ADDY 2017 Event Recap
The Society came together to celebrate the best creative work in Western Washington.
This entry essentially duplicates the content on our main ADDY page, which has more photos.
Now that was a gala!
The 2017 American Advertising Awards Seattle was held March 16th at the Seattle Marriott Waterfront.
Cynthia Hartwig (R) with the AAF Silver Medal Award, presented to her by Mary Knight (L)
The Winners
Congratulations to the all the winners!
Special applause for Cynthia Hartwig, this year's AAF Silver Medal Award winner.
The complete Seattle winners list with both professionals and students is available in PDF format, sorted by winner's name.
Fill up that trophy case, you show-off! Contact us to order extra ADDY trophies.
The Book
The show book, designed by Isaac LeFever, is available in for download in PDF format.
We also have some extra hard copies. Contact us to order one or arrange a pickup.
The Social
Even though our underground location had little to no internet availability (%^&$@^!) we still had plenty of social sharing using #SeattleADDYs and #SeattleADDYWinner.
See our all our pics from the evening—and be sure to tag yourselves—on Facebook.
The Society
The noble, the strange. This year's theme transformed the familiar into the abstract, with a notion of civility, an eye for the celestial, and a parlance of wit.
The Society represents our city’s top creative minds. Those adroit renegades who catch out mediocrity and drive it from this gritty metropolis entirely. Who dare to think bold. Be badass. Cloaked in secrecy, with a penchant for deviousness, we The Society are here. Behind every striking idea. Quiet as a raindrop on Jupiter. Fighting the fight for sublime creativity.
The Sponsors
Big time things only happen with the help of big time friends. We're grateful for these companies who helped make this evening possible.
Digital Summit Seattle
As a local sponsor of Digital Summit Seattle, we're hooking you up with a chance to win a conference pass. Or use our discount code for $50 off.
AAF Seattle: Local Sponsor
We live to help our community grow their skills and experience the top minds and concepts in our business, so when Digital Summit asked us to co-sponsor their upcoming conference, we jumped. And of course we have a discount for our peeps, too.
What Is Digital Summit Seattle?
Digital Summit is where ideas and inspiration are born. Thousands of professions work directly with industry leading brands learning practical, actionable solutions they can immediately apply back at the office.
Brilliant speakers bring phenomenal content on Marketing Strategies, UX & Design, Email, Search, Mobile, Video, SEO and so much more. Digital Summit is not only a place for keeping up with the trends, but also for being an active player in their creation.
Who Should Attend?
- Marketing and content leaders from companies of all sizes
- CMOs and CEOs looking to optimize their digital strategies
- UX and Design experts looking to level up their marketing knowledge
- Technology evangelists and entrepreneurs pushing the boundaries of content, analytics, mobile, and more
- Companies and professionals engaged in the mobile marketing and content ecosystem
- Practitioners of SEO, Social, and Brand Storytelling
- Creative professionals working in an agency setting
Win a Conference Pass or Get $50 Off
Yep, we have one pass to give away—a $295 value! Just cozy up to us digitally by signing up for our mailing list and tweeting about the conference using the tool below. We'll announce winners the morning of March 23rd*.
Even if you don't win we're offering $50 off using code AAF50. And feel free to share that code far and wide. That's a win-win.
We're verifying every entry before drawing our winner, so if you delete your tweet or unsubscribe it won't count.
*Our winner of the $295 conference pass is Anisa Ishida!
Do You AdSpeak?
Members of The Society converse in an evolved tongue called AdSpeak.
Do you relate? You just may be one of the noble…
Members of The Society converse in an evolved tongue called AdSpeak.
Do you relate? You just may be one of the noble…
The AdSpeak collection is also available for sharing with the masses on Pinterest.
Gallery Night 2017 Event Recap
Our evening presenting all the work submitted for the Seattle ADDYs inspired awe and appreciation. We've got the pics.
Our second annual Gallery Night was held February 23rd at AXIS Pioneer Square, and made good on our club's intent to establish a tradition of appreciation for all the entries submitted for the American Advertising Awards Seattle.
