Receipt of award does not acknowledge any particular skill or expertise on behalf of recipient and should not be used in determining whether to enter into any agreement with Matson Money, Inc. Please consider the disclosure of criteria for each award shown.

Eligibility

Matson Money paid $365 to be considered for the Business of the Year category and $285 for the Financial Services category plus a $30 administrative fee.

The awards program is open to all entrepreneurs, SMEs, large organizations, and related individuals, involved in the business industry worldwide. Any person, group, or organization may turn in their submissions online. To be eligible, an entry must have been produced after January 1, 2021 (almost a 2-year window). Entries may originate from any country.

Requirements:

Entry Brief: It is recommended that you keep your synopsis to approximately 350 words. The brief should strengthen your entry, as well as providing the jury a better understanding of your project. A written translation or adaptation must accompany non-English entries.

Image Submission: The submissions should be saved in a flattened JPEG or JPG format. (keep them under 4MB, 1,200px wide is preferable, 300dpi, RGB).

Video/Audio Submission: Entries with audio/video must be submitted with a direct URL that will take judges directly to the work: Upload video/audio to Vimeo/YouTube/Youku. Paste the URL link into the URL field.

There are THREE (3) levels of achievement in the competition:

– Category Winners of the Year

– Platinum (85-100 points)

– Gold (60-84 points)

To ensure high standards of quality, a category may have multiple winners or no winners. Each submission is critiqued rated by consensus, with the panel of judges determining a rating on a scale of 100 points. Winners with a score between 85 and 100 points are Platinum Winners. Entries with a score between 60 and 84 points are Gold Winners.

Entries receiving an average score under 60 do not receive an award.

The highest score amongst the Platinum winners* for each main category will be selected as Category Winners of the Year.

Judges are selected based on experience, credibility, and availability. The Business Awards jury panel consist of senior-level executives, business professionals and acclaimed entrepreneurs, where their business experiences and acumen imbue them with impartiality and undivided attention.

Submissions are judged at random without comparison in the same categories. Our judges will score on a scale of 1-100 based on:

– Originality

– Business acumen

– Business expertise

– Impressions

– Delivery of submission

– Company culture (if applicable)

Retrieved from: https://thetitanawards.com/business-awards.php.

1. Titan Business Awards. Retrieved from https://thetitanawards.com/business-awards.php.

Receipt of award does not acknowledge any particular skill or expertise on behalf of recipient and should not be used in determining whether to enter into any agreement with Matson Money, Inc. Please consider the disclosure of criteria for each award shown.

Criteria Disclosure:

“ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing any kind of marketing and communication materials for external or internal audiences. To be eligible, an entry must have been produced after January 1, 2020 (a 2-year window).

ENTRY FEES: The entry fee is $125 for each submission or $195 for each campaign or plan entry. If a piece is entered in more than one category, please enclose an additional entry fee for each time it is entered. AMCP does not charge for entries produced pro bono for outside nonprofits. Matson Money paid a total of $765.

CATEGORIES: Categories are divided into Print Media, Public Relations/Communications and Electronic/Social/Interactive Media.

JUDGING: Now in its fourth decade, AMCP has earned a reputation for accuracy, fairness, and credibility. A look at the list of winners is a who’s who of the creative industry. It takes about eight weeks of judging, eight hours a day, to review all the work that is submitted in each competition. Judges are senior-level, experienced professionals. They are freelancers or own their own businesses. They are selected based on experience and availability.

Entries are judged at random and not directly compared to other entries in their category. Work is judged on creativity and the judge’s perception of what you had to work with. A 2-color and a 4-color brochure in the same category are not compared to each other. A small company is not compared to a Fortune 500 entrant in the same category. There can be multiple winners or no winners in any given category. Utilizing a consensus judging system, the judges verbalize their criticisms, compliments, etc., and then agree on a score. Entries receiving scores between 90-100 points are Platinum Winners. Entries with 80-89 points are Gold Winners. Entries scoring from 70-79 receive Honorable Mention recognition.”

Retrieved 4/30/24 from: https://hermesawards.com/

Receipt of award does not acknowledge any particular skill or expertise on behalf of recipient and should not be used in determining whether to enter into any agreement with Matson Money, Inc. Please consider the disclosure of criteria for each award shown.

Eligibility: The awards program is open to all creative and marketing professionals, individuals, agencies, companies, organizations, and institutions involved in advertising, marketing or communication practices, as well as media practitioners for internal or external audiences. To be eligible, an entry must have been produced after January 1, 2022. Entries may originate from any country.

