thenetworkone International Ltd. are the organisers of THE INDIE AWARDS. The decisions of the organisers in all matters relating to THE INDIE AWARDS shall be final and binding.
 

The awards are open to all independent agencies throughout the world including but not limited to, those involved in advertising, production, media, PR, design and the creative industries. Independent agency means a trading company (not an individual person) which is wholly, or majority owned by its management or independent stakeholders; and whose trading name does not include the name of a network owned or controlled by an agency holding company such as WPP, Omnicom, Publicis, IPG, Havas, Dentsu, MDC or similar company.
 

Agencies entering THE INDIE AWARDS must obtain permission to enter their work from the commissioning client/brand-owning company. Organisers may request proof of this permission at any point, before, during or after the judging.
 

The name and job title of a representative of the commissioning client should be on the entry form.
 

There can be more than one credited agency per project. If more than one agency is listed one should be nominated as the entrant , who will be considered responsible for payment of entry fees and will be considered the entry’s sole contact.
 

All entry forms must be completed online at https://theindieawards.awardstage.com/
 

Only digital material can be submitted. No hardcopies or physical materials will be considered. To aid the judges, please be as succinct and concise as possible with your materials. Please read the specific entry requirements of each category as some required either a brief overview of the campaign, objectives, strategies, execution and impact in a maximum of 950 words OR a Case video, other categories require the summary but also allow the video and/or other material. Any Video content should be a maximum of 3 minutes long and maximum file size for all materials submitted is 250MB. The following file types are accepted: jpg, JPG, jpeg, png, gif, pdf, doc, docx, mp3, avi, wmv, mpg, mov, mp4, mpeg. Failure to meet these requirements will result in disqualification of the entry”.
 

All entries must have been made within the context of a normal paying contract with a client, except in the case of self-promotion and work for non-profit organisations. In the case of work for non-profit organisations, the client must have approved the media implementation and production.  Speculative and conceptual projects are not eligible for entry.
 

Work must be submitted exactly as published, aired or implemented and must not be modified for the awards entry. However, entries that are not originally in English may be translated as long as the presentation is exactly the same as the original version.
 

Entrants must not enter work which has been banned by any regulatory bodies.
 

The organisers may refuse entries which offend national or religious sentiments or public taste or which in the organisers opinion breach any applicable laws, regulations or codes of practice or infringe any third-party rights. Any entry which, up to and including the final day of judging, has infringed any of its country of origin’s voluntary or regulatory codes of practice, is not eligible. It is the responsibility of the Entrant to inform the organisers should their Entry breach the provisions of this paragraph prior to the judging and Awards Ceremony.
 

Work must have aired, launched or been released to the public for the first time between September 30th 2023 – October 31st 2024 and must not previously have been entered for any previous INDIE AWARDS.
 

To help maintain the integrity of the judging process, please ensure that there is no mention either of the name of the entering agency or any other contributing creative agency, in any of materials submitted. Failure to do so may result in the exclusion of that material or the disqualification of the entry at the sole discretion of the organisers.
 

Case studies, videos and entry content must be in English or include a translation.
 

Judging will be based on set criteria for each category and entrants are advised to review these criteria and prepare their submissions accordingly giving appropriate recognition of the weightings of the various criteria
 

Once an entry has been submitted, no changes, replacements or additions can be accepted under any circumstance following the closing date of November 1st 2024 unless agreed in writing with the organisers.
 

Entry material, including case films and images must be final at the point of entry completion. No replacement or additional material will be accepted after an entry has been finalised and received by THE INDIE AWARDS.
 

Submission of entries must be made by 23:59 Pacific Time, November 1st 2024, unless extended at the sole discretion of the organisers.
 

Entrants must submit their work according to our entry deadlines. This allows sufficient time for entries to be processed and reviewed, and for any issues to be resolved.
 

Entries must be submitted for specific categories, however the same campaign can be submitted for more than one category. If this is the case, we recommend that supporting information is tailored to the requirements of each category.
 

The organisers may at any time request media scheduling details, client confirmation in writing or any other further information needed to verify the authenticity of a piece of work.
 

In the event of a complaint against any winning or shortlisted entry, the Awards team will conduct an investigation into each case. If the complaint is upheld and rule(s) are found to have been broken, submissions will be withdrawn accordingly: any trophy awarded must be returned and will be awarded retrospectively to entry(ies) which would otherwise have won. No refunds of entry fees will be permitted.
 

Entrants should use honesty and integrity in the preparation of their submissions. Entrants or companies who have proved to have deliberately and knowingly contravened any rules relating to eligibility, may be barred from entering future Awards for a period time specified at the sole discretion of the organisers.
 

By submitting a campaign and associated material for THE INDIE AWARDS, the entrants (and via them, the commissioning client) acknowledges and agrees that all and any such material may be used for the award’s promotional purposes and may be made available to the general public. Any specifics that are not for publication but are only for the purpose of assessment by the judges, should be clearly identified.
 

Entrants warrant that all work submitted (film, sound, graphics etc.) are licensed for public sharing within the context of THE INDIE AWARDS.
 

Each entrant accepts full responsibility for the quality of entries and discharges THE INDIE AWARDS from any responsibility in respect of third parties.
 