Seeing the breadth of fine work on display, the hours of effort involved, the extent of creativity, the quantity—heck, the beauty of it all—gives us incredible context for the immense challenge of this competition.
Photos (by Mordan McGrath)
See the entire collection in our Facebook album.
To those who didn't win this year, we honor and thank you for your work.
To those who did win, you've got a shiny new addition to your awards cabinet coming your way. And more could be coming as the competition moves on to District 11 and from there to national. Good luck!
Next up is our gala celebration on March 16th, featuring new reserved seating and seat selection. We hope to see everyone at the ADDYs!
Survey
If you attended there's still time to give feedback on our survey to help us improve our events.
ADDY Judging Weekend 2017
Five experienced judges convened in Seattle to judge Western Washington's best creative work. They left impressed.
The weekend of February 10-12, we were honored to welcome the critical eyes and analytical minds of this year's ADDY judges:
Mark Sarosi - Anomaly, New York
Paul Roberts - BSSP, San Francisco
École Weinstein - Havas, Chicago
Larry Olson - Studio Lo, Boulder
Brett Singer - TBWA\Chiat\Day, New York
Each year it's a big deal to have real pros from name agencies in big markets come judge our region's work. And each year, Seattle, you rise to the occasion. The judges left duly impressed.
Special thanks to SVC—an AAF Seattle Gold Sponsor—and all the volunteers who gave an entire weekend to make everything possible.
Chalk Talk 2017 Event Recap
This year's event brought a critical focus to each ad's creative motivations and business goals, with moderator, panel, and audience keeping the discussion highly involved. We've got pics and an embedded Storify of all the #AAFChalkTalk tweets.
Our annual Chalk Talk Super Bowl Ad review was held February 9th at 415 Westlake. This year's event brought a critical focus to each ad's creative motivations and business goals, with moderator, panel, and audience keeping the discussion highly involved.
Thanks to Chris Copacino for moderating, to panelists Emily Cushman, Nick Gesualdi, Patrick Mazzotta, Patrick McKay, and Adam Nowak for their astute observations, to our drink sponsor, Hand Crank Films, for keeping us well lubricated, and to everyone who attended and tweeted and voted for making this always such a unique and cool experience.
See and follow our panelists on Lanyrd
Photos
See our Facebook photo album for more, and don't forget to tag yourself.
Voting Results
Our first interactive voting form gave us some idea of how our own audience felt about the ads.
Best: GoDaddy, Old Spice, Wealthsimple
Most Liked: GoDaddy, Aflac "Ski Patrol"
Divided: Intel, Sprint, T-mobile "Unlimited Moves"
Worst and Least Liked: Alfa Romeo "Dear Predictable," American Petroleum Institute
Our full voting recap gives more detail.
Twitter
Chalk Talk is a special event because it involves the audience at every chance. Your #AAFChalkTalk tweets entertain us during the game and inform our panel's discussion at the event.
Check out the tweets from Super Bowl week, from game time all the way through our event.
Survey Request
If you attended the event there's still time to give us feedback in our event survey so next year will be even better.
Chalk Talk 2017 Ad Ratings Results
We can't help it. We like to judge. So we introduced a rating form this year. Here's what you thought of the ads of Super Bowl 51.
We can't help it. We like to judge. Especially when it comes to others' creative work. So for the biggest advertising stage of the year—Super Bowl 51— we produced an interactive rating form so you could give feedback on each ad and prep for our upcoming Chalk Talk ad review event.
Let's be transparent here: We only got 9 participants. But while not statistically significant, those results still tell an interesting story…
Highlights
We had some clear favorites, some divided opinions, and some clear losers. It's fascinating to see how the results shake out from all the competing spots.
Best
GoDaddy, Old Spice, and Wealthsimple were unanimously approved.
Most Liked
GoDaddy got 8 total Likes, more than any other ad. Special mention to Aflac "Ski Patrol," which got also got 8 Likes (and 1 Dislike). Technically a pre-game ad, it was made by local shop Wongdoody so we put it on the form. Glad we did.
