Softbox: The Showcase for EM Excellence.
Spotlighting new funds, activations and projects. Softbox is about what's next.
Break new ground. Softbox is our partnership content arm, collaborating with emerging and frontier innovators from around the world.
Softbox offers a variety of branded assets, produced hand-in-glove with partners from around the EM community, all designed to connect your unique value proposition to global capital.
Philosophy
The Softbox team draws on EML's expertise as publishers and corporate marketers, rooted in storytelling care and the value of modularity. We know how to get underneath the details, to the core of unique value proposition, and then frame and further animate that difference over time.
For us content partnership is not only a showcase but a journey - and therefore we offer a range of dynamic content packages to augment and surround your platform – quarter on quarter, year by year.
Softbox Product Collection
Digital & Print Profiles
Our flagship exclusively focused on emerging markets investment and financiers across public and private asset classes. We tell the untold stories of funds and trading innovation, growing opportunity and thematics unfolding in EM, and the ways emerging markets investors and allocators are, themselves, bearing increasing influence on global markets today.
Specials to the Podcast
Dives deep into global wealth culture, with specific focus on wealth management and private banking strategies, the globalization of EM real estate, as well as culture and lifestyle trends that are unique to emerging markets.
Shortform Series
Covering the expert firms that shape the world of emerging markets reputation, macro and geoeconomics - ever-growing and responding to massive tectonic shifts.
Experiential
Covering the expert firms that shape the world of emerging markets reputation, macro and geoeconomics - ever-growing and responding to massive tectonic shifts.
The Terra Sweet Spot.
The industry's first global recognition series features a full calendar of awards and executive listing programs across our three brands' markets. Premiere celebrates excellence, innovation, and impact among individual leaders and influencers, as well at corporate and collaborative levels. We supplement these programs with our Select300 tables, which showcase outstanding funds, products and platforms in fulsome detail at both global and regional EM levels, as well as our specialised Verified directories. ₩
Learn MoreElite programs at a glance:
Calendars
The Premiere awards cycle begins in May of each year. The Select300 tables are updated annually and released from April to June. Verified directories are always open to new inclusions. Learn more about 2026 editions here.
Entry & Fees
Premiere nominations and Select profile collateral can be submitted through our dedicated portal. In keeping with our mission, fees are aligned and limited only to our production costs. For 2026, all programs are set at $395.
Adjudication
Wealthier's Global Advisory Board is the responsible body for our full range of annual programs, including determination of Premiere winners and oversight of our Select tables' methodology. More on their expertise here.
