Entry Guide

To submit a work to the 2024 Internetics competition you must follow 4 steps:

 

Step 1: Register or login on www.internetics.ro
Step 2: Submit your works
Step 3: Approval of the works
Step 4: Payment

Step 1: Register on www.internetics.ro

Use the “Login” > then „Register” buttons

Fill-in the form with your details (name, e-mail, phone, password) and press the “Register” button.

You will receive on your e-mail address a message with a confirmation code. Use the code to activate the account; after activation you will be redirected to your profile page, where you can configure your profile and start submitting your works.

If you already have an account from previous years, you can access it using the „Login” button and update your data, if necessary. You will be able to use your existing account to submit works for the 2024 competition.

Step 2: Submit your works

To submit a work use the „Enter work” button from your account and choose the section in which you want to submit your entry (you can’t select more than one section: each entry has to be made individually, to best fit the chosen section and create a relevant content). Internetics has 6 categories: Website & Mobile, Social Media & Communities, Video, Digital Brand Experience & Activation, Digital Campaigns & Internetics Digital for Good.

After selecting the desired section, press „Fill in the form”. 

In choosing the section, keep in mind:

• For the Digital Campaigns category, you must choose the section that represents your brand and its main activity, not the specifics of your campaign. You can only enter in one section of the category.

 e.g.: a campaign for a beer brand must be submitted in the „FMCG – Drinks” section, no matter the subject of the campaign.

• For the Digital Campaigns category, for campaigns developed as a collaboration between two brands from different areas, the participant can choose the sub-category that best fits its entry, from the two main activities of the involved brands.

• For Viral Video: Enter here one specific execution that became viral, not the entire campaign & campaign’s strategy. If a brand creates its awareness based on a series of videos, that should be entered in other sections of the competition, here you must submit the one video execution that went viral and explain why and with what results.

 

Entry Forms:

All forms must be written entirely in English, including the Entry Name. The creative materials are the only one that must be presented as they appeared in the marketplace.

The entry form is almost the same for all categories and sections, but with few small differences. To prepare your entries, you can download word templates for each category and then come to your account to submit your entry. You can download the entry forms from here. Internetics has 2 entry forms: Main Entry Form for all the sections, except for the category Internetics Digital for Good which has a dedicated form.

Please keep in mind that you must edit the text (bold, italic etc.) directly on the online form to make sure the text appears ok in your application. From this working template, please take your text through the notepad to format it and then copy-paste it from there into the online form.

All fields of the entry form have info to help you better understand the requirements, so please read them before filling in the info.

Please add relevant data sources for your entries, especially in the Results field; use specific KPIs depending on the section. Tell the judges what result is organic, which one is paid, help them really understand your best results.

The forms have 3 fields for Supporting Materials where you can upload documents that help you present your case and better explain your results - you can upload here graphs, charts etc., but also pdf, jpg files. All information must be in English. In total, these 3 files can’t be bigger than 30 MB. Do not upload archives and to not include documents with the agency name or logo. Do not upload here creative examples.

Another 5 fields are dedicated in the Entry Forms for the Creative Examples – upload here examples with different executions from your creative work. Present the executions in the original language, as they appeared online. All 5 files (from the Creative Example 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 fields) must not have more than 30 MB. Do not upload archives and to not include documents with the agency name or logo.

 

For the Creative Examples the entry form also has a Translation field. Add here an English Translation for all the files uploaded in the Creative Example 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 fields. For long texts // screenshots from a website with a lot of content or other type of example with long texts included, you can summarise in English the main messages.

 

You can also present your campaign in the Campaign Case Study URL field. This field is optional, but you can provide here a link to the case study of the work (with English voice over and subtitle in English for ALL the executions presented in the case study, video, audio or static formats), should you have it prepared. Try to keep it as short as possible, max. 3 minutes. It will be used for judging purposes only. You can only add one link (no other text, to keep the link clickable). The link and name of the link must not include the agency name. Do not use an agency social media account for the uploaded video. Do not use a wetransfer link, the video must be uploaded on an incognito account.

