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Sponsorship Marketing Awards 2026

The SMAs recognize and reward the work of properties, brands, and agencies that have maximized the return on their investments in sponsorship marketing.

The 2026 Sponsorship Marketing Awards will be taking place on October 8, 2026 at TIFF Lightbox in Toronto! Join us for an evening of mingling, cocktails, and, of course, THE night in sponsorship marketing, honouring the best in biz.

Launched in 2004 to recognize sponsorship marketing excellence, the Sponsorship Marketing Awards (SMAs) have become a cornerstone of the Sponsorship Marketing Council Canada (SMCC) and an anticipated event in the Canadian marketing calendar. The SMAs recognize and reward the work of properties, brands, and agencies that have maximized the return on their investments in sponsorship marketing.

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Pushing the Envelope

Recently I had conversations with a few clients who feel they are being “used” and that is not what a partnership is all about. Either their prospective partners or existing partners keep asking them for “more”. Ugh… I can relate. As an agency we get it all the time....

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A Secret

OK, not really a secret after this publishes. But anyway, in the last year there have been a ton of milestones in my life. Last week’s TMC focused on a big one… then there were some in June and last October. Last October my wife Coryna Kulba and myself celebrated 25...

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Partnership Group – Sponsorship Specialists® Anniversary

Earlier this month… actually Sunday September 6 on the long weekend… we turned 25 years old. We were incorporated in 2001, just days before 9/11.  It has been an amazing 25 year run and looking forward to decades more! We started to look back, a few people have asked...

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