Welcome to ASBPE's 2025 Azbee Awards of Excellence online entry system!

The Azbee Awards of Excellence honor the best in B2B media, recognizing outstanding work by business, trade, association and professional publications across 68 categories. One of the most competitive award programs for B2B media, the Azbees highlight editorial, online and design excellence within print media, email newsletters and online publishing.

The competition is open to all U.S.-based B2B, trade and association publications. ASBPE membership is not required for entry, but members receive a discount on entry fees.

New for the 2025 Azbees!

We've been busy! We update the Azbee Awards every year based on entrant and judge feedback. Check out these updates for the 2025 Azbee Awards:

• All ASBPE members receive a $25 per entry discount, but now, freelance members receive an additional $20 per entry discount.
• We've simplified our Entry Form to a single page and reduced our submission requirements.
• We're hosting "Azbee Office Hours" meetings periodically throughout the entry period so you can ask all your Azbee Awards submission questions. Join ASBPE Executive Director Jessi McCarthy-Hills on Nov. 13, Nov. 25, Dec. 10, Dec. 16, Jan. 7, and/or Jan. 13 to get answers with live walk-throughs!
• NEW CATEGORIES:
  • One staff journalist, one freelance journalist and one designer will earn a coveted Best Body of Work award for their portfolio of 2024 work. While other Azbee Awards recognize the work of a publication's editorial team, ASBPE's newest Overall Excellence category celebrates the top individual portfolios from B2B journalists and designers. Winners must demonstrate creativity, range, impact, skill and craft across their top five work products from the year.
  • Our Email Newsletter Design category will reflect the ever-growing importance of email newsletters and recognize industry newsletters with thoughtful and engaging design.
  • Multi-Platform Design Package will showcase the best designs packaged across multiple mediums — print, email, social media and more.
  • ASBPE recognizes a designer/art director's work isn't limited to creating compelling layouts — it also includes having an eye for finding or creating the perfect imagery to compliment the style and tone of content. The Azbee Awards now recognize this key skill and awards photographers, illustrators and graphic designers for their Best Original Photo, Best Original Illustration, and Best Original Photo Illustration.
• CATEGORY UPDATES:
  • Editor's Letter has been updated to Editor's Letter or Note for further inclusivity of digital publishing practices.
  • The Editorial category has been converted to Thought Leadership to allow editorials and a wider range of thought leadership columns and articles to be submitted.
  • Group or Company Profile entries are now submitted to a single category awarding coverage of companies, organizations and groups with aligned purposes and goals. We've created a new category for Group Recognition Program submissions, such as the common "30 under 30" or "Top 20 Engineers" features.
  • The Best Social Media Campaign category has been updated to Best Use of Social Media to better reflect how today's publishers are using social media platforms not only to attract readers, but to interact with their audience, to provide context to the news they're reporting, and to show how their work is done.
  • Our Single Topic Coverage by a Team categories have been updated to Single Topic Coverage. The categories no longer require multiple team members, and the Online category now embraces multimedia.
  • Our video categories have been revised to Video and Video Series to honor the single best video, as well as thoughtful and well-executed series.
  • Our Multi-Platform Package of the Year category has been updated to Project of the Year. The category now recognizes the best overall topical project with a cohesive theme, requiring at least three pieces of content delivered to the audience across three platforms. Entrants may submit up to 10 pieces total.
  • Other category descriptions were updated to simplify submission and judging, better define our requirements, and clearly state the criteria judges look at when scoring your submissions.

As always, if you have ideas and feedback for the Azbee Awards, please reach out to the Awards Committee through our contact form.

How to Enter

Members:
Starting Nov. 1, 2024, use our members-only login with your ASBPE.org username and password. Signing in via your member account is the only way to access members-only discounts inside the Azbee Awards system. We highly recommend updating your profile on ASBPE.org before beginning the entry process, as your contact information will be pulled from your member account.

Non-Members:
If you are not an ASBPE member, you can create a non-member account and start submitting entries on Nov. 1, 2024. However, any entries created via a non-member profile will not be eligible for ASBPE member discounts. Please consider becoming an ASBPE member.

The online entry system will walk you through the steps to submit an entry. Submit as many entries as you like, and then pay for all your submissions at once with a simple checkout system. We require PDFs for print entries and URLs for web entries (a combination is still allowed in the All Content division). View our submission requirements to help you prepare your entries.

Please review our eligibility and submission requirements, categories, entry fees and deadlines and regions before submitting.

Log in or create a new account to submit your entries!

Entry Deadlines

• Regular deadline: Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, at 8 p.m. EST
• Late Entry Period: Entries received after the regular deadline and through Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025, at 8 p.m. EST will include an additional $10 late entry fee.
• Don't forget to sign up to judge the Azbees today!
• Note: There will be no deadline extensions. The late entry period allows additional time to enter all categories for an additional fee of $10 per entry.
• Support hours are from 9:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. ET.

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