Midas Awards: Time to find out if your work is gold

The 2018 Midas Awards for the World’s Best Financial Advertising is open for entries.

“The Midas Awards has a 17-year legacy of honouring the World’s Best Financial Advertising,” stated Scott Rose, executive director of the Midas Awards.

“Midas’ reach extends over regional, national and continental boundaries to provide a global view of advertising and corporate communications in the international financial community and continues to be the only international advertising competition that honours the world of financial advertising and marketing.”

Last year was the first year of a Midas Executive Jury panel, its jurors being creative officers and executive creative directors from the world’s foremost advertising agencies as well as internationally recognised experts in financial policy and communications. Midas’ Executive Jury panel reviews all the shortlisted entries selected by the Midas Awards Grand Jury and provides an even more comprehensive evaluation of global creative work.

“2018’s Executive Jury recruitment is off to a brilliant start,” added Rose.

“We’re thrilled to have Joyce King Thomas, chairman/chief creative officer for McCann XBC and creative director for Fearless Girl as one of the award-winning creative executives onboard to judge this year’s competition.”

Fearless Girl won the Grand Midas Award and Best of Show in New York Festivals International Advertising Awards. (In fact, it scooped the pool at most international competitions.)

The 2018 Midas Awards Executive and Grand Juries are already beginning to recruit the world’s most respected and influential minds in financial advertising – client and agency leaders from the creative and marketing disciplines, as well as internationally recognised experts in financial policy and communications. Additional jury members will be announced in the coming weeks.

Midas awards Gold and Silver Ingots to the highest scoring entries and presents the Grand Midas to the entry considered Best in Show. The results are then analysed to create the annual rankings brief, The Midas Report, a who’s who in the world of financial services advertising that includes the three individual reports: agency, brand and network.

The deadline to enter the 2018 Midas Awards is October 1, 2018. Find entry details, including competition categories and rules and regulations, on the Midas Awards website.

Enter here.