DMA Breakthrough Award 2019 Terms and Conditions

DMA Breakthrough Award 2019 Terms and Conditions

• By entering this award, you acknowledge and agree that all copyright and other intellectual property rights in your competition submission are hereby assigned to Direct Line Group.

• By submitting your entry, you give the DMA the right to upload this to a private password protected DMA Awards online page for the Breakthrough Award judges to access.

• The word of the DMA and Direct Line Group is final irrespective of the result.

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Entries

• Closing date for entries is midday on Monday 11 November 2019.

• Entrants must be UK residents and either full-time students or non-professionals. You do not need to obtain permission from your course lecturer to enter.

• Only one entry per team to be submitted. Multiple entries from the same team will be disqualified. Individuals can only be part of one team.

• Minimum of one person per team; there is no maximum number of team members. More than one team is permitted to enter from the same educational institution.

• Entries are to be submitted online via the DMA website (https://dma.org.uk/awards/dma-breakthrough-award-2019-entry-form-1) before the closing date specified.

• An entry must include a 200 word maximum summary and a demonstration of your creative ideas uploaded as a pdf (see above section, “What are you delivering and when?”).

• Your name(s) should be stated at the top of each document you submit.

• Entries must be the sole work of the team and must not have infringed any third party intellectual property rights.

• The DMA does not hold responsibility for lost, damaged or incomplete entries which are lost due to email transmission problems.

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Judging process

• Judging criteria is based on the most creative and effective response to the brief. The DMA will not give individual feedback from the judges regarding any entry entered that are or are not successful in progressing to pitch stage.

• The judging process consists of an initial scoring exercise by the judging panel w/c 11 November, followed by a judging day on 18 November where three finalist teams will be agreed upon.

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Pitches

• The three finalist teams will be invited to pitch on Tuesday 3 December 2019 at a central London location. The entry must be in compliance with the DMA Code and the CAP code.

• Finalists invited to pitch will be notified by phone and email if they are successful w/c 18 November. Unsuccessful applications will be notified by email w/c 18 November.

• The DMA will reimburse travel up to £50 per person for all finalists. Each individual should contact James Dredge at james.dredge@dma.org.uk with your receipt(s) and bank details.

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Results and prizes

• Results will be announced at the DMA Awards ceremony on Tuesday 3 December 2019. The DMA will pay for all finalists’ tickets to attend the awards ceremony. The DMA will not provide or pay for accommodation after the awards; finalists will need to arrange this themselves if they wish to stay overnight.

• The winning team will win a total team prize of £1,000. Second place will win a team prize of £500. Third place will win a team prize of £250. Prize money will be divided equally amongst team members and transferred via BACS from the DMA to the bank accounts provided within three weeks of the DMA Awards ceremony

• If you are one of the three finalists, you agree to your pitch material being used for promotional purposes by the Data & Marketing Association UK Limited (‘DMA’), registered company (England) number 2667995, limited by guarantee. Registered office: DMA House, 70 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8SS.

• You also agree to engage in post awards publicity, which may include: comments made during pitches and the awards ceremony appearing in articles published by the DMA and appearing on video content distributed by the DMA.