CMA News

The winners of the Construction Marketing Awards 2020 have been announced!

In an online ceremony, the 2020 winners of our 28 categories were revealed. Milwaukee and Bradfords Building supplies both won three awards. Milwaukee’s unapologetically complex digital campaign, and Bradfords’ classy multi-media campaign both really impressed several different panels of judges – always a mark of real quality.

Ridgemount won both PR Agency of the Year, and Agency of the Year – something not done before – as testament to a remarkable year. They were a part of seven winning entries this year.

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The Construction Marketing Awards 2020 will be presented in an online ceremony on November 26th.

Our Finalist Gallery is now live, so you can see information about the shortlisted entries. So if you;re a fainlist yourself – check out the competition!

Join us for the online presentation of the Construction Marketing Awards 2020. The winners will be announced on a streamed broadcast starting at 4.30pm on November 26, and concluding by 6pm.

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The CMA judging panel has met and discussed this year’s crop of entries, and picked the list of finalists from which the winners will be chosen. A full list is below. Where applicable, the agency responsible is listed in brackets.

The winners will be announced at an  online presentation on November 26, 2020.

If you are in one of the categories which will be decided by interview, we’ll be in touch very soon!

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The Construction Marketing Awards recently hosted a webinar called Traditional meets Digital. We invited leading industry players, all of whom are working on the interface where digital and traditional media come together, to sit on our panel and share their views.

The panel were all agreed that it is not a case of one medium over another but a matter of a blended approach. Different media have different roles. Those roles are decided by the type of information to be delivered:
• Is it nice to know or need to know? Legislation or technical data may be better presented in a digital format, which is instantly available.
• What format is best suited to the information? For example plans of a building may be more easily viewed in a hard copy format.
• How many and where are the audience? With an online presentation it is possible to reach 1,000 people around the world.
• Do participants want to meet to build relationships? In which case a live event will be best to achieve this.
What is important is that people can enjoy a tailored experience which works for them.

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The CMAs hosted a webinar on Wednesday September 30th 2020 focussed on the future of media.

There has been a lot of talk about the new digital age which has been turbocharged as a result of Covid. What does this mean for some of our more traditional forms of interaction – will people still go to exhibitions and what about hardcopy publications? Our panel of experts debated the issues.

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For a number of reasons, we have decided to extend the entry timetable for 2020, giving you more time to complete your entry.

We always get requests for deadline extensions, but usually we stick to our announced deadline, just allowing a few days post deadline for the completion of entries already started. However, 2020 has been an unusual year, to say the least, and it seems a number of you are struggling to meet the deadline. Some have issues relating to employees being on or coming back from furlough, and others are simply under immense time pressure because of the restrictions COVID-19 has brought.

Also, we are aware that we had an issue with our website at the end of last week and over the weekend which prevented people from accessing the judging criteria, and will have made a difficult situation even worse for some.

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Our webinar, held on September 15, and featuring Tom Hall of BarbourABI, discussed construction industry activity over the first half of 2020 and then took a look forward, using Barbour ABI’s planning data and insights from their research, to see how and where the recovery is shaping up, ending with key risks and opportunities over the short and medium term. Read More

The Construction Marketing Awards are hosting two online seminars, endorsed by CIMCIG, in September.

The first “Recovery: How is the construction sector faring?”, is in association with Barbour ABI, and will review construction industry activity over the first half of 2020 and then take a look forward, using Barbour ABI’s planning data and insights from our research, to see how and where the recovery is shaping up, ending with key risks and opportunities over the short and medium term.

The speaker, Tom Hall is Chief Economist at Barbour ABI and AMA Research, providing analysis and economic insight for the construction and related sectors, assessing the trends and developments that impact the industry. Offering bespoke research and tailored analysis to clients, Tom also speaks at industry events and works closely with journalists and other industry bodies to provide commentary on the built environment.

Register here

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