Winning Level:

There are THREE (3) levels of achievement in the competition:

NYX Grand (85-100 points)

NYX Gold (70-84 points)

NYX Silver (50-69 points)

Entries receiving an average score under 50 do not receive an award.

The number of awards presented by NYX Awards is determined by the number of submissions in a given category, the scoring range, and the number of tie scores.

Judging Criteria:

Judges are senior-level industry experts, encompassing experienced professionals across marketing, communication, media, public relations, creative and many other industries. Judges are selected based on experience, credibility, and availability.

To prevent bias/conflict of interest, all entrant information is removed from entries. Judging is blind, and the scores are provided on a scale of 1-100, based on the criteria below:

1. Creativity / Concept / Idea
2. Content / Quality of Message
3. Production & Execution
4. Innovation / Effectiveness
5. Overall Experience

To be considered for each of the following categories, Matson Money paid $215 for Strategic Campaign – Event Campaign, $215 Integrated Marketing – Integrated Marketing/Other,  $145 for Video – Social Media, and $145 for the Social Media – Instagram Page

Receipt of award does not acknowledge any particular skill or expertise on behalf of recipient and should not be used in determining whether to enter into any agreement with Matson Money, Inc. Please consider the disclosure of criteria for each award shown.

1. Muse Creative Awards. Retrieved 10 April 2024 from https://museaward.com/advertising-awards.php.

Matson Money paid $220 for event category, $220 for integrated marketing and $175 for social media reel entries.

MUSE Creative Awards makes every effort to keep entry costs low. Rather than increasing the fee for each entry, fees are only charged in order to cover administrative costs like printing, mailing and data organization. For this reason, each participant is charged a flat $30 annual administrative fee. When all participants pay the same low fee, those submitting more than one entry will actually pay less than if fees were on a sliding scale. Multiple entries must be submitted at the same time as your first entry in order to be counted as “additional category”. An entry submitted at a later time will be counted as a “first entry”. Work submitted must have been created within the last 2 years. Retrieved from https://museaward.com/advertising-awards.php#thefees.

Receipt of award does not acknowledge any particular skill or expertise on behalf of recipient and should not be used in determining whether to enter into any agreement with Matson Money, Inc. Please consider the disclosure of criteria for each award shown.

Over the past two decades, the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals’ judges has earned a reputation for accuracy, fairness, and credibility. A look at the list of MarCom winners is a who’s who of the industry. It is also the competition where professional organizations that run their own competitions enter their work.

To ensure timeliness, fairness, and consistency, most of the judging is done in the AMCP judging room in Dallas, Texas, and Washington, D.C. Judges are senior-level, experienced professionals residing in the Dallas-Fort Worth and D.C. areas. They are freelancers or own their own businesses. They are selected based on experience and availability. It takes two months of full-time work to judge the thousands of entries. Judges can change during the process, but at least one of the two judging coordinators is there at every session.

Entries are judged at random and not compared directly to other entries in their categories. There is no preset number of winners in a category. There are no lengthy essays to persuade the judges; so all work is evaluated solely on its own quality, creativity, and resourcefulness. Judges base their decisions on learned perceptions of creative excellence rather than an entrant’s imaginative explanation of an entry’s value.

Since there is a tremendous variance of resources from entrant-to-entrant, and piece-to-piece, perceived budget is taken into consideration in the judging. Based on their work experiences, judges expect each entry. A student-produced ad is not held to the same expectation as a piece produced by a Madison Avenue agency for a Fortune 500 company.

Matson Money paid $390 per campaign entry and $250 per standard entry.

Receipt of award does not acknowledge any particular skill or expertise on behalf of recipient and should not be used in determining whether to enter into any agreement with Matson Money, Inc. Please consider the disclosure of criteria for each award shown.

The Telly Award Company of The Year is awarded to the company who has enjoyed the greatest success across the competition as a whole (both through entries reviewed by The Telly Award Judging Council and the People’s Telly Award). In order to recognize the award level of each winning piece of work and the relative merits in winning each, a sliding scale of points is awarded to Gold (16), Silver (4) and Bronze (1). The Telly Award Company of the Year is derived from the total number of points achieved across all wins.

All judges are top advertising and production professionals. Most importantly, all of our judges are members of the Silver Telly Council with an interest in upholding the historical standard of excellence that Telly represents.

