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

Thanks to Christi and the Awardco Center of Excellence, we now have a strong thought partner that shares new and different strategies to help us further elevate the Americare recognition experience. We have tested the market, and this collaborative consultation and creative problem solving from recognition practitioners differentiates Awardco. In practice, it has built our confidence that we have business partners who are sincerely invested in helping us take recognition from being a perk to a powerful strategic driver that delivers tangible impact.
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Sarah Mazzocco
Chief People Officer
Americare Senior Living
If we retain a teacher, that’s 20 students we get to serve. Going from 45% turnover to 8% means we’ve kept 85–90 more staff. That’s an incredible impact on both our children and our budget.
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Amber Lease
Human Resource Director
Southern Oregon Head Start
Awardco has helped us make recognition more worthwhile by improving employee morale and showing them that we care—recognition is more meaningful, so it's become more valuable to our employees.
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Mason Ongarato
HR Software & Employee Benefits Expert
All Access Staging and Productions
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
We know we’re a people-first organization… and to keep delivering, we needed the right tools and technology to build a culture of everyday impactful recognition.
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Sierra Capone
Director, Wellbeing & Employee Experience
McCormick & Company
I love the simplicity of the program and the ease of taxes. We were really worried about that, but it's been really easy.
Nealy Whisler
Global Director of Talent Management
Percepta
Awardco makes it really easy to select colleagues that you want to recognize, whether it's one, whether it's multiple. Recognition helps build trust with teammates and leaders.
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Brett Miller
VP of Creative
Kodiak
Fans and season ticket members are vital to what we do. We refer to them as the heartbeat and the blood of the Utah Jazz. Without them, it doesn't give us the foundation that we need.
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Casey Glines
Director of Member Experience, Utah Jazz / SEG
Utah Jazz

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.