Nomination Ballots - CLOSED

• Closed on January 15

• All nominees MUST be in Houston

Voting Round 1 - January 21 - February 3- CLOSED

• All nominees are in this round

• Each company, agency and individual member gets a SurveyMonkey link with limited number of submissions based on number of votes allocated

  • Agencies - 10 votes + number of CORPORATE membership votes

  • Vendors (Print, Radio, TV, OOH, Digital, Sports) - 20 votes + number of CORPORATE membership votes

    • Gold & Silver - 10 votes

    • Bronze - 5 votes

    • Individual memberships are not added in addition to total number of votes for their category (agency or vendor)

      • Example: If you are a single individual member from an agency that is NOT a corporate member, your agency will receive 10 votes, not 11.​

      • Example: If your company is a BRONZE member and is an OOH company, your company will receive 20 votes + 5 votes for being a corporate member. 

• Nominees with top 40% of votes go to final round

Final Round - February 10 - 24- CLOSED

• Finalists will need to submit their essay questions & headshots

  • If a headshot is needed, Al Torres Photography will be scheduling headshots, free of charge, for Gala use.

    • If you want to purchase your headshot for personal use, there is a discount!

Tabulation - February 26 - March 17 CLOSED

• ​Out of market judges will be reading and rating essays from finalists

  • Essays = 45% of overall score

  • Voting Totals = 55% of overall score

CPA will receive judge ratings + number of votes from Survey Monkey final round, seal results in envelopes and mail them to us for Gala.

• Blind results are read live from the sealed envelopes at the Gala for each award announcement.