Epica
Year 21
The Epica awards are now in their 21th year.
Their aim is to encourage the highest standards of creativity in European advertising and to help agencies, film production companies and photographers to develop their reputations across the continent.
The awards are judged by the European advertising
trade press; 34 magazines from 27 countries will be represented on the jury this year.
Epica winners receive widespread media coverage throughout Europe and a selection of the best entries is published each year in the Epica Book, a unique record of Europe’s most outstanding creative work.
How to Enter
Entries are now closed.
Entries
Epica is the largest European advertising awards competition with 5,461 entries from 45 countries in 2006. A total of 703 companies participated in the awards.
Eligibility
The Epica awards are open to all advertising agencies, film production companies, photographers and design studios operating in Europe and the EMEA region.
All work published or used in the media since July 1, 2006 is eligible for entry. Work that does not meet these conditions will be disqualified in order to preserve the integrity of the competition and to ensure that all genuine entries have a fair chance of success.
Free Book and DVD
Each company participating in the awards will receive a free copy of the next Epica Book, volume 21, and a 90-minute DVD featuring all this year’s film winners and a selection of the finalists.
Awards Ceremony
After the success of the 2006 awards ceremony, the show will return to Stockholm on January 11th, 2008. It will be hosted again by Resumé, Sweden’s leading weekly advertising and marketing magazine.
This is the third time that the Epica ceremony will be held in Stockholm. Other events have been held in Brussels, Amsterdam, Moscow, London, Zürich, Düsseldorf, Warsaw, Ljubljana, Lisbon, Helsinki, Prague, Milan, Dublin, Budapest and Istanbul.
For tickets and more information about the ceremony, please contact Anna Nilsson at Resumé:
Tel: +46.8.736.30.92
anna.nilsson@resume.se or visit www.resume.se/event/epicaawards
Winners and Finalists
Epica entries are judged on the basis of 2 criteria only: the originality of the creative idea and the quality of its execution.
The highest scoring entries in each category are the category winners (gold) - on condition that the work achieves a score that qualifies it as a winner. Other entries that do not win but achieve this score are finalists (silver & bronze). When no entry meets the standard there are no winners or finalists in the category.
Winners receive Epica pyramids and certificates. Finalists receive certificates. All winners and finalists are published in the Epica Book together with a selection of other short-listed entries.
Four Epica d'Or
In 2007, for the first time, four grand prix have been awarded to the best overall film, press, outdoor and interactive entries.
Results
Complete results of the 2007 awards have been announced on the Epica website in November 2007.