Divided
Intel, Sprint, and T-Mobile's "Unlimited Moves" ads split opinions evenly (not all 9 participants voted on every ad).
Worst and also Least Liked
Alfa Romeo "Dear Predictable" and the American Petroleum Institute got the most Dislikes with 7 each.
Methodology
We kept things simple. For whatever reason, you either liked the ad or didn't, so we went with a Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down as the only voting choices.
The ads were listed alphabetically since we didn't know ahead of time in what order they'd appear. Each listing including a frame from the ad and an embedded video of the ad.
Technology
We used Google Forms to create and host the form. If anyone knows a better polling tool for next year let us know in the comments below, but it handled all the elements well enough, including mobile friendliness.
Prep for Reviewing Super Bowl 51 Ads
Our list of resources for watching the ads of Super Bowl 51, including #AAFChalkTalk Tagboard and - new for 2017 - our interactive voting form including videos of every ad.
The Super Bowl is a big deal for us advertisers, and that goes double for AAF Seattle, since we host Chalk Talk, our annual review of the Super Bowl ads.
To help everyone keep track of their favorites and flops of the day, we created a mobile-friendly interactive form. It's got every ad that will air during the broadcast, including embedded video links.
And once you've submitted your responses you can see how everyone else voted, too. We'll use the data to inform our Chalk Talk panel and in our event visuals.
Tweet using #AAFChalkTalk
Tweet your thoughts on the ads using #AAFChalkTalk to contribute to our conversation stream. We'll display all posts to our live event Tagboard, and use your sentiment to inform our Chalk Talk panel. It's also a great way to raise your social profile and to meet some great people to follow.
Join our group on LinkedIn
All the deeper conversation around the ads leading up to Chalk Talk takes place in our LinkedIn group. We're starting by crowdsourcing topics for the event, so let us know what you'd like our panelists to discuss.
We can't wait to read everyone has to say about the ads. Have a great Super Sunday!
Top Agencies and Brands Awarded at 2016 National American Advertising Awards
The results of the 2016 National ADDY Awards are in. Read on for the juicy details, inlcuding a link to the complete list of winners.
The AAF awarded National Gold and Silver ADDY Awards, with Leo Burnett Chicago and College for Creative Studies students winning Best of Show.
WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun. 15, 2016—Today's caliber of advertising was showcased at last week's annual American Advertising Awards Show and Dinner. Top creatives, brands and advertising agencies were awarded with Leo Burnett Chicago winning Best of Show in the Professional division and Jason Manns and Ellen Wareham, students of the College for Creative Studies, winning Best of Show in the Student division.
This year, the Competition received a record-number of entries for the local competitions at more than 40,000 entries. Leo Burnett Chicago won Best of Show in addition to its 3 Gold ADDY Awards and 2 Silver ADDY Awards for its work for Allstate Insurance Company, Eggo, Esurance and McDonald's. Also winning Best of Show were two students from the College for Creative Studies, Jason Manns and Ellen Wareham, for "Holocaust" in the Mass Transit category, which transformed a city bus into an old-fashioned train - similar to the kind that transported prisoners to Auschwitz - with the chilling text "Imagine not knowing your final stop." on its side.
"Tonight, we celebrate innovation, insight, creativity and technical expertise that is uniquely American," said James Edmund Datri, President & CEO of the American Advertising Federation, during the Show. "These awards acknowledge the achievement of that perfect combination of superlative creative, spectacular technique and stellar execution. We proudly showcase the best of the best, and celebrate a new class of leaders in the advertising industry who inspire us all."
Hosted by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the American Advertising Awards is the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition, attracting more than 40,000 entries every year from local Club (Ad Club) competitions. The mission of the Awards is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in the art of advertising. This year was no exception with 135 top agencies and brands represented from across the nation.
View a complete list of winners here.
Student work from across the country was also recognized representing 47 colleges and universities. The 47 schools were collectively awarded 23 Gold ADDY Awards and 46 Silver ADDY Awards. View a complete list of Student Gold and Silver winners.
To learn more about the American Advertising Awards, contact Sara Yoskoski via email or at (202) 898-0089.
