American Advertising Awards
The American Advertising Awards is one of the industry’s largest creative competitions.
Entries for the 2024-2025 American Advertising Awards Competition are now open!
The American Advertising Awards is the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition, attracting more than 25,000 entries every year in local AAF Ad Club competitions. The mission of the American Advertising Awards is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in the art of advertising.
Thank you for attending the 2024 AAF Reno American Advertising Awards Gala and supporting the AAF Reno Foundation Scholarship Fund.
2024-2025 American Advertising Awards Early Bird Submission Pricing:
- Member-Single: $90
- Member-Campaign: $110
- Non Member-Single: $120
- Non Member-Campaign: $140
- Student Entry: $35
Early bird rates are available through January 5th, 2025. All professional entries are due by January 17th, 2025 without late fees.
Three qualified judges evaluate each submission and offer a rating on a 1-100 scale. Gold, Silver and Bronze Honorable Mentions Awards are selected based on score. Overall Best of Show is the highest scoring entry from the competition. Best of Show awards vary each year by category and are based on highest total entry scores after the Overall Best of Show. Judges Choice can be any entry, no matter what that entry scored in the competition.
We choose three vetted judges from similar sized markets outside of our area, who are not personally connected to our local agencies or anyone on the board. These are experienced advertising leaders – typically those with 5-10+ years of experience as creative directors, agency owners or partners, or director level in-house roles at larger companies. Entries are shown to judges anonymously/unlabeled. Judges are not allowed to discuss submissions with each other, they do their scoring privately.
Submissions that win Gold are automatically forwarded to compete in the District competition, where it will be judged by three new judges. Silver winners are given an option to forward to the District competition for a fee based on single or campaign entry. District level gold winners are similarly forwarded to Nationals.
