Follow these simple steps to ensure that you submit entries that are worthy of receiving an International Stevie® Award:

1. Subscribe to the Free Stevie Awards Weekly Email Newsletter

The weekly email newsletter is the best way to stay informed about entry deadline extensions, new categories, and other announcements from the organizers of the Stevie Awards. Click here to learn more.

2. Review the Entry Kit

The Entry Kit contains all of the information and instructions you will need to prepare and submit your entries. Click here to request your Entry Kit.

3. Determine Who or What You Want to Nominate, and in Which Categories

Decide which individuals, groups, or media (websites, apps, videos, events, podcasts, marketing or PR campaigns, etc.) within your organization you will nominate/enter, then select the most appropriate categories for those entries. Contact the Stevie Awards office with your questions about the most appropriate categories, entry fees, and related matters. Contact us at help@stevieawards.com.

4. Use Past International Stevie-winning Entries as Models

Past International Stevie-winning entries are good examples of entries that judges scored highly, and we recommend that you emulate their style, tone, and structure. Click here to read the list of 2025 Gold Stevie Award winners.

5. Prepare Your Entries

International Stevie-winning entries are:

• Well written. They are terse and succinct. Their tone is modest, even when describing the most impressive accomplishments.

• Focused on a few accomplishments. Describe just a few accomplishments in detail, rather than listing many accomplishments briefly.

• Accompanied by supporting information. Provide links to online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in your entries.

International Stevie-winning entries are not:

• Just about "extraordinary" accomplishments. When you read through some of the past International Stevie-winning entries, you will see that many of them simply are about companies and people that have performed well. They are not about extraordinary, world-changing or industry-changing accomplishments. Tell your story well and support your claims, and the judges will score your entries highly.

• Grandiose or hyperbolic. Avoid flowery language and overblown claims. The judges tend to deduct points for immodesty.

6. Submit Your Entries by the Entry Deadline

The early-bird entry deadline is 8 April 2025. The final entry deadline is 6May 2025. Late entries will be accepted through 17 June 2025 with payment of a $55/entry late fee.

7. Participate in the Judging Process

Apply to be a judge. As a judge, you will be able to see entries submitted by organizations from around the world and develop a better understanding of the types of entries that score highly. (You will not be permitted to judge entries in categories in which you have submitted entries.) Click here to learn more and complete the application form.

If your application is accepted, you will be assigned categories based on your function, experience, and language preferences. As a judge, you may evaluate as few or as many nominations as you like, at your convenience, online, from May-July 2026.