FAQs

Entries for these awards may be submitted by any UK, European or International:

• Digital communications agency
• PR/medical education/communications/marketing communications/market access or advertising agency
• Pharmaceutical company, biotech and life sciences companies
• Patient or professional association or body
• Healthcare charity
• NHS group or oganisation
• Technology or software company operating in the healthcare space
• Other healthcare company or agency

To enter, review or submit entries, sign in to your PM Society website account using your email address. If you can’t remember your password, simply visit the password reset page and enter your email address.

You must be a member of the PM Society to enter these Awards. If you would like to become a member of the PM Society simply join now. If you are unsure whether you or your company are a member of the PM Society, contact info@pmsociety.org.uk and we’ll be happy to help.

Dates

Effectiveness and Craft Awards
Tuesday 31 March 2020 to Tuesday 6 April 2021 – Entries must have been active, online or in use at some stage between this date range

Thursday 9 March 2018 to Tuesday 6 April 2021 – Long Term Campaign (Still working!) (3 years)

Friday 8 March 2019 – Tuesday 6 April 2021 for Building Digital Communities (2 years)

People Awards
Entrants need to give examples of work carried out between March 2020 and June 2021.

Language and markets
Programmes or campaigns aimed exclusively at overseas markets only (i.e. non-UK) must be supplied in an English language version with relevant metrics / performance indicators. They will be judged in exactly the same way as UK programmes.
All entries, where applicable, must comply with the ABPI Code of Practice or, for overseas material, the appropriate national or regional code.

Campaign extensions (or entering projects that have been entered before)
Entries which are extensions of a previously entered campaign must, in the opinion of the judges, be noticeably different from previous executions.

The exception is that an entry made last year into Still Working can be entered again into the equivalent category this year (Long term campaign) as long as there is new data to represent the extension of the campaign over the last 12 months.

Entries into the new Building Communities category can also be projects or campaigns entered last year (into any category) as this is a new category and as such is looking at components of the project previously not considered.

An entry previously submitted into a craft award (but not into an effectiveness award) may be entered this year into an effectiveness award if the eligibility dates still apply and the entry now has relevant effectiveness data. It may not be entered into a craft award unless it’s a campaign extension, which is noticeably different from previous executions.

Each project may be entered into a maximum of TWO CRAFT and TWO EFFECTIVENESS categories PLUS The Markify HCP Behavioural Science Award (making a maximum of 5 if the Markify award option is taken).

1. Review the list of categories and decide which is appropriate for your entry
2. Click “Enter this category’ from the category page or ‘Add a new entry’ from the Enter page to start your entry.
3. You will be asked to complete your written entry details. You will be required to upload a supporting file showcasing your entry.
4. Press ‘Save and Continue Later’ to if you wish to modify your entry before the closing date of Tuesday 11th May*
5. When your entry is complete press ‘Submit’, past this stage you can longer edit your entry.
6. Once all information for an entry has been provided and submitted you may pay for your entry or continue to add entries and pay for them together up until the entry deadline of Tuesday 11th May*

Each entry must be completed online through the website and it is the responsibility of the entrant to obtain client approval prior to submission. Entries may be withdrawn after the entry deadline however entry fees are non-refundable.

*An entry extension is available to midnight on Tuesday 18th May 2021 for an additional fee.

Supporting your entry

Entries can be submitted with an mp4 video file, ideally no longer than three minutes in duration. The video must clearly demonstrate the interactivity and illustrate the best features. You can video capture the entry being demonstrated (either by video or screen capture software like Camtasia or Captivate) and upload your video file with your entry.

Websites can be entered by supplying the URL and an mp4 video demonstrating its key features. To allow judges to view and score your entry, any submitted URLs must be ‘live’ from the time of submission until at least the end of July 2021.

To support the Markify HCP Behavioural Science Award please upload additional files such as PDFs of the campaign assets.

For the Film and Animation categories please upload your full film file with your entry as an mp4 video file. However where your film is longer than three minutes you should supply an edited video file no longer than three minutes in duration which will be used during first round judging. The video will allow the judges a flavour of the entire programme.

Full details of the judging process and criteria are detailed in the judging section.

The decision of the judges in all matters is final and they retain the right to move entries into other categories if appropriate. Whole categories may be merged with others or removed altogether (and fees refunded if appropriate) if insufficient entries received.

Closing date for entry for the effectiveness and craft awards is midnight on Tuesday 11th May 2021.

A seven-day extension will be permitted to midnight  Tuesday 18th May 2021 for the additional charge of £60 + VAT per entry.

Our people awards can be entered up until midnight on Thursday 15th July 2021.

You must be a member of the PM Society to enter these Awards. If you would like to become a member of the PM Society join now.

Entries are charged at £195 + VAT (total £234) per entry. Payment should be made online at the relevant point in the entry process.

An additional £60 + VAT per entry will be applicable to entries received after the closing date of midnight, Tuesday 11th 2021, but received before the extended entry deadline of midnight on Tuesday 18th May 2021.

Pharma Digital Partner category nominations are FREE OF CHARGE.

It is free to enter the Markify HCP Behavioural Science Award, if you have entered one of the qualifying categories. If you DO NOT wish to be included in this award please check the box on the entry form.

The PM Society takes its website security extremely seriously to ensure the safety of the data held.

The website has recently been rebuilt on a WordPress CMS. WordPress is used by over 60 million websites (30% of the internet as of April 2019).

We implement a number of strategies to ensure the security of the site, the server itself is protected by a Firewall and all traffic is encrypted and any new software security patches are implemented in a timely manner.

We use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to host any videos submitted, these are then protected by Amazon’s robust security measures.

All PM Society users have had to create new passwords to access their accounts and 3^rd party users (such as judges) have to sign confidentiality agreements before being given access to entry submissions.

Finalists will be advised via e-mail w/c Monday 28 June 2021. The organisers will contact shortlisted entrants with details of the second round of judging.

Initially, your entry will go through a verification process, viewed by the Awards team only.

At the judging stage, all submitted material will be viewed by the judges who are required to sign an NDA before being allowed access to the judging site.

If you are through to the finalist stages we will contact you for approval and/or edits of your original submission which is suitable for the awards ceremony, exhibition and our online results brochure.

We will confirm with you at every step to ensure you and your client are happy with what is shown and where.

We are not sure yet whether the ceremony will be live or online via our event platform. Watch out for regular updates. The awards ceremony date is provisionally Thursday 16^th September.

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The online results brochure for the 2021 Awards will be available on the website following the final presentation on Thursday 16 September with further publicity through our media partners and additional digital and print channels.