Please make sure you have read and understood the FAQs 2025 document.

Rules of Entry

Application Fee:
The cost is €70.00 per award category application. (€70.00 + 23% VAT)

Payment:
The fee(s) can be paid HERE.  (See F.A.Q for further details).

Awards Entries:

• Entry must be based on the last 12 months ONLY.
• Submissions for each category are only acceptable through this portal. We cannot accept application forms by email nor by hard copy posted to the ERF office.
• PLEASE NOTE THE WORD RESTRICTIONS on each application. 

Closing Date:

• Strictly 5pm on Tuesday 8th September 2026.
• The awards application portal closes at 5pm sharp. 
• NO applications will be accepted after this time so ensure you upload your entries in plenty of time!

Interviews:

• Face-to-face interviews only take place for the Best New Agency, Agency of the Year and Consultant of the Year Awards.
• Interviews will be scheduled for mid to late October.
• We will give as much notice as possible regarding any interviews, should an entrant be selected. 
• All other awards are judged on digital entry only, with the winners being announced at the Gala Ball.

Gala Ball:
If you enter for an award, you must have a seat booked for the Awards Gala Ball on Nov 27th in the Shelbourne Hotel.

To book your seats, please see HERE. 

***The ERF is a GDPR compliant organisation. Please be advised that as a necessity of this process, the information you share in your application form will be shared with the judging panel, which comprises of three independent judging panels, the identity of whom we are unable to disclose. Your information is not being transferred outside of the EU.

Photographs of the successful finalists will be published on screen on the night of the awards, and photographs of the winning candidate will be published in the national newspapers, on the ERF website and on screen on the night. Publication of photographs is a mandatory condition of your application and therefore your consent is not required.