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ADDYS

American Advertising Awards

If you would like to submit your work for the ADDYS, please visit Studio 13 (13-2465) and we will review your project. We will pay the entry fee for projects based on merit. Please submit your projects by November 23rd, 2017.

For a full list of categories with descriptions please visit the AAF Website: Categories PDF

Categories

    • Sales & Marketing
      • Sales Promotion
          • Packaging
          • Point of Purchase (displays)
      • Collateral Material
          • Stationary Package
          • Printed Annual Reports or Brochures
          • Special Event Materials (invitations, announcements, cards, etc.)
      • Publication Design
          • Cover
          • Editorial Spread or Feature
          • Cover/Editorial Spread or Feature-Series
          • Magazine Design
          • Book Design
    • Print Advertising
      • Magazine Advertising
      • Newspaper Advertising
    • Out-of-home
      • Poster
      • Outdoor Board (Flat or 3D)
      • Mass Transit (Interior or Exterior)
    • Online/Interactive
      • Website (desktop or mobile)
      • Social Media
      • Single execution
      • Multi-platform
      • Apps (mobile or web based)
      • Web Banner Ad or Website Takeover
      • Blog
      • Digital Publications
          • annual reports
          • magazines
          • newsletters
          • books
    • Film, Video & Sound
      • Television Advertising
    • Cross Platform

      Series of adds or commercials that use one or more medium.

      • Intecrated advertising campaign
      • Integrated brand identity campaign
    • Elements of Advertising
      • Copywriting
      • Logo Design
      • Illustration
      • Art Direction
      • Cinematography
      • Animation or Special Effects
      • Music and Sound Design
      • Digital creative technology
          • Overall design of websites and apps in areas of user navigation, responsive design, location technology, augmented reality, mobile interaction and user experience.

       

    • Photography
      • Still Photography
          • Black & White
          • Color
          • Digitally Enhanced

Eligibility Requirements

Applicants must be enrolled in an accredited U.S. post-secondary educational institution.

  • All worked entered into the competition must have been created between January 1 and December 21, 2017.
  • Work may be developed specifically for this competition or submitted from previous projects or competitions.
  • Work must be created while entrant is a student not employed in the advertising indus- try. Student intern work is eligible if it is not used by or paid for by a client. Work de- veloped for paying clients will not be accepted.
  • Entries may be entered into only one local American Advertising Awards competition, which is determined by the location of the school at which the work was created. If an affiliated competition does not exist in the market (CBSA, DMA or MSA), the district will direct the entrant to the nearest affiliated competition.
  • Recent graduates are eligible to enter as long as the entry was created while the entrant was a student during the 2017 calendar year and the entry meets all other requirements.