Please fill out the following form to enter this year's awards. Once completed you will be able to begin submitting entries for the Comms Council Axis Awards 2019
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ELIGIBILITY AND RULES
The New Zealand Axis Awards celebrate the best work written, produced, developed and managed locally from 2018.
1. Any work commercially released and first published or aired between 1st January 2018 and 31st December 2018 is eligible for entry. HOWEVER, work that was entered for Axis 2018 is not eligible to be entered again for Axis 2019. Work entered in previous years is only eligible as part of a campaign entry and only when outnumbered by new advertisements of the same campaign.
2. Work created in New Zealand for overseas markets (which did not run in New Zealand) is now eligible in all categories and is eligible to be entered for the Grand Axis (not including Charity entries). Proof will be required however, that the work was NZ originated, developed and creatively lead by a NZ creative team. If this proof is not sufficient then the entry may be marked down by the judges or be deemed ineligible.
3. Work that has run overseas in the Craft category is eligible. However, the director/editor / cinematographer/3-D designer/animator/composer/sound designer or arranger MUST be domiciled in New Zealand.
4. Overseas production companies can submit work provided the work was run in New Zealand. Production companies who have an overseas office don’t have the right to enter everything they do from that office just because head office is in Auckland.
5. Entries submitted must be those versions that were produced in response to a genuine brief from a client and were made available to the public through legal mediums. Advertisements for which there is no client or that were not commissioned by a client (i.e. scam ads) will not be accepted. The judges reserve the right to request a full media schedule from each entrant company to verify the authenticity of the ad(s) in the event that entry is a finalist or winner. Director’s cuts will not be accepted. Advertising agencies’ own advertisements including self-promotional items or situations vacant ads are not eligible for entry.
6. “Call for entries” campaigns are not eligible for entry.
7. Agencies, typographers, photographers, design agencies, commercial businesses, freelancers and production companies may submit entries.
Craft categories:
8. Campaigns cannot be entered into Craft categories. Single executions only.
9. Agencies cannot enter Craft categories 1 – 11 (unless the agency itself was responsible for the crafting of the work rather than commissioning it).
10. Agencies can enter Craft categories 12 – 19.
11. Category 19 is accepted as an agency craft category, but any photographer/ illustrator/re-toucher is also eligible to enter.
12. Charity entries can be entered into any craft category by agencies and production companies as above.
13. If an entry requires an explanation to describe its context, please provide this in the ‘Notes’ field of the online form. The description is a maximum of 100 words.
14. Check with your Production Company or Agency before entering work to avoid duplicate entries. Please note that the Comms Council does not refund for any duplicate entries. If a piece of work is entered more than once into one category, the Comms Council reserves the right to remove one of those entries from the Awards. In the case of entries in the Craft category, if both a production company and an agency enter the same work, the production company's entry will be favoured over an agency's. In the case of all other categories, if both an agency and production company enter the same work, an agency's entry will be granted favour.
15. The jury reserves the right to move entries to another category if it is felt they have unintentionally been entered into the wrong one.
16. Note re Public Service: Public Service (advertising paid for by a government department or non-commercial body) can be entered in any category and is eligible for any award including a Grand Prix and the Grand Axis award.
17. If an entry is submitted in any category (other than category For Good) for a commercial brand using a corporate social responsibility strategy that benefits a charity, please note that you will be contacted to explain the commercial benefit for the brand prior to judging. This work cannot be entered into any Charity category.
18. Entries, which, up to and including the final date of judging, have had a complaint upheld by the Advertising Standards Complaints Board, will not be accepted, unless they have been subsequently modified to comply with the Codes of Practice. It is the responsibility of the entrant to withdraw such work should an infringement arise prior to the Axis Awards show.
19. If you are going to enter a hype video or case study, it can be no longer than two minutes duration.
20. You may be asked to provide a 30’ version if you make it through to finalist stage.
21. Eligibility & Declaration Form: Entrants are required to complete the Eligibility & Declaration form for each entry acknowledging that the entry is a true and accurate representation and giving permission for the Comms Council to use at their discretion any material submitted for the COMMS COUNCIL AXIS Awards. The Eligibility & Declaration form must be signed by the Creative Director (or equivalent) for the entry to be eligible. The Eligibility & Declaration Form is automatically emailed when first creating the entry online.
