PANPA Ad Awards 2012 CLOSES FRIDAY

The PANPA Ad Awards are on for 2012. Enter now for the chance to be honoured in our region’s largest in-house newspaper advertising awards.

The annual PANPA Ad Awards celebrate in-house creative excellence. These prestigious awards include advertising and campaigns for clients – including the ideas that never made it into print! – plus advertising to promote the sale of newspapers and the power of advertising. The Awards continue to be updated to feature digital advertising solutions, including smartphones and iPads and other tablet computers. This year the Awards also recognise outstanding craft, be it copywriting, photography or illustration.

The Awards also embrace executive excellence, offering personal awards for ad manager of the year, display executive, online executive, best bundling solution, classifieds executive and Creative Services Professional.

In 2010, newspapers lodged a total 318 entries – a record high for the biggest in-house newspaper advertising Awards in our region.

Click here to read the Awards criteria for 2012.

Click here to download an entry form for the Executive Excellence Awards.

To enter the Awards, go to www.eawards.com.au/2012adawards.

Entries open: Monday, February 6

Entries close: Friday, March 30

Fee: A$125 per entry

Winners announced: Thursday, May 10

All entries must have been published between March 12, 2011 and March 30, 2012. Only financial members may enter.

Check out winners of the PANPA Ad Awards 2011 in the July 2011 PANPA Bulletin.

The team from the Border Mail collect their 2011 award . . . (left to right) sales manager Craig Cleary; PANPA CEO Mark Hollands; graphic artist Leysa Charles; advertising manager Nick Russell; head of creative Carl Rainer