Here are the eligibility requirements:
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Eligible campaigns must have been posted between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2025.
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The campaign must have featured a purely local advertiser – no national or regional campaigns are eligible unless they were contracted locally and appeared in a single DMA market.
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Campaigns can be entered by any account executive or sales manager of an OAAA or Geopath member media company.
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The campaign must have quantifiable results (e.g., increased sales by X%, generated X number of consumer responses to the promotion, produced X% increase in traffic to the advertiser’s website, generated X number of social media postings, etc.) PLEASE NOTE: Only entries with quantifiable results will be considered for judging.
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The inclusion of impressions should be as part of the Plan Detail and not in Results, as noted in the entry form.
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Entries must include at least one digital image of the campaign creative in the market where it was posted. Ad artwork is not an acceptable substitute for the in-market image.
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All submissions must be received no later than February 6, 2026, 11:59 pm ET. There will be no extensions of the deadline date.