Nominations

Nominations are €200 per entry per category until April 14th 

Nominations are closed

Make a Word backup of your entries, even before you press submit!
Late Entries are now €200 per category.

Entry is free for organisations with less than 5 paid employees, except if this is the work of an agency.

Early Bird Nominations have ended
Nominations are €200 per category until April 14th. Bulk discounts apply. Pay here.
For paid entries use the email address you used to pay for the entry as your code.

Agencies contact team@sockies.ie for bulk nomination discounts.
Post nomination use this form to list clients you have entered.

2021 Update:

We do not accept entries from Betting, tobacco, alcohol or military supply companies.
Extra marks are given for social media that is accessible.

Read all of the below because our support replies are very sarcastic. team@sockies.ie will get us.
An email from team@sockies.ie will be sent to you to verify your entry. If you don’t verify it, your nominations won’t go through. Check spam.
Hitting the word count? Just hyphenate-some-of-the-words
This covers your social media work from May 2022 to end of February 2023.
We suggest copying and pasting your entry into a Word document just in case anything goes wrong as you’re nominating.
Use http://www.charactercountonline.com/ for word count. The form only counts words after you click out of that section. MS Word is a terrible word counter.

Agencies:

Agencies: For each client, use a different nomination email. Keep all the client work in one nomination, do not mix clients into one nomination or the nomination will not be accepted. You can use a different email per client.
Agencies: Please check with your client before entering them as they may have entered themselves or another agency has. This happens every year!
A company can be entered in up to 6 categories. You cannot enter your company/client in a section twice e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Video, Strategy/Campaign.
You cannot enter the Agency, Team or Grand Prix categories, they are chosen by a panel.

Only someone from the business/org or an agreed representative can nominate them in this event.

We reserve the right to cancel, merge or edit a category based on nomination numbers. You will be refunded.

Late entries (up to 48 hours) incur an admin fee of €100 per category and need to be paid upfront. Asking us to edit your nomination after entries close is a pain so this also incurs this fee. So don’t be late!

Your entry will be judged by the public and social media enthusiasts.

Be careful when copying and pasting with the word count. Delete any white spaces before first and last words. Links are counted by our word counter. Our counter over-counts so consider max word count at about 90%. If it says you are over by 4 words, delete 5 words. We get most questions about this bit.

Do not use link shorteners like Bitly, our system messes them up.
You’d do us a great service by sending us clean links without all the ?fbclid=Iw stuff at the end.

You can jump to the category that you're interested in by clicking on the links below :

1.Facebook Small Business: 1-30 staff (In-House)

2.Facebook for a State Org: In-House run

3.Facebook for a Business/Brand: (In-House/Agency)

4.Twitter State Org/Public Body: In-House

5.Twitter Brand/Business/Org: (In House or Agency)

6.TikTok Strategy: SME

7.TikTok Strategy: Brand

8.TikTok Campaign: In-house

9.TikTok Campaign: Agency

10.Instagram Small Business: 1-30 staff (In-House)

11.Instagram for a Public Body/ State Org (In-House)

12.Instagram Business/Brand/Org: (In-House and Agency)

13.Instagram NGO/Charity: (In-House)

14.Best use of Instagram Stories and Reels

15.Video Campaign: Small Biz Up to 30 staff (In-House)

16.Video Campaign: Public Body/State Org

17.Video Campaign: NGO/Charity

18.Video Campaign: Business/Brand/Org: (In-house)

19.Video Campaign: (Agency Run)

20.Use of the Metaverse

21.Social Media by Non-professionals

22.Social Media Strategy: SME (In-House)

23.Social Media Strategy: NGO/Charity: (In-House)

24.Social Media Strategy: State Body (In-House)

25.Social Media Strategy: International Markets

26.Social Media driving eCommerce

27.Use of Social Media by Financial Org

28.Social Media Strategy for Events

29.Social Media Campaign LinkedIn

30.Best Sponsorship Collaboration

31.Paid Digital Campaign for a Brand

32.Content Creation Studio: (In-House)

33.Content Creation Studio: Agency

34.Social Media Advertising Team (In-house)

35.Social Media Advertising Team (Agency)

36.Best Multi-platform Campaign (In-house)

37.Best Multi-platform Campaign (Agency)

Checklist:
Are these nominations backed up into Word? Select all and copy and paste now!
Make sure the word counts have been checked and are ok. If over, use hyphenate-words-together.
Make sure you have entered 5 or less categories.
Check there are no typos in your email.

Good luck!