How to Enter
Entry forms
Entry forms and associated documentation are available from here. Please ensure you use the correct entry form for the category being entered.
Click on the link to the online registration and submit the following details: Agency Name, the category entered, postal address, entrant contact details (the individual responsible for that entry), title of the campaign, product or service, first media appearance date and advertiser details.
When you have completed your online registration an entry number is automatically generated. This will be emailed to you together with details of your entry/ies.
- You must include this entry number in the header of each page of your entry
- Each individual entry must have a unique entry number
- The same entry may be submitted in more than one category (under the rules), but please note that each individual entry must have its own entry form, entry number and copy of supporting materials.
Your username and password allows you to update or change the details captured on the online registration form if need be.
Download and save the appropriate entry form to your hard drive from https://www.commscouncil.nz/ (it is not an online entry form).
The entire entry must be completed on the Comms Council official entry form. Please ensure you use the correct entry form - entry forms are specific to the category you are entering. The media schedule and a maximum of 2 x A4 pages of campaign images must be included at the end of the entry and uploaded as one document online. PowerPoint, additional information, binding of entry etc. will not be accepted.
The maximum word limit is 1,200 words for each category except for: Category Q (Best Communications Strategy) and Category U (Sustained Success) which each have a maximum word limit of 1,500. ANY ENTRY WHICH EXCEEDS THE WORD LIMIT BY MORE THAN 25 WORDS WILL BE RETURNED UNDER THE SCRUTINEERING RULES.
When you have finished writing your entry, upload your entry form online with all confidential information text in RED. Then print it out, copy it nine times and send the 10 hard copies by courier or mail to The Conference Company together with your signed declaration form (one for each entry) and any supporting material. Please DO NOT send entries to the Comms Council.
Please note:
- Before making 10 printed copies you must highlight all confidential information in RED (i.e. information which you do not want to be published). The 10 copies you submit are given to the judges so you must ensure that all pages are included in all copies and that each copy contains at the end, the media schedule and a maximum of 2 x A4 pages of campaign images. The Comms Council or The Conference Company are not responsible for making additional copies or checking that all hard copy entries for judges are complete.
Delivery Instructions
If you are submitting more than one campaign and you wish to send them in one box, please wrap materials from each campaign separately and label each with campaign names(s).
Send all materials prepaid to The Conference Company.
Please address to The Conference Company, Comms Council 2019 Beacon Awards:
Courier Address:
31C Normanby Road
Mt Eden 1024
Auckland
Postal Address
PO Box 90-040
Auckland 1142
Contact Details
Phone: +64 9 360 1240
Fax: +64 9 360 1242
email: beacon@theconferencecompany.com