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Awards

Awards, rankings, and best-of lists are credibility you can schedule — every program has a deadline, criteria, and a winner. Featured finds the ones that fit your company, tracks the deadlines, and drafts submissions built to score.

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Free to start · No credit card · Awards, rankings, and best-of lists with deadlines

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How PR pros use Awards

Fifteen ways to turn deadlines into trophies. Tap a prompt to open it in Featured.

  • Discover

    Find awards you can win

    “Find awards that a B2B SaaS company can submit to in the next two quarters, with deadlines and entry fees.”

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  • Product awards

    Enter product awards

    “Find product awards for consumer kitchen appliances, including retailer and media “best of” programs.”

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  • People awards

    Nominate your people

    “Find 40-under-40 and rising-star award programs in commercial real estate for our VP of development.”

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  • Workplace

    Win workplace awards

    “Which best-places-to-work programs should a 120-person healthcare staffing company enter, and what does each require?”

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  • Local

    Sweep local awards

    “Find Phoenix and Arizona business awards a family-owned restaurant group could enter this year.”

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  • Startups

    Enter startup competitions

    “Find startup competitions and awards for pre-Series A fintech companies, with judging criteria.”

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  • Best-of lists

    Get on the lists

    “Find best-of lists and rankings for cybersecurity vendors that accept nominations or briefings.”

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  • Draft

    Draft the submission

    “Draft the 300-word company-achievements section of an award submission for our logistics platform, using these three metrics.”

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  • Deadlines

    Work the next 45 days

    “Which marketing and advertising awards have submission deadlines in the next 45 days?”

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  • Criteria

    Reverse-engineer the judges

    “Here are the judging criteria for an insurance innovation award. What evidence should we gather before we submit?”

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  • Nonprofit

    Enter impact awards

    “Find awards recognizing nonprofit impact and transparency that a youth education charity could enter.”

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  • Budget

    Filter by entry fee

    “Find reputable manufacturing industry awards with entry fees under $500.”

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  • Agencies

    Build client award calendars

    “Build an awards calendar for my clients in beauty, travel, and edtech — grouped by client, ordered by deadline.”

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  • Automate

    Get deadline alerts

    “Set up a workflow that finds new award programs in renewable energy and alerts me a month before each deadline.”

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  • Leverage

    Turn the win into coverage

    “We just won a regional business award. Draft the press release and a LinkedIn post, and find journalists who cover local business wins.”

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How it works

An awards program is a calendar problem. Featured runs the calendar.

  1. 01

    Describe your company

    Industry, size, stage, and what you're proud of — products, people, culture, growth. Featured matches you to programs where you'd genuinely compete.

  2. 02

    Featured finds programs and deadlines

    Industry awards, rankings, best-of lists, people awards, and workplace programs — each with deadlines, criteria, and entry fees, so you can pick with eyes open.

  3. 03

    Submit and collect

    Featured drafts submissions around the judging criteria, you supply the evidence, and a workflow flags the next deadline before it sneaks up.

What makes awards on Featured different

Most companies enter the two awards they've heard of. The winners work the whole calendar.

  • Deadline-first

    A calendar, not a list

    Every program surfaces with its submission window and lead time, so award season becomes a pipeline you plan — not an email you missed.

  • Lists too

    Beyond the trophy shows

    Rankings and best-of lists — the ones buyers and AI assistants actually consult — sit alongside traditional award programs in the same search.

  • Fit-checked

    Enter where you can win

    Matching considers your size, stage, and evidence, and flags pay-to-play programs for what they are — so entry fees go where a win is real.

  • Win → coverage

    The award is the beginning

    When you win, the same chat drafts the press release, the LinkedIn post, and the journalist pitches — turning one trophy into a coverage cycle.

Put awards on a schedule

The Awards workflow finds relevant industry awards and recognition programs continuously and delivers them — with deadlines — to Slack or email.

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Awards — frequently asked questions

What awards should my company apply for?+−

The ones where your evidence matches the judging criteria — which is a discoverable fact, not a guess. Tell Featured your industry, size, and what you're proud of, and it returns programs where you'd genuinely compete: industry awards, best-of lists, people awards, and workplace programs, each with deadlines and requirements.

How do I find award submission deadlines?+−

Ask Featured for awards in your industry and every result includes its submission window. For ongoing coverage, the Awards workflow watches for new programs and alerts you ahead of each deadline — typically the difference between a considered submission and a midnight scramble.

Are award entry fees worth it?+−

Sometimes. Reputable programs charge modest fees to fund judging; pay-to-play schemes charge for the trophy itself. Ask what a win gets you — a credible badge, a ranked list buyers consult, press coverage — and whether past winners look like peers. Featured flags the difference so fees go where wins are real.

What makes a winning award submission?+−

Evidence mapped to criteria. Judges score against a rubric, so structure your entry around their exact language, lead with numbers, and make the impact concrete — “reduced onboarding time 40% for 300 customers” beats any adjective. Featured drafts submissions in that shape and tells you which evidence gaps to fill first.

Do awards actually help with credibility and sales?+−

Third-party recognition compresses trust: badges lift conversion on high-consideration pages, wins give sales teams a proof point, and winner announcements earn coverage. The effect compounds when you leverage each win — press release, LinkedIn, journalist pitches — which Featured drafts in the same chat.

How do awards affect AI visibility?+−

Heavily. When AI assistants answer “best [category] companies,” they lean on exactly the pages awards produce: winner announcements, rankings, and best-of lists on credible domains. An awards program is one of the most direct ways to place your name in the sources AI answers are built from.

What's the difference between awards and best-of lists?+−

Awards have entry windows and judges; best-of lists and rankings are editorial, refreshed periodically, and often accept nominations or briefings. Lists tend to drive more ongoing discovery — they're what buyers and AI assistants consult year-round. Featured surfaces both so your recognition strategy isn't just trophies.

How much does it cost?+−

Award discovery and submission drafting are included in every Featured plan — free to start, $39/month (Lite) or $79/month (Pro, billed annually). Every plan includes every feature; only usage scales. Program entry fees, where they exist, are set by each program.

Can agencies run awards programs for clients?+−

Yes — awards are a classic agency deliverable, and Featured turns them into a system: a per-client calendar ordered by deadline, drafted submissions in each client's voice, and a workflow watching each client's industry for new programs.

We won. Now what?+−

Work the win: announce it with a press release, post it where your buyers are, pitch journalists who cover wins in your space, and add the badge where trust is decided. Featured drafts all of it from the same chat — and Media Monitoring catches everyone who covers it.

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Award season is always open

Somewhere, a program you'd win closes for entries soon. Find it — and draft the submission — today. Free to start.

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$29Per month, billed annually at $348

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Monitor HARO and similar feeds, draft pitches in Featured Chat, and ship a steady weekly cadence without burning out.

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Automate workflows, coordinate outreach, and lean on AI for research and drafting at serious volume.

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