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the american 
advertising 
awards is one of the industry's largest creative competitions

the competition

Each year, the industry's very best work is honored by the American Advertising Awards. Started right here in AAF District 4 in 1960 and dedicated to celebrating the creative spirit of our industry, it's one of the longest running creative competitions for advertising. 

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Over 30,000 entries come in to local chapter competitions each year. The best progress to district competitions. And the winners from the district competition compete in the national American Advertising Awards during the AAF annual conference, ADMERICA. 

see this year's winners

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Advertising Industry Self-Promo
Maven New Year's News
Maven Creative

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Audio/Radio Advertising

Doody Calls - Unusual Voice

Push Button Productions for Doody Calls

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Branded Content

AIAA - Aviation Outro

MTN, Inc. for American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

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Corporate Social Responsibility/Public Service

Driverless Cars Campaign

Dunn&Co. for Florida Department of Transportation

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Cross-Platfrom

Fans on the Ice Campaign

Dunn&Co. for Tampa Bay Lightning

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Elements of Advertising

Driverless Cars Campaign

Dunn&Co. for Florida Department of Transportation

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Online/Interactive

Tweet Tape Social Video

Dunn&Co. for Tampa Bay Lightning

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Out-of-Home & Ambient Media

Tweet Tape Campaign

Dunn&Co. for Tampa Bay Lightning

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Print Advertising

Invincible Boats: Serious Stories

Markham Yard for Invincible Boats

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Sales & Marketing

Whalebone - Editorial Spread Series

Adjective & Co. for Whalebone Media

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Television Advertising/Internet Commercial

Gatorade Team Behind the Triumph

Adjective & Co. for Gatorade

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Websites

JAM Hot Chicken JAM Board

Vidi Global for JAM Hot Chicken

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Best of Show

Tweet Tape Campaign

Dunn&Co. for Tampa Bay Lightning

about the awards

Attracting nearly 30,000 professional entries each year nationwide, the American Advertising Awards is among the world’s largest and most comprehensive advertising competitions.

 

The competition originated here in the AAF Fourth District in 1960 and became a three-tiered National competition in 1968.

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Sponsored by the AAF, the awards honor excellence in advertising and cultivate the highest creative standards in the industry. Each Fall, the competition begins with contests in the nation’s 130 AAF local chapters, where entries must be submitted and judged to be eligible for the three-tier competition. Local winners proceed to 15 regional competitions, and those winners, to the national finals.

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Every year’s winners demonstrate the uniqueness of the American Advertising Awards because their work has not only received national honors, but has been recognized at local and regional levels as well.

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Local Awards Shows Make the Ad Industry a Better Place to Work... they bring the community together, help small agencies make a name for themselves, celebrate the entire team, improve the work we do and inspire the next generation.

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Proceeds from the American Advertising Awards program on all levels of competition go back into the industry through the work of the AAF and its members, especially in the areas of advertising education and public service advertising.

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It's no longer a question of whether you're good or not. With an American Advertising Award, you know you are.

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