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We are proud of our diverse group of ESA Awards judges, drawn from the wider marketing industry and bringing tremendous experience to the judging process. Multi-national, this year’s judges come from Belgium, Finland, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Arab Emirates, UK and USA.
ESA’s two judging panels cover the main ESA Awards and the invitation-only ESA Best of Europe.
Judging process
Read all about our judging process here (PDF download)
Video
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The ESA Awards remains the only honour to acknowledge outstanding work by sponsorship professionals right across Europe, and, thanks to the impartiality and deep industry understanding of our judging panel, this ensures that the winners can be justifiably proud of their achievements.
Our esteemed judges bring insight, direction and robust evaluation to the judging programme. With a two stage process of judging, being an ESA Awards judge provides you with the opportunity to witness and award some of Europe’s best sponsorship work.
The ESA Awards is now over a decade old, and we continually strive to attract a group of diverse, representative, knowledgeable sponsorship practitioners to our panel. We do this in order to ensure that all award entries, no matter whether they’re from a small agency or a large multi-national rights holder, receive the same expert critique and are judged purely on merit against a comprehensive criteria-based matrix.
We welcome judges both new and old to our 2022 competition.