About

The Drum Content Awards honour the best in modern marketing. Content marketing & branded entertainment focuses on creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content to attract and retain a clearly-defined audience — and, ultimately, to drive profitable customer action. 

We all know that content is one of the secret ingredients for brand engagement, sentiment and of course success. That is why we created The Drum Content Awards five years ago, to give a platform for recognition of those who continue to push the boundaries and most importantly, get the results.

Each year the submissions keep getting better and in 2019 we hope to unearth more talented individuals, producing work worthy of the spotlight.

To ensure we give entrants the most value, we will be publishing shortlisted case studies, with the entrants’ permission, to our global audience. We will be using thedrum.com and our social assets to remind the world of the importance content can make if it’s executed properly.

For the cost of one entry price, you could secure global amplification and profile.

Motivation

Picking up an award proves that all the hard work was worth it. It gives your team the energy to keep pushing boundaries and raising standards.

Client relationships

It's good to remind your clients why they work with you from time to time. Having the work you've done for them recognised by the industry is powerful stuff. Even more so if you bring them along to the awards night to pick up the trophy with you.

Recruitment

If you pick up awards, it also picks up the interest of new talent. You can expect smart people to be knocking at your door to see if you have a desk for them.

New business

Good clients who are after good work keep an eye out for the good businesses who are winning awards. A few extra trophies can give you a real advantage when you're hunting for new business.

PR

There's no better way of getting publicity than for being excellent. The Drum will cover all of the shortlisted work on thedrum.com. With over 1 million unique visitors and over 200,000 social followers, that’s no small deal. And we recommend that you use an award win for further PR opportunities too (but we don't need to tell the PR industry that!). If you achieve something this special, you really should make a noise about it.​

Knees up

Then, of course, there's the awards show. And our awards shows are legendary. They're a great opportunity to reward your staff, pamper your clients and let your hair down.

Super early bird - First entry - £206.50 + VAT

Super early bird - Additional entries - £108.50 + VAT

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Early bird - First entry - £236 + VAT

Early bird - Additional entries - £124 + VAT

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Standard - First entry - £295 + VAT 

Standard - Additional entries - £155 + VAT

• You may enter as many categories as you like, however each entry must be treated as a separate entry and payment made for each.
   
• In order to get the discounted rate for any additional entries, please ensure you enter them all at once.
   
• If you are a member of The Drum Network, you will receive 10% off your entries, and if you are a charity you will receive 40% off your entries.

Your Content Awards entry must adhere to the rules below:

• Entries must be received no later than the published deadline date. 
   
• All submissions must be made online. 
   
• Entries that were live to market at some point between July 2019 and August 2020.  Entries do not have to be created within this timescale.
   
• Do not include password protection or if essential, include passwords for judges to access.
   
• All entries must be supplied and conform to the category rules/submission formats.
   
• Work entered into more than one category must be treated as a completely separate entry.  Multiple entries can be made but separate payment must be made for each.  Please note: you will ONLY receive the 2nd entry rate if you enter all your submissions at the same time. Leave your entries in your basket until you are sure they are complete. Refunds will not be given.
   
• The judging panel will only read and use the entries/reports for the purposes of the judging and are required to sign NDAs.
   
• The judges reserve the right to re-allocate entries that in their view are entered in an incorrect category. The judges also reserve the right to remove categories where entries do not meet the standard for nomination. These entries will not be refunded as they will have been judged accordingly.
   
• The judges’ decision is final. 
   
• Due to the number of entries received, the awards cannot give feedback on individual entries.
   
• The organisers reserve the right to verify that all entries have been commercially produced for a commercial client where relevant.
   
• All entries submitted must be legal. Any entries containing offensive material will be disqualified. Any entry that has a complaint upheld against it by the Advertising Standards Authority will be disqualified.

Your entry template is your entry report, once completed you must convert to PDF and upload under the Entry Report section at the time of submitting.

• Standard Entry Template: Download
• Content Marketing Agency of the Year Entry Template: Download