DMA Breakthrough Award 2023 Terms and Conditions

12 Oct 2023

By entering this award, you acknowledge and agree that all copyright and other intellectual property rights in your competition submission are hereby assigned to Barclays.
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 Barclays is final irrespective of the result.

Entries

Closing date for entries is midnight on Sunday 5 November 2023 at 23:59.
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.
You can enter as an individual or as a team of two or three. More than one team is permitted to enter from the same educational institution.
Entries are to be submitted online via the DMA website (https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/1KqROYU8YSKWtTYCMzhHNuwfo1ag) before the closing date specified.
An entry must articulate your big idea for the campaign on one side of A4 uploaded in pdf format.
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.

Judging process

Judging criteria is based on the most creative and effective response to the brief. The DMA will not give individual feedback regarding any entry submitted that is not successful in progressing to the regional heats.
The initial judging process consists of a judging panel reviewing all entries during w/c 6 November, with chosen teams being invited to attend and present at one of our regional heats in Bristol, Edinburgh, London and Manchester.
Teams and/or individuals will be notified of their invitation to the regional heat by Thursday 9 November 2023 and will need to confirm attendance by Friday 10 November 2023. Please ensure the contact details submitted are correct.
The regional heats will give each team the opportunity to present and pitch to a judging panel including representatives from Barclays.
1 winning entry will be chosen at the end of each day. The winning team from each regional heat will be invited to progress to the final stage in London on Tuesday 5 December 2023.

Final heat

The four finalist teams will be invited to pitch on Tuesday 5 December 2023 at a central London location.
Finalists will be notified by phone/email that they have been successful, on the day of their regional heat and will need to confirm their attendance of the final on Tuesday 5 December 2023 via email. Unsuccessful teams will be notified by email.
The DMA will assist with travel expenses and cover overnight accommodation costs for the final in London on Tuesday 5 December 2023. Each individual team member should contact Anna on Anna.Lancahire@dma.org.uk to make the arrangements.

Results and prizes

Results will be announced at the DMA Awards ceremony on Tuesday 5 December 2023. The DMA will pay for all finalists’ tickets to attend the awards ceremony.
The winning team will win a total team prize of £1,000. Second place will win a team prize of £750. Third place will win a team prize of £500. 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: Lynton House, 7-12 Tavistock Square, London, United Kingdom, WC1H 9LT.
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.

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