Matson Money paid $740 total to be considered in the categories of sound design, use of 3D animation, corporate image, education and training.

Criteria Disclosure:

“ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing any kind of marketing and communication materials for external or internal audiences. To be eligible, an entry must have been produced after January 1, 2020 (a 2-year window).

ENTRY FEES: The entry fee is $120 for each submission or $195 for each campaign or plan entry. If a piece is entered in more than one category, please enclose an additional entry fee for each time it is entered. AMCP does not charge for entries produced pro bono for outside nonprofits. Matson Money paid a total of $780.

CATEGORIES: Categories are divided into Print Media, Public Relations/Communications and Electronic/Social/Interactive Media.

JUDGING: Now in its fourth decade, AMCP has earned a reputation for accuracy, fairness, and credibility. A look at the list of winners is a who’s who of the creative industry. It takes about eight weeks of judging, eight hours a day, to review all the work that is submitted in each competition. Judges are senior-level, experienced professionals. They are freelancers or own their own businesses. They are selected based on experience and availability.

Entries are judged at random and not directly compared to other entries in their category. Work is judged on creativity and the judge’s perception of what you had to work with. A 2-color and a 4-color brochure in the same category are not compared to each other. A small company is not compared to a Fortune 500 entrant in the same category. There can be multiple winners or no winners in any given category. Utilizing a consensus judging system, the judges verbalize their criticisms, compliments, etc., and then agree on a score. Entries receiving scores between 90-100 points are Platinum Winners. Entries with 80-89 points are Gold Winners. Entries scoring from 70-79 receive Honorable Mention recognition.”

Retrieved 4/14/23 from: https://hermesawards.com/

This content is not to be considered investment advice and is not to be relied upon as the basis for entering into any transaction or advisory relationship or making any investment decision.

Matson Money, Inc. “Matson” is a federally registered investment advisor with the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and has been in business since 1991. In Canada, Matson is registered as a portfolio manager in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia.  Registration with the SEC and the Canadian securities regulatory authorities does not imply their approval or endorsement of any services provided by Matson. This content is based on the views of Matson.  The concepts discussed herein are for educational purposes only. This content includes the opinions, beliefs, or viewpoints of Matson Money and its Co-Advisors and should not be relied upon for entering into any transaction, advisory relationship, or making any investment decision.  Other organizations or persons may analyze investments and the approach to investing from a different perspective than that reflected in this content.  Nothing included herein is intended to infer that the approach to investing discussed in this content will assure any particular investment result.

Criteria Disclosure:

ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing any kind of marketing and communication materials for external or internal audiences. To be eligible, an entry must have been produced after January 1, 2020 (a 2-year window).

ENTRY FEES: The entry fee is $120 for each submission or $195 for each campaign or plan entry. If a piece is entered in more than one category, please enclose an additional entry fee for each time it is entered. AMCP does not charge for entries produced pro bono for outside nonprofits. Matson Money paid a total of $780.

CATEGORIES: Categories are divided into Print Media, Public Relations/Communications and Electronic/Social/Interactive Media.

JUDGING: Now in its fourth decade, AMCP has earned a reputation for accuracy, fairness, and credibility. A look at the list of winners is a who’s who of the creative industry. It takes about eight weeks of judging, eight hours a day, to review all the work that is submitted in each competition. Judges are senior-level, experienced professionals. They are freelancers or own their own businesses. They are selected based on experience and availability.

Entries are judged at random and not directly compared to other entries in their category. Work is judged on creativity and the judge’s perception of what you had to work with. A 2-color and a 4-color brochure in the same category are not compared to each other. A small company is not compared to a Fortune 500 entrant in the same category. There can be multiple winners or no winners in any given category. Utilizing a consensus judging system, the judges verbalize their criticisms, compliments, etc., and then agree on a score. Entries receiving scores between 90-100 points are Platinum Winners. Entries with 80-89 points are Gold Winners. Entries scoring from 70-79 receive Honorable Mention recognition.”

Retrieved 4/25/23 from: https://hermesawards.com/

Criteria Disclosure:

“ELIGIBILITY: The competition is open to all individuals, companies, and organizations involved in producing any kind of marketing and communication materials for external or internal audiences. To be eligible, an entry must have been produced after January 1, 2020 (a 2-year window).