Chalk Talk 2016: Ready to Rumble
Thursday evening AAF Seattle and PSAMA are hosting Chalk Talk 2016, an opportunity for us all to take another look at the ads that worked and the ads that didn't. Check out this year's panelists and moderator.
It seems like Cam Newton is the only one who doesn't want to talk about Super Bowl 50... and even he might have an opinion about PuppyMonkeyBaby.
Thursday evening AAF Seattle and PSAMA are hosting Chalk Talk 2016, which is an opportunity for us all to take another look at the ads that worked and the ads that didn't. With #ChalkTalk2016 hashtag, there's a chance for you to get in the game, too!
Get your tickets now before they're gone.
We've assembled a fantastic panel and an amazing moderator to have a tremendous discussion. (That might be a record for most superlatives in one sentence.) Let's take a look at these wise and learned participants:
Chris Copacino
Account Director
Copacino+Fujikado
(Moderator)
Chris has been at Copacino+Fujikado for 12+ years, joining the agency out of school after graduating from Western Washington University. Early in his career, Chris worked predominantly on national brand, promotional and grand opening initiatives for REI. Over Chris’ time at C+F he has led several major agency accounts including Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, Symetra Financial, Overlake Hospital and the Washington Forest Protection Association. Chris also oversees new business at C+F, managing all new client acquisition and business development efforts. Chris gets strong reviews from his clients for his ability to study and deeply understand their business. A lover of the creative process and unabashed agency guy, Chris blends a keen business mind with the understanding and appreciation of great creative work to achieve client objectives.
Scott Battishill
Principal / Founder of
Curator
Scott has been practicing PR for nearly 20 years. And no other term grates at him more than, “spin.” He's always disliked it. He believes that people don’t build relationships—certainly not ones that last—by spinning the truth to each other. Brands are no different. Consumers are loyal to brands they trust, that are human, to those that create an experience rather than an offering. With this philosophy in mind, he founded Curator to help brands build relationships with consumers in today’s highly complex marketplace of conversation. Prior to Curator Scott served as the SVP and Senior Director of PR for DDB Worldwide; overseeing the strategic development and execution of award-winning communications programs for major Fortune 100 companies and small development brands alike.
Mary Knight
Principal, ECD
Hydrogen
Mary started in Dallas, Texas on accounts like American Airlines, Doritos, Tabasco and Imperial Sugar. After falling in love with the Pacific Northwest, she moved to Borders Perrin Norrander in Seattle (now FCB.) There, Mary was part of the team that pitched, won and did award-winning work for Hewlett Packard, Group Health Cooperative, Tacoma Guitars and Boeing. She moved to FCB Chicago in 2007 to run Qwest and Kraft. While in Chicago, Mary also led Motorola, the Nestlè pizza business and the global Sharpie account. Mary returned to Seattle in 2012 as Principal and ECD of Hydrogen – an independent agency devoted to simplicity in advertising. Hydrogen’s regional, national and international clients including Keysight Technologies, Artemis Wines and Kenworth trucks. Mary has served on several prestigious juries including The One Show, Communication Arts, Effie and the National ADDYs.
Cal McAllister
Co-Founder, CEO
Wexley School for Girls
(As told and typed by his 6-year-old niece, Louisa.)
"Uncle Cow is a man, and he is nice! He is a joyfle man. He has 2 neeses, and 1 nefuwe. He likes chikins. He has soft scruffy hair. He has a nice wife named Amanda who takes showers 100 times a day. He has a verey good tast. He is a strong man. He is a writer at Wexley School for girls. His favorite house anamle is a dog. And he is a verey good prson. He is a nice, and cinde friend. He likes bar-ba-qie. He is a funny man, and is 42 years old. He is a asom prson, he is hansome, and a verey good dresser. He has 2 tatoos. He likes playing soccer. He takes shorter time in the bathroom than his wife. He has a verey smart brain. He is a little strange sometimes! " Wexley is a fan factory, cultivating and igniting consumer’s love for brands. It is an advertising agency that creates joy and laughter for engaged fanatics who deliver value – in the real world and on the wide web one.