All entrants will strictly observe the above Entry Rules. Completion of the entry form will imply full acceptance by each entrant of the Entry Rules. Non-compliance with any of the Entry Rules will result in automatic disqualification of the entry.
 

Entries will not be considered completed until the compulsory media has been uploaded online and full payment has been made.
 

THE INDIE AWARDS are judged by a panel of international jurors selected by the organisers. Judging will be based on the submitted materials against the relevant criteria for the category. Judging will be a two-stage process, an an initial shortlisting following a set scoring process and then a discussion between jurors to select the winners in each category. All judges’ decisions are confidential and no correspondence on them will be entered, there maybe some feedback for the winning entry shared when the winner is announced.
 

26. The Awards Ceremony will be held in January 2025, with speakers and judges participating in person and remotely. All shortlisted entrants are encouraged to attend in person or virtually. If unable to do, they are required to nominate a representative to do so and accept the awards if applicable.
 

All shortlisted agencies will be required to submit a video case study with their submission. If selected as a winner, this may be shown during the Awards ceremony.
 

Entrants may be required to supply additional material of any shortlisted or winning work for promotional publication and exhibitions held before, during, or after the India Awards presentation ceremony.
 

In order to promote THE INDIE AWARDS, the organisers may:
 

• Screen or publish all materials submitted to the organisers for purposes of conducting and promoting THE INDIE AWARDS, including all entry/campaign, with or without charge at public or private presentations, in such manner and form as the organisers reasonably think fit;
   

• Reproduce all materials submitted to the organisers for the purpose of conducting and promoting THE INDIE AWARDS;
   

• Permit the material to be used directly or indirectly for the purpose of promoting THE INDIE AWARDS. This may include adaptation/translation by a third party; provided, however, that THE INDIE AWARDS shall exclude any action that may violate (a) any applicable law, or (b) any restriction placed on the use of that material by its legal owner, permitted licensee or third party whose property is included within such material as disclosed to the organisers by the entrant and notified to the Organiser as detailed below (each of (a), and (b), being a “Restriction”).
   

To the extent that the entrant is not the owner of the material comprising the campaign, the organiser’s exercise of THE INDIE AWARDS Purposes shall be subject to Restrictions. The entrant shall use commercially reasonable endeavours to ensure that the organiser may exercise THE INDIE AWARDS Purposes, but shall not, in any event, be required to spend any money in order to permit the organiser to do so, and entrant’s failure to obtain sufficient rights in order to enable the organiser to do so shall not give rise to any liability on entrant’s part; and the entrant shall notify the organiser in writing (including by e-mail) of any Restriction as soon as reasonably practical on becoming aware of the same. For the avoidance of doubt, “commercially reasonable endeavours” shall include the entrant using its commercially reasonable efforts to attempt to cause the applicable third parties to agree to permit the Organiser to exercise THE INDIE AWARDS purposes but shall not require the entrant to retrospectively amend or agree new terms of engagement for any Campaign already commissioned.
 

Each entrant agrees to assist THE INDIE AWARDS organisers (at the sole cost and expense of THE INDIE AWARDS organisers) in every reasonable way in supporting any legal action that may be taken against THE INDIE AWARDS in relation to the exercise of the rights set out in the paragraph above and to supply information to THE INDIE AWARDS organisers immediately should they become aware that an unauthorised collection or compilation including their materials is available for sale or distribution.
 

Each entrant confirms to the organisers that they have the legal right to enter the campaign into THE INDIE AWARDS on the terms of these entry rules, subject to any Restrictions.
 

Each entrant accepts full responsibility for the quality of entries and discharges the Organisers from any responsibility in respect of third parties.
 

THE INDIE AWARDS trophies are the intellectual property, copyright, design rights and trademark rights, of thenetworkone Online Limited. thenetworkone Online Limited have the exclusive right to and not limited to, reproduce, manufacture, copy, and sell the trophies in any size or medium, and to distribute or exploit the design of the trophies or reproductions of same by gift, sale, re-sale or license. No reproduction, replica or other copy of the trophies may be made or used by any manufacturer, advertiser, organisation or individual except in accordance with these terms unless you have the prior express written consent or license from thenetworkone Online Limited.
 

These Entry Rules shall be governed by and construed according to English law and the parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts. 
 

The organisers reserve the right to request a full media schedule from each entrant agency to verify authenticity of the entry in the event that entry is shortlisted or a winner. 
 

The fee for each entry will be £250 GBP subject to changes for early  or late bird entries or promotions solely run by thenetworkone to incentivise entries. Late entries may be accepted (prior to the commencement of any judging) for an additional fee, at the organisers’ sole discretion. For entries submitted before November 1st 2024, full thenetworkone Members are entitled to 1 free entry, and thereafter one free entry for every two additional paid submissions made (ie 3 for2). Accredited Members will receive just the 3 for 2 offer.
 

In the case a submission is made by an agency employing a judge on that category panel, the judge shall be obliged to declare a vested interest and to decline from judging or commenting on his/her own agency’s work.
 

Where AI has been used to formulate or edit any submission copy for the INDIE AWARDS – this needs to be clearly stated at the start of the submission.
 

The organisers are under no obligation to award the stated prizes if the quality of entries submitted, does in the pinion of the judge, not warrant an award and the organisers may combine award categories and/or prizes or trophies in the event of insufficient entries to those categories.