2016 American
Advertising Awards
February 13th, 2016
Regency Plaza
Downtown St. Cloud
Doors open at 6 PM
Show begins at 7:30 PM
Membership
Has its Awards
Do you have what it takes to belong? Have you the proper pedigree and regal refinement? Have you paid your dues? If so, you're ready to mingle with society's elite at the Regency C.C. – a Creative Club reserved for the upper crust in Central Minnesota's advertising high society.
Join the annual private party for the well-heeled at the Regency Plaza in historic downtown St. Cloud – and experience an evening of creative culture and fierce competition for ADDYs. For those who belong, membership has its awards. So enter soon, because winning, wining, and dining await on February 13, 2016.
Now accepting
membership applications.
ELIGIBILITY
All work entered in the American Advertising Awards competition must have first appeared in the media between January 1 and December 31, 2015. Work entered must have been the result of paid creative services and media placement in the normal course of business, with the exception of Public Service Advertising; Advertising for the Arts; Advertising Industry Self Promotion categories and all student entries. Entries must be submitted in the CBSA, DMA or MSA of the entrant (as defined by Arbitron or Nielsen for your local market).
Copyright infringement and/or plagiarism (be it intentional or unintentional) will result in the disqualification and, if applicable, removal of awards from any entry deemed in violation. All entry fees will be forfeited.
Click the links below to download the entire category list and official AAF rules for entries. This will guide you to submit your work in the proper categories and assure you’ve met the entry requirements.
Professional Categories Student Categories
HOW TO ENTER
Watch our video for information about submitting, mounting and delivering your entries!
You will be directed to the competition site to register as an entrant.
- Start the entry process by clicking through the professional or student portal.
- Create a username and password.
- Review the category list to find where your work should compete.
- Add, review and upload entries.
- Make sure you credit the members of your creative team, so they will be properly recognized.
- After you finalize your entry and process your payment, please review and print Manifest and entry forms.
Important note: Once you checkout and select your payment choice, you will no longer be able to edit your entry/entries. You can add entries to your cart and process your payment once all entries are finalized at the very end of your submittal process.
Civilized People
Adhere To The Rules.
Submitting and mounting
After filling out the online entry forms for each of your entries, you will be required to print and sign a Manifest Form, listing all of your entries. This form states that by signing you:
- Verify the information on the form is accurate.
- Acknowledge proper rights were obtained for use of any elements of the entry that were not original.
- Agree to submit documentation deemed necessary for review.
- Release the entry for Internet, broadcast and/or print (allow reuse of material).
- Verify the entry was created within the local MSA of the competition.
- When you've completed your online entry forms and your Manifest Form, watch our video for convenient, clear, entry preparation and mounting instructions.
We'll show you how to mount and submit your entries so they're all set for our local judging and show, as well as their journey all the way to national competition. Submission of entries acknowledges the right of the AAF to use them for publication, exhibition and marketing of the ADDY show.
Entry Kits
Looks like you sliced it into the water hazard.
Kits are all sold out for this year. :(
YOUR INVESTMENTS
WILL PAY DIVIDENDS.
Entry Fees
After filling out your entries online and processing your payment, you will be required to print and sign a Manifest Form, listing all of your entries. You must submit that form in an envelope delivered with your entries. Payments can be made via check in that same envelope (made payable to: AAFCM) or with a credit card through the competition site (using PayPal).
| Professionals | Students | |
|---|---|---|
| Single Entry (AdFed Member) | $50.00 | $30.00 |
| Single Entry (Non-Member) | $90.00 | $45.00 |
| Campaign Entry (AdFed Member) | $90.00 | $40.00 |
| Campaign Entry (Non-Member) | $150.00 | $60.00 |
All Entries Must
- Meet all eligibility and deadline requirements.
- Be entered in the correct category and be correctly identified.
- Include a complete entry form, signed manifest form, and payment in full (either via check or online payment).
- Conform to defined submission requirements and all copyright laws.
Missing deadlines results in membership revoking.
Entry Submission Deadline: Fri. Jan. 22nd at Noon.
After preparing your entries in the manner outlined, mail or have your people hand deliver your entries to one Ms. Alison Schroeder at the following coordinates:
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Leighton Interactive (Radio City Music Mall; 2nd Floor)
619 W St. Germain
St. Cloud, MN 56301 -
Lacey Schirmers
Great Theatre
710 Sundial Dr
Waite Park, MN 56387
AFTER THE SHOW
Only Gold or Silver ADDY winners in a local competition will be eligible for entry into the district competition.
Only Gold or Silver ADDY winners in a district competition will be eligible for entry into the national American Advertising competition.
Local Gold ADDY winners will be automatically forwarded to the district competition (fees paid by AAF-Central Minnesota). District Gold winners will be forwarded to the national competition (fees paid by District 8). Silver ADDY winners at the local OR district level have the option of competing at the next level. If you choose to do so, you must pay a $75 entry fee.
Return of entries is NOT guaranteed. Comps, original photographs, illustrations, etc., all become the property of the AAF and will not be returned.
Pool rules for minors.
Student Awards
The Student American Advertising Awards is also a three-tier national competition, which is sponsored by the AAF and National Ad 2. Occurring in conjunction with the American Advertising Awards, the Student Awards recognize and reward creative excellence by students.
All work submitted in the Student American Advertising Award Competition is subject to the same rules, processes, guidelines and submission requirements as the professional entries and competition – all previously mentioned. (Note: Work created for the National Student Advertising Competition (NSAC) will be eligible for entry into the Student American Advertising Awards in the year following their presentation.)
In addition to this information, please note the following:
STUDENT ELIGIBILITY
Applicants must be enrolled full or part-time in an accredited U.S. educational institution. Work may be developed specifically for this competition or submitted from previous projects or competitions. Work developed for paying clients will not be accepted with the exception of work created by clubs as fundraisers or work created for student publications.
Work must be created while entrant is a student not employed in the advertising industry. Student intern work is eligible if it is not used by or paid for by a client. Work developed for paying clients will not be accepted with the exception of work created for clubs as a fundraiser or work created for student publications. Entries may be entered into only one local Student 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 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 a student during the 2015 calendar year and the entry meets all other requirements.
STUDENT FORWARDING
Students receiving a Gold award will be forwarded to the district and national competition at no cost to the student. Entries receiving a Silver award may advance to the district or national competition by paying a $20 entry fee.
It’s all about
who you know.
Let us raise a glass to this year’s event sponsors.
A sincere thank you goes out to the following businesses who made this call for entries and marketing of the event possible through their generous donations:
Printing by Continental Press. Concept, design and writing by Adventure Advertising. Web and e-mail campaign by Meta13.
Have questions regarding your Club membership, dress code or where to park the Bentley upon arrival? Please have your people connect with the following Club Coordinators:
Andrea Yurczyk - Andrea.Yurczyk@gmail.com - 320-293-5853
Alison Schroeder - ASchroeder@leightoninteractive.com - 320-260-2901