Troy McCall
Creative Director
After stints as an Art Director/Assoc. Creative Director in Dallas, Denver, and Memphis, Troy now calls Seattle home where he continues to do freelance work for a wide variety of clients. Along the way, he's helped develop careers, launch new brands, and guide multi-faceted campaigns for Fortune 500 companies. Clients include the Dallas Cowboys, Elvis Presley Enterprises, Hilton Hotel Corporation, Microsoft, and FedEx. Troy is an avid sports enthusiast, and when he's not busy working, he can usually be found on the rugby pitch either playing or refereeing.
Ronan O’Mahony
Director, Brand & Advertising
T-Mobile
For the past 15 years Ronan has worked in advertising and brand strategy, both agency- and client-side. Ronan currently manages National, Local, and Hispanic advertising for T-Mobile, where he has worked since 2012. Prior to that Ronan was Director of Brand at Rhapsody.
Why Does the Creative Field Hate Negotiating?
The fine folks over at SVC contemplated this very same topic. And wouldn't you know it, they decided to create a class around it. It's called Negotiation Skills for People Who Don't Like to Negotiate. It's a one-day workshop this Thursday, June 25 from 10 am-5 pm. Read on for details.
Seriously, why do we find it so difficult? The fine folks over at SVC contemplated this very same topic. And wouldn't you know it, they decided to create a class around it. It's called Negotiation Skills for People Who Don't Like to Negotiate. It's a one-day workshop this Thursday, June 25 from 10 am-5 pm.
Here's the great/scary part: you can test out your negotiation skills before you even take the class. The fee for this workshop is negotiable. Yep, you can negotiate a lower fee via a five-minute Skype chat with the instructor.
So who is the instructor? He's Ted Leonhardt and he founded The Leonhardt Group. His firm grew to 50 employees and $10 million in annual fees under his leadership. Elements of the workshop include:
- What is it about people in creative fields that makes them less effective negotiators?
- Why people who work for clients in large corporations automatically value different things than you do?
- Is being too passionate about your creative work costing you?
- The importance of role-playing a negotiation before you get in the middle of one.
- Seven tips for making your negotiations more effective.
- How to assess your latest negotiation and learn from it.
You can learn more about the class and register here.
Congrats National ADDY Winners!
The 2015 National ADDY winners have been announced. Read on for our recap and full winners list.
The Tacoma Rainiers are big winners at the 2015 American Advertising Awards
It was a big weekend for us, filled with plenty of shiny, new hardware. The national American Advertising Awards took place at ADMERICA in Las Vegas and we had plenty of friends representing our district.
From our market we took home a total of 9 awards, including:
Tacoma Rainiers: 1 Gold, 2 Silver
Hornall ANderson: 1 Gold
DNA: 1 Silver
Wongdoody: 2 Silver
Student: Mike Harring: 1 Gold
Student: Andrew Adams: 1 Silver
See the full list of winners here.
Discounted Tickets for the Multicultural Marketing Summit
Hot off the heels of our Market Insights: Pacific Rim panel discussion (see the event pics here), there's another big multicultural marketing event coming to town on May 19th. It's the 2015 Multicultural Marketing Summit, and wouldn't ya know it, we're one of the sponsors.
This means that AAF Seattle members get discounted tickets ($100 off!) when you use the promo code that was emailed to you. Didn't receive the code? Email our lovely Membership Director and she'll send it off to you.
The one day event is designed to equip marketing professionals in the Pacific Northwest with better tools to approach the fastest growth segment of the US consumer base. This 2015 conference theme, “Creating the New Multicultural Marketing Paradigm," recognizes that traditional multicultural marketing practices have been challenged by the emergence of total market strategy and focuses on equipping marketers to adapt strategies to yield the greatest business impact in their industry environment.
