The New York Festivals International Advertising Awards 2020 is open for entries. The 2020 competition incorporates the Midas Awards, which will be a special category group, Financial Advertising, in the NYF Advertising Awards maintaining all of its familiar financial categories.

“We’re excited by the possibilities that come with the inclusion of the esteemed Midas Awards into the NYF Advertising Awards family. Midas brings eighteen years of excellence in financial advertising and marketing on a global scale to NYF’s robust category mix,” stated NYF Advertising Awards executive director, Susan Glass Ruse.

Midas executive director Scott Rose has become managing director of NYF’s Advertising Awards, joining Susan Glass Ruse and associate executive director, Heather Abrams, in leading the competition.

“The far-reaching scope of NYF’s Advertising Awards provides the ultimate platform for the Midas Awards to continue to thrive,” Rose stated. “Midas award-winners will be featured with NYF’s advertising award winners on the competition’s website, and in global showcases.”

The NYF Advertising Awards database has been modernised, too, with a streamlined entry system, new website and new judging system provide a straightforward process and easy navigation for both entrants and jury members.

Last year, more than 330 new companies entered the awards. The Advertising Awards competition receives entries from over 60 countries and is judged by 400+ members of NYF’s Executive and Grand Juries who collectively cast their votes to select the World’s Best Advertising.

NYF’s live judging sessions will take place in New York City a month earlier and winners will be notified with results by April 6. The Awards had received requests from many clients for earlier results.

Executive Jury sessions will be held from March 31 to April 3 to choose the winners from the finalist entries selected by the international online Grand Jury.

The deadline to enter the 2020 New York Festivals Advertising Awards is December 16, 2019.

Find everything you need to know to enter here.