The AMA San Antonio Marketing Excellence Awards Call for Entries!
It's Official! The AMA San Antonio Marketing Excellence Awards Call for Entries is now open!
It's time to submit your entries for the American Marketing Association - San Antonio Chapter Marketing Excellence Awards!
Show off your best work from 2025 and nominate your best marketing campaigns for a Marketing Excellence Award!
Eligibility
The campaign or work must be created by a firm, business, agency, or organization located in the San Antonio area—or for a client based in San Antonio—during 2025.
This year's Categories Include:
Select only one category from the following list. If you are entering the same form for multiple categories, you will need to change the name of the category and pay the additional submission fee.
Business to Business
Food & Beverage
Higher Education / K-12
Healthcare
Non Profit / Governmental
Retail
Tourism / Entertainment
About the Competition
Submit your most impressive marketing campaigns from 2025 to AMA San Antonio's Marketing Excellence Awards (MEAs) for a chance to win!
All submissions will be automatically considered for Best in Show, awarded to the entry with the highest judging score overall.
An impartial panel of AMA board members from another AMA chapter in the US will judge the entries to ensure fairness. If any entry includes confidential data, please flag it for review purposes only to ensure it remains protected.
How To Enter:
Submit your campaign to Zealous and ensure you have selected the correct category and included all relevant attachments showcasing your campaign.
There are no limits on the number of categories you can enter.
You may enter the same campaign into multiple categories, however, you will need to submit a separate entry form per campaign category and pay for each entry separately.
Be sure to name the campaign listed on your entry matches the name submitted with the payment.
Payment and entry form must be submitted by the deadline (No refunds).
Key Dates
Early entry deadline = March 13
Final entry deadline = March 25
Judging = April 1 - 11
Results announcement = May 2026
Awards/showcase event = June 17
If you have questions regarding filling out the forms, please contact MaryAnne Schweers (maryanne@plcstrategies.com / 972.740.7876.
MEAs PHOTOS 2025
Marketing Excellence Award Winners
Thank you to our 2025 MEAs Sponsors
Eligibility
The MEAs are open to all San Antonio-area marketing professionals. AMA membership is not required in order to participate.
There is no limit to the number of campaigns that can be submitted. Campaigns can also be entered into multiple categories; however, each entry requires individual payment.
The work/campaign must be completed by a San Antonio-area firm, business, agency, or organization or for a client in the San Antonio DMA. The campaign must have run in the year previous to the award ceremony. (Ex. MEAs 2026 will honor campaigns that ran/were executed in 2025)
Awards Ceremony
All winners will be announced at the Marketing Excellence. Awards Celebration in June (exact date and location TBD).
Awards will be given to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place and (if applicable) honorable mention in each category