Recognized national thought leaders speaking at the conference include:
· Javier Delgado, Director of Multicultural Marketing, Walmart
· Rajaa Grar, Sr., Brand Manager, Multicultural Marketing, Starbucks Coffee Corporation
· Valeria Piaggio, Head of Multicultural Insights, The Futures Company
· Cesar Melgoza, Founder and CEO, Geoscape
· Leslie Wingo, CEO, SandersWingo
· Jose Villa, President and Founder, Sensis
· Jeffrey Bowman, President and Founder, Reframe: The Brand
· Joe Ray, VP of Multicultural Strategy, LaneTerraLever
· Laura Swapp, Director of Multicultural Marketing and Partnerships, REI
· Tim Wang, Founder and Principal, TDW+Co
To register and more info, visit: www.pnwmulticulturalmarketingsummit.com and follow them on Twitter @PNWMCMktgSummit.
Now Accepting 2015-16 Board Nominations
Each year at this time, our board goes through a transformation process as some directors move on to new challenges, and new faces arrive to take their place. We know who's leaving, but we need to find the brave souls who are ready to step up and do the job.
Our openings for the 2015-2016 board year include the following positions:
- Communications Director
- Government Relations Director
- Programs Director
- Sponsorship Director
- Treasurer
- Vice President
If you're interested, first read the position description, then fill out and submit your application by 6 PM on Monday, May 11, when we'll review all submissions and contact interested parties.
Board Position Descriptions (.pdf)
Board Application (.dotx)
Nominations will be announced Wednesday, May 20th and submitted to AAF Seattle's membership for approval. A member-approved slate of directors will be announced to the public on Monday, June 1st.
The ADDY Winners Are In
And so are the embarrassing photos.
On Thursday, March 5th, we all gathered to announce the winners of the 2015 American Advertising Awards Seattle for a night that can only be described as, "Daaaaaaaamn that was fun."
We celebrated Larry Asher's success as he received the AAF Silver Medal Award. After delivering his speech of thanks and praise for his colleagues, he gave everyone at the show a free School of Visual Concepts class, further proving that he's the ever-activist in education in design and advertising.
Larry receives his Silver Medal Award
Taking home the Gold, Best In Show was Cole & Weber United for their work on the Columbia Crest campaign titled, "Crowdsourced Cabernet."
Special thanks to our sponsors, ArcMedia Studios, Topo Swope Talent, Print NW, TCG, The Seattle Times, Marketing NW, Commercialize Seattle and Hydrogen. They helped make magical dreams come true.
See the full list of winners here:
The ADDY Winners Have Been Decided
And now we wait.
Earlier this month, we wrangled some of the biggest names in the ad biz to fly out and judge our hundreds of American Advertising Awards submissions. Over a full weekend, they poured over some of the most amazing work we've seen so far and gave their brutally honest critiques on what the area's brightest had to offer.
Check out some of our pics from the weekend and join us on March 5 to see who they've deemed the best in advertising in our region.
Special thanks to our judges: Kat Gordon, Mike Roe, Howie Ronay, Jon Ruby and Emily Starolis.
After Hours: Hacker Agency Recap
We recently teamed up with HackerAgency as they invited us into their "home" for After Hours. The successful event included Agency BINGO to help break the ice for the attendees and asked them to get signatures of people who were the oldest, Ambidextrous, were Sounders season ticket holders and even asked people who were Carolina Panthers fans (that one might have gone blank the whole night) among other ice breakers on their BINGO card.
“I thought that their Agency BINGO activity, which was designed to facilitate conversation, was super engaging and well developed," said Charlotte Boutz-Connell, VP & Programs Director of AAF Seattle. "What a thoughtful way to welcome guests, by teeing them up for...not just small talk but actually interesting introductions and interactions!”
The folks over at HackerAgency—a direct marketing agency located in the heart of downtown Seattle—recommends that future hosts should start planning early. “I had an internal committee at Hacker to help me plan, " said Michelle Nolte, Art Director at HackerAgency. "I couldn’t have done it without them. And start planning early!”
Nolte also hopes that the group met great people and was exposed to what Hacker does. For more information on HackerAgency you can visit their website at hal2l.com.
The next After Hour events will be held on May 14 at Digital Kitchen.
