ESA is proud of its #ESAawards judges who are drawn from the wider marketing industry and bring tremendous experience to the judging process. Multi-national, our 2020 judges come from Belgium, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA.

ESA’s two judging panels cover the main ESA Awards (25 categories) and the invitation-only ESA Best of Europe.

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Judging process

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2020 #ESAawards judges

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 both online and face-to-face, 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’ve continually strived to attract the most knowledgeable sponsorship practitioners to our panel. We do this in order to ensure that all 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. Winning an ESA Award really is an achievement and we’re delighted to welcome judges both new and old to our 2020 competition.