FAQ About the Virtual Awards Ceremony
Date and Time
Event Cost, Registration Deadlines, and Benefits
Who May Attend
Event Schedule
Attire and Registration Passes
Awards to Be Presented
How Awards Will Be Presented
Delivery of Awards
Photography and Videography
Sponsorship and Advertising Opportunities
Next Steps After Registration
Q: When and where will the 2021 Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards take place?
A: The awards will be hosted virtually on Wednesday, 2 June at 14:00 GST.
Event Cost, Registration Deadlines, and Benefits
Q: How much will it cost to attend the 2021 Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards?
A: Here are the registration prices and deadlines:
- Through 19 May, $495 for an unlimited number of your colleagues, friends and family. After 19 May the price will rise to $545, through 28 May, the final day for registration.
- Refunds and cancellations will not be accepted after 26 May.
Q: How do I purchase registration for the event?
A: Stevie® Award winners may purchase registrations for the 2 June Virtual Awards Ceremony by logging into their entry-submission account on the Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards website. If necessary, we can place an offline registration for you. To request this, please email us at help+MENA@stevieawards.com.
Q: What will registrants receive?
A: Each registered organization will be entitled to the following:
- The ability to enable any number of colleagues, friends, and family members to participate in the virtual awards ceremony
- The right for all of your participants to network and schedule video meetings with other participants from other Stevie-winning organizations, judges, and the press
- A custom winner logo package to use to promote your Stevie winnings
- All of your participants will be able to take photos and be interviewed on the virtual red carpet, and to upload their own personal acceptance-speech videos to the virtual event platform
- Provide us with a master acceptance-speech video that we will show during your virtual awards presentation
- All of your participants will be able to learn about and engage with sponsors
Q: Who may attend the 2021 Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards?
A: Any individual or organization may purchase a registration, but typically only Stevie Award winners and their guests attend.
Q: Will Stevie Award winners receive any complimentary registration passes for the event?
A: No, all who wish to attend the event must purchase registrations.
Q: Are Stevie Award winners required to attend the event?
A: No, Stevie Award winners are not required to attend the virtual ceremony on 2 June.
Q: We opted out of paying shipping fees and receiving our physical awards. Can we still participate in the virtual awards ceremony?
A: Yes. If you opted out of receiving your awards, you may still purchase a registration and receive all of the benefits of registration.
Q: What is the schedule for the 2021 Middle East & North Africa Stevie Awards virtual ceremony?
A: The schedule will be released days before the 2 June ceremony, so you know when to tune in to see your organization’s acceptance speech.
Attire and Registration Passes
Q: What is the attire for the virtual awards ceremony?
A: While this is a virtual event and you will be watching the awards presentation from your home or office, we highly recommend business attire for your virtual red carpet interviews, red carpet photos, and pre-recorded acceptance speeches.
Q: How will we receive our purchased registration passes?
A: After you register your organization, we will send you instructions about how to add your participants to your registration. The Stevie Awards will send each participant you add to your registration an email with a unique link to add themselves to the virtual event.
Q: Which awards will be virtually presented during the ceremony?
A: All awards won by organizations participating (Grand, Gold, Silver, and Bronze) will be represented.
Q: Will Stevie winners who are not represented at the virtual ceremony be announced?
A: No. Because all winners have already been announced, only those winning organizations with registrations will be recognized during the ceremony.
Q: How many times will our organization be announced during the ceremony?
A: Each organization will be announced once during the virtual presentations. We will show a short video about the winning organization that we’ll produce, and then a pre-recorded acceptance speech video, supplied by the winning organization.
Q: In what order will organizations be showcased during the ceremony?
A: We will present the awards in the order in which registrations are received.
Q: How will the virtual ceremony simulate how winners would be called to the stage to accept their awards?
A: Each participating organization will be announced by our emcee. We’ll then show a short video about the Stevie-winning organization that we’ll produce. Then we’ll show an acceptance-speech video of up to 30 seconds provided by the winning organization.
Q: What can I include in my organization’s announcement video?
