The app for an awards ceremony
An awards night is a two-hour running order with fourteen categories, a room of five hundred, and a producer whose only real fear is that it overruns. Everything else is presentation.
A planning figure: fifty tables of ten, which is the size at which the running order stops fitting in anyone's head.
Fourteen categories and a producer's only fear
An awards ceremony app carries the running order, the categories and finalists, sponsor recognition per category, and the photographs afterwards. event67 provides those under the awards programme's own brand, with reactions during the announcements and push notices when the running order slips. It does not run the judging, collect entries or sell tables.
A running order the whole room can see
Categories, presenters, breaks, entertainment. Guests knowing that their category is eighth rather than second changes their evening, and it stops the front-of-house team answering the same question fifty times. The producer edits once and every phone updates.
Finalists, presented properly
Each category as a session with its finalists and its sponsor, and a page per finalist where that matters. For a programme whose finalists paid to enter, being visible in the app is part of what they bought.
Sponsor recognition per category
Category sponsorship is how most awards programmes are funded. Tier-ordered sponsor pages with logos, descriptions and websites, plus a sponsor attached to the specific category they bought, matches how the money actually works.
Photographs, quickly, for the people who won
Winners want the photograph that night and the marketing team wants it the next morning. The shared album collects guest photography alongside the official set, with moderation appropriate to a black-tie audience.
An evening, in running order
Shortlist announced
Publish categories and finalists
Entries and judging happen in your own process, because event67 does not run either. Once the shortlist is set, load categories as sessions with their finalists and sponsors.
Uses the running order.
After table sales
Invite the confirmed guests
Tables are sold elsewhere. Import the confirmed guest list as CSV and send branded invites with delivery tracked per recipient, which for a list assembled from fifty different table buyers is worth checking.
Uses the branded app and branded invites with delivery tracking.
Reception
Arrivals, and the number the caterer wants
QR check-in with a live count. A repeat scan returns already checked in. Knowing at 19:20 how many of five hundred have arrived is a genuinely useful operational fact.
Uses check-in.
The ceremony
Reactions, and a running order that slips
Reactions stream through the announcements. When the running order slips, and it will, one edit plus a push announcement moves the room's expectations without the compere having to apologise for it.
Uses reactions and push announcements.
The next morning
Winners, photographs and the sponsor report
The album is ready. Engagement analytics give the sponsor report a number that is not just attendance, and the archive keeps the evening for the programme's own marketing.
Uses the shared album and analytics.
Setting up an awards night
Five steps, once the shortlist exists.
Keep entries and judging where they are
event67 starts at the shortlist. Entries, fees and scoring stay in whatever runs them now.
Create the event and brand it to the programme
The awards programme's own identity, not the parent organisation's.
Load categories as timed running-order items
With finalists and the category sponsor on each. This is the structure the whole evening hangs on.
Check sponsor tiers against the agreements
Category sponsorship is contractual. Verify the mapping before the night.
Set photos to moderated
Black tie and open submission is a combination best avoided. A reported photo auto-hides in any case.
What a 500-guest awards night costs
Five hundred guests activate. Fifty are free and the rest are billable once for the evening. Guests on a bought table who never open the app do not appear on the bill.
- activated attendees
- 500activated attendees
- billable, after the first 50 are free
- 450billable, after the first 50 are free
- for the whole event, at $5.00 each
- $2,250for the whole event, at $5.00 each
Table buyers frequently send substitutes at short notice. Because the meter counts activation, those substitutions cost nothing extra.
The awards machinery event67 does not provide
An awards programme is two products: the entry and judging system, and the night itself. This is the second one.
- No entry submission, entry fees or category management as a workflow.
- No judging: no scoring, no judge portals, no rubrics.
- No public or audience voting of record. Live polls are an opinion instrument only and must never be used to decide a winner.
- No table sales, ticketing or payments.
- No seating chart or table planner.
- No trophy or certificate generation.
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What it costs
- Free up to 50
- activated attendees, on one live event
- $5
- per activated attendee beyond 50
- $4,750
- the most one event can ever cost, whatever happens past 1,000
Activated means the person claimed their invite and opened the app. Not when you import them, not when the invite is delivered, and not if they register and stay home.
Questions people actually ask
Can the audience vote for a people's choice award?
Live polls can read the room, but they are an opinion instrument and must not be used as a vote of record. There is no balloting, no verified voting and no anti-fraud handling. If an award is decided by public vote, run that in a voting platform.
Can finalists have their own pages?
Finalists can appear as speakers with bios attached to their category, and sponsors have full pages. There is no dedicated finalist profile type, so most programmes model finalists as speakers on the category session.
How do we sell and manage tables?
Elsewhere. There is no ticketing, no table sales and no payments. Sell through your existing platform and import the confirmed guest list as CSV, which also gives you invite delivery tracking.
What happens when the running order slips?
Edit the item in the console and every device updates. Pair it with a push announcement that deep-links to the affected category. For a ceremony this is the single most-used capability on the night.
Is there a seating plan?
No. There is no seating chart or table planner. Table numbers can be communicated to guests as information and in announcements, but the plan itself is built somewhere else.
Can we brand the app to the awards programme rather than the parent organisation?
Yes, and most programmes should. The theme carries a logo, colours and typography through every screen, and the app is published to the App Store and Google Play under whichever name you choose. An awards programme usually has more brand equity with its finalists than the organisation that runs it, so use it.
How do finalists and their guests get in?
You import the confirmed guest list as a CSV once tables are sold, and invites go out branded to the programme with delivery tracked per recipient. Table buyers who substitute a guest at the last minute are common at awards nights, and because the meter counts activation rather than the invite, a substitution costs nothing extra.
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The features this leans on
Fourteen categories, one running order
Every guest sees what is next, sponsors get the category they paid for, and the photographs are ready by morning.