Epica
Year 22
The Epica awards are now in their 22th year.
Their aim is to encourage the highest standards of creativity in European advertising and to help agencies, film production companies and photographers to develop their reputations across the continent.
The awards are judged by the European advertising
trade press; 34 magazines from 27 countries will be represented on the jury this year.
Epica winners receive widespread media coverage throughout Europe and a selection of the best entries is published each year in the Epica Book, a unique record of Europe’s most outstanding creative work.
How to Enter
For more information on how to enter please visit this link.
Entries
Epica is the largest European advertising awards competition with 5,642 entries from 47 countries in 2007. A total of 732 companies participated in the awards.
Eligibility
The Epica awards are open to all advertising agencies, film production companies, media consultancies, photographers and design studios operating in Europe and the EMEA region.
All work published or used in the media since July 1st, 2007 is eligible for entry. Work that does not meet these conditions will be disqualified in order to preserve the integrity of the competition and to ensure that all genuine entries have a fair chance of success.
Fees
The entry fee for each film, print or radio submission is €210; this applies to each execution whether it is judged individually or as part of a campaign. The entry fee for multi-media Integrated Campaigns (category 40) is €500. There is an additional digital encoding fee of €20 for each film entered on Beta SP.
Free Book and DVD
Each company participating in the awards will receive a free copy of the next Epica Book, volume 22, and a 90-minute DVD featuring all this year’s film winners and a selection of the finalists.
Awards Ceremony
The awards ceremony will be held on January 23rd, 2009 at the Megaron Concert Hall in Athens. The event will be hosted by +design, Greece’s leading bimonthly magazine devoted to advertising, graphic, web and industrial design.
This is the first time that the Epica ceremony will take place in Athens. Previous events have been held in Brussels, Amsterdam, Moscow, London, Zürich, Düsseldorf, Warsaw, Ljubljana, Lisbon, Helsinki, Prague, Milan, Dublin, Budapest, Istanbul and Stockholm.
For tickets and more information about the ceremony, please contact Demetrios Fakinos at +design:
Tel +30 210 959 30 33 or info@designmag.gr
Winners and Finalists
Epica entries are judged on the basis of 2 criteria only: the originality of the creative idea and the quality of its execution.
Four Epica d’Or (grand prix) will be awarded to the best overall film, press, outdoor and interactive entries.
The highest scoring entries in each category are the category winners (gold) - on condition that the work achieves a score that qualifies it as a winner. Other entries that do not win but achieve this score are finalists (silver & bronze). When no entry meets the standard there are no winners or finalists in the category.
Winners receive Epica pyramids and certificates. Finalists receive certificates. All winners and finalists are published in the Epica Book together with a selection of other short-listed entries.
New Categories & Turkcell Mobile Award
In 2008, for the first time, Epica has introduced a category for Radio Advertising and one for Promotions & Incentives. The popular Media Innovation category has also been split in two (for traditional and alternative media).
2008 also marks the introduction of the Turkcell Mobile Award for the best use of advertising using mobile phones, regardless of category.
Results
Complete results of the 2008 awards will be announced on the Epica website during the last week of November, 2008.