# How recognition campaigns work

> A campaign is a set of badges that employees can give only between a start date and an end date. Everyone gets an email when it starts and a reminder the day before it ends.

- Product: Recognition › Campaigns
- Who can do this: Super admins
- Plan: Recognition. Campaigns
- Where: Admin dashboard
- Last checked: 15 Oct 2026
- Web page: https://www.vantagecircle.com/en/help/recognition/campaigns/how-recognition-campaigns-work/

A campaign is a set of badges that employees can give only between a start date and an end date. Use one for an event or a theme, such as a Diwali thank-you week or a month on one company value. Campaign badges don't carry reward points, like any other badge.

Super admins set campaigns up in **Recognition → Campaigns**, if campaigns are part of your company's plan.

## Statuses

- **Scheduled:** the start date hasn't come yet. Employees can't see its badges.
- **Active:** running now. Employees can give its badges.
- **Completed:** the end date has passed.
- **Stopped:** an admin stopped it before it started.

**Completed** and **Stopped** campaigns are listed under **Past**. A running campaign that's stopped early shows as **Completed**.

## What employees see

Campaign badges appear only from the start date to the end date. While a campaign runs, its badges come first when employees choose a badge, marked with the time left, such as "Ends in 5 days".

Each badge's own settings still decide who can give and receive it: countries, grade groups, tenure and eligibility rules.

## Emails and notifications

- **On the start date:** every active employee in your company gets the invitation email and a notification in the app.
- **The day before the end date:** every active employee gets the reminder email.

These go to everyone, not only the people who can give the campaign's badges. A campaign with no badges sends no invitation.

## Running more than one campaign

Several campaigns can run at the same time. Each badge belongs to one campaign only.

## After a campaign ends

Its badges disappear from **Recognition → Badges**. They stay tied to the campaign, so they can't be added to another one. To see the results, select **View report** on the campaign. It opens the **Campaign Badge Report** in **Recognition → Reports**.