DMA Awards unplugged: a practical workshop - Thursday 13 August
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9.00am Registration and breakfast
9.30am Welcome
Mark Runacus, Partner, Karmarama and Chair of the DMA Awards Committee
9.45am How best to present your creative
Mike Cavers, Executive Creative Director, DST
10.00am How best to present your strategy
Caroline Kimber, Data Strategy Director, Stack
10.15am How best to present your results
Gavin Wheeler, CEO, WDMP
10.30am Category overview: Which to enter and why
Mark Runacus, Partner, Karmarama and Chair of the DMA Awards Committee
10.45am Q&A
11.00am Close
Agenda
Why enter?• Winning a DMA has real value
For the company. For the agency. For an individual career.
• The DMAs are viewed by the marketing community as one of the most respected awards schemes
• More robust, more business-driven
Thought leadership• Category winners are well-publicised
• DMA provides winners with assets for promotion
• Winners become case histories in business and education
The marketing equivalent of winning a gold medal
• If you win – shout about it
Insight• Developing the entry
“Like holding up a mirror to your marketing strategy”
• Identify areas for future improvement
Developing people• Developing the entry is a collaborative process Winning recognises the whole team.
Identify and reward outstanding contributions from individuals
Attracting talent• Ambitious young marketers use the DMA
Awards as part of their research process when deciding who they want to work for
• A business that has entered – and won – DMA awards has engendered a culture of excellence
Is it worth it?• Difficult to measure ROI, nevertheless
• Proven direct correlation between brand’s awards success and business performance
• Effective organisations win DMA awards
DMAs• Always been associated with
effectiveness
• Judged on strategy, creativity and results
• Each year over 600 agency and client awards entries
The best clients, agencies, and businesses enter the DMAs to prove they can
make a significant difference to the bottom line.
The judging process
• Three days of evaluation
• Each category is judged by a jury comprising industry experts, client, creative, planner
• Silent evaluation to produce short list
• Confidentiality maintained relentlessly
The judging process
• Open and robust discussion of shortlisted entries
• Secret voting throughout
• Any interested parties must abstain and not comment
• Dedicated Grand Prix judging day
Tips• Use the DMA help
– See contact details
• Make your submission interesting and enjoyable– The judges have a lot to read!– Tell a story with passion and conviction
Scoring
• An entry can be marked down or ignored if the results are not presented correctly OR not at all
Be Clear• In the main body of the entry explain:
– How will you be measuring the campaign?– What behaviour are you trying to change?
• ROI• Value of sales• Uplift against control• Number of new registrations• Cots/ response, cost/click• Click through rate• Retention rates
• Make sure your results section is consistent with this
Don’t make us guess
• What is the definition of success?– Target was to reduce CPR
of £1.16, achieved £0.95
• Ideally we need to benchmark against previous activity
Avoid
“We achieved a 5%
response rate better than last year”
“ This campaign did
better than expected”
“ We doubled the number of enquiries”
“ Brand awareness improved”
“ The campaign
achieved 10 million media impressions”
“ We had 10,000 people
like our Facebook
page”
Categories overview: Which to enter and whyMark RunacusPartner, Karmarama and Chair of the DMA Awards Committee
@DMA_UK #dmawards
If it’s worth entering . . .
• Is the piece or campaign exemplary?• Will it make a great case study?• If so, it’s almost certainly worth entering in
more than one category
Industry sectorsWhether it’s single or multi-channel, we want to see how your campaign compares to the rest of your sector. We’ll be looking for break-through, original ideas, inspired strategy and outstanding results.
•1. Automotive•2. Travel, leisure & entertainment•3. IT/Telecommunications•4. Retail•5. Financial Services•6. Healthcare•7. Public Sector•8. Charity•9. FMCG•10. The best business to business campaign•11. The best business to consumer campaign
We don’t just want to see a fantastic creative execution, we want to understand how you got to it. And we want to see how your audience responded.
•12. Best use of e-mail marketing•13. Best digital destination•14. Best use of mobile•15. Best use of search, natural and paid for•16. Best use of social media•17. Best digital performance•18. Best loyalty or CRM programme•19. Best use of press and inserts•20. Best use of door drops•21. Best use of direct mail
•22. Best use of experiential•23. Best integrated campaign•24. Best launch campaign•25. Best use of programmatic
Channel & Campaigns
Craft awardsPlease enter work into the craft categories that have also been entered into other categories outside this section.
•26. Best use of film and/or audio•27. Best writing•28. Best design or art direction•29. Best data strategy•30. Best brand building campaign•31. Best customer acquisition campaign•32. Best use of technology•33. Best creative solution or innovation•34. Best customer journey
Key datesEntries open: Now!Close of entries: 11 SeptemberJudging: 5 – 8 OctoberAwards night: 1 December