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Email Awards. Yes? No? How?
Mike Nelson of Really Good Emails just posted this excellent call to us:
Email Awards. Should We Have Them?
It seemed like the /community was a perfect place to discuss. Does your agency / organization enter work into contests? Do your clients? Which?
Being relatively new to the email industry I wasn't aware of any awards (and I'm still not exactly clear on if there are official awards after reading Mike's post) but I'm fairly certain my agency would submit emails for awards if we knew where/when to submit stuff.
I'd personally love to have more places to see well designed/developed emails and also have designers/developers in a generally under appreciated sphere get more recognition.
We've entered emails as part of campaigns in some local competitions. What that means is we'd enter the email design + other supporting material(s) (landing page design, social ads, PPC ads, etc). Sadly, email wasn't a stand alone category. However the one group that hosts one of the awards competition we enter says next year there will be an email category.