About MarCOM Awards
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The MarCOM Awards is an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievements by marketing and communication professionals. Entries come from corporate marketing and communication departments, advertising agencies, PR Firms, design shops, production companies and freelancers. The competition has grown to perhaps the largest of it kind in the world. A look at the winners shows a range in size from individual's communicators to media conglomerates and Fortune 500 companies. The competition is so well respected in the industry that nation public relations organizations, local ad clubs, and local business communicator chapter are entrants.
MarCOM Awards is administered and judge by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. The international organization consists of several thousand creative professionals. The Association oversees awards and recognition programs, provides judges and sets standards for excellence.
As part of its mission, AMCP fosters and supports the effort of creative professionals who contribute their unique talents to public service and charitable organizations. Over the past two years, AMCP's Advisory Board has allocated over $40,000 in grants to support the effort of its members. That money was used for marketing materials for homeless shelters, orphanages, day camps, community theaters and art centers; for programs for the elderly and disable; childcare; and educational endeavors for the underprivileged.
Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talents exceed a high standard of excellence and whose works serve as a benchmark for the industry. There were over 5,000 entries from throughout the United States and several foreign countries in the MarCOM Awards 2008 competition.
The Gold Award is presented to those entries judged to exceed the high standard of the industry norm. Approximately 18% were Gold Award winners.
Being a Gold Award Winner is a tremendous achievement that is symbolized by the intricately detailed MarCOM statuettes. The statuettes were designed and individually cast by the same artisans that craft the Oscars, Emmy and MTV Awards. Each highly polished three dimensional metal award weighs about three pounds and stand 13 inches all on a piano finished hardwood base. HipHopfriends, ViperGFX, WRNR received a Gold MarCOM Award for "Promotional Materials". HipHopFriends, ViperGFX and B-Locks also received a Gold Award for "Design/Illustration/Graphic Design" of B-Locks Single CD Cover.