Article by Brooke Saul | Photos by Scott Iwata
Art Bash 2014 Recap
Our ninth annual Art Bash was held on November 20 at 415 Westlake in South Lake Union, with artists contributing pieces interpreting the theme “Throwback Thursday.” The money we raised fully funded our Western Washington University diversity scholarship program with a surplus that will allow us to make a greater commitment to the program next year.
Much appreciation to the agencies and individual artists who contributed their time and talent to making it a gorgeous, clever, compelling show this year. Special thanks to our guest artist Danielle Champagne. Shout out to photographer David Speranza, and DJ Chris Carter, Strategy Director at Y&RG Seattle.
Of course, extra love goes to our sponsors The Seattle Times, TCG, Print NW, Hand Crank Films, Tag Creative, What Now? Exactly!, and Local Craft Tours.
Mark your calendars now for Art Bash 2015 on Thursday, November 12. If you have an idea for the 2015 Art Bash theme, let us know by emailing communications@aafseattle.com.
Mentorship Program Launching Soon
The brand new AAF Education Committee has launched, bringing together young professionals from agencies, corporate jobs and a couple freelancers to help get students into the advertising industry. They have successfully partnered with students at the University of Washington from various disciplines to support their local Ad Club and give it the AAF treatment, offering resources, curriculum, and networking opportunities to sign guest speakers and tours for the club.
Photo by David Speranza
Down the road in 2015, the committee plans to launch a mentorship program that pairs members of the student Ad Club with talented professionals in AAF Seattle to give them one-on-one expertise, and help them thrive and graduate to the larger club. The committee will also be expanding its efforts into other local universities.
For more information about the mentorship program or to get involved, email Nik at education@aafseattle.com.
Current Volunteer Positions
We couldn't make AAF Seattle operate without the help of volunteers. Whether you're looking to network, puff up your portfolio and resume, or fulfill your court ordered volunteer hours, we've got plenty of open spots to feed your ulterior motives.
Check out our positions and if you're interested, send us an email with the following:
- Your name
- Your job title
- The volunteer position you're inquiring about
- Qualifications or experience you may have that relate to the position
Photo by David Speranza
Communications Committee
Copywriter
Write snappy copy for event communications, blog posts, social media posts and other communication needs. Apply now
Art Designer
Design graphics and logos, and choose images for event communications. Layout newsletters and other advertisements. Apply now
Events Committee
Events Volunteer Coordinator
A key member of the Programs Committee, this position works directly with event producers on the team to ensure that an appropriate number of volunteers with necessary skill sets is secured for each event produced by AAF Seattle.
An ideal Event Volunteer Coordinator will be caring and proactive when interacting with current and prospective volunteers, and will ensure that the relationship with AAF Seattle is mutually beneficial and enjoyable.
In addition, this role is key for the overall organizational health as a facilitator of club engagement through volunteer service, and as an early point in potential leadership succession planning.
Basic responsibilities include:
Manage and maintain an accurate database of past and current volunteers with key information.
Collaborate with each event's lead producer to develop a plan for volunteer staffing needs, secure appropriate volunteers, attend the events to manage the volunteer team, and provide coverage as necessary.
Have a good understanding of each volunteer's qualities, strengths, interests and availability to ensure the best fit for the event and the volunteer.
Continually seek opportunities for event volunteers to deepen their engagement with AAF Seattle, including recommendations to join committees and/or the board of directors.
Continually recruit new volunteers through professional and social channels to ensure an ongoing pool of event volunteer.
Be an active and creative participant in the Programs Committee, influencing the events produced by AAF Seattle on an ongoing basis.
As an active participant and member of the Programs Committee, this role is expected to:
Attend Programs Committee meetings to report on progress (meetings are scheduled approximately every other month based on needs and team availability, most often a Sunday brunch format)
Provide ongoing support to teammates as they produce other programs throughout the year
Maintain updated information relevant to the role on AAF Seattle’s Google Drive
Advocate for the club's mission and activities including supporting promotional efforts through own social media and professional networks
AAF Seattle membership encouraged but not required for committee members
EVENT Day VOLUNTEER
This position works directly with Executive Director to assist with on-site registration, set-up and take-down. Apply now