Planning your most effective year.

January can be a challenging month – what with all the focus on New Year’s resolutions, shifting the Christmas cheese weight gain, dry January…and the cold grey skies, but it can also be critical to planning your most effective year. Awards deadline season is just around the corner and frankly it’s never too early to start thinking about effectiveness – ideally, it should be baked into your organisations’ culture, your strategy, your reviews, and your calendar.

To help with the latter here are some key Effectiveness Awards dates to keep top of mind.

• Marketing Society Awards deadline 17 March
• The Drum Awards for Marketing deadline 24 March
• WARC Effectiveness Awards deadline 29 March
• APG Creative Strategy Awards deadline 30 March
• Cannes Creative Effectiveness, Strategy and Transformation Lions final deadline 13 April
• UK Effie Award deadline May TBC
• Effie Awards Europe deadline September TBC
• Effie Awards US 2024 mid October TBC
• IPA Effectiveness Awards deadline April 2024 TBC

Why Awards? – well we all know that advertising works, but it’s never been more important than now to prove it. Proving that your work – worked can be a powerful exercise which can help unlock further investment, secure agency-client relationships, attract talent, and further business.

And if you need some help The Effectiveness Partnership for 13 years has guided organisations through writing and winning all these major effectiveness awards, as well as helping to bake that effectiveness culture, strategy, reviews and processes into organisations. So, if you want to get 2023 off to an effective start – get in touch.

And whilst your updating your calendar here are some other key dates to note:

• SXSW 10-15 March
• Advertising Week Europe 16-18 May
• Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity – 19-23 June
• IPA EffWorks 9-13 October TBC
• Advertising Week USA 16-20 October TBC
• ANA Masters of Marketing 24-27 October

Here’s a sans alcoholic beverage cheers to the most effective year!