IPA offers high-visibility sponsorship opportunities that will provide your company the chance to reach tens of thousands of avid professional and non-professional photographers around the world.

The Lucie Awards is a one-of-a-kind, unique tribute to excellence in photography. As a sponsor of the Lucie Awards, you will receive high level exposure to a targeted and focused audience of photography consumers. Our demographic includes the amateur and professional photographer. Our goal is to engage the entire photography community and to have the Lucie Awards become the premier event to celebrate this art.

The following highlights the exposure your company will receive:

International Photography Awards Competition
• The 2004 IPA competition received over 6,000 entries from photographers worldwide.
• All aspects of photography are featured in the competition and submissions included: advertising, fashion, photojournalism, fine art, sports, editorial, people, and many more.
• Awards are given in over 54 categories.
• The 2005 competition has just received nearly 14,000 entries worldwide.
• As a sponsor, your logo can be included in all collateral material around the competition (advertisements in over 15 photography magazines worldwide, invitations, save the date cards, tickets and the evening's program book).

Marketing and Advertising
• For the 2005 IPA competition, advertisements were placed in various magazines including: PDN, Shutterbug, American Photo, Photopresse, Photo District News (PDN), Popular Photography, E-digital, Leica Magazine, Venice Magazine, Focus Magazine, Camera and Arts Magazine, The Times Journal of Photography, Black and White Magazine, and many global publications estimating over $500,000. Direct Mailings were sent to nearly 12,000 IPA members

Website Traffic
• Each photographer interested in submitting will be directed to our website in order to fill out a form and sign-up.
• Each photographer will get exposure to our sponsors who will be prominently displayed on our website.
• During the months of May through July 2005, the photoawards.com website received nearly 1,000,000 hits.

Lucie Awards Gala Affair
• As a sponsor, your corporate logo will be prominently displayed on all collateral material leading up to the show from now until October and in the program catalogue at the show.
• This unique event draws together an elite audience of professional photographers and industry experts who have a love and passion for the field of photography.

Other sponsorships:

Media Sponsors
Available to print, television, and online media organizations. IPA will receive two full-page ads to promote the call for entries and the Lucie Awards in addition to a banner link on your site to IPA.

Non-Profit Organization Sponsors
Available to camera clubs, professional and amateur photography organizations, user groups, colleges and universities, associations and societies.

IPA will receive a link from your site, and a one-time mailing to your members list announcing the sponsorship. Please take advantage of this unique opportunity to promote your company to the world's photographic community.

Call 310.659.0122 or email sponsor@photoawards.com

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