The Communication Industry’s Prestigious Award Seeks to Honor Today’s Emerging Media Pioneers.
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(1888PressRelease) August 20, 2008 - PORTLAND, OR – The Summit International Awards (SIA) organization today announces they are now accepting entries into the 2008 Summit Emerging Media Award (Summit EMA) competition. Deadline: September 24, 2008.
Open to firms of all size it including interactive and advertising agencies, advertisers, freelancers, SEM firms, bloggers, multimedia producers and more. Summit EMA is devoted to providing a public spotlight for those pushing the bounds of today’s new media vehicles.
Awards will be given in seven main areas: Social Media, Websites, Interactive, Internet Marketing, Email Marketing, Display Advertising and Bleeding Edge Media. Individual categories offer submissions in a variety of areas from Drip, Viral and Mashed Video Marketing to Blogs, Mobile and Interstitial Advertising.
“The Summit Emerging Media Award evolved because our media is changing rapidly as is our industry and there is a need to reward those pushing its bounds,” said Jocelyn Luciano, executive director of The Summit International Awards organization. “Many are studying these changes and looking for the new powerful tools and avenues to conceptually reach an application to which the audience and consumer can relate. This award is for the pioneers of the bleeding edge means of modern communication.”
Judging is done by a panel of interactive and marketing professionals representing some of the top firms from around the world. Winning submissions are selected based on Method, Innovation and Information. Winning entries receive the Best of Show, Visionary, Innovator and Leader awards.
“Creativity online has come full circle. It has gone through various stages of technology, bandwidth issues, target dynamics and is settling down to getting the job done effectively and beautifully,” said Tom Roy, Executive Director for Corporate Communications, for Promoseven McCann and former Summit Judge. “The Summit Awards are recognition of creativity that delivers to the task. That reaches the target audience effectively, clearly – and with creative panache. That’s why to be judged a winner, creative online or off needs to be clear, precise, compelling and outstanding.”
For fifteen years, the SIA organization has been recognizing and promoting companies and individuals that produce outstanding marketing, advertising design and interactive communications. It’s established itself as one of the premier arbiters of creative and marketing excellence. It is a truly international organization, for each year over 50 countries are represented in its competitions.
Each year the SIA organization conducts three competitions:
Summit Emerging Media Awards (EMA) - Created to identify the world's communication pioneers. Those pushing the bounds of the communication badlands. All forms of emerging media are explored, examined and awarded. Deadline, September 24, 2008.
Summit Creative Award (SCA) - Recognizes creative excellence in companies and individuals with billing under $25 million. Includes all media and industries. Deadline January 28, 2009.
Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award (MEA) - A unique competitive arena where the judging criteria is based on the true purpose of marketing communications; to change, influence, and reinforce the consumer’s knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs. Creative samples and a short brief are included in the evaluation. Deadline June 24, 2009.
For more information on the Summit International Awards organization or to obtain an Entry Kit for the 2008 Summit EMA competition, visit www.summitawards.com or call 1-503-297-9979. Deadline for all entries in the 2008 Summit EMA competition is September 24, 2008.