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What's New & Different for 2012

Gold, Silver and Bronze Stevie Awards

• To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Stevie Awards movement, we introduce Silver and Bronze Stevie Awards in 2012. This means that all honorees in the ABAs will now be Stevie Award winners - no more Finalist certificates. Read more about this here.

Two Awards Dinners

• The ABAs will have two awards dinners in 2012: our traditional banquet in New York, on Monday, June 18, and our new tech awards ceremony in San Francisco in September (date and setting TBD). The category pages indicate at which ceremony a particular category's awards will be presented. Note that all Finalists for both ceremonies will be announced in mid-May.

Online Submission Only

• Entries may no longer be submitted offline. All entries must be submitted online, even if you enter a category for which you'll provide materials for judging offline (e.g. Best Annual Report).

Eligibility Timeframe:

• Eligibility for the 2012 ABAs extends from January 1 2011 through April 25 2012, the last day that late entries will be accepted.  Nominations should cite achievements during this eligibility window.  Video, literature, live events, and other media premiered since that date are eligible to be entered.  There is no eligibility timeframe for web site entries - it doesn't matter when web sites were first published.

Entry Fees:

• For the first time in six years the entry fees have been raised a bit - just $25 per entry, though.

Entry Deadlines

• There are four entry deadlines, including two early-bird deadlines by which the entry fees are substantially discounted:
  • November 16 2011 : entry fees are discounted by as much as 40%
  • December 14 2011: entry fees are discounted by as much as 25%
  • March 28 2012
  • April 25 2012: late entry deadline (late fees charged in addition to any entry fees)

New Categories:

• There are so many new categories for 2012 - too many to list here. We recommend that you take a few minutes to explore all of the category pages on this web site to get a sense of the categories that are open to you.

Best of the ABA Awards

• A new addition to the ABAs' repertory of awards in 2012 are five best-of-competition prizes that will awarded to the organizations that submit the best body of work to the competition, in their own name or in the names of one or more clients. Learn more here.

Eliminated Categories:

• Best Business Turnaround of the Year
• Turnaround Executive of the Year
• Finance Executive of the Year
• Interactive Multimedia categories.  These are now incorporated in the App categories

Link/File Uploader

• We've added a Link/File Uploader to the online entry form. Click the link that says "Add Attachments, Videos or Links to This Entry" to add or upload any number of URLs or offline supporting attachments to an entry. Your attachments and links will then be presented to the judges.