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Recognizing Marketing Excellence in the Animal Health Care Industry

The VETTYS Awards Gold Medal

Hello, VMX 2026 Attendee!

Enter Your Marketing into the 10th Annual VETTY Awards®

The 2026 VETTY Awards® program will be the 10th year that NAVC has recognized excellence in marketing within the animal health care industry. If you are a company or agency within the animal health care industry, we hope you’ll enter the marketing you’ve done to promote products, services or programs that help keep animals healthy and happy.

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What is the VETTY Awards®? NAVC introduced the VETTY Awards® in 2017 to recognize marketing excellence – including advertising, social media, graphic design, special events, promotional material like brochures, and more – created in the animal health care industry. This includes marketing from global pharmaceutical companies to the locally owned veterinary office.

Entries Open: September 2026

Early Bird Deadline: October 2026

Final Deadline: November 2026

Winners Notified: Mid-December 2026

Winners will be recognized during VMX 2027.

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Take a Bow as the Best of Show!

Here’s a look at what you get as a VETTY Awards® winner:

  • Recognition both during and after VMX, the world’s largest gathering of animal health care professionals.
  • Your name and entry featured on the VETTY Awards® exhibit booth centrally located inside the VMX Expo Hall.
  • Recognition on TheVETTYs.com website.
  • Downloadable badge/artwork that can be added to your website, email signature or other print or digital marketing.
  • To help spread the news, winners also receive a digital Winner Announcement Kit, including press release template, social media post templates, social media graphics, and other resources to announce their award.
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We make it easy to enter the VETTY Awards®

You’ve already done the hard work. This is why we make it easy to enter the VETTY Awards®.

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Pick Your Project

Select a campaign you’ve accomplished this last year. (This might be the hardest part.)

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Select A Category

Match your entry to the right category. View our nonprofit and for-profit categories.

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Upload a Visual

Choose a photo or video to illustrate your project. If you’d like, create a PDF with several images of one project.

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Press Enter

Submit and let us do the rest! No long summaries or explanatory essays required.

We Have Categories & Divisions
For Your Company or Animal Hospital

As a marketing awards program, we offer divisions and categories that encompass all of the different channels that you might be using to spread the word about your products, programs or services – including social media, websites, printed brochures, podcasts, and more.

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We offer even more information in our FAQ Section.