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Campaign Division Categories
Community Relations
Programs that improve an organization's relationship with the public and organizations and its image within the community (specific geographic location) in which it operates.
Content Marketing
Programs that demonstrate effective leveraging of articles, videos, infographics, and other types of relevant and valuable content to introduce and/or promote a brand, program, or organization.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Programs designed to contribute to sustainability and societal well-being by delivering economic, social, and environmental benefits for all stakeholders.
Crisis Communications and Issues Management
Communication efforts implemented in immediate response to negative and unplanned internal or external situations, that are designed to protect or defend an individual or organization facing a public challenge to its reputation, or to manage public communication during a crisis, disaster, or emergency.
Digital and Social Media Communications
Programs that utilize digital and/or social media platforms, emerging technologies and/or new applications as their primary source of outreach to generate awareness, influence behavior and allow individuals/groups to collaborate and share knowledge/experiences online.
Diversity and Inclusion
Programs designed to reach multicultural or diverse audience groups, or to promote diversity by recognizing the perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors of an organization's cultural audience.
Employee Engagement
Programs that enhance an organization's relationship with employees and/or publics directly allied with the organization, including members, affiliated dealers, and franchisees.
Events
A single special event or series of events that draw attention to an organization, product, service, or a commemorative occasion.
Executive Communications
Programs specifically designed to build the personal brand of one or more company executives.
Influencer Campaigns
Creative, appropriate, and effective identification, engagement and use of an ambassador or other influencer to introduce, or promote an organization or brand message to key audiences.
Integrated Marketing
Programs that utilize a combination of communications, marketing, and public relations tactics—including but not limited to earned media, paid media, advertising, digital communications (website, blogs, email marketing, etc.), content marketing, social media, and events—to promote an organization, program, or product.
Investor Relations
Programs for both public and private companies that effectively communicate an organization's financial story to enhance an employer's or client's financial standing, inform and attract shareholders, or otherwise improve and maintain relations with industry analysts, the investment community, and the local business community.
Media Relations
Innovative, engaging, or other successful techniques that captured the attention of media and connected them with your organization or client. These programs should stretch the boundaries of traditional press release campaigns and showcase what media success looks like in our new, ever-evolving media landscape -- spanning the realms of earned, paid, and shared media.
PR on a Shoestring Budget
Programs and/or projects that were conducted with limited funds/budget. While a "shoestring" budget is subjective, winners in this category are those who have done more with significantly less and yielded outstanding results.
Public Affairs
Programs that create or enhance public/government awareness and/or support a social, political, economic, environmental, or other public concern. This includes programs that create awareness for a specific issue or political candidate to affect legislation, regulations, or political action at the local, state, or federal government level.
Reputation Management
Programs that promote and/or improve the image, profile, and reputation of an organization to its key constituents in response to an issue, event, or market occurrence. (This is not a category for crisis management).
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