ENTRY FEES: The entry fee is $120 for each submission or $195 for each campaign or plan entry. If a piece is entered in more than one category, please enclose an additional entry fee for each time it is entered. AMCP does not charge for entries produced pro bono for outside nonprofits. Matson Money paid a total of $780.

CATEGORIES: Categories are divided into Print Media, Public Relations/Communications and Electronic/Social/Interactive Media.

JUDGING: Now in its fourth decade, AMCP has earned a reputation for accuracy, fairness, and credibility. A look at the list of winners is a who’s who of the creative industry. It takes about eight weeks of judging, eight hours a day, to review all the work that is submitted in each competition. Judges are senior-level, experienced professionals. They are freelancers or own their own businesses. They are selected based on experience and availability.

Entries are judged at random and not directly compared to other entries in their category. Work is judged on creativity and the judge’s perception of what you had to work with. A 2-color and a 4-color brochure in the same category are not compared to each other. A small company is not compared to a Fortune 500 entrant in the same category. There can be multiple winners or no winners in any given category. Utilizing a consensus judging system, the judges verbalize their criticisms, compliments, etc., and then agree on a score. Entries receiving scores between 90-100 points are Platinum Winners. Entries with 80-89 points are Gold Winners. Entries scoring from 70-79 receive Honorable Mention recognition.”

Retrieved 4/14/23 from: https://hermesawards.com/

This content is not to be considered investment advice and is not to be relied upon as the basis for entering into any transaction or advisory relationship or making any investment decision.

Matson Money, Inc. “Matson” is a federally registered investment advisor with the Securities Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and has been in business since 1991. In Canada, Matson is registered as a portfolio manager in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia.  Registration with the SEC and the Canadian securities regulatory authorities does not imply their approval or endorsement of any services provided by Matson. This content is based on the views of Matson.  The concepts discussed herein are for educational purposes only. This content includes the opinions, beliefs, or viewpoints of Matson Money and its Co-Advisors and should not be relied upon for entering into any transaction, advisory relationship, or making any investment decision.  Other organizations or persons may analyze investments and the approach to investing from a different perspective than that reflected in this content.  Nothing included herein is intended to infer that the approach to investing discussed in this content will assure any particular investment result.

Disclosures

1. Muse Creative Awards. Retrieved 14 April 2023 from https://museaward.com/advertising-awards.php.

Matson Money paid $170 for the Corporate category, $110 for Financial Services and $110 for Informational.

MUSE Creative Awards makes every effort to keep entry costs low. Thus, the entry fee is $130, and $195 for Campaigns. Rather than increasing the fee for each entry, fees are only charged in order to cover administrative costs like printing, mailing and data organization. For this reason, each participant is charged a flat $30 annual administrative fee. When all participants pay the same low fee, those submitting more than one entry will actually pay less than if fees were on a sliding scale. Multiple entries must be submitted at the same time as your first entry in order to be counted as “additional category”. An entry submitted at a later time will be counted as a “first entry”. Work submitted must have been created within the last 2 years.

Retrieved from https://museaward.com/advertising-awards.php#thefees.

Receipt of award does not acknowledge any particular skill or expertise on behalf of recipient and should not be used in determining whether to enter into any agreement with Matson Money, Inc. Please consider the disclosure of criteria for each award shown.

Receipt of award does not acknowledge any particular skill or expertise on behalf of recipient and should not be used in determining whether to enter into any agreement with Matson Money, Inc. Please consider the disclosure of criteria for each award shown.

The criteria and descriptions for the 2022 Vega Awards are detailed as follows.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

The Vega Awards is open to all digital media companies and organizations, regardless of size, from sole proprietors on up – and from everywhere on the globe.
Submitted works must be within a two-year window from their creation, for example, 2020 to current competitive year (2022).

Digital works and projects, which include advertising, design, interactive content, mobile apps, web design/development, and audio/video productions are accepted.
Entries are subject to review and those deemed inappropriate, offensive or discriminatory will be disqualified without refund (this includes, but is not limited to, pornography, racial slander, and/or defamatory statements).

Entries may originate from any country.

To ensure high standards of high quality, a category may have multiple winners or no winners. Work is critiqued rated by consensus, with the panel of judges determining a rating on a scale of 100 points.

There are THREE (3) levels of achievement in the competition:

CANOPUS : First Place (85-100 points)
CENTAURI : Second Place (70-84 points)
ARCTURUS : Third Place (50-69 points)

Entries receiving an average score under 50 do not receive an award.

