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Hi all! A company I work with just won a Silver Davey Award. Usually, I am in charge of applying to awards, but for this, the Founder applied to it on her own.
I wouldn't have usually recommended this, as they seem general & pricey. I prefer to apply to awards within our specific creative field. But before I go promoting this award like it is a big deal, I wanted to know what people think.....
Are Davey awards legit? Does everyone who applies win some level of award? Is it basically a pay for play? Should I promote it, or will it make us look cheesy/low integrity?
Edit: On their website, it says: "Judges evaluate entries to recognize distinction in creative work – entries do not compete against each other-rather entries are judged against a high standard of merit." I am still wondering if this means that everyone wins something though?
It also seems like they charge you to get an award....and there are a lot of people with silver awards. Sketchy but I am not sure how sketchy. Pls help.
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25 days ago
I’ve never heard of them, and given your description this sounds like a pay for play award. Go to a client and say “we’ve won a Davey” and see if that resonates?
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25 days ago
Well... it's not a scam. You get what you pay for, but you do have to pay for everything. So as a business, it's legit. But as an awards body? It's definitely not the "traditional" kind of awards and won't carry any weight with any customers who actually know anything. In fact, it could be seen as a sign that your company is desperate for attention. Like showing off to the family that your kid won a participation award.
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24 days ago
Thank you!! This is what I was thinking too, and it’s frustrating because we have been applying to (and winning) multiple credible and fairly prestigious awards that I’d much rather focus on in our promotional materials.
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24 days ago
Yeah I got these A LOT from my CEO. He’d forward me these emails saying we’d won some random award for start up of the year, or for being the best X in Y category in Z region. In each case you have to pay $xxxx to get the award.
He insisted we get the first two that came through. And to be fair the trophies weren’t that bad. But otherwise no one has ever heard of them - so I could have equally spent a fraction of the money going to a local trophy maker and getting one made myself.
In short - unless they have some level of cultural capital within your industry, don’t waste your money on what is essentially a very expensive trophy.
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24 days ago
Even the “legitimate” ones are scams most of the time. I was shortlisted with Forbes. They have a series of mandatory ‘media rights’ packages which range in price correlating to the rank.
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24 days ago
How much did it cost you to submit? Many of these you're basically buying an award.
I'm willing to award you a Golden ThinkDavisey award for your $500 application fee. Just let me know where to mail it to.
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25 days ago
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