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 - Effie Awards 2017 in association with TVNZ
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The entrant agrees that Comms Council will not accept responsibility for errors or omissions reproduced in award publicity material, or for work lost or damaged.
The entrant grants Comms Council permission to show the entries at the Effie Awards show and at other times deemed appropriate after the Effie Awards show. It is a condition of entry that Comms Council reserve the right and shall be permitted at all times to use at their discretion any material submitted for the Effie Awards on the Comms Council website, in promotional and educational books, videos, articles and such other means as they deem appropriate for case study purposes.
All decisions of the Effie Awards Committee in all matters relating to the competition shall be final and binding.
The maximum word limit is 2,500 words. 20 or less words in graphs or schedules will not be counted. ANY ENTRY WHICH HAS EXCEEDED THE WORD LIMIT WILL BE RETURNED TO YOU UNDER THE SCRUTINEERING RULES TO CORRECT. FAILURE TO DO SO WILL MEAN THE ENTRY IS DISQUALIFIED.
The authorisation form must accompany each entry. The authorisation form must be signed by both an officer of the agency and an officer of the client company acknowledging that the entry is a true and accurate representation of the media campaign and giving permission for Comms Council to use at their discretion any material submitted for the Comms Council Effie Awards for the purpose of case study material in hard copy and online formats. The authorisation form is automatically emailed on submission of the online registration.
Eligibility requirements
The Effie Awards is an agency-blind competition. Therefore, agency names and/or logos should not be shown in the entry form, campaign material or on any other materials that will be seen by the judges.
Please note, campaigns that do not adhere to the eligibility requirements may be disqualified and fees will not be refunded.
Only marketing campaigns that ran in New Zealand and have local results are eligible for entry
The marketing campaigns must have run between 1 January 2016 and 15 June 2017 to qualify for entry.
Campaigns may have been introduced earlier but must have run during this period.
The data/results provided must have occurred during the qualifying time but can extend into the period up to close of entry on August 15th.
Business to Business (B2B) entries can only be entered in Category D.
Sustained Success Category: Marketing communications campaigns that ran in NZ for at least 36 months from 1 January 2014 (or earlier) to 15 June 2017 are eligible for entry.
Campaign material requirements
The purpose of campaign material is to illustrate the campaign, and to help judges fully appreciate how consumers experienced the campaign. Campaign material should be examples of the work such as static examples of advertising or original video or audio content or links to apps or websites etc.
NO CASE STUDY VIDEOS OR HYPE TAPES
Campaign material is meant to support, not sell the written entry.
Campaign material formats
Campaign material must be provided in digital format ONLY on a CD/DVD or USB key.
Your campaign material must be agency blind, therefore please do not use branded USB keys. If this is the case you will be requested to resubmit your campaign material on a different USB key.
Campaign material is limited to a maximum of 10 examples of campaign execution e.g. pdfs of print ads, TV ads, video content created, websites etc.
Entries on website or apps, please provide screen shots on disc/USB
Labelling
Each CD/DVD must be clearly labelled with the Entry Number, Category and Entry Title.
USB keys should be placed in an envelope labelled with the Entry Number, Category and Entry title
