Entry Requirements

The Communicator Awards is open to all brands, agencies, in-house teams, studios, and independent creators regardless of organization size or project budget.

• To be eligible to enter, projects must have been produced after January 1, 2025.
• Work must be provided in English or with an English language translation.
• All work must be submitted in an acceptable format. See more details below.
• Additional entry requirements vary depending on whether you are submitting a single creative piece, a campaign or series, an integrated campaign or a Marketing Effectiveness piece.

Individual creative projects must be available as a single element in one of the following formats: a URL, a digital file, or a physical item. See more on acceptable formats below. All work is to be evaluated on its own merit against a standard of excellence set by the Academy.

“Redesign” Categories: Please share elements of the “before” and “after” of the redesign so the jury can evaluate the full scope of the initiative.

For campaigns or series in the mediums recognized, your work must be available as 2-6 elements, which can be submitted as discrete URLs, combined into a single digital file, or as a set of physical items. See more on acceptable formats below. As with Single Entries, the work is to be evaluated on its own merit against a standard of excellence set by the Academy.

For Integrated Campaign entries, your work must be available as a cohesive, multi-channel body of work spanning at least two distinct communication channels or media types (for example: video, social, print, and digital combined). Elements can be submitted as URLs or uploaded as digital files. See more on acceptable formats below. As with Single Entries and Campaigns or Series Entries, the work is to be evaluated on its own merit against a standard of excellence set by the Academy.

For entries submitted into Marketing Effectiveness categories, you are given the opportunity to provide additional information to detail the effectiveness of your marketing efforts. When submitting your entry for consideration, we ask that you combine your original creative element(s) along with a summary in a single URL, digital file, or physical item. See more on acceptable formats below.

The Marketing Effectiveness Summary should include the following information in under 1000 words:

• Background Information, describing the project and reasons for marketing efforts
• Target Audience, including the demographic and geographic information
• Objectives, as the specific goals and expectations for your campaign
• Challenges, articulating issues that were overcome for this project)
• Methods and Strategies, showing the ways in which you achieved your outcome, including creative and media communication strategies
• Results, demonstrating the overall outcome and evidence that you achieved your objectives and overcame challenges

Across all media and work types, elements must be accessible by the Jurors, meeting the following criteria:

• URLs must be open to the public OR have the username & password provided during the entry process
• Digital files must be under 300mb and in .mov, .mp4, .mpg, .flv, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .pdf, .doc, .docx, or .mp3 format
• Physical items must be mailed to our awards processing center at the address listed below. Note that we recommend submitting work as URLs or digital files unless the physical nature of the creative piece is a key component of your project.

For mail-in entries, please address all packages to:
The Communicator Awards
1544 Winchester Avenue Suite 601
Ashland, KY 41101

Regardless of how many creative elements are being reviewed, we can only accept one type of format. When submitting multiple elements for campaigns, series, or marketing effectiveness, you must combine all elements to be represented in a series of URLs (limit of 5), or a single digital file, or a single package to be mailed.

If you have further questions regarding entry requirements, please contact us at customerservice@communicatorawards.com or call (212) 675-4890.