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The American Advertising Awards is one of the industry’s largest creative competitions, attracting nearly 35,000 professional and student entries each year through local club competitions. The mission of the American Advertising Awards is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in advertising.

The American Advertising Awards is a three-tiered creative competition. Winners receive gold and/or silver ADDY awards. Throughout the competition, Gold winners will automatically move on to the next level of the competition and Silver winners may forward at the entrant’s expense.

The national awards show will take place during ADMERICA, AAF’s national conference, currently scheduled for June 5 – June 8, 2025 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The awards show will be hosted on the evening of June 6th!

Evie DeSarno
[email protected]
(412)996-9266

Matt Hildebrand
[email protected]

NOTE:  please try Evie first with any questions that you have

All forwarded entries, from local to the district competition, must be forwarded in the system by Wednesday, March 12th, 2025.

Fees:

• Gold:  $150 per entry
• Silver:  $120 per entry
• Student:  $40 per entry

Forwarded Entry Invoicing:

AAF District 2 will send the contact who is listed on the entries an invoice for forwarded entries.  Please review your list of forwarded entries with the invoice to make sure that the same list of items is being forwarded.
All invoices must be paid immediately upon receipt and prior to D2 judging.

Payment Options:

• Credit Card: The invoice will tell you how to pay via credit card (via Paypal).
• PayPal Payments – send your payment to [email protected] or via the link provided in the invoice
• Check  – Please make your check payable to AAF District 2 and send to:
  AAF District 2 – Treasurer
  834 51st Street, NE
  Washington DC 20019

NOTE: The above is an updated address, please make note of this change.

No physical entries are to be forwarded this year.