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Recognition for Marketing & Events

Elevate events and campaigns with seamless recognition

Engage attendees, amplify brand impact, and recognize the teams behind the scenes—all with one powerful platform.

Features for Marketing & Events

Unlock event and campaign success

Awardco makes it easy to enhance event experiences, recognize contributions, and strengthen brand loyalty for attendees and employees alike.

 
Measure and optimize impact
 
Automate and streamline recognition
 
Strengthen customer relationships
 
Recognize overlooked contributors
 
Drive event engagement
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“We haven’t heard one bad thing about Awardco from our employees. It’s taken off much better than we expected it to because the employees love it.”
Lauren Long
HR Operations Manager

Premium Features

 Drive event engagement with premium features

Empower events and brand teams to drive greater engagement, interest, and participation.

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Physical Recognition Cards

Physical Recognition Cards

AwardCodes™: in-person engagement

Use AwardCodes to encourage prospects to engage with your brand. Offer codes in exchange for sign-ups, booth visits, or survey completions, turning every interaction into a valuable lead.

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Third-Party Recognition

Third-Party Recognition

External Recognition: involve attendees

External Recognition allows booth attendees, customers, and other third parties to recognize the events team, spreading more appreciation and driving greater event engagement.

Testimonials

What our customers say

Our investment to leverage the Center of Excellence team at Awardco was the best decision we made. Katie didn’t just advise, she partnered. She brought deep healthcare expertise and helped us translate what recognition should feel like for clinicians into something that actually works for a deskless, clinical workforce. With her leadership, we built our Awardco instance as a true virtual haven: a values-based recognition experience designed with and for our teams, easily accessible, and directly tied to our mission. The result is an always-on program that makes it easy to celebrate the moments that matter — strengthening connection, belonging, and pride across the organization.
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Megan Vera Weaklend
SVP of Marketing & Customer Experience
Ob Hospitalist Group
From a business perspective, we use Awardco data to publicly highlight our people across internal platforms and LinkedIn. Most importantly, we accept nominations year-round for our big State of the Companies meeting, ensuring no standout moment goes unnoticed.
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Mallory Pence
Marketing Manager
Lockton
Seventy-five percent of our employees are out in the field, so how do we get them excited and engaged? The safety programs really got them energized. They had the opportunity to earn a lot of points, but they also received meaningful recognition. I was really impressed by how much our login engagement increased over time.
Marna Lagerquist
Manager, Talent Acquisition and Development
4Refuel
It's definitely a lot easier because you don't have to carry your gift around with you at the whole game or take a special trip down there. You just order your award and then it comes in the mail.
Dave Long
Season Ticket Member
Utah Jazz
We have an on-the-spot recognition program where leaders can immediately recognize a CRP for demonstrating safe behavior. That recognition is visible across the organization, which motivates others to do the same. Instead of focusing on what went wrong, we’ve shifted our culture to spotlight what’s being done right—and that’s encouraged everyone to follow that path.
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Roshan Varghese
Sr. Director, Environment, Health & Safety
4Refuel
If I were to describe the High Five Club [Awardco] in a couple words, I'd say it's collaborative and it's contagious.
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Pat Cokingtin
Senior VP of Sales & Marketing
Americare Senior Living
For most companies, purpose, mission, and values can end up feeling like just words on paper. That’s why we were so interested in Awardco. It gives us an authentic way to bring our values to life. Every time someone recognizes a teammate, our purpose and values are right there, reinforcing what they look like in action every single day.
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Josh Olofson
Vice President of Employee Experience
Crumbl
Awardco helps bring us together—not just as colleagues, but as a community. Earning points for doing well and participating in events makes me feel recognized and valued. I love how easy it is to track and redeem points, and the email reminders keep me motivated. As someone who tends to be shy at work, Awardco encourages me to engage more, and having points to redeem feels like a little shopping spree to reward that effort.
Kiera V.
Captioning Agent

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can Awardco support on-site event distribution, raffles, or attendee incentives?
 

Teams can use physical award codes, QR codes, or other configured distribution methods to provide a reward during an onsite event, raffle, recognition moment, or campaign activation.

These methods can preserve an in-person experience while helping the organization track issuance and redemption in a central system. Teams can also use event-specific rules, reward values, or catalogs when the campaign requires a defined experience.

The required identity, registration, redemption, and fraud-prevention controls depend on the event design. Before launch, confirm how codes are created, distributed, limited, redeemed, expired, and reported.

Can recipients choose their own gift, or must Marketing select one item?
 

Depending on the program, teams can offer a fixed item, a curated collection, a branded store, a gift card, a points-based experience, or a choice of available rewards.

A fixed item may be appropriate for a speaker gift, event kit, or campaign with a specific brand objective. A curated catalog or reward choice may be better when recipients have different preferences, locations, sizes, or shipping needs.

The available products, providers, currencies, countries, redemption methods, and custom-catalog options vary. Teams should confirm whether the selected experience is available to the intended recipients before promoting it.

Can Awardco support customer, prospect, partner, and speaker gifting?
 

Teams can use Awardco for customer appreciation, prospect outreach, partner programs, speaker thank-you gifts, event follow-up, and other external gifting use cases.

Recipients may receive a branded item, gift card, reward link, custom gift, experience, or another approved option. A team can also create a campaign-specific experience that reflects the event theme, account relationship, brand standards, or audience preference.

External gifting may require different recipient information, approval rules, invoicing, privacy safeguards, shipping processes, or tax and compliance review than employee recognition. Those requirements should be confirmed for the campaign and recipient country.

Can Awardco support swag for conferences, trade shows, and field events?
 

Awardco can help teams source, organize, and distribute branded merchandise for conferences, trade shows, onsite meetings, customer events, and other marketing activities.

A team may order a defined quantity of items for an event, make branded products available through a company or campaign store, or use an on-demand model for selected products. Common considerations include product quality, logo and design requirements, quantities, sizes, countries, shipping destinations, packaging, lead times, and replenishment.

Bulk orders, print-on-demand programs, branded stores, and custom corporate-gifting services may follow different workflows and commercial terms. Teams should confirm the appropriate fulfillment model for each event.

What can Events and Marketing teams use Awardco for?
 

Events and Marketing teams can use Awardco for event swag, conference and trade-show giveaways, customer appreciation, prospect and partner gifting, campaign incentives, speaker or sponsor gifts, webinar follow-up, branded stores, and other approved reward experiences.

Programs can support a one-time event, a recurring field-marketing motion, an account-based campaign, an internal marketing initiative, or a broader corporate-gifting strategy. Teams can use physical merchandise, digital gift cards, experiences, charitable options, or other available rewards depending on the audience and campaign goal.

The right setup depends on whether the recipient is an employee, customer, prospect, partner, speaker, attendee, or another external audience. Recipient eligibility, data handling, tax treatment, and approval requirements should be defined before launch.

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Take your events and marketing initiatives to the next level with a recognition platform built for engagement.