ADDYS

Call for Entries

The size of your agency, your title or your market does not dictate the size of your ideas. Don't let a small media budget prevent the ad world from appreciating your creativity.  Enter the AAF North Alabama ADDY competition and let everyone in the market see what you can do, and if you're really good, ad professionals everywhere are going to find out when you storm through districts on your way to the coveted gold national ADDY. 

How to Enter

Visit www.addycompetition.com. Click on the "Rules & Categories" link to download your copy of the 2012-13 guidelines. Then "Click Here to Enter" to register as an entrant. Review the category list to find where your work should compete, and follow the simple drop down menus to enter your information.

Make sure you credit the members of your creative team, so that they will be recognized properly in press releases and other AAF winner publications. Submission of entries acknowledges the right of AAF to use them for publication, exhibition and marketing of the ADDY show.. 

Deadlines

Professional and Student Deadline – Thursday, January 17 (Drop-off at Redstone Federal Credit Union)

Eligibility

All work entered in the ADDY competition must have first appeared in the media between January 1 and December 31, 2012. With the exceptions of Public Service Advertising, Advertising for the Arts, and Advertising Industry Self Promotion categories, work entered must have been the result of paid creative services and media placement in the normal course of business (excluding student entries). Entries must be submitted in the DMA or MSA of the entrant.

Entry Fees

Professional AAF North Alabama Members:
Single - $75 (Non-Member $90)
Campaign - $85 (Non-Member $100)
Student:  All entries $35

All Entries Must

- Meet all eligibility and deadline requirements.
- Be entered in the correct category and be correctly identified.
- Include a completed and signed manifest form.
- Conform to defined submission requirements.
- Conform to all copyright laws.

Broadcast, Audio Visual or Computer Presentation Entries

DVDs and CDs are NO LONGER ACCEPTED (except in Categories 40 A, B & C) and will not be judged. The digital file name MUST include the entire ADDY entry number in this format: XX-XX-XXXXXX. All video and audio assets for ADDY Awards entries must be submitted as digital uploads via the online ADDY software. Acceptable digital formats for video are, .mov, .mpg, .mp4, .wmv and audio files are .mp3, .wav, .wma. File uploads are limited to 100mb for video and 5mb for audio.

Questions

Contact Katiya McKinney at katiya.mckinney@gmail.com or call 615-943-2722.