The number of awards presented by Vega Digital Awards is determined by the number of submissions in a given category, the scoring range and the number of tie scores.

Vega judges are stars in their own right – experienced, senior-level digital media professionals drawn from many nations. Judges are chosen based on their experience, credibility, and availability.

Judging is blind. All entrants’ information is removed from entries to prevent bias/conflict of interest. Judges score on a scale of 1-100, based on a predefined set of criteria related to the main category, such as: CONTENT / WRITING, INNOVATION / CREATIVITY, VISUAL DESIGN / QUALITY OF CRAFT, IMPACT / REACH / ENGAGEMENT, EXECUTION / TECHNICAL EXECUTION,STRUCTURE & NAVIGATION / FUNCTIONALITY / INTERACTIVITY, OVERALL EXPERIENCE.

The Vega Digital Awards makes every effort to keep the entry costs affordable. Thus, our entry fee is $105, and $175 for Campaigns. Rather than increase the fee for each entry, fees are only charged to cover administrative costs like printing, mailing and data organization. With all participants paying an affordable fee, those who are submitting more than one entry will pay lesser than when fees are on a sliding scale.

*Information retrieved from https://vegaawards.com/website-awards.php#howtoenter.

A Global Competition Specified Towards Honoring Greatness In Marketing, Communication, Advertising, Public Relations, Graphic Design, Print, Digital, Video and Audio.

The NYX Awards is a leading international awards program that recognizes, celebrates, and provides acknowledgment favoring all who possess extraordinary calibre across all facets of industries and mediums, specifically in the fields of marketing, communication, advertising, creativity, public relations, graphic design, print, digital, video, and audio.

Seeing to its establishment in 2018, the award is open to all individuals, agencies, or organizations on an international scale, who present their remarkable capabilities in the production of marketing materials, in print or digital form, videos, advertising and public relations, broadcast television operations, and creative services, receiving thousands of exquisite entries from more than 60 countries annually.

Correspondingly, the competition is exclusively presented to the recognition of projects, talents, and works of professionals at the forefront of the industry, in a variety of specialized fields, ranging from marketing to communication, print to digital, advertising to public relations, video to audio, and creative industries.

NYX Awards is open to all individuals and organizations, whom embody the epitome of creativity within the marketing, communication, design, print, video, and digital mediums, for local, regional, or subscription avenues, as well as both external or internal audiences.

The award program is open to all individuals, agencies, organizations across video production companies, advertising and public relations firms, cable and broadcast television operations, as well as independent producers, designers, developers, content producers, digital artists, video professionals, creative directors, and internal creative and marketing team, for local, regional, or subscription avenues, that target both internal and external audiences. To be eligible, an entry must have been produced after January 1, 2021 (almost a 2-year window). Entries may originate from any country.

The NYX Awards competition is designed for convenience of the entrant by entering online and uploading your entries.

It is recommended that you keep your synopsis to approximately 350 words. The brief should strengthen your entry, as well as providing the jury a better understanding of your project. A written translation or adaptation must accompany non-English entries.

Image Submission:
The submissions should be saved in a flattened JPEG or JPG format. (keep them under 4MB, 1,200px wide is preferable, 300dpi, RGB).

Audio / Video Submission:
Entries with audio/video must be submitted with a direct URL that will take judges directly to the work:
Upload audio / video to Vimeo/YouTube/Youku.
Paste the URL link into the URL field.

There are THREE (3) levels of achievement in the competition:

NYX Grand (85-100 points)
NYX Gold (70-84 points)
NYX Silver (50-69 points)

Entries receiving an average score under 50 do not receive an award.

The number of awards presented by NYX Awards is determined by the number of submissions in a given category, the scoring range, and the number of tie scores.

Judges are senior-level industry experts, encompassing leading professionals from top advertising and production companies, networks, and content studios. Judges are selected based on experience, credibility, and availability.

To prevent bias/conflict of interest, all entrants’ information are removed from entries. Judging is blind, and the scores are provided on a scale of 1-100, based on the criteria below:

1. Creativity / Concept / Idea
2. Content / Quality of Message
3. Production & Execution
4. Innovation / Effectiveness
5. Overall Experience

There was a minimal entry fee paid for each submission ranging from $75 to $139.

Receipt of award does not acknowledge any particular skill or expertise on behalf of recipient and should not be used in determining whether to enter into any agreement with Matson Money, Inc.