{"id":1079,"date":"2016-11-01T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2016-10-24T09:36:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T13:36:52","slug":"the-best-online-advertising-to-be-named-by-web-marketing-association-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/the-best-online-advertising-to-be-named-by-web-marketing-association-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Online Advertising To Be Named By Web Marketing Association"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IAC<\/a>The Web Marketing Association announces the Call for Entries for the 15th annual Internet Advertising Competition<\/a> (IAC) Awards. The IAC Awards are the first and only industry-based advertising award competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. This international award program will evaluate all forms of online advertising, including email, page-based ads, online newsletters, mobile apps, Websites, video and social media in 96 industry categories. The Competition Web site is located at www.iacaward.org<\/a> and the deadline for entry is January 31, 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnline advertising continues to explode in all of it forms,\u201d said William Rice, President of the Web Marketing Association. \u201cWe created the IAC Awards to highlight the best in this unique advertising medium by industry, and also to help advertising professionals validate their efforts to clients and senior management. The IAC Awards can provide third party confirmation that clients are getting the best creative for their ad dollars. Winning awards is a great way to demonstrate your creative potential.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Internet Advertising Competition Awards are open to all organizations and individuals (advertising and interactive agencies, corporate marketing departments, small business owners, etc.) involved in the process of developing Internet advertising. Entries may be submitted online at http:\/\/www.iacaward.org<\/a>. The deadline for entry is January 31, 2017 and will be judged on creativity, innovation, impact, design, copywriting, and use of the medium.<\/p>\n

Awards will be presented within each of the industry categories and advertising formats including:
\nBest Social Media Campaign
\nBest Online ad (including banner, pop-up or interstitial)
\nBest Rich media online ad
\nBest Email message
\nBest Online newsletter
\nBest Website (including best landing pages and best microsites)
\nBest Online video
\nBest Mobile applications
\nBest Integrated ad campaign<\/p>\n

Best of show award for each format will be selected from among the industry winners. Ads eligible for entry in the competition must have run during the period from January 1, 2016 through January 31, 2017.<\/p>\n

Interactive agencies that win multiple awards will also be in the running for Top Agency Award. Each entrant will be awarded points based on the level of award for each award received. A Best of Show will be worth 5 points, Best of Industry 3 points and each Outstanding award 1 point. The agency with the most points will be awarded the Top Agency Award. Agencies winning an IAC Award will also be automatically included in the Award Winning Agencies Database<\/a><\/p>\n

In an effort to recognize those organizations that demonstrate exceptional development skills across multiple entries, agencies that win more the 6 awards will also be recognized with an Outstanding Advertising Developer award from the Web Marketing Association. In 2016, seven agencies won this honor.<\/p>\n

Judging for the IAC Awards will take place in February, 2017, and winners will be notified by e-mail in March, 2017. Judges will consist of a select group of Internet advertising professionals with an in-depth understanding of the current state-of-the-art in Web advertising. Past competition judges have included top executives from leading corporations, institutions and media organizations such as Arc Worldwide, Brunner Digital, Campbell-Ewald, CNN, Deep Interactive Asia, Digitas, EuroRSCG 4D, Google, IBM Interactive, imc2, JWT, LeapFrog Interactive, Mass Transmit, McCann Worldgroup, Razorfish, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Tectis GmbH, TMP Worldwide, Universal McCann Interactive and Wunderman \/ Y&R.<\/p>\n

The 2017 Internet Advertising Competition Awards are sponsored by SEO Inc., Small Army, PR.Com, EContent Magazine, ad:tech conferences, Cranberry Radio and Website Magazine.<\/p>\n

A complete list of past IAC Award winners<\/a> can be found at the IAC Award Website.<\/p>\n

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The Web Marketing Association announces the Call for Entries for the 15th annual Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Awards. The IAC Awards are the first and only industry-based advertising award competition dedicated exclusively to online advertising. This international award program will evaluate all forms of online advertising, including email, page-based ads, online newsletters, mobile apps, Websites, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award-winning-agencies","category-iac-awards","category-web-marketing-association"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1083,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/1083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webaward.org\/theblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}