Winning a Lens Award helps set organisations apart from their competitors and provides the opportunity to sustain their current clients, gain new business and engage internal teams.

The benefits of entering the Lens Awards include:

• Stand out - Entering and winning an award can provide a platform through which to acquire visibility outside your network, promote your latest project to new audiences, and gain differential.

• Receive valuable insights - Entries will be judged by a panel of industry experts against a particular set of criteria. This is a chance to receive powerful feedback on your work so that you can evaluate and improve.

• Celebrate excellence - Entrants develop a new benchmark each year, encouraging the creative community to continually advance the standard of their work and recognise internal teams.

The Lens Awards provides benefits for winners at all times throughout the entry and awards process.

• Inclusion within the shortlist announcement news story (published online)
• Inclusion within the shortlist announcement email campaign (sent to newsletter subscribers)
• Profiling on the Lens Awards website, under the ‘Shortlisted’ section
• 'Shortlisted' marketing assets to use within your own marketing campaigns

• Profiling on the awards presentation (name and imagery)
• Receive a trophy at the ceremony (with additional duplicates available to order)
• Professional photos taken of winners posted online the next day (and high-resolution versions sent directly when requested)
• Inclusion in the winners book, distributed on the night and published online
• Inclusion in the news story announcing the winners, which is published online
• Profiling on the Lens Awards website, under the ‘The winners’ section
• Social mentions and interaction before, during and after the awards, via @Comms_Events 
• If you book a platinum table package, you will also receive a full-page advertisement in the winners book, a meet and greet sign in the drinks reception, a thought leadership piece to be published on https://www.communicatemagazine.com/ and your company logo and contact details in the table plan (package subject to change)

• Inclusion within the winners announcement news story (published online)
• Inclusion within the winners announcement email campaign (sent to newsletter subscribers)
• Promotion of the winners announcement via our social media channels (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn)
• Coverage in Communicate magazine’s Communicate Lens print feature (subject to change)
• Profiling on the Lens awards website, under the ‘The winners’ section
• 'Winner' marketing assets to promote your success
• Winning entrants may be invited to speak a future communicate conference