DIGITAL IMPACT AWARDS 2012 CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Digital Impact Awards is now live and open for submissions.
The programme, the UK’s leading established celebration benchmarking excellence in digital stakeholder communications, invites all companies and agencies to enter their best efforts in digital comms.
Shortlisted entrants will be invited to attend an opulent gala dinner on 16 October at The Brewery, London, where their achievements will be celebrated to the highest level.
Winners will be awarded with a trophy and certificate and will see their projects showcased at digitalimpactawards.com, where each category will have its own fully search optimised page.
To further promote the winning submissions, the Digital Impact Awards will launch a media campaign in the autumn of 2012 to publicise the display showcase, and winners will be provided with a press release template by Communicate magazine for their own media purposes.
The awards welcome entries from in-house corporate professionals, digital agencies, business strategists, design firms, advertising agencies, non-profit organisations and government agencies whose strategy or execution was developed, launched or carried out between January 2011 and May 2012.
A single organisation can enter multiple projects in any number of categories.
Entry deadline is 12 July 2012 and late entry is 19 July 2012 (subject to late fee).
Andrew Thomas, publisher of Communicate magazine said “Last year’s Digital Impact Awards attracted more entries, more attendees and, crucially, generated more media coverage than any comparable event. It’s unique position as the only true benchmarking of effective digital corporate communications means that winning a Digital Impact Award has become a holy grail for agencies and in-house digital teams. And the event is a great evening - but the Digital Impact Awards is about the calibre of the work submitted, not about the party.”
The Categories:
Deliverables
Best corporate website
Best use of SEO for corporate communications
Best use of mobile and portable devices
Best use of digital to aid a CR campaign
Best use of digital in a change or rebrand situation
Best use of online video
Best corporate viral campaign
Best digital corporate advertising campaign
Social Media
Best use of existing social media platforms/sites (Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Google+ etc.)
Best development of own social media tools/platforms
Best community development
Best use of social media in a crisis
Best use of digital to an internal audience
Best intranet
Best digital employee communication
Best use of digital to an investment audience
Best online annual report
Best use of digital to aid media relations
Best online newsroom
Best multimedia press release
Evaluation
Best process to evaluate a digital project
Sector
Best use of digital by a NGO, NFP or charity
Best use of digital by sector
Energy
Financial Services
Professional Services
Media & Telecommunication
Public
Retail
Travel
Extraction (oil, gas and mining)
Healthcare (inc pharma)
Consumer services
Property
Utilities
Digital agency of the year
Grand Prix for excellence in digital stakeholder relation