HOW DO I PARTICIPATE IN THE AWARDS?

Participating in the awards is easy. All you need to do is fill up the online nomination form , upload the relevant details, and pay the nomination fee.

HOW WILL THE ONSIDE AWARDS HELP IN OUR GROWTH?

All awardees of Onside Awards are bound to benefit from recognition. However, it also depends on how you utilize this achievement. With our Publicity Program Support and your appropriate marketing strategy, you can take immense advantage of being a recipient of the Onside W Awards. This will exponentially enhance your market recognition and brand recall.

WHAT ARE THE KEY ADVANTAGES OF PARTICIPATING IN THE ONSIDE AWARDS TO THE WINNERS?

Key advantages of participation to the winners:

1. The Onside Awards not only recognize you and your organization as a unique organization focused on Innovation and Excellence, but also declare you as the best amidst the rest in your category and geography.
2. The Onside Awards recognition will help you endorse the role of your staff, motivate them, boost their self-esteem and pride, achieve higher productivity, and hence enhance retention and check attrition rate.
3. It enables you to reach out to prospective customers with renewed confidence by leveraging the immense marketing and publicity value of the award. The winners will be on a new high, a fast-track route to recognition of their unflinching commitment towards Onside Awards through an extensive publicity campaign in web, print, and TV media. They’ll enjoy publicity that will establish their reputation as a proven provider of quality projects and exemplary levels of services.
4. The award ceremony will be covered by our leading Media Partners.
5. The winners shall be handed over a framed certificate. The certificate and the photographs displayed at your premises will be a testimony to your commitment to your customers.
6. The winners can use the awards logo on all of their stationery, business cards, brochures, leaflets, print advertisements, websites, and other promotional collateral.
7. Comprehensive news coverage of the winners along with photographs shall be published on relevant portals online.
8. All the winners are entitled to five passes at the gala awards ceremony.

HOW CAN I UTILIZE THE OFFICIAL LOGO IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE EXPOSURE AS A PROUD PARTICIPANT?

Our corporate branding team will guide you for the correct and authorized usage of our logos. This framework will be provided separately to all the winners.

CAN I SUBMIT MY FIRM DETAILS AS A HARD COPY?

No. Onside Media is emphasizing the digital format for ease of submission for the participants. You can email the documents to info@theonside.com 

WHEN CAN OUR COMPANY SEND ITS NOMINATION FOR THE ONSIDE "W" AWARDS?

The nomination process for all the categories will commence from December 2021 onwards. Please go through all the terms & conditions before submitting your nomination.

THE LAST DATE for Nominations is March 20, 2022

WHEN WILL THE WINNERS BE ANNOUNCED?

All winners will be communicated before March 25, 2021.

The Gala Awards ceremony will be held on March 25, 2021, in Toronto, Canada ( Unless directed by the authorities to hold a Digital Event)

DOES IT COST ANYTHING TO ENTER THE AWARDS?

There is a nomination fee of CA$150 + HST in which you can nominate 1 Brand/Individual.

In case you wish to nominate in a category not mentioned in the nomination form you can manually fill a new category and suggest it to our jury for consideration.

Any brand/individual cannot submit more than 5 nominations.

NON-REFUNDABLE

This is the processing fee i.e. the nomination fee for the Onside Awards and is non-refundable.

Each Nomination is CA$150 + HST, in case you wish to nominate another brand/individual, additional charges will be applicable.

CAN ONE COMPANY ENTER IN ALL THE CATEGORIES?

No. Each company/individual cannot submit more than 5 nomination forms.  Each nomination will be processed only if nominations fees are paid.

WHAT IF A NOMINEE IS LATE IN PAYING THE NOMINATION FEES AND/OR SUBMITTING SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS?

Each nominee will be reminded twice by the Executive team to pay the nomination fee and/or supporting documents. If still failed to pay then the nomination will be revoked.

WHAT IS THE FURTHER PROCEDURE ONCE OUR COMPANY IS SELECTED FOR THE AWARD?

All shortlisted winners will have to sign up for the Publicity Programme Package put together by the organizers and make the relevant payment in this regard to be eligible to receive the award at their offices. 

The detailed publicity program packages will be shared with each shortlisted brand/individual after successful submission of the nominations and the nominations fees. 

CAN I PAY DIRECTLY TO WIN AN AWARD?

No, this is not advisable under any circumstances. Anybody attempting to approach any member of the judging panel, to influence a judgment will be permanently disqualified from the awards.

The awards are all decided by an independent panel of jury. The organizers do not involve themselves in the judging process in any way whatsoever. The judges are all experts in their field. They are participants in the Onside Awards on a voluntary basis and act with the utmost integrity at all times.

WHAT IS THE Publicity Programme Package?

The Publicity Programme Package put together by Onside Media consists of the wholesome experience of the awards and the ensuing the right PR mileage for your brand.

The PR mileage will be achieved by providing each of the award winners with a social media optimised and customised press release, post-event group coverage in the official website, official event magazine, and a group congratulatory message in the various publications of media partners. There will also be individual photo shoots and video interviews of each awardee.

CAN WE MODIFY/ALTER OUR ENTRY ONCE IT HAS BEEN UPLOADED?

No. An entry, once uploaded, cannot be changed. Therefore, we recommend that you verify, crosscheck and confirm the information, and other requirements before you start the submission process.

HOW DO WE KNOW THAT OUR ENTRY IS SUCCESSFULLY SUBMITTED?

Once you’ve submitted your entry and it has been received by us, we will send you an email acknowledgement of receipt within 3 working days.

HOW WILL MY ENTRY BE JUDGED?

Once we’ve received your form it will go through a due diligence process, where we will check that the information meets the award criteria. You may be asked to submit supporting documentation for your entry. If this is required, we will contact you after you have submitted your entry and our team has reviewed your complete form.

If your application does not demonstrate that you have met the award criteria, you may be eliminated from further stages in the assessment and judging process. The decision of the jury will be final and binding.

WE CAN NOMINATE A PAST AWARDEE? IS THAT ALLOWED?

Yes.

WILL MY ENTRY BE VISIBLE ONLINE TO OTHERS?

No. None of the submissions will be visible to anybody else other than the organizing team at Onside Media. Your entry will be kept confidential and only revealed at the award ceremony.

I AM UNABLE TO ATTEND THE AWARDS CEREMONY, CAN I STILL REGISTER AND PARTICIPATE IN THE AWARDS THIS YEAR?

In case you are unable to attend the event or the event takes place digitally due to Covid-19 restrictions then the successful awardee's certificate/trophies will be shipped to the respective office locations.

In case of the actual event then we would like to have all the winners attend the Gala Awards Night, winners who are not able to attend the ceremony for any reason will be sent their certificate/Award through courier, provided they have completed all formalities of nomination including submission of required documents, etc. and making the payment of nomination fees as well as Publicity Programme Package applicable to the winners.

STILL HAVE A QUESTION?

If there’s still something else you’d like to clarify, drop us a mail at  info@theonside.com or marketing@theonside.com and we will get back to you soon.