A: On the event registration form you’ll see a place to upload your organization's logo (please use a high-resolution logo) and a few photographs or video clips of your choice. If you do not have these media assets ready for upload when you purchase your registration, you will be able to return to your registration order later to upload them. The confirmation email you will receive after placing your order will contain a link to return to your order.
We cannot guarantee that media assets uploaded after 24 May will be used in the video that we produce about your organization. Note that you will not be given the opportunity to review your organization's video before the event and you will have no editorial control over it.
Q: Will a video be produced about my organization if we cannot attend the event?
A: No, we will only produce videos for organizations represented in the event.
Q: Will my organization be able to use the video after the event?
A: Yes. After the virtual awards ceremony we will publish the videos on our YouTube channel. Each organization that attended will be given its video to use however it likes.
Q: Will we be able to make an acceptance speech live after our organization is announced?
A: No. Each organization will be asked to pre-record a 30-second acceptance speech, which will be played as part of its virtual award presentation. One speech per organization will be played during the virtual ceremony, but an unlimited number of additional acceptance speeches can be uploaded to your organization’s profile within the ceremony platform for all attendees to view. After the event, all acceptance speeches will be uploaded to our YouTube channel.
Q: Will we receive our awards before we have to record our acceptance speeches?
A: Yes. We plan to ship awards to winners o/a 3 May. Which means you should receive your awards by 13 May, giving you approximately three weeks in which to record and upload your acceptance speech video(s).
Q: We’d like to order additional copies of our awards to share with our colleagues. Will they be able to receive them before they need to record their personal acceptance-speech video
A: Copies of awards may be ordered at any time in the Stevie Awards Store at http://stevieawards.myshopify.com. We typically require 6-8 weeks to fulfill orders. However, if you place your order by 2 April we guarantee that your participants will receive them by 13 May, in time to record their personal acceptance speech videos.
Q: Will there be a red carpet area for photographs during the virtual ceremony?
A: Yes. All participants will be able to have photos taken on the virtual red carpet. The system we will use will enable participants to text or email their photo or selfie to the photography system, and within minutes receive back their photo with our special red-carpet backdrop and framing added to it.
Q: Will the virtual awards ceremony be recorded?
A: Yes. The ceremony will be broadcast live, worldwide, via Swapcard and YouTube Live. It will be recorded and stored in Swapcard if you would like to watch it again at a later date (only available to those who attended the ceremony).
Q: Will our participants be able to be interviewed on the virtual red carpet, as they are at live Stevie Awards events?
A: Yes, we will have an option in the ceremony platform, Swapcard, for participants to schedule a time on Zoom with a Stevie Awards representative to record their interview. If they’d prefer, they can also record the interview video themselves (we will provide the questions ahead of time) and we will add Stevie Awards branding and backgrounds to their interview clips. Interview slots will be open 26 May - 9 June so your participants won’t need to feel pressured to do an interview the day of the ceremony. Interviews will be published on the Stevie Awards YouTube channel.
Q: When and how will video clips of the event be made available?
A: The video clip of the primary pre-recorded acceptance speech you provide will be combined with the short video we produce about your organization. These combined clips will then be published on the Stevie Awards' YouTube channel during the week of 7 June.
The video clips of the interviews with Stevie Award winners will start being published on the Stevie Awards' YouTube channel the week of 7 June.
Sponsorship and Advertising Opportunities
Q: What sponsorship opportunities are available for the virtual Middle East Stevie Awards ceremony?
A: We have two levels of sponsor options available; We can accept five (5) Diamond sponsors and one (1) Platinum Sponsor. See sponsorship benefits here. Reserve your spot by 3 May, 2021.
Q: What advertising opportunities are available for the awards gala?
A: The best way to advertise is by becoming a ceremony sponsor.
Q: What are the next steps after I register for the ceremony?
A: Once we receive your payment, your main point of contact will receive an email containing a checklist outlining everything required to participate in the ceremony- this includes how to record and upload your 30-second virtual acceptance speeches, scheduling your red carpet interviews, and how to set up a profile and add additional attendees to Swapcard*, our virtual ceremony platform.
*Please note, you will receive an email from Swapcard within approximately 24 hours of filling out the registration form.