If the work you want to submit into the competition isn’t online anymore, you must upload it on a temporary web page showing the work, with all its components (a ftp, a server etc.). This temporary web page can’t be named with the agency name or other clues that can reveal the author of the work. The page must be online during the call for entries period and during the judging process (August – November 2024). In the entry form you will find a special field for this: "URL for no longer active projects", with a following one if the case: "Access data" (if an username & password are required to enter).

All fields are mandatory. Please write „not the case” if a field doesn’t apply to your entry of if you cannot give certain data. Still, try to fill in as much of the entry form as you can to help you in the judging process.

The data from the entry form will not be made public. The jury members will have access to all entry forms during the judging process, only after signing a confidentiality agreement. The festival is Agency Blind, so the judges will not be able to see in the judging system the fields offering information about the author of the work.

 

The fields that will be used in promoting the works and in all communication materials are: "Entry Name", "Brand", "Client", "Author", "Other agencies to credit", "The team", "One-Phrase description", "Promo Image" & "Main Link". Please check and recheck the information, we will use it as it is written in the forms.


The „Draft” button:

If you can’t finish your work because of temporary lack of data, you can save the work as „Draft”, with the possibility to edit it later, when your information is complete. Also, use the „Draft” button to be sure that you save your information, thus the work session will expire if you stay for too much time logged in on the website.

The „Save” button:

After filling in all the requested data and all fields, use the „Save” button, to send the work to the organizing team to validate it.

Step 3: Approval of the work

You will be notified via e-mail if the work was approved or not into the competition.

If the work is approved, the organizing team will contact you to proceed with the payment.

If the work isn’t approved, the organizing team will let know the reasons and help you correct the entry form.

Step 4: Payment

The entry fee is 720 eur, plus VAT for the Website & Mobile, Social Media & Communities, Video, Digital Brand Experience & Activation, Digital Campaigns categories and 420 eur, plus VAT for the Internetics Digital for Good category.
Starting September 16^th the entry fees will be: for Website & Mobile, Social Media & Communities, Video, Digital Brand Experience & Activation, Digital Campaigns will be 840 eur, plus VAT. The entry fee for Internetics Digital for Good will remain 420 eur, plus VAT.

The payment is made via bank transfer; all the details for the payment will be send by the organizers after the entrant submits all cases.

Check the Rules of the competition to see also the Special Discounts.

Other useful things:

We recommend you to have an internal list with all the entries you have submitted (with entry name, client, the section where the entry was submitted etc.)

After your work is approved in the competition you will be able to download it as a .pdf file from your participant account. Our advice is to download these .pdf files as a backup of your submitted work, in case you need it.

If you have worked on a project along with other agencies (for different components of the campaign), please keep in mind that a work can be submitted in the competition in no more than 3 sections, no matter what agency entered the work in the Internetics competition. Our advice is to consult with the other agencies you have worked with and make sure your work isn’t double submitted.

Please keep in mind that is essential to have the same agency name or client/brand name for all the entries submitted for the same account. For example, if you want to submit more campaigns from the same brand (and each campaign is submitted by different members of the agency, please consult with your colleagues and use the same name for the Author, Client and Brand fields).

 

Your works will be validated and accepted into the 2024 Internetics competition only if all payments are made no later than September 9^th September 30^th 2024, 6 p.m. and you send us a payment proof at hello@internetics.ro. After it, your work will be sent to our jury members.

In addition to the entry form for each submitted work, the participant will be required to send specific promo materials for the Internetics Awarding Ceremony 2024, on a different deadline, closer to the event. Depending on the format of the event, the organizers will announce the participant what materials are needed and the deadline for submitting (e.g.: a case study movie explaining the work, team photos). The promo materials will be used for the Awarding Ceremony & on the Internetics website, Facebook and YouTube page, in order to promote the winners (so make sure you are covered with all copyrights procedures).


For all questions regarding the competition, please contact us at hello@internetics.ro. Best of luck!