NEW YORK and LONDON—The Holmes Report is accepting entries for its various Agency of the Year awards in North America and Europe, the Middle East & Africa. The deadline for submissions is February 26, 2016.

“If your firm is a leader in its market, if you believe you are the best at what you do, or if you had an exceptional year in 2015, we want to hear from you,” says Paul Holmes, founder of The Holmes Report and part of the editorial team that selects the Agency of the Year honorees. “This is the time to tell us your story.”

In both North America and the EMEA region, The Holmes Report selects a number of Specialist Agencies of the Year, experts in consumer, corporate and financial communications, creative, digital, healthcare, public affairs and technology public relations.

In North America, generalist and full-service agencies are recognized in their size categories (large, midsize, small and boutique) and a Canadian Agency of the Year is selected. In EMEA there are awards for the top agencies in a variety of major geographic regions: Africa, Benelux, DACH, Eastern Europe, France, Iberia, Italy, the Middle East, the Nordics, and the UK.

Agencies are evaluated on several criteria, including:

  • Performance over the past 12 months, especially growth
  • New business success
  • Talent management and new hires
  • Innovation and intellectual property
  • Notable, successful campaigns

There is no fee to nominate your firm for one of our Agency of the Year awards.

In addition to completing the submission form here, there are two additional things firms can do to bolster their case for selection as one of our Agencies of the Year:

  1. Submit campaign work in the SABRE Awards competition, where it can be evaluated in a peer-reviewed environment. Deadline: January 29.
  2. Participate in our Best Agencies to Work For research (an employee survey). To participate, send an email—subject line: Best Agencies to Work For—to [email protected].