Effie Awards: does this award count for the talent visa?

From the organisation's official site

What the organisation itself states on its site effie.org. Paraphrased, checked Oct 2, 2026.

Organiser

Effie is run by WARC LLC and its affiliated entities; WARC LLC is registered in Delaware with its principal place of business in New York.

Founded

The site says its process has been honed over 56 years (elsewhere, 50+ years).

Geography

According to the site, Effie runs global, regional and local competitions, with local teams in 55 regions supporting 125 countries.

Frequency

The competitions run every year.

How winners are chosen

Three rounds: the first picks finalists, the in-person final decides Bronze, Silver and Gold, and the Grand round picks the single most effective case; several jurors score each case confidentially, and a category may have no winner.

Jury

Judges are senior marketing executives from all disciplines. Judge applications are accepted year-round and do not guarantee participation.

• Cases are scored against the Effie Framework, four pillars of marketing effectiveness weighted in favour of results.
• On the Effie Awards US page: a Grand Jury of marketing leaders convenes in New York to pick the Grand Effie from the highest-scoring Gold winners.
• The pages read (awards, judging, judge application) do not state an entry fee.

Source: the organisation's site effie.org (pages /awards, /judging, /become-a-judge, /awards/effie-awards-us), checked Oct 2, 2026; the version on the site applies.

Facts from open sources

Country

United States [Wikidata P17]

Collected automatically from the sources shown, checked 2026-09-10; not a USCIS assessment.