Nominations - AdCracker Annual & Top 10 Ads

The AdCracker Annual recognizes outstanding creativity in persuasive communications, worldwide. Nominations are judged on excellence in 1) branding, 2) positioning, and 3) direct response techniques.

What's in it for you? Worldwide fame if your submission makes our annual list of top ten ads. A smile and credit line if your ad makes our top 100.

There is no charge, no fees to nominate your work.

Standard categories, consumer and business:

- Print ads, newspaper and magazine
- Direct response TVCs & infomercials
- TV commercials
- Email
- Web & Internet ads
- Ambient
- Radio

Special categories: Creative briefs, books, blogs, podcasts, websites, news shows and commentary are eligible for Special AdCracker Awards.

Deadline: January 1 for communications published within the preceding 12 months.

It's easy, and free, to nominate your work:

- All material must be submitted via email or on a CD.

- Print ads and email examples should be high res jpegs, at least 600 pixels wide.

- TVCs, video blogs or news shows can be either PAL or NTSC, preferably high quality MPEG format.

- Flash ads should be in their original SWF or FLV format.

- All nominations become the property of AdCracker for publication and analysis, and may be published with or without attribution.

- One submission - one ad or one campaign - per email, please.

- We are unable to return samples.

- We require a pool of at least 100 finalists in a category to present that category for voting.

New this year - Send submissions to: AdCrackerAnnual@gmail.com

Subject line: Annual nomination

Include a note in your email with:

1) A brief description of the techniques used to position the service or product, build the brand, or directly drives sales.

2) Your name, company, and relation to the project:

3) Your full contact info: email, phone and mailing address.

4) Optional supplementary information, such as the creative brief or the results of the campaign.

We may contact you for more information if your nomination passes the first stage of our selection process.

Postal submission can be sent to:

AdCracker Annual Nominations
313 Calle Pueblo
San Clemente, CA 92672
USA