Rules
Adweek B2B Innovation Awards reserve the right to move an entry from one category to another if it is submitted into the wrong category.
By submitting a video or PDF of your plan, entrant represents and warrants that the submission is an original work owned or controlled by the entrant. Submission may not be obscene, vulgar or defamatory and may not depict any illegal activity. Adweek also reserves the right to cancel any categories with an insufficient number of qualifying entrants.
If a potential winner cannot be contacted, does not respond within 24 hours from the time and date Adweek first tries to notify him/her, and/or the award or award notification is returned as undeliverable, such potential winner forfeits all rights to win the contest or receive the prize, and an alternate potential winner may be selected.
Upon contacting a potential winner and determining that he/she has met all eligibility requirements of the contest, including without limitation the execution of required waivers, publicity and liability releases and disclaimers, such individual will be declared the 'winner' of the contest.
ELIGIBILITY PERIOD
Entries first appearing in public between January 1, 2023 - January 31, 2024 are eligible for entry into this year’s Adweek B2B Innovation Awards.
GENERAL ELIGIBILITY
Entries cannot be made without the permission of the client and/or owner of the rights of the work. All entries must have been created for a paying client except pro bono work for charities and non-profit organizations. Adweek retains the right to disqualify entries/entrants that promote racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, and/or inequality of any kind, without refund.
CONSENT AND RELEASE
By entering the contest, each entrant releases and discharges the Adweek, judges, and any other party associated with the development or administration of this contest, their parent, subsidiary, and affiliated entities, and each of their respective officers, directors, members, shareholders, employees, independent contractors, agents, representatives, successors and assigns (collectively, 'Released Entities'), from any and all liability whatsoever in connection with this contest, including without limitation legal claims, costs, injuries, losses or damages, demands or actions of any kind (including without limitation personal injuries, death, damage to, loss or destruction or property, rights of publicity or privacy, defamation, or portrayal in a false light) (collectively, 'Claims'). Except where prohibited:
(i) acceptance of the award constitutes the consent of any winner, without further compensation, to use the name and likeness of such winner for editorial, advertising and publicity purposes by the Adweek and/or others authorized by the Adweek;
(ii) acceptance of an award constitutes a release by any winner of the Released Entities of any and all Claims in connection with the administration of this contest;
(iii) any potential winner may be required to sign an affidavit of eligibility (including social security number) and a liability/publicity release; and (v) each entrant consents to Adweek's providing entrant's name and email address to third parties partnering with Adweek in the contest so that entrant may be contacted by such third party. Affidavits and releases must be returned within seven (7) days from the date that Adweek first tries to notify the potential winner.
DISCLAIMERS
(i) Entries that are lost, late, misdirected, incorrect, garbled, or incompletely received, for any reason, including by reason of hardware, software, browser, or network failure, malfunction, congestion, or incompatibility at Adweek's servers or elsewhere, will not be eligible. In the event of a dispute, entries will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the e-mail address submitted at the time of entry. 'Authorized account holder' is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an e-mail address by an Internet Access Provider, online service provider, or other organization (e.g., business, educational institute) that is responsible for assigning e-mail addresses for the domain associated with the submitted e-mail address.
(ii) Adweek, in its sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify any person tampering with the entry process or the operation of the web site. Use of bots or other automated process to enter is prohibited and may result in disqualification at the sole discretion of Adweek.
(iii) Adweek further reserves the right to cancel, terminate or modify the contest if it is not capable of completion as planned, including by reason of infection by computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, force majeure or technical failures of any sort.
(iv) Adweek Entities are not responsible for errors in the administration or fulfillment of this contest, including without limitation mechanical, human, printing, distribution or production errors, and may modify or cancel this contest based upon such error at its sole discretion without liability.
(v) ADWEEK ENTITIES MAKE NO WARRANTIES, REPRESENTATIONS OR GUARANTEES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN FACT OR IN LAW, AS REGARDS THIS CONTEST.
(vi) CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT BY AN ENTRANT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE THE WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THIS CONTEST MAY BE A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND/OR CIVIL LAWS, AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, ADWEEK RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK REMEDIES AND DAMAGES (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION ATTORNEYS' FEES) FROM ANY SUCH ENTRANT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW, INCLUDING CRIMINAL PROSECUTION.
APPLICABLE LAWS AND JURISDICTION
This contest is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. Issues concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York. All disputes arising out of or connected with this contest will be resolved individually, and without resort to class action, exclusively by a state or federal court located in New York, New York. Should there be a conflict between the laws of the State of New York and any other laws, the conflict will be resolved in favor of the laws of the State of New York. All judgments or awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket damages (excluding attorneys' fees) associated with participation in this contest and shall not include any indirect, punitive, incidental and/or consequential damages.
SPONSORSHIP
This contest is sponsored by Adweek, 261 Madison Ave, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10016.
DISCLAIMER
Entries submitted become the property of Adweek and cannot be returned. Each entrant, by clicking the box to enter the contest, grants a non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, transferable, royalty-free, paid up right to Adweek to reproduce, perform and display the entries (including, without limitation, in edited form or as part of compilations of entries) at the Adweek B2B Innovation Awards, on Adweek's website and social media pages, and otherwise for educational and editorial purposes and for marketing and promoting the Adweek B2B Innovation Awards on any platform in any media now or hereafter known.
Entrant represents and warrants that it has all necessary rights to grant the rights granted herein. Without limiting the generality of the preceding sentence, entrant represents and warrants it has secured all clearances and permissions for any third-party intellectual property embodied within the entry (including without limitation, clearances/licenses for music and music publishing and trademarks) and any rights of privacy or publicity. Entrant will fully defend, indemnify and hold Adweek Entities harmless from any costs, expenses and claims incurred by or made against Adweek, its parents, affiliated entities, subsidiaries, licensees and assigns resulting from the use of the entries as set forth herein. The person submitting this entry form(s) represents and warrants that he or she has full authority to enter this contest, submit the entry media and grants the rights granted herein. This entry form constitutes the entire agreement of the parties and the entrant warrants and represents that he or she has not relied on any promise or statement not expressly set forth herein.