Celebration to include light appetizers, beverages, and dessert.
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Sponsorship benefits include a table for your guests, the right to use the event logo, multimedia marketing opportunities and much more depending on the sponsorship level you choose. This event is limited attendance. If seats are available after the sponsorship deadline, a limited number of individual tickets will go on sale. Tables are only available with sponsorship.
Awards Celebration
July 21, 2026
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Genesee Valley Club
421 East Ave
Rochester, NY
To learn more about sponsorship opportunities and benefits please contact your account manager or email [email protected]
If you have questions about this awards event, please email [email protected]
Welcome to the 2026 Reader Rankings Contest!
Welcome to the prestigious Reader Rankings Awards! This unique event celebrates and recognizes the best our community has to offer through a nomination round, voting round and our annual celebration revealing the top winners.
Step 1.) Nomination Round – NOMINATIONS OPEN: March 2 to March 27, 2026
• The nomination ballots are online and can be completed from any digital device.
• The community is allowed to nominate any organization they see most deserving within each category they see fit.
• Nomination ballots are limited to 1 nomination submission per day.
• The top 5 organizations with the most nominations from each category will advance on to the voting round.
Step 2.) Voting Round – VOTING OPENS: May 4 to May 29, 2026
• Congratulations on being 1 out of 5 companies to move on to
the voting round!
• The voting ballots are online and can be completed from any digital device. Voting ballots are set up like multiple choice allowing the community to vote any of the top five organizations per category.
• Voting ballots are limited to 1 vote submission per day.
• The top 3 organizations with the most votes from each category will be announced
in June and there will be an event celebration in July!
Step 3.) Votes are in – WINNERS ANNOUNCED BEGINNING OF JUNE
• The three winners will be announced in early June and celebrated in late July.
• The event celebration will be a fun-filled event that will reveal the Top Winner (out of the three announced) from each category!
Being a part of the Reader Rankings contest will help your business have exposure to important new customers, make employee recruiting easier, boost employee morale, provide networking opportunities and recognize you as a leader.
We offer a full suite of products and services to support your business marketing needs ranging from logo licensing to electronic article reprints to plaques and beyond!
• Leverage positive editorial coverage with official content licensing.
• Electronic reprints of original editorial coverage featuring your company, product, service or industry.
• Plaques, Desktop Awards, etc. are eye popping in high traffic areas, showrooms, trade show exhibits and POP displays.
To learn more about the only official, approved way to get content licensing and reprints, please visit EVG Media.
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