United States

The 2022 Call for Entries period has opened for the Effie Awards U.S. competition.  With over 60 industry and specialty business categories, there is a place for you to spotlight your most effective ideas that worked.

Any marketing effort that ran in the United States between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021 is eligible to enter.

All of the information you'll need to prepare your entries are available in the 2022 Entry Kit, and additional resources and materials are available here.

As we shift our awards back to its pre-covid timeline, we want to ensure you have plenty of time to prepare your entries - so, we've updated our 2022 entry deadlines.  The first entry deadline is now December 1st and the final deadline extension is February 10th.

If you are a non-profit or first-time entrant, we offer discounted entry fee rates, which you can learn more about here.

If you're looking for some inspiration as you work on your entries, we're offering complimentary access to a selection of past Effie-winning case studies that are available here.

If you have any questions, please write to us at usentries@effie.org.

On September 30, the 2021 US Grand Effie was awarded to Restaurant Brands International's Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen & GSD&M won the Grand Effie for "#ChickenWars."

The campaign, created by GSD&M, with contributing agency Alison Brod Marketing + Communications, introduced Popeyes’ chicken sandwich with a social media effort that ignited when Popeyes sent a tweet to Chick-fil-A asking, “Ya’ll okay?” The tweet started an online debate between the fast-food chains and their fans, leading to such popular demand for the new sandwich that Popeyes sold out. The unpaid tweets earned Popeyes $87 million worth of media and lead to 13% same-store sales growth and an additional $1 billion in system-wide sales for the year. 

The results of the 2021 U.S. Rankings, which reflect the total points from finalist and winning entries from the awards competition, were also announces.

The Most Effiective companies according to the 2021 US Rankings are:
- Marketers:  1) Restaurant Brands International 2) Procter & Gamble 3) AB InBev
- Brands:  1) Burger King 2) Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen 3) Sandy Hook Promise 
- Holding Companies:  1) Omnicom 2) IPG  3) Publicis Groupe
- Agency Networks: 1) BBDO Worldwide 2) MullenLowe 3) McCann Worldgroup
- Independent Agencies: 1) Alison Brod Marketing & Communications 2) Smuggler  3) Dini Von Mueffling Communications
- Agency Offices: 1) BBDO New York 2) MullenLowe U.S. (Boston) 3) GSD&M (Austin)

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Episode 1: The Hershey Company & TPN's 'Hershey Easter "Be So Eggstra" at Walmart'
Episode 2: IKEA U.S. & Wavemaker's 'It's Not A Catalog, Catalog'
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Episode 4: Mondelēz International, 7-Eleven & Phoenix Creative Co.'s 'Nutter Butter at 7-Eleven'

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The Effie Case Database offers a collection of Ideas That Work^®, featuring thousansd finalist and and winning case studies and creative reels, highlighting effective marketing communications strategies, ideas and results from around the world.

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