Summit Awards
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| name = Summit International Awards
| image = Summit International Awards.jpg
| awarded_for = Excellence in advertising, marketing, and communication.
| country = United States
| year = 1994
| year2 = 2024
| website = https://www.summitawards.com/
}}
Summit Awards is a United States-based organization in the communications and marketing industry. It bestows awards for excellence in design, creativity and effectiveness of advertising and marketing communication.{{Cite web |title=The Summit Awards Organization |url=https://www.summitawards.com/about-sia/ }} Established in 1993, it offers three annual award competitions.
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Three times a year the Summit International Awards assembles an international panel of judges from multiple creative disciplines to evaluate submissions in three main categories:
- Summit Creative Award (Summit SCA). Recognizes creative and innovative work in advertising and marketing.
- Summit Marketing Effectiveness Award (Summit MEA). Awards campaigns that demonstrate significant impact and marketing effectiveness.
- Summit Emerging Media Awards (Summit EMA). Celebrates pioneering work in emerging media platforms.
Entrants are graded on creativity, originality, effectiveness and excellence. From the entrants, a first round of judges determine the finalists; senior judges then grade each finalist to determine if they are considered an award winner. An award winner can earn a Bronze, Silver or Gold Summit Award. Only one winner in each category can be selected for a Summit Best of Show Award.{{Cite web|title=Best of Show Winners – Summit Awards|url=https://summitawards.com/summit-creative-awards/sca-winners/best-of-show/|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-07}}{{Cite web|url=https://richmondbizsense.com/2016/11/29/the-pitch-advertising-and-marketing-news-for-11-29-16/|title = The Pitch: Advertising and marketing news for 11.29.16|date = 29 November 2016}}{{Cite web|title=BANG! creative® - strategy by design {{!}} locally grown, internationally known|url=https://creativitygoesbang.com/bang-creative-strategy-design/|website=BANG! creative - strategy by design|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-07}}
The award is open to professional creative arts agencies, studios and designers from all countries{{Cite web |title=Summit Awards |url=https://summitawards.com/familjenpangea/}}{{Cite web |date=May 2005 |title=Elevator takes international creative award — the 2005 Summit Creative Awards | Elevator |url=http://elevator.hr/news/elevator-takes-international-creative-award-the-2005-summit-creative-awards/}}
{{cite web |title=World Summit Awards |url=https://wsa-global.org/about/ |website=wsa-global.org}} with annual capitalized billings of under $30 million.The Shand Group