.
Platinum winning entrants who submit digital entries online will have the opportunity to have their work displayed in our online winner’s gallery if they grant permission on the online entry form.
The competition is open to all individuals, companies and organizations involved in producing any marketing and communication materials for external or internal audiences.
To be eligible, an entry must have been produced after January 1, 2016 (almost a 2-year window).
Registration is currently closed. 2017 competition opens August 1.
MarCom Awards is one of the most reasonably priced awards programs in the creative industry. Instead of charging several hundred dollars per entry, the fee is $85 per entry or $160 per campaign or plan.
If you want to submit pro bono work only, you must pay the regular entry fees.
Only entrants who enter a regular piece in the competition are eligible to enter pro bono work at no cost. This is a perk for those who help defray costs of overhead, mailings, judging etc.
You can only have one pro bono entry per client. Multiple pieces such as a brochure, website, video, etc. count as one entry. You can however have an unlimited number of pro bono clients. If you are mailing in your pro bono entry, include a brief synopsis of what you did for each pro bono client. If you are entering online, upload a brief description after checkout. To be considered a pro bono entry, you should not have received any compensation. It is ok for the nonprofit or others to have paid for hard costs such as materials. You will be judged on creativity and the extent of your effort.
Over the past two decades, Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals’ judges have earned a reputation for accuracy, fairness and credibility. A look at the list of MarCom winners is a who’s who of the industry. It is also the competition where professional organizations that run their own competitions enter their work.
To ensure timeliness, fairness and consistency, most of the judging is done in the AMCP judging room in Dallas, Texas and in Washington, D.C. Judges are senior-level, experienced professionals residing in the Dallas-Fort Worth and D.C. areas. They are free-lancers or own their own businesses. They are selected based on experience and availability. It takes two months of full-time work to judge the thousands of entries. Judges can change during the process, but at least one of the two judging coordinators is there at every session.
Entries are judged at random and not compared directly to other entries in their categories. There is no preset number of winners in a category. There are no lengthy essays to persuade the judges; so all work is evaluated solely on its own quality, creativity and resourcefulness. Judges base their decisions on learned perceptions of creative excellence rather than an entrant’s imaginative explanation of an entry’s value.
Since there is a tremendous variance of resources from entrant-to-entrant, and piece-to-piece, perceived budget is taken into consideration in the judging. Based on their work experiences, judges have an expectation for each individual entry. A student-produced ad is not held to the same expectation as a piece produced by a Madison Avenue agency for a Fortune 50 company.
Entries should be postmarked by Friday, September 15, 2017. If you need an extension, call 214-377-3524 or email info@marcomawards.com
MarCom Awards recognizes that many of the entries are internal or proprietary in nature, or are done for the government or another company, so unless you grant permission for your entries to be displayed in our winner’s gallery, only the judges will see your work.
Entries will not be returned unless special arrangements are made. Immediately after judging, each hard copy entry is destroyed. Each electronic entry not granted permission to be displayed is deleted. No entrant information is sold, traded, made available to a third party or used for any other purpose.
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ENTRIES PER YEAR
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COUNTRIES
$250,000
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200,000+
AMCP ENTRIES
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$85 per entry or $160 per campaign or plan.
