ADDY Recap: Winners And, Well, More Winners

The 46th Annual ADDY Awards Celebration was among the best ever, with more than 280 awards given out to area companies and individuals. The party was great. The people were great. The winning work was great.

This ADDYs set a standard to live up to.

Special congratulations are in order several individuals, including David Jacobs of The Tombras Group (Winner of the Robert McCabe Silver Medal Award), plus Jennifer Holder of First Tennessee Bank, Ben McWhorter of Citadel Broadcasting, and Steve Richardson of The Tombras Group (all new inductees into the AAF-Knoxville Advertising Hall of Fame).

For a complete list of winners from this year, click here.

If You're Going to the ADDYs, Why Not Stay?

The Crowne Plaza, which has been a great partner for the ADDYs for many years, has a special rate for ADDY attendees for Saturday night. Stay at a fabulous hotel for just $80.

This is for Saturday night only, and tell the reservations folks you're with the Knoxville Advertising Federation to get this great rate.

And, to get you in the mood for great advertising, take another look at this great retrospective from Ad Age on the first Century of our business, written by the inimitable Randall Rothenberg: http://adage.com/century/rothenberg.html.

12 Days and Counting

Have you made your ADDY® reservations yet?
Tickets are $65 or $600 for a table of 10. We'll honor hundreds of pieces of creative made right here in our own backyard that will then advance up to the five-state District 7 portion of the ADDY® competition. We'll also recognize one individual with the AAF National Silver Medal and three with inductions into the Knoxville Advertising Hall of Fame. Needless to say, it'll be the biggest marketing party of the year.

And if you're wondering how award-winning creative makes a difference, click here to check out this article we ran across last year but saved it for posting during ADDY® season.

News Flash! New Flash Mob.

If you're into networking with witty, influential people, don't miss the AAF-Knoxville/AIGA Flash Mob tomorrow afternoon at Aubrey's Northshore.

Great advertising people. Great designers. Great conversation.

See who's already coming by clicking here.

ADDY Awards Shaping Up To Be Among Best Ever

The wheels are turning big time on preparation for the 2011 AAF-Knoxville ADDY awards.

To be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel on Saturday, February 26, at 6 pm, this year's event will celebrate the work of advertising professionals throughout East Tennessee, and recognize several distiguished members of the advertising community with special awards.

Judging of this years competition is complete, and word has been leaked that 30 companies will receive 287 awards at this year's festivities.

To make reservations for this year's awards ceremony, contact AAF-Knoxville Executive Director Karen Taylor at edirector@aafknoxville.com or 865.742.4838. Tickets cost $65 each or $600 for a table of ten.

And watch this blog for more updates as we learn more about people, music, special events, afterparties, and other elements of the gala.

ADDY Awards Top 10

Top 10 Reasons to Enter AAF-Knoxville’s 2011 ADDY Awards

Number 10: Ricky Gervais will not be hosting the awards show.

Number 9: When you win, your boss will have no more excuses for not remembering your first name.

Number 8: You look killer in eveningwear.

Number 7: 27 rewrites before you got it perfect. Somebody needs to know.

Number 6: 27 graphic variations before the copywriter gave you something you could actually work with. Somebody needs to know.

Number 5: Hugs from the people for whom you did the work.

Number 4: You can replace the “Hello Kitty” poster above your desk with your framed winner’s certificates.

Number 3: Professional accolades, promotions, beefier resumes.

Number 2: (If #3 isn’t enough.) Professional jealousy and braggin’ rights.

And the number one reason to enter the 2011 AAF-Knoxville ADDYs:

Number 1: You’ll be so close to Brian Potter that you could almost TOUCH him.

Addy entries are due Friday, January 21. Enter online here. Details on sample drop off for judging here.

Knoxify Wigs Out On Big Wig Awards

Check out this great post from Knoxify on our Big Wig Awards, which includes neat photos and our winners' list. http://knoxify.com/big-wig-jig-aaf-knoxville-celebrates-the-unsung-heroes-of-advertising/