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2025 Marketing Excellence Award
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2025 Marketing Excellence Award

The MEAs recognize outstanding and effective marketing in the AEC industry based upon overall creativity, messaging, results achieved by the campaign, and level of design.

$300.00
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At Zweig Group, we are committed to enhancing the AEC industry through comprehensive thought leadership and consulting services. The partnership with School of PE allows us to address the industry's top priority – training. Together, we aim to empower professionals with the skills they need to excel, further elevating the AEC landscape and driving innovation.

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Zweig Group’s Marketing Excellence Awards recognize outstanding and effective marketing in our industry. Choose one category or multiple categories.

Award entries will be judged by an external team of senior AEC marketing professionals and evaluated based upon overall creativity, messaging, results achieved by the campaign, and level of design.

 

Application Guide

Step 1: Register your firm and pay the application fee for each category that you will be entering.

Step 2: Complete your entry online. There will be a short survey to get some demographic data, an information section, and an area to submit supporting material.

Step 3: Evaluation. Each entry will be evaluated by a panel of senior marketing professions. Winners from each category will be chosen and notified that they won.

Step 4: Register for the 2025 ElevateAEC Conference & Awards Gala.


Categories include:

 

  • Advertising – An individual print or digital advertisement or ad campaign.
  • Brochure – A print or digital publication describing your firm’s general capabilities.
  • Integrated Marketing /Brand Awareness – Both printed and digital methods of distribution such as emails, direct mail, display ads, banner ads on a third-party website, or other components that take place over an extended period of time to promote brand awareness of your firm.
  • Holiday – A print or digital piece produced for one-time use to promote brand awareness of your firm during a holiday (holiday card, e-card, party invitation, client-appreciation gift, etc.).
  • Internal Marketing – Campaign designed for an employee audience to increase communication and collaboration within a firm or division. Examples include: Company Intranets, recognition program, awards program, or communications associated with mergers, acquisitions, or new business-line initiatives.
  • Newsletter, External – A newsletter conceived and created by your firm, with content developed internally, intended for external distribution. The intended audience is clients and/or potential clients, teaming partners, peers, local business press, and other interested parties. 
  • Newsletter, Internal – An internal, employee-focused publication produced via print or digital media.
  • Project Pursuit – Item(s) that were used in support of winning a single project. Materials can include anything that was used to win a project including; qualifications packages, proposals, presentations, interview tools, leave-behinds, or other pieces that contributed to the total effort.
  • Recruitment/Retention Communication – A program designed to recruit potential or retain current employees through print and/or electronic communications, including but not limited to ads, brochures, form letters, pamphlets, postcards, announcements, and email promotions.
  • Social Media – Any marketing effort that utilizes online social media tools to provide a platform for thought leadership, collaboration, and user interaction. May be one platform or a combination of platforms (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn as well as blog posts or podcasts).
  • Special Event Marketing – A marketing piece produced for a one-time event (i.e., charity event, an anniversary celebration, open house, community event, rebranding celebration, etc.). Entry should include visual proof (i.e., pictures) and all marketing materials used to promote the event. 
  • Video – A video that either promotes your firm or has been created by your firm for a specific project pursuit; a video created for external communications; or a video created for internal communications.
  • Website – A public website that either promotes your firm or has been launched by your firm for a specific project.

Deadlines:

  • June 2, 2025 – Entries must be submitted online
  • July 2025 – Winners notified

Winners will be recognized at the 2025 Elevate AEC Conference and be featured in The Zweig Letter, Zweig Group press releases, and promoted through Zweig Group’s other marketing channels.