AVA Digital Awards
The creative convergence of digital arts, technology and information is changing the way we market, communicate and socially interact.
The advent of digital media allows audio, video and electronic text to work together to enhance the speed and flow of information.
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AVA DIGITAL AWARDS
AVA Digital Awards is an international competition that recognizes excellence by creative professionals responsible for the planning, concept, direction, design and production of digital communication.
Work ranges from digital campaigns – to audio and video production – to website development – to social media engagement – to mobile marketing.
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AVA DIGITAL AWARDS
AVA Digital Awards honors the evolving ways and means that we engage our audiences through the creative convergence of digital arts, technology and information.
The foundation for the Awards began in 1994 as a celebration of the audio-visual arts. Over the years, AVA’s categories changed to recognize the expanding role that digital media and the web were playing in the transfer of information.
Now, through the internet and digital’s interactive capabilities, communication professionals are no longer just pushing their messages, they are responding to the user’s actions to provide information when, where and however they want it.
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AVA DIGITAL AWARDS
AVA Digital Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals (AMCP), one of the oldest, largest, and most respected evaluators of creative work in the marketing and communication industry.
Founded in 1994, AMCP has judged more than 200,000 entries and given away over $250,000 to charitable endeavors. As part of its mission, AMCP supports the altruistic efforts of its entrants by not charging entry fees for work done pro bono.
AMCP also oversees the MarCom Awards and Hermes Creative Awards, two of the most highly acclaimed competitions in the world for marketing and communication professionals.
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Entry Information
Entering online is quick and easy. After registration, you will be routed through a multi-stage entry system. If your entry has a URL, you will be given a chance to enter the address after choosing a category. If you need to upload a file, you will be prompted to do so after checkout. You can abandon and return to the entry system at any time without losing any of your work.
Since each entry is judged on its own merits, in most cases, no accompanying materials or explanations are necessary. For categories involving Digital Marketing Campaigns, you will be asked to include a brief overview along with digital work product. An entry fee is required for each category in which an entry is submitted.
Each entry will have a box for permission to display the entry file in the winners list, gallery and social media. If permission is not granted, the file or link will only be seen by the judges.
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AVA Digital Awards
Entry Information
Entering online is quick and easy. After registration, you will be routed through a multi-stage entry system. If your entry has a URL, you will be given a chance to enter the address after choosing a category. If you need to upload a file, you will be prompted to do so after checkout. You can abandon and return to the entry system at any time without losing any of your work.
Since each entry is judged on its own merits, in most cases, no accompanying materials or explanations are necessary. For categories involving Digital Marketing Campaigns, you will be asked to include a brief overview along with digital work product. An entry fee is required for each category in which an entry is submitted.
Each entry will have a box for permission to display the entry file in the winners list, gallery and social media. If permission is not granted, the file or link will only be seen by the judges.
The competition is open to all individuals, companies and organizations involved in producing any type of project involving digital media for external or internal audiences. To be eligible, an entry must have been produced after January 1, 2019.
The fee for entry is $110 or $175 for Campaigns. If an entry is submitted in more than one category, please enclose an additional entry fee for each time it is entered.
There are 227 categories in a broad range of categories under Digital Marketing, Web / Television / Video / Audio Communication and Electronic / Social / Interactive Media.
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AMCP recognizes the talents and generosity of the creative community and does not charge for entries produced pro bono for outside nonprofits. 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 count as one entry. You can however have an unlimited number of pro bono clients. 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.
If you want to submit pro bono work only, you must pay the regular entry fees.
Over the past two decades, Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals’ judges have earned a reputation for accuracy, fairness and credibility.
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 project is not held to the same expectation as a piece produced by a Madison Avenue agency for a Fortune 500 company.
Judges verbalize their criticisms, compliments etc. and then agree on a score. Entries receiving scores between 90-100 points are Platinum Winners. Entries with 80-89 points are Gold Winners. Entries scoring from 70-79 receive an Honorable Mention certificate.
The competition is currently closed. The next competition opens November 1, 2020.
If you need an extension, call 214-377-3526 or email info@avaawards.com.
AVA Digital Awards recognizes that many of the entries are internal or proprietary in nature, or are done for the government or another company. So, unless permission is granted during the entry process, entries will not be displayed in the winner list, gallery, social media or any other place.
AVA Digital Awards assumes that entrants have all permission and rights associated with their entries.
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AVA Statuette
The AVA statuette is designed to pay tribute to the evolution of the digital arts. The elegant woman is a representation of the early days of the audio-visual industry. She is holding media that morphs into an array of cubes symbolizing the communication industry’s evolution into digital interactivity and the web.
The AVA statuette is crafted by Society Awards, a high-end design and manufacturing firm that is recreating the awards industry. Over the past several years, Society Awards has redesigned many of the world’s top creative awards, including The CLIOS, Golden Globes, MTV’s VMA, Academy of Country Music and American Music Awards.
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1994
The foundation for the Awards began in 1994 as a celebration of the audio-visual arts. Over the years, AVA’s categories changed to recognize the expanding role that digital media and the web were playing in the transfer of information.
200K
AMCP has judged more than 200,000 entries and given away over $250,000 to charitable endeavors. As part of its mission, AMCP supports the altruistic efforts of its entrants by not charging entry fees for work done pro bono.
Video
Websites
Social Media
Interactive Communication
41%
40%
10%
9%
