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Charity Partner Make-A-Wish Foundation UK

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The Judging process

Judges will be scoring on a range of factors. However, we encourage you to cover the following in your submissions; otherwise you may lose marks unnecessarily.

Non Vertical Awards
  1. Clear Objectives
    Provide evidence of clear, well thought out objectives and overall strategy for the campaign, innovation, application or feature.
  2. Innovation and Uniqueness
    Demonstrate to judges innovation and uniqueness used within the specified activity.
  3. Feasibility
    Define the need, drivers, opportunity and commercial feasibility for the campaign.
  4. Smart Execution
    Briefly describe how your strategy was executed and what made it stand out.
  5. Success and ROI
    Clearly show ROI from the campaign (state hard figures) and ultimately why it met your objectives and deemed a success*.
Vertical Awards
  1. Clear Campaign Objectives
    Provide evidence to judges of clear, well thought out objectives and overall strategy for the campaign within the vertical.
  2. Innovation and Uniqueness
    Demonstrate to judge's innovation and uniqueness within the vertical.
  3. Relationship Management & Transparency
    Judges must see examples of how you ensure your affiliate marketing activity is transparent and methods deployed to engage the publisher or advertiser relationship.
  4. Smart Execution
    Briefly describe how your strategy was executed and what made it stand out within your vertical.
  5. Success and ROI
    CClearly show the ROI from the campaign (include actual figures) and why you believe it was a success within the affiliate marketing sector*

* Please mark all commercially sensitive data with 'Judges Eyes Only'. All judges sign an NDA as standard. Judges will be restricted from judging any category where conflicts of interests may arise.

Important dates

  • 16.11.11 - 31.01.12 / Entry submission period
  • 07.02.12 / Late entry submission deadline*
  • 13.02.12 / Voting Open for Nominated Awards
  • 27.02.12 / Shortlist Announced (week commencing)
  • 15.05.12 / The Awards
*Surcharge applies to late entries

More information here

What's being said?

'Winning an a4uAward gave us the independent industry recognition we needed to get cut through in the crowded, competitive affiliate landscape. Since the a4uAward wins we've seen an increase in advertiser interest which is fantastic and helping drive our business forward'

Duncan Jennings, MD — vouchercodes.co.uk

Past Winners

Previous winners