Seattle Winners at the National ADDY Awards

Last night the national American Advertising Awards were held at the Boca Raton Resort & Club at AAF National's ADmerica conference, and Seattle represented in style.

Publicis Seattle took home two Gold and two Silver ADDY awards for their work on T-Mobile, as well as a Silver for their work on the Seattle Symphony. That's a haul.

Creature brought home two Silver awards for their work on DoubleDown Interactive.

The Seattle Wunderman Network won a Silver for their work on XBOX.

And Wongdoody won a Silver for their work on the Seattle International Film Festival.

All these winners were able to compete in the national show after winning at the local and district levels. This progressive competition is one of the things that makes the American Advertising Awards so unique, and so coveted.

It's truly an honor to win any award at the highest competitive level. We were proud to represent our city, AAF District 11, and the AAF Western Region in front of so many distinguished agencies.

Also of note, Seattle agencies Hydrogen and Admosis Media (an AAF Seattle corporate member) served as media partners for the event.

We'll share more stories from ADmerica this coming week. The complete national winners list can be found at the ADmerica winners page.

2014 American Advertising Awards Recap

Well, That Was Fun!

The 2014 American Advertising Awards Seattle was held March 19th at Bell Harbor International Conference Center.

We had a great night! Thanks to all the attendees, sponsors, winners, and our great volunteers!

Check out our compilation of the night's tweets, pics, and vids. See the entire social stream at #SeattleADDYs.

There isn't enough time for winners to give speeches during the show so we asked them to post their thanks to Instagram as videos. See the hilarious results here.

Download a PDF of the ADDY show book.

All our event photos can be found on Facebook, and the photobooth pics are on Usnaps.

Let us know what you thought of the night in our short survey.

Show MCs: Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

Musical Guests: The Flavr Blue

This year’s AAF Silver Medal Winner: John Brown

ADDY Judging Weekend 2014

Our new ADDY chair, Audrey Berglund, reports on the events of this past weekend:

"Judging for this year’s American Advertising Awards Seattle took place February 7-9 in the Bertha Knight Landis room at Seattle City Hall. Our five judges reviewed a record amount of entries. Naturally, they had many tough decisions to make. Thanks to our judges who came from all over the country to spend the weekend looking at Seattle’s best advertising work!"

Find out more about our judges on our ADDY Judges page.

The 2014 AAF Silver Medal Award Winner Is Brown. John Brown.

Our selection committee has chosen this year's worthy recipient, John Brown. The award will be presented during the American Advertising Awards on March 19th.

Congratulations to John Brown!

Read more about John Brown and the AAF Silver Medal Award.

Goodbye ADDY Awards, Hello American Advertising Awards!

New name, same bragging rights.

Our beloved Seattle ADDY Awards are now the American Advertising Awards Seattle. Not to worry—even though there’s a new name, it’s still the premier advertising competition that recognizes the industry’s top creatives. And the awards are still affectionately called “ADDYs,” so there’s no mistaking what you’ll be taking home.

The powers that be at the National ADDY Committee, including the national ADDY chair, our own hometown bigwig, George Riddell, decided to upgrade the profile of the event, and a name change went along with that. Read more about the name change.

Seattle's own Hydrogen provided this year's campaign, which spawned four posters to be used in print and online:

We've been busy planning since October and we're already looking for sponsors. As usual, we're aiming to hold the event in March. Judges should be announced by January. Our Silver Medal Award winner will be chosen by February. Oh, and call for entries is now - deadline January 10th, 2014!

It's shaping up to be our best awards ever.

More info can be found on our awards page.

Update

on 2013-12-04 03:32

Nominate an Advertising Inspiration

The AAF Silver Medal Award is awarded annually to a member of Seattle’s advertising community—a creator, a mentor, a teacher, a leader—whose career grew bigger than the work. Who’s had an impact on the community which far surpasses their job? Who’s pushed the industry standards and set new bars for excellence? Who’s the type of person we should all aspire to be? That’s who we want. 

Simply submit your nomination to addys@aafseattle.com. More details here.

2013 Seattle ADDY Awards: Wrap-Up

What an amazing evening! The culmination of five months of planning, tons of entries from agencies old and new in categories old and new, a long weekend of very tough judging, and lots of legwork by committee members and volunteers.

Bell Harbor International Conference Center was packed with Seattle's creative elite (due to massive demand this year's event was over 60% larger than 2012). Booze flowed freely. The crowd were enthusiastic. Mayor Mike McGinn presented the vaunted AAF Silver Medal Award to Bob Peterson after a great intro from Creature's Matt Peterson and Wexley School for Girls's Cal McAllister. Even Sir Mix-a-Lot got in on the action.

Bling

A special shout-out to these outstanding winners:

Judge’s Choice Award: Digital Kitchen - Stanley Piano - self-promotion.

Best-of-Show – Non-Traditional Advertising: Copacino+Fujikado - Edwin The Otter e-Book - Seattle Aquarium.

Best-of-Show – Digital/Interactive Advertising: Cole & Weber United - Group Play Facebook App - Washington’s Lottery.

Best-of-Show – Integrated Campaign: Wexley School for Girls - Restore The R - Rainier.

All silver and gold ADDY winners advanced to district ADDY judging in Portland with those winners to advance to nationals in Phoenix. We'll be announcing the district winners next week, so stay tuned.

ADDY-quake!

#SeattleADDYs trended all night! Catch up on all the social posts from event attendees at our Storify.

THANK YOU

Thanks for entering, attending, volunteering, planning and sponsoring. We hope you had a great night! We'd love to hear what you thought in our short survey.

Update

on 2013-04-23 20:19

Thanks for the support in answering our survey - most responses we've ever received!

We now have updated 2013 Winners Books available for download in PDF form. Enjoy the ADDYs on your iPad!

The District XI winners have been announced. There are too many to list so we've posted a PDF list here, but we're so proud of so many Seattle area winners advancing on to nationals in Phoenix in June. We'll be there cheering you on!