2023 Run Through

Ceremony details:
The ceremony is on May 11th in Liberty Hall Theatre, Dublin.
Rick O’ Shea is the MC.
It is NOT black tie. It is informal.
It is theatre style. Seats are not allocated. There is no boring meal. There are lots of sweets and crisps thrown to the audience though.
Photos from last year: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.5528915507190941&type=3

Doors
Doors open at 1830 and the ceremony has a hard start of 8pm.
The bar opens at 1830 and closes when the ceremony is on.
There is an interval at 9pm and the bar reopens and the event ends around 1030pm

Winners and trophies
There are Bronze, Silver and Gold winners per category. Gold wins a trophy. Runners up get a digital cert.
If you win and not there you can meet us in a future time in Dublin or Cork to collect the trophy.
We do not post trophies as no matter how much we pack and wrap them, the Irish postal service breaks 50% of them!
Agencies: Check with your client that they know that they are nominated.

Tickets:
Tickets are on sale and are €50 each for early bird. We put up prices with a week to go in order to incentivise people to confirm attendance. This results in us being able get clearer numbers and plan for them

You can join our mailing list too https://sockies.ie/mailing-list/

2023 Nominations

Nominations are now open

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

Early Bird Nominations close Monday March 27th 2023 at 6pm

Nominations are €50 per category until March 27th. Bulk discounts apply.

There are 41 categories this year and you can be nominated in 6 categories.

#sockies22 have launched

The 2022 Social Media Awards has been launched and is taking nominations in 32 different categories. As well as the usual Facebook, Twitter and Instagram categories, the awards this year will see the creation of 5 new categories:

Best Experimental (AR, VR, NFT etc.)
Social Media Campaign: Non-professionals
Social Media Campaign: LinkedIn
Social Media Strategy for Events
Social Media of Creators

Get nominating. Free entry to NGOs or SMEs with 5 or less paid employees.

Full category list.

This is an insight into what we ask the judges when they look at your nominations.

Sockies 2021 has launched

The 10th Social Media Awards has been launched and is taking nominations in 28 different categories. As well as the usual Facebook, Twitter and Instagram categories, the awards this year will see the creation of a category for TikTok and for Instagram Reels.

New Tiktok and Reels categories added. Snapchat cut. First Irish awards show to accept Bitcoin. NFT versions of trophies will be given to Winners. Focus on digital accessibility this year.

Get nominating. Free entry to NGOs or SMEs with less than 10 paid employees.

Full category list.